Meaningful Play 2012 October 18-20, 2012 Michigan State University http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions),…

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘The 21st Century Body’ Symposium 18th May 2012, London Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.  As our knowledge and its application continues to grow and expand, the range, scope and magnitude of what we are able to achieve seems to…

From: Ute Kreplin ([email protected]) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 Subject: Research Study Hi Liverpool John Moores University invites you to take part in the ARtSENSE Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey. The survey asks you to give subjective ratings, i.e. your thoughts and feelings, towards artworks on a number of scales. The survey is part of the ARtSENSE project. ARtSENSE tackles a very important problem in the modern usage of Information Communication Technology in cultural heritage domain. It aims to bridge the gap between the digital world with the physical in a highly flexible way in order to enable a novel and…

2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Affective Computing (CIAC) June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dongruiw/CIAC.html Organizers: Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands, [email protected] Dongrui Wu, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, [email protected] Aim and Scope: Computational intelligence is a set of Nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex real world problems to which traditional methodologies and approaches (first principles, probabilistic, black-box, etc.) are ineffective or infeasible. It includes neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, chaos theory, etc. Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately…

The 4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids July 2nd to 6th, 2012 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK As part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing Organised by Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) Website: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-symposium-computing-philosophy/Pages/default.aspx Poster: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-symposium-computing-philosophy/Documents/AISB-Symposium-2012-Poster.pdf Symposium Overview Turing’s famous question ‘can machines think?’ raises parallel questions about what it means to say of us humans that we think. More broadly, what does it mean to say that we are thinking beings?…