2015 GAMES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP Fourth International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering Workshop in conjunction with ICSE 2015 (Int’l Conference on Software Engineering) Florence/Firenze, Italy May 18, 2015 http://sites.google.com/site/icsegas2015/ CALL FOR PAPERS The 2015 Games and Software Engineering workshop (GAS 2015) explores issues that crosscut the software engineering and the game engineering communities. Modern games entail the development, integration, and balancing of software capabilities drawn from algorithm design and complexity, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, computer-supported cooperative work/play, database management systems, human-computer interaction and interface design, operating systems and resource/storage management, networking, programming/scripting language design and interpretation, performance monitoring,…

[Information about the upcoming South West Virtual Reality Conference, from Road to VR, where the story includes several images] UK Based ‘South West VR’ Conference Announced, Guests Include Oculus, Aardman and Unity January 25, 2015 by Paul James As virtual reality rises, so does the need for its enthusiasts and industry members to meet. The UK has a thriving VR community and a growing industry presence, so the recently announced South West Virtual Reality Conference on the 24th Feb, is a welcome addition to the VR calendar. Whilst the US, and in particular, the west coast, get a large proportion…

[Note that the first lecture is Wednesday January 28, 2015  –Matthew] The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression and Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective. Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma Chandaria Lectures, Institute of Philosophy, Senate House (London WC1), Room 349, third floor Wed Jan 28th 6pm ; Feb 11th 6pm ; and Feb 18th 6pm Cognitive neuroscience can shed new light – from its own methodological reductionist perspective – on the aesthetic quality of human nature and its natural creative inclination. By exploiting the neurocognitive approach, viewed as a sort of ‘cognitive archeology’, we can empirically investigate the neurophysiological brain-body…

Conference title: 20 Years of ETHICOMP: A Celebration De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Monday to Wednesday, 07.-09. September 2015 www.dmu.ac.uk/ethicomp2015 GENERAL DESCRIPTION In 1995 the first ETHICOMP conference was held in Leicester, England, organised by Terry Bynum and Simon Rogerson. Its purpose was to provide a forum to discuss ethical issues around computers. Twenty years later we are meeting again in Leicester to continue this conversation. The changes in information and communication technology (ICT) during these 20 years have been dramatic. While computers used to be bulky and easily identifiable machines, we now have small smart devices, the internet quickly…

Call for Workshop Proposals: Critical Alternatives 2015 Aarhus, Denmark 17 or 18 August, 2015 We hereby invite workshop proposals for Critical Alternatives 2015, (http://www.aarhus2015.org). The fifth decennial Aarhus conference, Critical Alternatives, aims to set new agendas for theory and practice in computing for quality of human life. Workshops at the conference provide an opportunity to discuss and build communities around specific issues and topics within the field of information technology. This is inherently an interdisciplinary conference, and we invite workshop organisers to consider how different perspectives can help establish constructive and critical discussions of workshop themes. Workshops are intended to…

Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/mfsc-2015/index.html Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com/) 4-8 May, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that facilitate interactions among people and organizations. Social computing has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of research, driven by the wealth of easily available information and the success of online social networks and social media. Social computing applications are characterized by high interactivity among users, user-generated content, and in cases such as Wikipedia, more open governance structures. Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business…