CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Virtual Reality Summer School 25 – 29 august 2014, Biarritz, France http://VR-SummerSchool.estia.fr Contact: j.cieutat@estia.fr Deadline for registration: 30th June 2014 Objectives The objective of this summer school is to propose a privileged moment for stimulating discussions and exchanges around Virtual Reality. Meetings will be organized around talks, workshops and social events. As for every summer school, PhD students are invited to come to present the progresses of their research works, challenges and corresponding solutions they put forward. We also encourage Master students to participate. Within these privileged moments, we hope to be able to stimulate European collaborations…

CALL FOR PAPERS ACE 2014 11th ADVANCES IN COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Incorporating 9th International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA) Funchal, Madeira 11-14 November, 2014 http://www.ace2014.info ACE – the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing is inviting the submission of papers, posters, creative showcases, and workshop proposals to its 11th conference to be held in Funchal, Madeira, 11-14 November, 2014. Submission deadlines: Papers:   May 12, 2014 Workshops:  May 12, 2014 Creative Showcases:  June 2, 2014 Posters:   July 14, 2014 We solicit submissions on a broad range…

Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context Workshop, in conjunction with MobileHCI ’14 http://www.urban-context.eu organisers@urban-context.eu September 23, 2014, Toronto, Canada Call for Papers Mobile technology offers significant potential to connect users to their immediate geographic environment. Yet existing approaches to doing so are largely visual, which can isolate users from that environment, and utilitarian, such as directing a user to a destination or showing nearby coffee shops as a list. The recent rise of geo-social media (images, text updates and check-ins) has offered new ways to support contextualising the environment and connecting users with it. Work such as PULSE (that…

Call for Papers: Irish HCI 2014 This year the Insight Centre for Data Analytics will be hosting the 8th Annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) conference in the Helix, Dublin City University on the 1st and 2nd September 2014.  iHCI is Ireland’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human Computer Interaction bringing together practitioners, academics, researchers and students from a wide variety of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. We also welcome perspectives from design, architecture engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other…

Call for Papers The 1st WORKSHOP on “Sonic Information Design: Framework, Approach, and Application” New York June 22 (Sun), 2014 in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display 2014 (ICAD2014) (http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/icad2014/) Submission Deadline: April 11 (Fri), 2014 DATES: Submissions due:  April 11 (Fri), 2014 (2-4 page position paper with the ICAD format) Notification of acceptance:  April 29 (Tue), 2014 Submission of final camera-ready paper:  May 6 (Tue), 2014 Workshop:  June 22 (Sun), 2014 DESCRIPTION: In this workshop, we aim at outlining the “design” aspects of auditory displays and sonification. Research has proposed that multiple populations (e.g.,…

BioCentre invites you to its next THOUGHT LEADER TELECONFERENCE: “ROBOTICS AND OLDER PERSONS: EMPOWERING INDEPENDENT LIVING OR INTENSIFYING ISOLATION? Friday 11th April 2014, 3pm (UK time) There is still time to register for this exciting discussion later this week Telecons are open to all and accessible worldwide. To receive call–in details, email your name and affiliation to: info@bioethics.ac.uk Participating speakers will include: DR. GLENDA COOK, Professor of Nursing, specialising in gerontology and long term care of older people, Northumbria University, Newcastle DEBORAH GALE, Gerontologist, writer and commentator DR WALTER GREENLEAF, Senior Research Scholar and Director, Mind Division, Stanford Center on…

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Hyperlinking in the Web of Linked Things – (WLT 2014) in conjunction with the ACM HyperText Conference, Santiago del Chile, Chile, September 1-4, 2014. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers:  May 23 2014 Notification of authors:  June 06 2014 Delivery of camera-ready copy:  June 12 2014 Workshop day:  September 01 2014 MOTIVATIONS The idea of linking the Web and physical things is not new, but in the last years this line of research has grown exponentially. The Web of Things is about exploiting Web standards to connect physical objects. They can be everyday objects with attached…

Call for Participation Summer School Research 2.0: The Virtual Stakes Methodology, Epistemology, Ethics For graduate students and young researchers June 3 – 6, 2014 Concordia University Montreal Organised by the Research Chair on Gambling, and Habitudes de vie et Recherches MultidisciplinairES (HERMES) Spaces are limited. The sessions will be held in English and French. Subscription fees 150$ (taxes and meals included). Funding will be provided for the 5 best applicants. Application deadline: April 18, 2014 Details and Application at: http://www.concordia.ca/research/lifestyle-addiction/training/summer-school2.html Main Objectives The Summer School Research 2.0: The Virtual Stakes seeks to offer a collegial space for exchange and interaction…

CALL FOR ENTRIES DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS GROUP (UMG) ANNUAL CONFERENCE DIGITAL DIMENSIONS 12-13 June 2014 Wickham Theatre, University of Bristol, Bristol University Museums Group (UMG) is looking to showcase innovative digital projects produced through collaborations between museums and universities at its annual conference, Digital Dimensions (http://universitymuseumsgroup.org/events/featured/) Have you been involved in a digital project in which university and museum professionals have worked together to: (1) find a museum application for a digital technology used in a different discipline or that is the result of blue sky research; (2) user test a new digital technology in a museum environment;…

CALL FOR PAPERS 36TH ANNUAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, Florida 06 – 08 November 2014 Deadline: August 1, 2014 http://htronline.weebly.com/hta-conference-2014.html We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 36th annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference. The main track for this year’s conference will be Technology and Politics. Papers are particularly welcome that address the democratization of science and technology; political ecology and digital activism; hyperobjectivities and technological mediations; biopolitics, including macro- and micro-biopolitics; technology of subjectivities, including the techno-politics of sexuality; surveillance technologies; digital policing and technologies of warfare (cyber, drone, etc.);…

CALL FOR PAPERS Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014) August 27-29, 2014, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2014 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In…

Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SPECIAL SESSION http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org at CYBERWORLDS 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE http://www.cw2014.unican.es/home 6-8 OCTOBER 2014, SANTANDER, SPAIN University of Cantabria, Spain Chair: Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 MAY, 2014 Send your paper to: gianluca.mura@polimi.it More information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/ Submissions include full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) and poster (1 page, abstract). The papers must be written in English, carefully proofread, and formatted to Conference Publishing Services Manuscript Formatting Guidelines from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting Please use the following template for preparing your papers from: http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS.zip or http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX.zip…