INSIGHT 2: ENGAGING THE HEALTH HUMANITIES The call for proposals for the InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, an international exhibition and publication offering frameworks for examining linkages, experiences, visualisations and productive imaginings at the nexus of the health humanities, design and community engagement. The health humanities, an interdisciplinary domain of study which connects the arts, humanities, bioethics and social sciences, among other areas, is concerned with human needs and experiences related to health and healthcare. A human-centred design approach to health and well-being involves community members in identifying, and co-creating solutions to, issues and problems that affect them. Community…

Studies sought for meta-analysis on presence We are currently gathering candidate studies for a meta-analysis examining the effect of immersive virtual reality technology on self-reported presence. We are investigating the effect of relative high vs. low immersive levels as operationalized across various hardware and software variables. The studies we are including either manipulate overall levels of immersion (e.g., head-mounted display vs. mental simulation, CAVE environment vs. desktop monitor, etc.) or the levels of a particular immersive system component (e.g., different fields of view, stereoscopic vs. monoscopic visuals, stereo vs. mono audio, different update rates, etc..). A list of most of…

International Journal of Technoethics Call for Submissions (deadline: May 1, 2013) Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada Published: Quarterly The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) would like to invite you to submit a manuscript for the next submission deadline: May 1, 2013. The following describes the mission, coverage, and guidelines for submission to IJT. Mission The mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work, politics, law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis…

WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS HRI-2013 Workshop on Probabilistic Approaches for Robot Control in HRI URL: http://robotics.usc.edu/~hri/parc-hri CONFERENCE: 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2013) LOCATION: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo, Japan IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Friday, January 25, 2013 [EXTENDED] Notification: Monday, January 28, 2013 Camera-ready deadline: Sunday, February 3, 2013 Workshop: Sunday, March 3, 2013 …

Conference Call for Papers INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction  26 June 2013 Brighton, UK Deadline for contributions 22nd February 2013 Engagement is much sought after in the public discourse of politics, theatre and education. Immersion, presence, and motivation attract further research to the engagement continuum.  The goal of this symposium is to inspire an interdisciplinary spectrum of academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) toward novel collaborative solutions and projects. By mixing practitioners and researchers from arts, media and science, the…

Call for Papers: Physical and Digital in Games and Play seminar May 29-31, 2013, University of Tampere, FINLAND Digital games have had a visible role on the contemporary rise of game cultures and game studies, but there are still under-explored research areas in the relation of digital games to other forms of games and play, including e.g. traditional card and board games, play with physical toys, paper-based puzzles, and physical sport games. The research carried out in such areas holds potential for both interesting comparative work in theoretical and empirical game studies, as well as for serving inspiration for experimental…