Call for Participants Research Project on Body Image in Real and Virtual Environments Principal Researcher: Dr. Alexander Mussap Student Researcher: Mr Jon-Paul Cacioli  More information and the survey: http://www.deakin.edu.au/psychology/research/virtualimage/ We have introduced an amazon gift voucher of $100 which will be randomly drawn from all participants who entered after data analysis is complete. If individuals have already entered prior to the prize they can email Jon-Paul at  [email protected] and he will add them to the draw. This is a student research project which is a requirement of the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at Deakin University. The results of the study will…

Elsevier Journal Entertainment Computing Special Issue & Workshop on: “Serious Games Development and Applications” Call for Papers Aims and Scope The recent emergence of serious games as a branch of the video games has introduced the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games include engineering, education, health care, military applications, city planning, production, crisis response, and training. Serious games have primarily been used as a tool that gives players a novel way to interact with games in order to promote physical activities, to learn skills and knowledge,…

Massey University – College of Creative Arts warmly invites you to the Interactive Entertainment Conference 2010: IE2010: The 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 21-23 November 2010, Wellington, New Zealand http://ieconference.org/ie2010/ The Fish of the Day: In this current economic climate of uncertainty, we see a convergence of innovative minds, creative solutions and emerging technologies enabling change. IE2010 will cover how PLAY can contribute to both major and minor challenges we are facing in these roaring times. What can we learn from being inventive and playful? And how can interactive entertainment contribute towards facilitating these changes? What do we need as…

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…