GAXID 2011 – CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on Game Accessibility: Xtreme Interaction Design (GAXID) In conjunction with Foundations of Digital Interactive Games 2011 Bordeaux France  |  June 28, 2011 http://ga.fdg2011.org Video games have evolved from an obscure pastime to a force of change that is transforming the way people perceive, learn about, and interact with the world around them. The emergence of more natural, immersive and healthier forms of interaction –through the use of whole-body gestures– has propelled video gaming to the cutting edge of human computer interaction design. Currently, an estimated 63% of the U.S. population plays video…

Ludic Salon. Shaping Playspaces within Media Cultures Date/Time: Sunday, Feb. 6th – 11.00-14.00 h K1 – Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin  For some time now, an increasing conjecture of play and playfulness has been unfolding in media art and digital culture. It is high time to take this diagnosis seriously and have a closer look at current aesthetic positions, strategies and artworks with the terminological instruments of ludology – the transdisciplinary science of play and games. Even the title of the transmediale.11 – „Response-Ability“ – speaks of a fundamental polarity of play, which always encompasses passive…

ESF COST action IC0904 – TwinTide (http://www.twintide.org/) in collaboration with SIGCHI Cyprus (http://cyprus.acm.org/) is organizing the 1st European Workshop on HCI Design and Evaluation: The influence of domains. The workshop will take place at the Apollonia Beach Hotel (http://bit.ly/fnewyy) in Limassol, Cyprus on the 8th of April 2011. Although registration is FREE participants need to register using the workshop website by 10 March 2011. We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners, from designers and educators. Please send all inquiries to [email protected]. The call for papers follows: CALL FOR PAPERS 1st European Workshop on HCI Design and Evaluation: The influence of…

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 1, 2011 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijt Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) MISSION OF IJT: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT). The mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work, politics,  law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis of…

Embodied, Distributed and Extended Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives Workshop Department of Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona March 24-25, 2011 Organized by TECNOCOG Research Group Note: Call for Posters/Best Student Poster Competition (supported by Cognitive Science Society) http://tecnocogworkshoponcognition.wordpress.com// The workshop aims at discussing philosophical issues in post-cognitivist cognitive science, especially recent approaches such as embodied cognition, the extended mind and socially distributed cognition. Participation is free, but please register by sending an email to [email protected]…

2nd International Workshop on Evaluating Player Experience in Games (epex11) Bordeaux, 28 June 2011 Workshop in conjunction with the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) Conference 2011 There is a rapidly growing interest in evaluating player experience in games context, as well as other forms of digital interactive entertainment, for example via applying psychophysiological signals and user telemetry to obtain data on the user experience and the interaction between user and game, Developing useful methods for evaluating player experience in games is paramount for the design of interfaces that can better account for the user experience while interacting with different media…