iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary Call for Papers and Presentations In an era of pervasive computing, social media and a networked ‘information society’, digital documentary is embracing new forms. Web-docs, docu-games, photo-reportages, trans-media projects and locative narratives are developing new languages of factual communication that challenge the established linear narrative of documentary. i-Docs is the first lab/symposium to be dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. The symposium will be a day-long event to showcase new projects and to discuss the artistic, economic and political implications of new forms of factual representation. i-Docs is convened by Judith…

Call for Participation • Interactive Papers The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011) March 19-23,2011 • Hangzhou, China http://cscw2011.org/ Interactive Papers will be presented in a special Poster Session where researchers will interact directly with conference attendees. The posters will then remain up throughout the remainder of the conference. The major difference from the previous CSCW conferences is that the Interactive Papers for CSCW 2011 will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Note that authors still retain copyright of the paper. Accepted Interactive Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings that will be circulated…

Hello all, I’m helping with a new book on Serious games, and we are seeking chapter proposals. Proposals will be accepted until October 25, 2010, and should explain in 1-2 pages the mission of the proposed chapter. If you’re interested, please send proposals in Word format to serious.games.book@gmail.com. Feel free to forward this message to peers that might be interested. Thanks, Matt Matthew Sharritt, Ph.D. President, Situated Research, LLC Naperville, Illinois 630.522.0855 http://www.situatedresearch.com/ Introduction: Serious games are being developed at an exponential rate, and the impact of their many applications in management, education, defense, scientific research, health care, emergency planning…

International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2011) Link: http://isami.usal.es/ When:  Apr 6, 2011 – Apr 8, 2011 Where:  Salamanca, Spain Submission Deadline:  Nov 15, 2010 Call For Papers Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable. Another main concern of AmI originates from the human computer interaction domain and focuses on offering ways to interact with systems in a more natural way by means user friendly interfaces. This field is evolving quickly as can be witnessed by the…

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Presence Research is pleased to announce that ISPR 2011, the 13th International Workshop on Presence, will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland October 26-28 next year. The conference will be held at the Craighouse Campus of Edinburgh Napier University (see a visual tour here). Much more information about the conference will be posted on the ISPR web site and in ISPR Presence News soon, but please reserve the date!…

Special Issue of “Entertainment Computing” by Elsevier “Video Games as Research Instruments” Call for Papers Submission deadline: 10th October, 2010 Video games have a history of being used to study phenomena in HCI and other disciplines. The use of video games as research tools is becoming more widespread in areas such as addiction, user experience, immersion, strategy and decision making. They offer an excellent way to motivate participants in HCI studies, and by using online casual games researchers can potentially access hundreds of participants. We invite submissions to this special issue of Entertainment Computer that address the methodological aspects of…