5th Annual Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference Inspire the Future  May 16-18, 2012 at National Defense University, Washington, DC Don’t forget to register for the best FCVW Conference Program we have ever had! Conference schedule is on the FCVW website (http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw).…

1st International Symposium Representations – Struggles for Reality Part of the Research Program on: Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves International Network for Alternative Academia (Extends a general invitation to participate) Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th of November, 2012 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Call for Papers This trans-disciplinary project explores the creation, consumption and dissemination of representations. It aims to map out the relationship between representations, conceptions of the real and cultural constructions of reality. Examining representations as developing at the intersections of epistemological, political and ethical modes of enquiry, this symposium offers the opportunity to reflect on the practice and the theory…

Digital Humanities Congress 2012 University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012 The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th – 8th September 2012. The Digital Humanities Congress is a new conference which will be held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts,…

Call for Papers IVA 2012 Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://iva2012.soe.ucsc.edu/home September 12-14 Santa Cruz, California, USA Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2012 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social…

This call can also be found on the JVWR web site here. Call for Papers Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) Issue on Asian Perspectives GUEST EDITORS Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan DEADLINES Authors submission of abstract: April 15th, 2012 using the Journal publishing system (login at the top right of the journal site, state that you aim at the Asian Perspective issue.) Abstract submission will give authors quick feedback and allow editors to identify reviewers asap. Authors submission of full paper:…

The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP), formerly known as APGV, aims to further the development of inter-disciplinary research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, vision, haptics and acoustics. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas and the scope includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science. LOCATION: USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Co-located with Siggraph 2012 in Los Angeles DATES: 3-4 August 2012.…