Dear Colleagues, Hello everyone, I am conducting an online survey on gamers’ online gaming experiences, such as trash talking and related behaviours. I have received some responses from various sources. May I kindly ask for your help in filling out and sharing the survey link to your friends and people who play online. The survey takes on average 15 minutes. Here is the link: http://osucomms.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8BsMt3C1Y9jL3Bb Cheers, Wai Yen Tang The Ohio State University School of Communication PhD Student tang.252@osu.edu vgresearcher.wordpress.com…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health May 14-16, 2014 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sponsored by: IEEE ˆ Computer Society http://www.ipca.pt/segah2014 IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Poster Submission (extended abstract) Deadline: November 1, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers and extended abstract): December 1, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 15, 2014 Tutorial Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Demo Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Workshops Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013 Symposiums Submission Deadline: July 31, 2013 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Esteban Clua, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil João Vilaça, Polytechnic Institute…

[For those wondering how this might be about (tele)presence, see Esther Milne’s ISPR 2011 paper, Historical Provocations: Postal Presence, Intimate Absence and Public Privacy.  –Matthew ] 1st Global Conference Letters & Letter Writing – Signed, Sealed, Delivered Tuesday 18th March – Thursday 20th March 2014 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/call-for-presentations/ Call for Presentations The letter has been one of the most important forms of communication over thousands of years across many cultures and continents. Whether personal, professional or an open statement of intent it can covey the most intimate messages or declare the most inflammatory of declarations. It can be delivered…

Call for open research on the theme of “the historical evolution of the uses of computation, 1950-2015” in light of the IDF editorial initiative regarding Situated Computing. We invite all interested parties as well as the members of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) to contribute in building a body of shared knowledge focusing on how uses and users co-evolved over time together with the tools that enabled computational services and technology-mediated interaction in organizational and social settings. We invite you to contribute by sharing references to high quality research contributions, by both historians of science/technology who have focused on the…

National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference Game Studies area April 16-19, 2014 Chicago, IL, USA

[Note: see titles from the previous conference on the event web site CONTEMPHOTO ‘14 Contemporary Photography Conference April 24-26, 2014 Istanbul, Turkey http://www.contemphotoconference.org/ Sources of Photography: Imagination versus Reality CONTEMPHOTO ’14 Conference aims at achieving a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on fictional reality of photography on the basis of imagination and reality. Contemporary trends in photography are going to be explored in relation to the multiple roles as document, witness, archive, or individual expression, fantasy and an artistic object. 2nd Conference on Contemporary Photography, DAKAM’s CONTEMPHOTO ’14 will take place on April 24-26, 2014, in Istanbul.…

Call for Papers The Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Science is to be held in Kaliningrad (former Königsberg), Russia, June 23-27, 2014. The conference is organized by the Interregional Association for Cognitive Studies (IACS), the Interregional foundation “Centre for the Development of Interpersonal Communication” and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. The conference continues a series of Conferences on Cognitive Science held in Kazan’ (2004), St. Petersburg (2006), Moscow (2008), Tomsk (2010), and Kaliningrad (2012) (for more information see the IACS website: www.cogsci.ru). The conference is intended to provide a multidisciplinary forum for scientists exploring cognition and its evolution, intellect, thinking,…

Special Issue of Interacting with Computers Sensor/Recognition-based Learning in Contextual Surroundings Guest Editors: Gheorghita Ghinea, Brunel University, UNITED KINGDOM Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, TAIWAN Jiangang Cheng, Tsinghua University, CHINA Cristina Hava Muntean, National College of Ireland, IRELAND Aims Recent advances in sensors and recognition technology give a great potential for creating brand new environments for interaction and learning. These could offer users flexible and tangible ways to interact with or learn from meaningful information in authentic environments. Therefore the sensors and recognition technologies can facilitate users to have authentic interaction with surroundings and explore problems by using useful information…

Call for papers The 11th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference – HCC 11 July 30th – August 1st, 2014, Turku, Finland ICT and Society It is crucial to understand how ICT innovation is associated with change in society! Human Choice and Computers – a series of conferences organised by the International Federation of Information Processing’s (IFIP) Technical Committee 9 (TC9) – focuses on this critical issue. It works to shape socially responsible and ethical policies and professional practices in the information society. The themes pertinent to the work of IFIP TC9 will be covered at this conference.…

Call for Papers / Panels Society for Phenomenology and Media 16th Annual Conference March 12-15, 2014 Hochschule Furtwangen University and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany The Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) is pleased to receive abstracts (200 words maximum) for consideration of inclusion in its 16th annual international conference. The conference will be sponsored by Hochschule Furtwangen University, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and the Husserl Archives-Freiburg. It will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau at the university. Proposals for 3-person panels are now also being accepted. These should be organized around specific media-for example: film, the Internet, mobile communication, medieval manuscripts, print media (books, newspapers,…

Call for papers International symposium: “The digital subject:  In-scription, Ex-scription, Tele-scription” University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Archives nationales, November 18-21, 2013 Organizers: Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Department of philosophy, LLCP, SPHERE, EA 4008) Claire Larsonneur (Department of anglophone studies, Le Texte Étranger, EA1569) Arnaud Regnauld (Department of anglophone studies, CRLC – Research Center on Literature and Cognition, EA1569) This symposium is part of a long-term project, “The digital subject,” endorsed by the LABEX Arts-H2H (http://www.labex-arts-h2h.fr/) and follows a first symposium on Hypermnesia held in 2012.  We are exploring the ways in which digital tools, be they real or fictional, from Babbage…