Call for Chapter Proposals, Book Project on Video Games “Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games” (tentative title) The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experienced. Players must participate in processes of play to move the game forward. You must contribute to keep the game moving forward. The addition of content that incorporates sex and/or sexuality adds complexity that other media do not share. This project seeks to further develop our understanding of the practices and activities of video games,…

IEEE ISMAR 2013 Workshop on Collaboration in Merging Realities (CiMeR) October 1, 2013 Adelaide, SA, Australia Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2013 http://cimer13.participatorysystems.org/ Our world is becoming more complex every day, and so problem solving often requires people to form teams and work remotely. To support this a variety of teleconferencing and telepresence technologies have been developed. However, most of them have involved some variation of traditional video conferencing with known limitations. In this workshop we will focus on how Augmented Reality (AR) and Mediated Reality (MR) technology can be used to enhance the remote collaboration experience and developed radically…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems – PhyCS 2014 January 7-9, 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Website: http://www.phycs.org Regular Papers Paper Submission: July 30, 2013 Authors Notification: October 9, 2013 Camera Ready and Registration: October 22, 2013 Sponsored by: INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events Exhibitors: Anditec – Tecnologias de Reabilitação, lda PT – Fundação Portugal Telecom Plux Wireless Biosignals S.A. Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is…

Call For Papers / Call For Participation 3rd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) February 24-25, 2014 East Carolina University Greenville NC For the full call for papers: http://workshop.design4complexity.com/home.php SYMPOSIUM GOALS Building on the success of the previous two conferences, the Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect complex information, information design, information architecture, user experience, and usability. It seeks to examine how design choices influence people’s behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the knowledge of situation contexts improves the design of complex information systems. The intention of…

Call for Participation ICMI Grand Challenge Workshop on Multimodal Learning Analytics ICMI Multimodal Learning Analytics Workshop 2013 The workshop will take place in Sidney (Australia) as part of the 2013 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. http://tltl.stanford.edu/mla2013 Important Dates: June 15, 2013: MMLA database available for grand challenge participants August 21, 2013: Paper submission deadline Sept. 15, 2013: Notification of acceptance Oct. 8, 2013: Camera-ready papers due December 9, 2013: ICMI Workshop Multimodal learning analytics, learning analytics, and educational data mining are emerging disciplines concerned with developing techniques to more deeply explore unique data in learning settings. They also use the…