Call for Papers: Language Games issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac https://www.leoalmanac.org/language-games-call/ Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Language Games is the title of a forthcoming issue with LEA edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Sheena Calvert, and Hannah Lammin. We invite a range of submissions initially in the form of abstract. The description of the issue is below with all the related information for submission. Language is a technology, as theorists including Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan have argued, and yet its manifestation in both speech and writing is fundamentally human-centred: anthropological. However, speech and writing are rapidly becoming an interface not…

Call for Chapters “New technological applications for foreign and second language learning and teaching” Editors Mariusz Kruk, University of Zielona Góra, Poland Mark Peterson, Kyoto University, Japan Proposals Submission Deadline: April 25, 2019 Full Chapters Due: August 23, 2019 Submission Date: December 16, 2019 Propose a chapter for this book: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3903 INTRODUCTION The book entitled “New technological applications for foreign and second language learning and teaching” will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the latest advances in technology-enhanced language learning. This publication combines theoretical and applied research from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The volume will encompass contributions from international experts in the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes (edited book) Edited by Christina Lee and Erik Champion (Curtin University) Proposals due by: April 5, 2019 We are soliciting contributions for an edited book that will explore the affective landscapes – both real and imaginary – in screen tourism. Screen tourism is a burgeoning global industry whereby tourists visit locations that are featured in or are associated with film and television texts (e.g. filming locations, theme parks, the creator’s former abode). This simultaneously niche yet mainstream market has now extended the bucket list of travel destinations to include the likes of…

[Submitted to ISPR Presence News by the Konin Language Studies journal] Call for Papers Change, development and achievement in the L2 classroom: Thinking back and looking ahead Special Issue of Konin Language Studies http://www.ksj.pwsz.konin.edu.pl/?page_id=1085&lang=en Submission deadline: January 31st, 2019 As has been stated by Marianne Celce-Murcia (2001, p. 3), “[t]he field of second (or foreign) language teaching has undergone many fluctuations and shifts over the years. Different from physics or chemistry, in which progress is more or less steady until a major discovery causes a radical theoretical revision, language teaching is a field in which fads and heroes have come…

Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2018) Berlin, 13-14 October 2018 https://sui.acm.org Paper deadline: 30 June 2018 We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2018 (SUI). SUI will be held on 13-14 October 2018, co-located with the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST) in Berlin, Germany. We seek original, unpublished papers documenting original research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of spatial user interaction. User interface evaluations are strongly encouraged for every publication in this venue. Specific topics of interest include: Spatial interaction techniques…

MSc internship position in collaborative virtual environments design at the IBISC Lab, Paris area, France Review of applications will begin immediately, until the position is filled. Please feel free to forward the offer to interested candidates. Our HCI/VR research group (IRA2) at the IBISC Lab, Univ Evry, University Paris Saclay is looking for an intern to work on designing collaborative interaction techniques during surgical group training in virtual environments. Students may apply to this internship position: As part of their MSc thesis, subject to evaluation of their current university and MSc program; or, After successfully completing an HCI/VR related MSc and currently…

Call for Papers Fourth IEEE VR International Workshop on 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2018 Reutlingen, Germany Sunday March 18 or Monday March 19, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/3dcveieeevr2018/ Submission deadline: January 22, 2018 (Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2018) Emerging technologies for multi-user 3D interaction in immersive virtual environments promise novel opportunities collocated and remote collaboration, but their development also implies new challenges. Collaborative 3D virtual environments must foster mutual awareness among participants and should support their coordinated cooperative action. This requires further research on suitable hardware setups, software architectures, and interaction techniques. Not least, the usability evaluation of…

Call for Chapters: Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Technologies in Foreign and Second Language Instruction Editor Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3054 Proposals Submission Deadline: January 30, 2018 Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2018 Submission Date: August 30, 2018 INTRODUCTION Over the last few years there has been a quite specific interest in using virtual technologies in education, including foreign/second language education. This is because virtual technologies, such as virtual worlds, are particularly relevant to language teaching/learning in view of the fact that, among other things, they present language learners with situations similar to these found in the…

ACM SUI 2017 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction October 16-17, 2017 Brighton, UK http://www.sui2017.org/authors/ Twitter: @ACM_SUI FB: SpatialUserInteraction Full and Short papers deadline: June 30th 2017 We have some exciting news for SUI 2017. The best full and short papers will be granted the possibility to present again at ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2017 (ISS), which will be held immediately after SUI (also in Brighton). This year, Alex Schwartz, CEO of Owlchemy Labs, of Job Simulator fame, will give a keynote titled “Intuitive Spatial Interactions in VR”. More info at: http://www.sui2017.org/keynote/ We invite you to participate in the…