CALL FOR PAPERS As Above, So Below: Drone Culture Special issue of Culture Machine, Vol.16 (2015) Edited by Rob Coley and Dean Lockwood (University of Lincoln, UK) http://www.culturemachine.net The colloquium, ‘As Above, So Below’, held at the University of Lincoln in May 2014, proved the topic of drone culture to be a productive and resonant point of access for discussions of novel forms of life, power, and social and cultural logics in the twenty-first century. The 2015 special issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal, Culture Machine, will combine papers commissioned from selected speakers at the colloquium together with new…

Call for Participation Gaming Bodies ICA Game Studies Preconference May 21, 2015 – San Juan, Puerto Rico Deadline: December 1, 2014 Digital games have complicated notions of what a body is and what it means during and apart from play. Both digital and physical bodies are understood to influence – or be influenced by – gameplay experiences according to their unique traits, states, abilities, materialities, and governing systems. In gamespaces, digital bodies may be considered both as signifiers and agents of players’ intention and as independent entities functioning according to their inherent design. On the other side of the interface,…

4th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) February 23-24, 2015 East Carolina University Greenville, NC USA http://workshop.design4complexity.com/SCCI2015-home.php Call for Proposals Building on the success of the previous three conferences, the Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect complex information, information design, information architecture, user experience, and usability. It seeks to examine how design and content choices influence people’s behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the knowledge of situational context improves the design of complex information systems. The intention of SCCI is to foster an integrated approach to the…

Game Studies Area: 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, April 1 through Saturday April 4, 2015 at the New Orleans Marriott. Below, please find: I. Topics of Interest II. Submission Process III. Information about the Conference IV. Contact Information —— I. Topics of Interest The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can…

Call for Editors: “Real Virtual Hardware” issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) http://www.jvwresearch.org/index.php/2011-06-12-18-46-09/10-cfps/65-2ncfp-hardware-editors We are looking for a Prime Editor and 1-2 co-editors (you can join as a group) to lead this “Real Virtual Hardware” issue due to be published 2015Q3. If you have an interest and background in the field, as well as experience in academic editing, please send us your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are the perfect person to the task. Email the lot to info@jvwresearch.org. These days’ news is all about technology: Apple Watch; Samsung’s Gear VR headset for smartphones; Oculus…

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices Special Issue on Collaboration in Augmented Reality http://www.participatorysystems.nl/cscw-journal-ciar/ GUEST EDITORS Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Leila Alem, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia IMPORTANT DATES 13 October, 2014:  Submissions due December, 2014:  First round acceptances announced January, 2015:  Final Drafts due February, 2015:  Final acceptances. Issue goes to press THEME AND TOPIC More than 10 years ago, (Olson and Olson 2000) analysed groupware technology in how far it allows geographically distributed teams to work together as…

Call for Presentations American Telemedicine Association (ATA) 2015 May 3-5, 2015 Los Angeles, California USA http://www.americantelemed.org/ata-2015/call-for-presentations Submission Deadline:  September 17, 2014 ATA 2015 is the world’s largest meeting and trade show focused on the use of telecommunications in healthcare. The meeting will bring into focus hundreds of presentations about the rapidly evolving and fast growing areas of connected healthcare including telemedicine, telehealth, mobile health and remote health monitoring. This is your opportunity to share critical research findings, innovations, and best practices before thousands of leaders in healthcare, technology and public policy from around the world. Presentations will be selected by…

Call for Abstracts – 20th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference Preconference Workshops:  June 29th, 2015 Scientific Program:  June 30th – July 2nd 2015 University of California San Diego (UCSD) – La Jolla, California Conference website:  http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy20 Dear Colleagues, It is with great enthusiasm that I invite you to the CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference to help celebrate our 20th Anniversary Conference (CYPSY20)! CYPSY20 will be held on the University of California San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla, California from the 29th of June to the 2nd of July, 2015. The CYPSY Conference began in 1996 and…

Call For Papers Special issue of Games and Culture: Digital Gaming and Ageing http://www.cfpaginganddigitalgaming.com/ GUEST EDITORS: Hannah R. Marston, Institute of Movement and Sport Gerontology, German Sport University Cologne Charles Musselwhite, Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Wales, UK Shannon Freeman, School of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada We’re pleased to announce an upcoming issue of the Games & Culture Journal dedicated to the study of digital gaming and ageing. The ageing population is becoming a challenge for governments, practitioners and researchers alike. Worldwide statistics show, how the current and future estimated projections are increasing. With this…

Call for Participation The Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015) Surya University, Indonesia (21 KM from Jakarta Airport) September 10-12, 2015 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/iceee2015/ All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library You are invited to participate in The Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015) that will be held at Surya University, Indonesia (21 KM from Jakarta Airport) on September 10-12, 2015. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference welcomes papers on…

Call for Contributions: AMII2014: Ambient Play and Informal Learning Ambient Gaming Workshop (AMGAM’14) November 11, 2014 Eindhoven Deadline for submission:  01 October 2014 Notification of acceptance:  15 October 2014 Workshop:  11 November 2014 Web:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/ambientgamingworkshop/ Download full call:  http://www.playfitproject.nl/wp-content/uploads/Workshop@AmI2014_PlayLearning_final.pdf ABOUT AMBIENT GAMING AND PLAY The definition of play is often restricted to a specific ‘time and place’. Digital play can be more integrated in a spatial, temporal and social sense owing to new media, social networks, modern technology and (social) interaction. This enables to design for playful activities that are seamlessly integrated within our daily lives in such a way…

Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents (ESA14; http://www.social-robot.info) on October 28, 2014 in conjunction with Human Agent Interaction (HAI) 2014 (http://hai-conference.net/hai2014/) in Tsukuba, Japan EXTENDED DEADLINE:  September 5, 2014 Please contact us at:  esa-contact@social-robot.info IMPORTANT DATES: September 5, 2014, 23:59 PST  –  Paper submission deadline (extended) September 15, 2014  –  Notification of acceptance September 26, 2014  –  Camera ready submission October 28, 2014  –  See you in Tsukuba WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: In our aim to build soft- and hardware agents that are to appear intelligent and to interact seamlessly with humans we must not neglect the…