First Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence (HCIAmI’11) To be held during the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) 26 July 2011, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Following the success of HCIAmI’10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010), HCIAmI’11 will provide a forum to explore the concepts and applications of the multi-disciplinary area of human-centric interfaces, modelling, and computing for Ambient Intelligence application design. It will enable the exchange of experiences from around the world concerning the use of technologies which offer unobtrusive, intuitive, or adaptive interfaces. These technologies have a major potential to…

Call for Papers: Creating Second Lives 2011: Crossing Boundaries September 8th & 9th 2011 School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University Conveners: Dr Eben J. Muse and Dr Astrid Ensslin Submission deadline: 30 April 2011 The Creating Second Lives conference is a chance to explore lives lived in virtual worlds, electronic games, MMORPG and other parts of cyberspace. Following Creating Second Lives 2008: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities, the theme of Creating Second Lives 2011 is the blurring of boundaries in the mixed reality of ubiquitous computing and augmented reality. New technologies are moving users into the screen (Microsoft’s Kinect),…

Call for Papers: International Workshop on “Language – Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents: Integrating Vision, Action and Language“ http://sifnos.ilsp.gr/Poeticon/aaai-workshop A Satellite event of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2011), 7-11 August, 2011, San Francisco, USA http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php Scope Endowing artificial agents with language and action abilities has been a quest in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) subfields. A number of AI applications require coupling of language and motoric or visual action (and objects), ranging from language-based human-robot interaction to event recognition. Recent years have witnessed great advances in different disciplines that provide the theoretical and technological framework for an interdisciplinary…

IVA 2011 – International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents GALA 2011 – The Gathering of Lifelike Agents Festival  Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://iva2011.ru.is September 15-17, 2011 Reykjavik, Iceland 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 speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2011 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with…

ACE 2011: 8th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference Lisbon, Portugal 8-11 November, 2011 http://www.ace2011.org/ As it reaches the 8th edition, ACE has become the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing. Interactive entertainment is one of the most vibrant areas of interest in modern society and is amongst the fastest growing industries in the world. ACE 2011 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their innovative work and discuss all aspects and challenges of interactive entertainment technology, in a cool and stimulating environment. ACE is…

Computer Simulations and the Changing Face of Scientific Experimentation Second Call for Papers for the SimTech Workshop Stuttgart, Germany September 21 – 23, 2011 http://websrv.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/ Computer simulations are increasingly entering realms that have formerly been reserved for experimentation. In this workshop we want to address questions like: How are simulations related to experiments? When can simulations replace experiments? When are experiments still needed? How can simulations and experiments interact? What are successful research patterns for “computer experiments”? How did these issues change historically throughout the 50+ years in which simulation has been practiced? The workshop intends philosophical and historical discussion…