Digital Memory and Techno-nostalgia: Remembering / Dismembering Performance Performance and New Technologies Working Group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 2015 Conference University of Worcester, 8th to 10th September 2015. Call Deadline (abstracts): 17 April 2015 The ephemeral nature of live performance has always forced practitioners, critics and notaries to consider ways of committing performance to memory. The act of remembering itself was first expressed through theatrical means by Giulio Camillo and his memory theatre – giving birth to a performative technology, a mnemo-technic reliant on the theatrical frame. The commitment of the ephemeral act to memory most often…

Call for Papers MMSYM 2015: The 3rd European and the 6th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Venue: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, September 17, 18, 2015 Deadline for papers: May 31 2015 More information at: http://www.mmsym.org The 3rd European Symposium on Multimodal Communication will be held in Dublin on 17, 18 September 2015. The symposium provides a forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. The multimodal communication symposium is organised by the Speech Communication Lab at Trinity College Dublin. Multimodal communication as a research area is growing rapidly. There is…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association ISSN: 2156-1796, EISSN: 2156-1788 www.igi-global.com/IJPOP Deadline (Volume 4, Number 1): Friday, 15th May 2015 Editors-in-Chief: Adj. Prof. Steve Goschnick, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Prof. Leon Sterling, Pro Vice Chancellor (Digital Frontiers), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Published: Semi-annual (both in Print and Electronic form) In this first issue of Volume 4 of IJPOP we are seeking papers reporting on original, interesting and timely research from within these topics: Activity theory and modeling Agent meta-models, mental models Alert filter and notification software,…

ICSR 2015: Seventh International Conference on Social Robotics 26th to 30th October 2015, Paris, France http://www.icsoro.org/icsr2015/ The International Conference on Social Robotics brings researchers and practitioners together to report and discuss the latest progress in the field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots and the integration of robots into our society. The theme of the 2015 conference is “Individual Differences.” Robots will improve quality of human life through assistance, enabling for instance independent living or providing support in work-intensive, difficult and possibly complex situations. The conference aims to foster discussion on the…

The Fabrication of Art and Beyond: Making and Inventing in Digital Culture CHArt 2015 conference, part of the FABRICATION Arts & Humanities Festival King’s College London, Strand 17 October 2015 (provisional) Synopses due: Tuesday, 14 April 2015 Art intersects with fabrication. Art as a site of making has been drastically affected by digital and network technologies. The border between being online and offline, if one still exists, has become blurred. This has implications for the ways in which diverse elements are combined to create art. Yet, fabrication also means to devise or construct something new and “more troublingly” to fake…

CALL FOR PAPERS Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2015 (DCDC15): Exploring new digital destinations for heritage and academia When: Monday 12th – Wednesday 14th October 2015 Call for papers deadline: 1st May 2015 Where: The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, Manchester, M50 3AZ Conference fee: Registration for DCDC15 will open soon. There is no fee to attend the conference, however, a modest fee applies for the networking drinks reception on Monday 12 October and the conference evening reception on Tuesday 13 October. This year’s conference will look at the varied and innovative ways in which archives, museums, libraries and academia can…

You are invited to participate at a one-day workshop on games and art with guests Lindsay Grace and Perola Bonfanti. The workshop will take place on May 13th in Lüneburg, Germany, the day preceding the DiGRA conference (http://digra2015.org). The workshop is organised by the team of the Gamification Lab (organiser of the DiGRA conference) in conjunction with the Leuphana Arts Program. The event should be particularly convenient for those who are coming for DiGRA and expect to reach Lüneburg before the actual conference begins. Participation is free, although seats are limited. If you are interested please contact me at paolo.ruffino@inkubator.leuphana.de…

Call for Papers Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on HUMAN INTERACTION WITH ARTIFICIAL ADVICE GIVERS Main submission deadline: June 23rd, 2015 http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE Some types of system that support people in making choices and decisions can be viewed as artificial *advice givers*: They propose options and help to evaluate them while involving their human user in the decision making process. These systems differ in terms of their degree of autonomy and the extent to which users can influence reasoning processes and conclusions. For example, a system that supports exploratory search for products will…

Call for Participation Workshop on “Developing Partnership and Advancing Driving Research” Michigan Tech, USA, May 28, 2015 For further information, visit: http://sites.google.com/a/mtu.edu/engin Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI) hosts the first workshop on “Developing Partnership and Advancing Driving Research”. We would like to invite researchers and practitioners interested in in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. This workshop aims to (1) identify plausible research projects and collaborators for each identified project, (2) introduce possible funding agencies and proposal submission logistics, and (3) plan and schedule activities that will culminate in competitive proposal submission. After the keynote speech, each participant will briefly introduce his…

OzCHI 2015 – Being Human 26th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) December 7—10, Melbourne http://www.ozchi.org/2015 OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) and Australia’s leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds, including interface designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists. The conference theme is Being Human, which highlights the opportunity and hope for technology to contribute to our…

The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project Tuesday 15th September – Thursday 17th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The digital arts are constantly developing with an ever growing number of new branches (i.e. hybrid art, digital musics, interactive art, animation/FX, game production, curating creative communities, urban gaming, application design, bioart, hacktivism, generic architecture, urban hacking, big data visualisation, etc.). Many of these enter and change the entertainment and media industry and often promote the exploration of various aspects of human life, philosophical issues, anthropological, social, political and judicial problems. Consequently they are strongly…

The Videogame Cultures Project: 7th Global Meeting Friday 11th September – Sunday 13th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Videogames have probably become one of the most progressive mediums in the 21st century. The videogame genres and sub-genres are rapidly diverging and many concepts are merging with those from other media and even with the environment of the ‘real’ world (alternate reality games). Consequently the scope of the project is not limited to videogame studies only, but many other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, information science, criminology, military studies or ethology, to name but…