Call for Papers ATMM 2013 – Audio Technologies for Music and Media International Conference 31 October -1 November 2013 Department of Communication and Design Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey www.atmm-conference.org Audio Technologies for Music and Media is an international interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the various aspects of audio, audiovisual and music technologies for music and media, and, also, on the relationship between sound, music and image in both ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ media.…

Call for Papers Workshop: “CSCW at the Boundary of Work and Life” To be held at ECSCW2013, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos (Cyprus) Submission deadline: June 28th 2013 http://cscwworkandlife.wordpress.com/ WORKSHOP THEME This workshop aims to explore how CSCW themes, concepts and sensibilities can be extended and applied to practices blurring the boundary between work and life. Technology has moved from workplaces to become part of nearly every aspect of everyday life. Similarly, CSCW research spans not only work settings and practices, but also other life domains, from family life, to gaming, tourism and other leisure activities. However, the neat distinction between…

Peripheral Interaction: Embedding HCI in Everyday Life Workshop at the INTERACT 2013 Conference September 3rd, 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 12th, 2013 NOTIFICATION: May 21st, 2013 http://www.peripheralinteraction.com In recent years, the concept of interacting with computing technology in the background or periphery of the user’s attention is gaining traction. We call this direction Peripheral Interaction, and see it as a very promising approach to fluently embedding the increasing number of interactive devices into our everyday life routines. This one-day workshop invites researchers and practitioners from different disciplines (e.g. computer science, interaction design, interactive arts, psychology, cognitive…

Call for Papers: Interactive Entertainment 2013 – “Matters of Life and Death” The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. http://ieconference.org/ie2013/ Interactive Entertainment 2013 (IE2013) embraces some of the recent changes in games discourses both inside and outside the academy, and turns its attention to “Matters of Life and Death”. In a field concerned with entertainment, seriousness has hovered on the edges of discussion and helped us interpret technologies of leisure. If we reframe seriousness as ‘matters of life and death’, we can look again at the factors which impact computer games and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Pictorial and Spatial Representation Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest editors: Valeria Giardino and Gabriel Greenberg Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2013 The Theme Pictorial and spatial representation play an essential role in a vast range of human communication and reasoning, exemplified by the widespread use of diagrams, maps, pictures, iconic gestures, comics, and film. In this special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, we seek to bring together work from philosophy and cognitive science (including psychology, linguistics, and computer science) that breaks new ground in the study of spatial representation…

Call for Papers SPECIAL ISSUE OF PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING The Social Car: Socially-inspired Mechanisms for Future Mobility Services Submissions due: July 31, 2013 In the long tradition of driver-vehicle interaction, information systems have been socially ignorant – they have not accounted for the fact that drivers (humans) emote all the time and decisions are always socially inspired. The next-generation automotive interfaces need to include the essence of social intelligence to become more effective and safer. Researchers have recently started to think about the topic of socially inspired cars and, in our comprehension, a broader discussion on the benefits and…