CALL FOR PAPERS The social side of gaming: International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming Thursday 21 July to Saturday 23 July 2011 University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Topic In the past decade, digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, even outside the traditional ‘core gamer’ segment. In tandem with this shift into the mainstream media market, we have seen an increasing interest in ‘social’ multiplayer gaming activities, from both the audience and the gaming industry. The development of social games is of great academic interest. Wide-ranging studies have been initiated to investigate the sociality…

Call For Papers ASME 2011 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality (WINVR2011) http://www.asmeconferences.org/WINVR2011/CallForPapers.cfm WINVR (The World Conference on INnovative Virtual Reality) 2011 will bring together international leaders from academia and industry to discuss state of the art research and practice in the use of Virtual Reality to solve industrial problems. The conference builds on the previous success of WinVR09 and WinVR10. The WIN VR 2011 Scientific Programme Committee invite academics, researchers, engineers and students from around the world to submit Draft Papers for their consideration. Over 30 conference sessions, including Plenary and Keynote speaker sessions, will be organised into tracks,…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IDC 2011 – The 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children – In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA June 19-23, 2011 http://www.idc2011.net/ CONFERENCE OVERVIEW For young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life as they learn and play using computers and other technological devices, build and maintain friendships, and engage in innovative learning experiences and other creative activity. IDC 2011 continues the IDC tradition of exploring and expanding the landscape of interaction design and children to understand children’s needs and how to design for them by gathering the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Embodied Interaction: Theory and Practice in HCI in conjunction with CHI 2011, Vancouver, May 8th 2011 Submission deadline: January 23, 2011 (EXTENDED) TOPIC An embodied perspective on interaction seeks to describe and explain how the body plays a foundational role in how human beings experience, interact with and understand computation in the world we live in. This workshop seeks to bring together a community of researchers who are creating interactive technologies based on an embodied perspective on human-computer interaction (HCI). We begin with a presentation by the organizers who will revisit the last ten years…

Call for Workshop Position Papers SAME 2011 – 4th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (NAMU Series) 29th June-2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies Brisbane, Australia http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/node/60 http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/ Creating the business value-creation, vision, media theories and technology for ambient media Call for Papers The medium is the message! And the message was transmitted via a single distinguishable media such as television, the Web, the radio, or books. In the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computation, where the information goes through a distributed interlinked network of devices, the question “what is content…

Call for Papers: Transactions of Edutainment Special Issue –  “Interactive Digital Storytelling” Editors: Ido Iurgel, Wolfgang Mueller, Paolo Petta Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) has enjoyed much interest within both academic research and industry, especially in the gaming sector. IDS aims at an intensified experience and increased meaningfulness of story in simulated computer-generated story worlds and interactive applications, for example through dynamic adaptation of the story flow and of virtual actors’ behaviors to user inputs and the unfolding of the events. IDS draws on a number of fields, such as storytelling, theory of gaming and game technologies, virtual reality, mobile computing,…