CALL FOR PAPERS – Special issue of Gamevironments: GAMEVIRONMENTS OF THE PAST – Video Games and History. Guest editors: Derek Fewster (derek.fewster@helsinki.fi) and Ylva Grufstedt (ylva.grufstedt@helsinki.fi). The journal invites researchers to submit their work to Gamevironments (http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/) for possible publication in a special issue due December 2016. A significant portion of video games contain historic elements of some description. In some cases, games exhibit representations of people, places and events of the past. In others, the historic element draws broadly on cultural understandings of concepts such as time, causality, continuity and change. Some games employ a self-reflexive historic discourse in…

Call for Participation: INTERACT Workshop Monday 21 March 2016 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK Calling all UK researchers interested in potential links between HCI and HRI: The University of Sheffield, in conjunction with The University of Nottingham and The University of Hertfordshire cordially invite you to the INTERACT workshop, which aims to connect the UK HCI and HRI research communities, and scope opportunities for future funding and collaboration. While the fields of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) share many perspectives, and have similar research goals, there is little cross-fertilisation. We are hosting this EPSRC-sponsored workshop as a first step…

VES Vision and Education Committees with LA SIGGRAPH present VR Post Production Saturday, 12 March 2016 Sony’s Ray Harryhausen Theater Los Angeles http://la.siggraph.org/events/title/vr-post-production RSVP’s required Space is filling up – make your reservation now! Revenues from virtual reality and augmented reality are projected to hit $150 billion by 2020! Visual effects artists are on the front lines to deliver that immersive content. These presentations will cover the latest live action VR post production techniques which are currently being used to realize the dream of VR. All attendees must register through VES’ page (https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/events/event/event-ves-vision-and-education-committees-la-siggraph-present-vr-post-production-los). Space is limited. You MUST RSVP.…

Digital Creativity 27:3 Creative Technologies and Innovation: Health and Wellbeing Guest Editors: Ted Krueger (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Louise Poissant (Université du Québec à Montréal) Diana Domingues (University of Brasilia) Abstracts deadline: February 29, 2016 Radical changes to ecological, environmental, social, and biological conditions are turning some artists from traditionally defined practices towards new approaches that reinvent their engagement with life, health, and wellbeing. Their practices, while not new, are increasingly relevant for culture and health. These transformative changes to the nature of practice have put those trained in the arts, their insights and methods, in contact with those of other…

ECGBL 2016 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning 6 – 7th October 2016, Paisley, Scotland The University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ WELCOME TO ECGBL 2016 The European Conference on Games Based Learning was established 9 years ago. It has been held in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Norway to mention only some of the countries who have hosted it. ECGBL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners, game designers and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of games-based learning and serious games.…

Call for Presentations Space and Place 7th Global Meeting Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net – Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: September 1-3, 2016 Deadline: April 1,.2016 http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/ Now in its seventh year, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues is an established annual interdisciplinary conference project that encourages critical and collegial dialogue. Recognising that different disciplines and practices express themselves through different modes, media and formats we strongly encourage the submission of proposals from creative practitioners – artists, architects, writers, photographers, painters, film-makers, performers, urban planners – as well as people from related professions, industries and activities and alternative…