ACE 2010: 7th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2010 (5th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference) and in conjunction with NetGames 2010 (9th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games) Taipei, Taiwan on 17-19 November, 2010 http://www.ace2010.org/ ACE has become the leading academic forum for dissemination of novel research results in the area of entertainment computing. Interactive entertainment is one of the most vibrant areas of interest in modern society and ACE is its premier forum. The goal of ACE 2010 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to present…

Academic MindTrek 2010: Ambient and Ubiquituous Media, Digital Games, Open Source, Media Business and Management Call for Long Papers, Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Tutorials and Workshops 6th – 8th October, 2010 Tampere, Finland Upcoming deadline: 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals (6-8 pages) http://www.mindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI publications will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals. We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from 6th – 8th October 2010, which…

The deadline for HAID 2010 is three weeks away! Fifth International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) September 16-17 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline for full paper submissions – 30th April 2010 This year HAID will feature Søren Bech from Bang and Olufsen, Vincent Hayward from UPMC, France and Davide Rocchesso from IUAV, Italy as keynote speakers. Technologies to enable multimodal interaction are now sufficiently mature that research is turning away from pure hardware development and looking towards interaction and design issues to improve usability and the user experience. Robust solutions exist to display audio and haptic feedback in…

Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture Dedicated to Teaching and Learning  in Today’s Global Classroom THE 2010 CONGRESS Join teachers, scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss this year’s theme: Uniting Cultures Through Education: Case Studies and Classroom Curriculum. Individual and session proposals are currently being reviewed for the IX Annual Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture in Rome, Italy, 1-3 December 2010.…

CALL FOR PAPERS Playability and player experience of casual games K.U.Leuven, 15 September 2010 Workshop in conjunction with the Fun and Games Conference 2010 This workshop focuses on the development and use of all kinds of playability and player experience measures, like quantitative metrics and data harvesting, to evaluate digital games. Playtesting metrics are very much in demand and yet not much often used within the casual gaming industry, although already standard practice in the larger game development studios. Therefore all game genres are addressed, but casual games are considered the preferred focus. Introducing a system for player experience evaluation…

Expanded Play Sessions http://www.expandedplay.com/about.html Zaragoza, Spain. 13-15 April 2010 Expanded Play is a practice based lab for creative entrepreneurs, artists, designers, engineers and academics focusing on Play as Experience at the intersection of creativity, technology, research, social change and development. Based in London, UK, and Zaragoza, Spain, Expanded Play is actively supported by the Milla Digital project, an initiative of the Zaragoza City Council.…