CHI 2011 WORKSHOP – BRAIN AND BODY INTERFACES: DESIGNING FOR MEANINGFUL INTERACTION WEBSITE: http://brainandbody.physiologicalcomputing.net/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The brain and body provide a wealth of information about the physiological, cognitive and emotional state of the user. There is an increasing opportunity to use physiological data as a form of input control for computerised systems. As entry level sensors become more cheaper and widespread, physiological interfaces are liable to become more pervasive in our society (e.g., through mobile phones and similar devices). While these signals offer new and exciting mechanisms for the control of interactive systems, the issue of whether these…

IE’11 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 25-28 July 2011, Nottingham, UK http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie11 The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) will be held at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. This conference is the seventh edition in a series of highly successful conferences that were organized in Colchester (UK), Athens (Greece), Ulm (Germany), Seattle (USA), Barcelona (Spain) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in the past six years. The conference provides a collaborative forum for scientists, researchers and engineers from both industry and academia to present theoretical and practical results of Intelligent Environments research and their application…

IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health Braga, Portugal – November 9-11, 2011 First call for papers Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011 http://www.ipca.pt/segah2011 It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the the 1st IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Aplications for Health, SeGaH 2011, to be held in Braga, Portugal, from November 9-11, 2011. SeGaH 2011 is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Cávadoe Ave (Barcelos, Portugal) and sponsored by IEEE. The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, experiences and scientific and technical results, related to…

Call for papers for Special Issue of Interacting with Computers on Presence and Interaction Editors: John Waterworth(1), Eva Lindh Waterworth(1), Fabrizia Mantovani(2) & Giuseppe Riva(3) 1 Department of Informatics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden 2 CESCOM, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy 3 ICE-NET Lab., Universit  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Call Description The user experience of information technology is profoundly affected by the extent to which we experience ourselves to be really present in the mediated world that the technology makes available to us. This feeling of presence, which can be operationally defined as the perceptual illusion of…

2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Visualisation 12-14 September 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany Call For papers To be held in conjunction with KES2011: 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Co-Chairs: Dr. Minhua Ma, The Glasgow School of Art, UK Bob Coyne, Columbia University, USA Aims and Scope Natural language understanding usually involves transforming language from one representation into another, for example, from one language into another language in machine translation, or from language to action in natural language interfaces where natural language commands are performed by a machine, or from language to visual representations in natural…

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ATHENS 2011 April 6th-9th, 2011 Call for Papers We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011”, to be held in Athens, Greece, on April 6th-9th 2011. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will also attempt to use specific examples rather than merely invoke “computer games” in general terms. The over-arching theme of the conference is…