Create10 :: the conference for innovative interaction design 30th June – 2nd July 2010 Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh UK http://www.create-conference.org/ The provisional programme is online now, early registration ends 31st May. The Create conference centres on interaction design, a young discipline with roots in human-computer interaction, ergonomics, product and graphic design, multi-media and art. An interaction designer is a difficult person to pigeon hole and can be found in mobile phone companies, consumer product manufacturers, design consultancies, as a single practitioner, or within academic computing and design departments. As well as presentations of academic research and student work, the conference…

Call for Papers: Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use A workshop at Ubicomp 2010 September 26, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark Organizers: Irina Shklovski, Silvia Lindtner, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish We seek interdisciplinary scholars interested in exploring the role of ubiquitous computing, the use of information and communication technologies and the politics of technological design in transnational settings to participate in our workshop, TRANSNATIONAL TIMES, at Ubicomp 2010. Through this workshop we aim to expand our current scholarly vocabulary for the conceptualization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in addressing the interplay of local and global user…

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS BNAIC 2010: The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010 http://bnaic2010.uni.lu Organised by: Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC), University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor Introduction BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and engineers…

Workshop on Exploring Collaboration with Shareable Interfaces **Update: we’re delighted to be able to announce that Pierre Dillenbourg will be the third keynote speaker at this event** 16th and 17th of September 2010 Call for participation: deadline 28th May 2010 This 2-day workshop at the University of Sussex aims to bring together researchers from across disciplines who are analyzing interaction, talk and gesture, involved in the development of collaboration. It will focus on how shareable interfaces can both support and help us understand processes of collaboration associated with typical and atypical development. It follows from the highly successful workshops on…

CALL FOR PAPERS: MobileHCI Workshop on Using Audio and Haptics for Delivering Spatial Information via Mobile Devices http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/mobilehci.html Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal Submission deadline: May 10, 2010 Orientation and navigation are very important skills for getting along in daily life. The acquisition and use of these skills is based on the processing of visual, auditory and sensorimotor/kinesthetic information, denoting the relations between objects, places, and people. This multisensory information gives us cues about directions, distances, speed, headway, traffic, landmarks, obstacles, etc. With the recent availability of global positioning method, of comprehensive GIS systems, of powerful mobile computers and…

GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents) at IVA 2010 September 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia http://iva2010.org/gala  NOTE: Change of submission email address (gala2010@ncl.ac.uk) Extension of Deadlines: 14th May 2010 – GALA short paper; 1st  June 2010 – GALA flash video submission Call for Participation GALA IN A NUTSHELL: GALA is an annual festival to showcase the latest Animated Lifelike Agents created by university students and academic or industrial research groups. GALA was launched in 2005. GALA provides:  The GALA Final event, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art in the technology of virtual humans. The GALA Jury Award for student projects and the GALA Public…