Conference Title: The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, Performativity CALL FOR PAPERS September 11th – 14th 2013, University of Roma 3, Rome, Italy The University of Roma 3, the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University of the Aegean and Dublin City University are pleased to announce: The 5th Conference of the “Beyond Humanism” Conference Series The specific focus of the Conference “The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, and Performativity” will be the posthuman, both in its genealogies, as well as its theoretical, artistic and materialistic differences and possibilities. In order to guarantee a systematic treatment of the topic, we will particularly focus on the following themes:…

Poetics and Praxis: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2013 3-5 september 2013 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/dppi We are excited to invite submissions for the 6th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, hosted by Northumbria University at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK 3rd  leading venue for designers, artists, psychologists, systems engineers, social scientists and many more to come together to debate and define future design research and practice. This year’s conference is hosted by Northumbria University (UK) and will be held on the riverbanks of the Tyne in the glorious BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art between…

JOURNAL OF LEARNING DESIGN Special Issue on “Design Education” 2013 The Journal of Learning Design is an open-access multidisciplinary forum concerned with innovative technology and pedagogy in higher education. Volume 6, Number 3 [2013] Theme: Technology: A Mobilising Force for a Radical Design Pedagogy Deadline for submissions: Monday 24 June 2013 Provocation and Call for Papers: In relation to architectural pedagogy, Beatriz Colimina writes that it “…has become stale. Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on. Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before…

Full-day Workshop at ACM IDC: Full-body Technologies, Playful Interaction & Children with Special Needs New York City, June 24, 2013 Submission by 25th of March 2013 http://hoc.elet.polimi.it/idc/2013/index.html The ACM IDC (Interaction Design and Children) conference is a major multidisciplinary international forum to discuss children’s needs in relationship to interactive technology and present the most innovative research in the field of interaction design for children. Within IDC 2013, the goal of this full-day workshop is to discuss how to design for full-body playful solutions for children with special needs, and to examine how to make design decisions and evaluations grounded in…

5th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE): Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/ Geneva, 2 September 2013 Satellite event of ACII 2013 (http://www.acii2013.org/) A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, adaptive games and smart mobile technology is the ability to infer the affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate output during sustained social interactions, and to do so in a timely manner. Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the interaction or providing suitable empathic responses through the display of facial expressions, gestures or generation of speech.…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments Subliminal/unaware cues and perception of presence in virtual, telepresence, and automotive environments Guest Editors: Andreas Riener, Myounghoon Jeon, and Miriam Reiner Submissions due: July 31, 2013 This special issue focuses on the role of a special category of sensory cues in the sense of ‘presence’: subliminal and unaware sensory stimuli in Virtual Environments (VE). The central objective is to provoke an active debate on the impact, role, and adequacy of using unaware or below threshold information in VE, teleoperation, or augmented reality.…

MODE Introductory training day: Multimodal methods to researching embodiment in digital contexts Thursday March 14th 2013 NCRM Node: Multimodal Methodologies for Digital Environments (MODE) Institute of Education London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS The aim of this training day is to introduce participants to contemporary perspectives of ‘embodiment’, specifically in the context of interaction with digital technology, including mobile, tangible, sensor and simulation. The first half of the day will comprise a series of talks beginning with an overview of theoretical and conceptual perspectives of embodiment, followed by short talks foregrounding some key conceptual themes. These themes…

Hi all… We are performing some research on the perception of avatar personality based on facial features. To assist in this research, we are hosting a brief Web based survey to collect data about such perceptions. If interested, we would like invite you to take this survey which can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/avatarperception The survey is anonymous and takes around 20 minutes to complete. Thanks in advance for your participation.  Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues who may also be interested in participating. – joe Joe Geigel Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Rochester Institute of Technology…

Irish Symposium on Game Based Learning (iGBL 2013) 6-7 June, Dublin Institute of Technology http://igbl2013.wordpress.com ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 8, 2013 The purpose of iGBL2013 is to: report on the use of game-based learning in primary, secondary and third-level education explore the effectiveness of game-based learning identify how game-based learning can be facilitated in educational settings …

Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference and Demonstration Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013 Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Since 1968 scientists have been creating sensory substitution and augmentation devices. With these devices they try to replace or enhance one sense by using another sense. For example, in tactile–vision, stimulation of the skin driven by input to a camera is used to replace the ordinary sense of vision that uses our eyes. The feelSpace belt aims to give people a magnetic sense of direction using vibrotactile stimulation driven by a digital compass. This conference…

The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London invites proposals for Cultural Space, a conference to take place at the UEL Docklands Campus on Friday and Saturday, 18th and 19th October, 2013. We are interested in presentations which address the problematics of space both as concept and as lived social reality, with a particular emphasis on the tension between spaces of control in the context of contemporary neoliberalism, spaces of resistance and the apocalyptic spaces which emerge from war, forced migration and the failures of consumer capitalism. What are the politics of space in contemporary contexts?…

Designing and Developing Collaborative Technologies with/for Children and their Families at the IDC 2013 Conference June 24th, 2013 in NY, USA SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 18th, 2013 NOTIFICATION: April 19th, 2013 http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/IDCFamily2013 This one-day workshop will take place at IDC 2013 and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of human-computer interaction, child-computer interaction, interaction design, instructional design, etc. TOPIC The family environment provides a fruitful and at the same time challenging context to design with/for children and their families. The goal of this one-day workshop is to share experiences, best practices and lessons learned to explore the…