Call For Papers Human Work Interaction Design for Pervasive and Smart Workplaces http://sites.google.com/site/hwid2014 At NordiCHI’14 (Helsinki, Finland; October 26-30) http://nordichi2014.org/ Pervasive and smart technologies have pushed workplace configuration beyond linear logic and physical boundaries. As a result, workers¹ experience of and access to technology is increasingly pervasive, and their agency constantly reconfigured. While this in certain areas of work is not new (e.g., technology mediation and decision support in air traffic control), more recent developments in other domains such as healthcare (e.g., Augmented Reality in Computer Aided Surgery) have raised challenging issues for HCI researchers and practitioners. The question now…

Dear virtual agent enthusiast, Automatic facial expression detection is becoming increasingly robust and accurate. We envision the reproduction of a user’s facial expressions, captured with a webcam, on the user’s avatar in a computer game. Currently, we are conducting a series of studies to investigate the feasibility of this scenario. In particular, we are interested in the factors that affect the perceived quality of the facial animations. To this end, we’d like to invite you to participate in a brief (10 minutes) online study:  www.zkshao.com/survey.php We thank you for your participation! Should you have any questions about the study, please…

Call for a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology (JEP) “Social Simulation in Environmental Psychology” Social simulation has been one of the most interesting methodological developments of the last decades for the behavioral sciences. Social simulation models deal with behavioral and cognitive dynamics, with differentiated social influence, with feedback to (simulated) natural environments, or space. Specifically in environmental psychology, these models can also stimulate collaborations between environmental psychologists and researchers from other disciplines to deal with complex environmental problems. The goal of this special issue is to provide successful examples of social simulation from the domain of environmental…

Press Start (http://press-start.gla.ac.uk) is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal of game studies, run by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow and due for launch in October this year. Reviewers and editorial board members are comprised entirely of students and recent graduates. Call for papers The editorial board invites submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students (and from those who have graduated within the last year), from any discipline and from any higher education institution. This policy acknowledges the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of game studies, and the growing international interest in this area.…

Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies, Bloomsbury Editors: Antero Garcia, Colorado State University & Greg Niemeyer, University of California, Berkeley Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as “real.” Though prominent examples of ARGs have persisted over the past two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between the “real” and the “virtual.” We seek chapter proposals for a proposed collection that…

Call for participation NordiCHI’14 Workshop “The Fuzzy Front End of Experience Design” Sunday, October 26th, 2014: Helsinki, Finland In conjunction with NordiCHI’14 – http://www.nordichi2014.org/ Workshop web site:  www.vtt.fi/uxgoals Deadline for submissions (2-6 page position papers in ACM Extended Abstract format): August 14th, 2014. To start an experience design process, the designers should determine what experience to aim for. How should this decision be made?  In the fuzzy front end of experience design process, there are often several alternative sources for gaining insight and inspiration. There may be different, even conflicting viewpoints and opinions. In addition to user studies, insight and…