Through Despair and Hope: The Circle of Second Life Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER) presentation in voice and discussion in text chat Presenter: Mark Childs (SL: Gann McGann) Date: 6 September 12 noon Second Life Time (which is 8pm UK time, 3pm US Eastern time) Location: Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VSTE%20Island/27/27/22 In 2009 every higher education institution in the UK had at least one practitioner exploring the use of Second Life (Kirriemuir, 2009). Since then, the number of institutions using the Second Life platform dropped markedly. Some practitioners began using other platforms, others stopped the using virtual worlds altogether (Childs, 2013). The…

CALL FOR PAPERS DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference ‘Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix’ Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan August 6 – 10, 2019 http://www.digra2019.org/ Submission deadlines: Full Papers, Abstracts, Panels, and Doctoral Consortium: February 5, 2019 Workshops: April 8, 2019 Media mix (wasei-eigo, メディアミックス or ‘media mikkusu’) bears a particular meaning in Japanese popular culture originating from anime production and consumption in the 1960s. Similarly to cross-media, media convergence, and transmediality, it refers to ways of presenting, representing, and sharing content on different platforms and media allowing dynamic communication between them. Media mix is best seen as…

Call for Participants Touching Past Lives: Immersive Heritage Performance Symposium Friday September 14th 2018, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM BST Senate House, Courtroom, Malet Street, London, WC1 7HU, UK Free Registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touching-past-lives-immersive-heritage-performance-symposium-tickets-49642696642 DESCRIPTION Touching Past Lives is a one day symposium exploring all aspects of the use of Immersive techniques to engage audiences with local, regional, and national heritage. Sensorial interactions and reactions to heritage is opening a new field of interrogations into how immersive experience of heritage shapes our understanding of the modern world. This symposium will bring together academics and heritage industry professionals, from museum curators…

Call for Papers ACM ISS 2018 Workshop on Approaching Aesthetics on User Interface and Interaction Design Tokyo, Japan Sunday, November 25, 2018 http://iss2018ws.xrenlab.com/ Submission deadline: September 7, 2018 Organizers: Chen Wang, Sayan Sarcar, Masaaki Kurosu, Jeffrey Bardzell, Antti Oulasvirta, Aliaksei Miniukovich, Xiangshi Ren Highlights: One full day workshop Panel discussion on highly relevant topics Paper presentation session Many possible collaboration opportunities Dear Colleagues We invite you to submit workshop papers for the upcoming ACM ISS workshop on “Approaching Aesthetics on User Interface and Interaction Design”. Aesthetics are influential in how willingly, how comfortably and how efficiently humans interact with objects,…

Call for Papers Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence – [PJCV] Special issue on Technology and armed Forces Expressions of interest (prospective title and 100 word proposal) by November 1st, 2018 PJCV welcomes contributions concerning the philosophical issues raised by the use of existing and emerging military and civilian forms of technologies in armed conflict. The special issue is guest edited by Dr. Alexander C. Leveringhaus (University of Surrey). The selected articles will be published by Trivent Publishing in May 2019. We welcome papers from philosophical research on the following topics: The implications of emerging technologies for the conceptualisation and…

Call for Applications The Concept of Virtuality: Summer Workshop in January Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile 21st-25th January 2019 Submission deadline: 25th September 2018 This is a Call for Applications for a summer workshop at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, 21st-25th January 2019. The concept of virtuality is used across a wide range of disciplines. First of all, outside the humanities it is of concern in fields from computer science to psychology. Indeed, there are technological foci on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality; gaming and ubiquitous computing; psychological studies of on- and offline behaviour; as well as explorations into…

CALL FOR PAPERS – IEEE PerCom 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Kyoto, Japan, March 11-15 2019 http://www.percom.org Paper Registration deadline: September 14, 2018 Paper Submission deadline: September 21, 2018 IEEE PerCom, now in its seventeenth year, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications have evolved into highly active areas of research; they have found their way into many current commercial systems due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems,…

[Lightly edited by ML] Call for Papers International Journal of Culture Technology http://ijct.iacst.org/ IJCT (International Journal of Culture Technology) aims to be the most comprehensive international journal on the various aspects of culture technology and its applications. IJCT provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to present recent progress in the area of culture technology. The goal of this journal is to bring together the research results from academia and industry to share ideas, works, problems and solutions related to the multifaceted aspects of culture technology. Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas related to culture…

Call for Long/Short Papers, Abstracts, Demos and Posters 2nd Workshop on INTERFACE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR VR/AR (DAIVAR) In conjunction with the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality (AIVR) Conference 10th-12th December 2018 Taichung, Taiwan http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/activities/current-activities/daivar2018/ Workshop proceedings published in an Scopus indexed proceedings series Best papers will be published as edited book, or journal special issue Submission Deadline: 14th October 2018 Submission System: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2018DAIVAR/ The objective of this workshop is to invite scholars and practitioners to discuss synergies between interface and experience design in artificial intelligent reality virtual and augmented environments. The aim is to gather a…

CALL FOR PAPERS ECSCW 2019 – The 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Salzburg (Austria) 8-12 June 2019 https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2019/ Paper submission deadline: October 26, 2018 ECSCW is a single-track conference that contributes to developing an interdisciplinary and global community, sponsored by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. The conference format facilitates critical discussion across disciplinary and national borders in the field. An overview of earlier ECSCW conferences (and proceedings) is available at http://www.ecscw.org. Submitted papers documenting original, rich, and in-depth contributions to CSCW will follow a journal-level review process. Accepted submissions will be published in Computer Supported…

CALL FOR PAPERS GOODTECHS 18 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good Special Session on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life Bologna, Italy 28 – 30 November 2018 http://goodtechs.eu/ Extended submission deadline: 3rd September 2018 Gamification techniques and serious games are often used to capture and maintain user’s attention. This is particularly important when dealing with young patients or people with special needs. Patient’s collaboration is crucial for doctors to perform a good diagnosis, and to provide an efficient therapy, but it cannot always be taken for granted. Moreover, serious games are proved to…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Journal Scientia et Fides (ISSN: 2300-7648; E-ISSN: 2353-5636) Special Issue on Transhumanism, edited by Leandro M. Gaitán (Universidad de Navarra) Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 During the last two decades, the transhumanist metanarrative has been generating a lot of controversy, both in academic circles and in public opinion. Its proposal of a radical transformation and even of overcoming the human condition by technological means, entails a diversity of both theoretical and practical problems. From the theoretical perspective, some problems are the potential advantages and risks of transhumanism, personal identity, new alterities (robots, cyborgs, etc.), equality and…