BCS HCI 2011 Workshop: Supporting Collaboration Through Multimodal and Cross-modal Interfaces 5th July 2011 Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Submission deadline: 1st May 2011 Full details: http://ccmi.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/hciworkshop Summary: With growing possibilities of using various modalities in human-computer interaction comes new opportunities for supporting richer, more effective and engaging collaborations. The use of multiple modalities to support collaboration also presents new challenges for the design, implementation and evaluation of collaborative systems. This workshop aims to bring together interested experts to examine and explore the issues associated with these areas of research. We invite two forms of submissions to the workshop:…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal (www.igi-global.com/ijats). The following describes the mission, the coverage, and the guidelines for submission to IJATS. MISSION OF IJATS The mission of IJATS is to disseminate and discuss high quality research on emerging technologies and successful systems based on the agent and multiagent paradigms. It features innovative findings from various fields of science, engineering, and technology. IJATS is an interdisciplinary journal that brings together researchers from academia, industry, and the…

Call for Papers: GameDays 2011 Serious Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports Darmstadt, Germany September 12-13 The GameDays have been established in 2005 as “Science meets Business” event in the field of Serious Games, taking place on annual basis in Darmstadt, Germany. The principle aim is to bring together academia and industry and to discuss the current trends, grand challenges and potentials of Serious Games for different application domains. Since 2010, the academic part has been emphasized resulting in a first Int’l workshop on Serious Games for Sports and Health with workshop proceedings and a special edition with selected…

APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION, APGV 2011 (http://www.apgv.org/index.html) August 27-28, Toulouse, France Submission system now open!! http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apgv2011 IMPORTANT DATES DEADLINE EXTENDED: Paper submissions (long and short): 26 April 2011 Notification of paper acceptance: 27 May 2011 Final papers due: 3 June 2011 Final TAP papers due: 1 July 2011 Poster submissions: 24 June 2011 Notification of poster acceptance: 27 June 2011 Final posters due: 1 July 2011 The Symposium for Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization APGV unites researchers in the fields of perception, graphics, and visualization. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas — in particular…

Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism SICSA Summer School St Andrews, Scotland, June 27th – July 1, 2011 http://sachi.org.uk/mmi-dt The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed on the painting, statue, mountain, ski run, castle, loch or other sight before them. In this school we focus on multimodal input and output interfaces, data fusion…

Call for papers Inner movement – the motor dimension of imagination 1-3 December 2011 Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent, Belgium This conference explores the role of the moving and gesturing body in the imaginative perception of works of art. Bodily resonance with the way a work of art is or has been created or performed is an essential part of much of our aesthetic experience and appreciation. This kind of ‘inner movement’ is part of our experience of a whole range of works of art, from an implicit tracing of the draftsman’s hand in drawings to an embodied…