CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems – PhyCS 2014 January 7-9, 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Website: http://www.phycs.org Regular Papers Paper Submission: July 30, 2013 Authors Notification: October 9, 2013 Camera Ready and Registration: October 22, 2013 Sponsored by: INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events Exhibitors: Anditec – Tecnologias de Reabilitação, lda PT – Fundação Portugal Telecom Plux Wireless Biosignals S.A. Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is…

Call For Papers / Call For Participation 3rd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) February 24-25, 2014 East Carolina University Greenville NC For the full call for papers: http://workshop.design4complexity.com/home.php SYMPOSIUM GOALS Building on the success of the previous two 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 choices influence people’s behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the knowledge of situation contexts improves the design of complex information systems. The intention of…

Call for Participation ICMI Grand Challenge Workshop on Multimodal Learning Analytics ICMI Multimodal Learning Analytics Workshop 2013 The workshop will take place in Sidney (Australia) as part of the 2013 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. http://tltl.stanford.edu/mla2013 Important Dates: June 15, 2013: MMLA database available for grand challenge participants August 21, 2013: Paper submission deadline Sept. 15, 2013: Notification of acceptance Oct. 8, 2013: Camera-ready papers due December 9, 2013: ICMI Workshop Multimodal learning analytics, learning analytics, and educational data mining are emerging disciplines concerned with developing techniques to more deeply explore unique data in learning settings. They also use the…

Call for Participation Papers Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2014 February 15-19 Baltimore, Maryland, USA http://cscw.acm.org/index.html The 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014) will be held February 15-19 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. CSCW is the premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in the area of social computing, CSCW encompasses both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting collaboration. CSCW 2014 will build on this strong history…

Call For Papers For a special issue of Museum & Society journal Museum education today: Synergies and innovations in multicultural contexts Guest editors Dr Stella Sylaiou & Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti We invite papers for a forthcoming special issue of Museums & Society which will explore the current state in museum education theory and practice. Our rationale begins with the notion that museums can engage new audiences, trigger aesthetic sensitivities, exercise creativity and imagination. In today’s multicultural societies, museums need to explore new synergies with educational institutions and develop innovative means to address educational challenges in engaging ways. In addition, information…

SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Call for Submissions: Art Gallery & Art Papers SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 June 2013 (23:59 UTC/GMT) WEBSITE: http://sa2013.siggraph.org/en/submitters/art-gallery.html Future/Past The SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Art Gallery brings to ACM SIGGRAPH an exhibition of art in a major Asian city that reflects on the public domain as demarcated by the artist whose creativity is empowered by their access to a digitally-enabled means of expression. Art can form an understanding of ideas not easily expressed by any other means. Shared themes form a collective understanding in an ever merging narrative of expression. The sensory aspect of an effort of artistic practice…

Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior: “Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games” Special Issue Editors Georgios Christou, European University Cyprus Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester Lennart E. Nacke, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) David Geerts, KU Leuven DESCRIPTION Computer games are at the forefront of technological innovation; their popularity in research continuously increasing. Their wide presence and use makes computer games a major factor affecting the way people socialize, learn and possibly work. As increasingly more people become involved with computer games, researchers need to address various questions…

TOUCH ME – HAPTIC EVALUATION METHODS FOR EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES Full-day workshop at the Mensch & Computer conference 2013 held in Bremen, Germany (http://www.interaktivevielfalt.org/mensch-computer/) from 8-11th of September 2013. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May, 24th, 2013, to busch@cure.at Notification: June, 26th, 2013 Submission format: 2-4 page position papers, formatted according to Mensch & Computer format (anonymized). SCOPE AND FOCUS We plan to explore, discuss and collect ideas on haptic materials for evaluating users’ emotional experiences with interactive systems. Haptic evaluation materials allow for a qualitative, playful and holistic evaluation of emotional factors – without interfering with the users’ personal experience during…

Workshop on Mediated Touch and Affect (MeTA) Conference: The fifth biannual Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013). 2-5 September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland Website:

The Second International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2013) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Poland Section Technical University of Lodz, Poland Sept. 23-25, 2013 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/iceee2013/ The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland from Sept. 23- 25, 2013 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. Research topics (but not limited to): Intelligent Tutoring Systems Immersive Learning Collaborative Learning Community Building Context Dependent Learning Mobile Learning (M-learning) Standards and Interoperability Digital Libraries for E-Learning Web-based Learning, Wikis and Blogs Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning E-Learning Hardware and Software…

Workshop on Mixed Reality for Health and Wellbeing – Call for Papers and Participation As part of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2013 to be held in Adelaide, S.A., Australia, October 1, 8:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm We are holding a workshop on Mixed Reality for Health and Wellbeing. We are seeking short paper and work‐in‐progress submissions. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): AR/MR Exposure Therapy AR/MR assisted rehabilitation AR/MR supported phobia treatment Sense of Presence and Immersion in augmented environments Post‐traumatic stress disorder management and treatment Assistive devices and computer games Mirror…

Call for Chapters: Machine Medical Ethics, Edited Collection, 2014 You are warmly invited to submit your research chapter for possible inclusion in an edited collection entitled Machine Medical Ethics. Target publication date: 2014. The new field of Artificial Intelligence called Machine Ethics is concerned with ensuring that the behaviour of machines towards human users and other machines is ethical. This unique edited collection aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers in this field to present new research and developments in Machine Medical Ethics. Areas of interest for this edited collection include, but are not limited to, the following topics:…