Design for Next, 12th European Academy Design (EAD) Conference 12-14 April 2017 Sapienza University of Rome www.designfornext.org Deadline for Abstracts: Aug 15, 2016 We are pleased to announce the CALL for ABSTRACTS is now open. Please feel free to submit your paper proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/ead12-rome Full Call for Abstracts with all the details is available here: http://www.designfornext.org/call.html For any additional info, please email to the Conference Secretariat at: info@designfornext.org CONFERENCE THEME Contemporary shifts in society, technology, production are reframing design processes, approaches and tools. While professionals, educators and researchers are questioning the next stage of innovation, design is evolving as…

Scholars of virtual worlds, videogames, internet studies, and related fields… please consider submitting a chapter proposal for this endeavor: Call for book chapter proposals: Avatars, Assembled: The Sociotechnical Anatomy of Digital Bodies Volume editor: Jaime Banks, West Virginia University Chapter proposal deadline: July 31, 2016 Summary: Avatars, Assembled will be a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars – not as monolithic phenomena but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from embodied features like weapons and gender to logical features like algorithms and statistics. Each short chapter (~3,000 words) will account for the empirical, theoretical, and popular understandings of…

Call for Abstracts “Call of Duty: A Call to Action”: Video Games and Civic Engagement National Communication Association (NCA) 2016 Pre-Conference Wednesday, November 9 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Submission deadline: August 31, 2016 Although commonly studied through the lens of media entertainment, digital games are more than just frivolous distractions. Games are used for action in the real world: as vehicles for health campaign messages, teaching perspective, training skills and education outcomes, and provoking players into social action are all ways that games can and have been used to move players to action – from the on-screen digital world…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Designing for Emotional Complexity in Games: The Interplay of Positive and Negative Affect @ CHI Play October, 16-19, Austin, Texas Workshop Website: https://emco2016.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES 26th July, 2016: Submissions deadline 12th August, 2016: Acceptance notification 16th October, 2016: Workshop SUBMISSION FACTS 4-pages CHI extended abstract format Presentation slides for industry professionals are accepted Submission via EasyChair (https://goo.gl/uC9eFg) MOTIVATION People play games for the experience, and one of the aims of player experience research is to understand what constitutes and contributes to positive gaming experiences. Emotionally challenging and uncomfortable game play experiences have been largely neglected, as they…

Second Workshop on Player Modelling (PM 2016) Held in conjunction with the Twelfth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2016) 8th or 9th of October, 2016 (date TBD), Embassy Suites by Hilton San Francisco Airport, California http://playermodelling.org/ Deadline for paper submissions: 20 July 2016 Player Modelling has always been a core research topic within the game Computational and Artificial Intelligence (CI/AI) research field. The primary focus of this workshop is on the use of CI/AI for understanding players, their actions, decisions, plans, intentions, and their cognitive, behavioural as well as affective manifestations. CI/AI can also be…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FGE 2016: FICTIONAL GAME ELEMENTS: Critical Perspectives on Gamification Design International Workshop @ The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), October, 16-19, Austin, Texas Workshop Website: https://fge2016.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop participation submissions: July 26, 2016 Workshop participation notification: August 12, 2016 Workshop day: October 16, 2016 Please submit by email to: amon.rapp@gmail.com Motivation Scholarship in HCI on gamification is largely focused on evaluating the short-term effectiveness and usefulness of this design technique, while other, and perhaps more important aspects, are not receiving similar attention. Side-effects, long-term and systemic consequences, ethical and societal…