Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning & Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND): Evolution and Cooperation Lund, Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, April 28-30, 2014 Sponsored by the Lund Research Group on Information and Information Quality (LU-IQ) The 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning and Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND) welcomes submissions from researchers in philosophy, cognitive science, economics & linguistics, using agent based models with bounded rationality, models of evolutionary dynamics, and other naturalistic approaches. The primary conference aims are to foster cooperation between these groups and help establish common ground. G.I.R.L.S. 14@LUND will be themed…

Call for Papers Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing IEEE ICSC2014 June 16th-18th, 2014, Newport Beach, CA, USA http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where “content” may be anything including structured data, video, audio, text, hardware, software, process, etc. The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to…

Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care Invited Session of KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (InMed-14) July 09-11, 2014 San Sebastian, Spain http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/ ABOUT Papers are invited on the latest technologies offering therapy, rehabilitation, and more general well-being care. Papers should address theoretical, artistic, professional, and practical aspects of progress in this area as well as new directions in research. Position papers and critical papers are welcomed. TOPICS The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following: Descriptions of new therapeutic play and play therapy systems involving alternative…

Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2014 http://media.aau.dk/~sts/sive.html Submission deadline: February 15th, 2014. Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2014. Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the online submission system Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sive14 Sonic interaction design is defined as the study and exploitation of sound as one of the principal channels conveying information, meaning, and aesthetic/emotional qualities in interactive contexts. This field lies at the intersection of interaction design and sound and music computing. In the virtual reality community, the focus on research in topics related to auditory feedback has been rather limited when compared,…

Call for papers Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media Conference 29-31 May 2014 Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Deadline: February 15, 2014 The conference is an inter-disciplinary forum for academics and practitioners working in the fields or at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, visual arts and media. The conference aims to explore the role of the body in articulating and reflecting the changes in contemporary arts and media practices as well as the theoretical discourses they generate. In this sense, the body is seen…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting December 27-30, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Eastern divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Papers may address any topic that involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film, photography, video, or other aesthetic media. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes (10-12 pages in length; 2500-3000 words). Presenters must be currently…