2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2015) 12th to 14th June 2015 Shenzhen, China Organized by:  IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Website:  http://2015.civemsa.ieee-ims.org/ Papers are currently being solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction technologies, and virtual environments for measurement systems & the related applications, from the points of view of both theory & practice IMPORTANT DATES: Full Paper Submission:  Thursday, Jan 01, 2015 Acceptance Notification:  Sunday, Feb 01, 2015 Final Paper Submission:  Sunday, Mar 01, 2015 To increase the quality of life…

MuseumNext 2015 Geneva, Switzerland 19 – 21 April 2015 http://www.museumnext.com/ MuseumNext is Europe’s major conference on the future of museums. The event brings together delegates from around the world to discuss ‘what’s next?’ for the museum sector. We are now inviting the international museum community to participate in our 2015 conference by proposing presentations, workshops or panel discussions on the subject of ‘What’s next for museums?’ We are seeking excellent examples of today which shine a light on the museum of tomorrow. The conference will be a dialogue about what’s next in all aspects of the museum, including architecture, exhibitions,…

AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction March 23-25th, 2015 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA The AAAI Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction will bring together researchers across multiple disciplines–including multimodal systems, human-robot interaction, embodied conversational agents, and spoken dialogue systems–to address a topic of common interest: the modeling, realization, and evaluation of turn-taking and real-time action coordination between humans and artificial interactive systems. This symposium will serve to build common ground for researchers from these disparate backgrounds to share their perspectives, methodologies, and results from their own investigations into the problem of multimodal coordination.…

Call for Chapters: Closed Systems / Open Worlds Contact:  ClosedandOpenBook@gmail.com Deadline for précis:  15 September 2014 (extended) Edited by:  Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Jason Nolan (Ryerson University) & Melanie McBride (York University) This book will consist of explorations at the boundaries of virtual worlds as enclosed but encouraging spaces for exploration, learning, and enculturation. Game/worlds like Second Life, OpenSim, Minecraft, and Cloud Party are providing spaces for the construction of alternatives and reimaginings, though frequently they end up more as reproductions. We seek to challenge those spaces and their creativities and imaginings. These worlds exist as both code and…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies A book edited by Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Algoma University, Canada To be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis:  http://www.crcpress.com/ Introduction Usability Testing of Video Games: Multidisciplinary Case Studies will present case studies describing academic research and practicing hands-on experience on usability testing methodologies and techniques, with the aim of improving the human-computer interfaces of video games and players’ user experience (UX). The usability experiences will be presented as comprehensive case studies to be used as learning and teaching materials in video game design and development, usability, human-computer…