Dear all, In conjunction with the Games and Literary Theory Conference 2013, being held at the University of Malta on October 31st and November 1st, a PhD seminar is being organized on November 2nd. http://gamesandliterarytheory.wordpress.com/phd-seminar/ For any questions, contact gamelit2013@um.edu.mt. We look forward to seeing you there! Daniel (Daniel Vella <danielvella84@GMAIL.COM>) — PhD seminar in connection with the Games And Literary Theory Conference 2013, Malta, Oct 31st – Nov 2nd Games and Subjectivity: Text, Experience, Identity and the Self Lecturers Espen Aarseth, IT University of Copenhagen Hans-Joachim Backe, Ruhr Universität Bochum Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam Jonas Linderoth, Gothenburg University…

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENDED Pictorial and Spatial Representation Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology Guest editors: Valeria Giardino and Gabriel Greenberg NEW DEADLINE for submissions: 15 October 2013 The Theme Pictorial and spatial representation play an essential role in a vast range of human communication and reasoning, exemplified by the widespread use of diagrams, maps, pictures, iconic gestures, comics, and film. In this special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, we seek to bring together work from philosophy and cognitive science (including psychology, linguistics, and computer science) that breaks new ground in the study…

CALL FOR PAPERS COOP 2014 Eleventh International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 27-30 May, 2014 Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est Nice, France http://coop2014.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES 8 November 2013 – Deadline for paper submissions 1 February 2014 – Notification of acceptance/rejection 15 February 2014 – Camera ready Papers  27-30 May 2014 – COOP 2014 conference in Nice INTRODUCTION COOP is one of the key European conferences on Cooperative Systems, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Collaborative Computing and is affiliated to EUSSET – the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. COOP 2014 will be…

Call for Papers Graphics Interface 2014 May 7th to 9th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Graphics Interface (GI), May 7-9, 2014, will be held in Montreal, Quebec. This will be the 40th Graphics Interface conference. GI is the oldest continuously-scheduled conference in the field, and attracts high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human-computer interaction, and graphics, from around the world. GI 2014 will be held in conjunction with the Computer and Robot Vision 2014 and Artificial Intelligence 2014 conferences. Registration will permit attendees to attend any keynote or talk in the three conferences, which will be scheduled in parallel tracks.…

IEEE VR 2014 Call for Papers Abstracts due- Sept 5, 2013 Long & Short Paper submissions due: September 12, 2013 http://ieeevr.org/2014/ IEEE VR 2014 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to virtual reality, including augmented reality, mixed reality, and 3D user interfaces. Each paper should be classifiable as mainly covering research, applications, or systems, using the following guidelines for each: Research papers should describe results that contribute to advances in state-of-the-art software, hardware, algorithms, interaction, or human-factors. Application papers should explain how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to solve an interesting problem in a…

The iDMAa Call for Papers deadline is approaching. Please consider submitting a paper and share this call with faculty or graduate students who would be interested in participating. The eleventh annual International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference will be held November 6-8, 2013 in Laguna Beach, California. iDMAa invites you to share your thoughts and work in digital media and arts. The deadline for accepting submissions for panel proposals and presentations is midnight, Sunday, September 1, 2013. To ensure rich dialog and exchange, we ask that presentations conform to 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide format. (See the link…

Workshop on “Exploring the User Experience of Autonomous Driving” October 27th, 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Held in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (Automotive’UI 13) http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/autoui2013 Call for Papers Position Paper Submission Deadline:  Wed, Sep 18th, 2013 Notification on Position Papers:  Mon, Sep 23th, 2013 Workshop Date:  Sunday, October 27th, 2013 This workshop will explore the emerging themes of autonomous driving, social driving and novel user interface approaches. The aim being to define the future landscape for research within and across each these areas. It aims to collect different, radical, innovative, versatile and…

Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (ToDIGRA) Special Issue CFP: Physical and Digital in Games and Play Following the successful “Physical and Digital in Games and Play” seminar (May 29-31, 2013, University of Tampere), the Transactions of Digital Games Research Association (ToDiGRA) journal invites paper submissions for a special issue on the role of physicality and materiality in digital games, hybrid media, and mixed reality play experiences. The research carried out in such areas holds potential for providing interesting comparative work in theoretical and empirical game studies as well as inspiring new design experiments of hybrid games, playful media…

CFP: 2nd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-13) at ICIDS 2013 9, November, 2013 Istanbul, Turkey Natural language processing (NLP) investigates computational aspects of natural language which humans produce and understand. While the applications of NLP range from information retrieval to machine translation, this workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications of NLP in games. With the advances in video games in recent years, areas in which games and NLP can help each other have greatly expanded. For example, games could benefit from NLP’s sophisticated human language technologies in designing and developing novel game…

GameDays 2014, 4th International Conference on Serious Games Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany April 1-4, 2014 http://www.gamedays2014.de The GameDays are fully dedicated to Serious Games and technologies, research concepts and methods for the creation, control/management and evaluation of Serious Games in a broad spectrum of application domains beyond pure entertainment. Scientists and practitioners are cordially invited to present their latest research achievements and best-practice results and to submit full papers (e.g., surveys, reports of new research approaches that cover related work, new concepts and at least first user studies), short papers (e.g. best-practice results or new ideas and concepts, not necessarily…