Call for Participation
Wine and Interaction Design
OZCHI 2016, Launcestion, Tasmania, Australia

Submission deadline: October 2, 2016

This one-day workshop will be held as part of OZCHI 2016, in Launceston Tasmania, on MONDAY 28th November, 2016.

This workshop will bring together HCI researchers and practitioners with an interest in the the role that interaction design and technology can play in wine production and consumption. The outcome of the workshop will be the identification of new opportunities for HCI researchers and practitioners to forge a synergy between technology and wine.

Wine and Interaction Design presents an interesting challenge to the HCI community as technology plays an increasing role in the many facets of wine production and consumption. People interact with technology in all phases of the wine lifecycle, including the grape growing process, harvesting the grapes, supporting the winemaking process, labelling the wine, wine selling, wine serving and wine sharing.… read more. “Call: Wine and Interaction Design Workshop at OZCHI 2016”

The 24th International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC2016)
Oct. 29-30, 2016
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) @ Tokyo, Japan
In conjunction with Digital Contents Expo 2016

Call for International Video Submission
Deadline: Aug. 31, 2016
http://ivrc.net/2016/en/video/

International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC) welcomes you to submit your innovative work to the worldwide competition of novel interactive projects. The contest has more than twenty years history and several past winners of the contest have been accepted by the world’s most notable competitions of interactive technologies such as ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, Laval Virtual Revolutions, and Ars Electronica. Here are some websites and introductory video clips:

IVRC2016 official website:
http://ivrc.net/2016/en/

IVRC2015 Annual Report (in Japanese):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJomyZntNA4

10th Anniversary video between Laval Virtual and IVRC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGCI1N-OVk

IVRC History Archive (in Japanese):
http://ivrc.net/archive/

Your proposal will be reviewed based on the submitted materials including demonstration video.… read more. “Call: 24th International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest (IVRC2016)”

CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd International Symposium Fusion in Cinema
24th to the 26th November 2016, in Leiria, Portugal

PDF: http://caminhos.info/docs/call_simposio_16.pdf
Submissions: http://caminhos.info/pt/simposio/simposio-inscricao

The 3rd International Symposium Fusion in Cinema will take place from the 24th to the 26th November 2016, in Leiria. This 3rd edition of the Symposium will be co-organized by Caminhos Film Festival and Mobile Unit Research on Local Studies (ELO) at the Universidade Aberta, and all proposals will undergo a peer review process, held in the form of blind review, in order to guarantee the fairness and impartiality of the assessment. The submitted and accepted papers for communication will be, afterwards, published in the minutes of the symposium in electronic format. The best works will be published in the Journal Linguagem do Cinema e do Audiovisual do Latec-UFRJ.

Teachers, researchers, guest speakers, experts and artists from different areas will analyze in this 3rd International Symposium, the current artistic and educational practices, the new roles of the different actors involved in today’s creative and operational dynamics of art, education and culture.… read more. “Call: 3rd International Symposium Fusion in Cinema”

Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference
Kings College, London
13th – 14th July 2017

Music in Video Games Panel
Conveners: William Gibbons and Derek Matravers

There has been great deal of interest in the past few years within musicology and music theory in the contribution of music to the experience of playing video games. The topic has been relatively neglected in philosophy, although it is related to several extant discussions concerning other media. We would like to invite papers from any discipline which reflect on this topic, thus contributing to developing a philosophical take on the role of music in video games.

Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):

• The contribution of music to the experience of playing video games.
• The relation between the music and other aspects of the video game, in particular the game’s narrative content
• The contribution of music to the nature of video games and their status as art
• The ontological status of video game music between real and virtual worlds
• The role of games in (re)defining the musical act
• Video games and the idea of musical play

Proposals of no longer than 300 words should be submitted to Derek Matravers (derek.matravers@open.ac.uk… read more. “Call: Music in Video Games Panel – Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference”