ITS 2013 – Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Oct 6 – Oct 9 St Andrews, Scotland, UK its2013.org Deadline: 14 Jun 2013 – Submission deadline Interactive surfaces is emerging as an exciting new research area. Display technologies coupled with input sensors capable of enabling direct interaction, are being experimented with and embedded in tabletops, walls and floors to support a diversity of collaborative activities. Call For Papers / Call For Participation (CfP) Academic and Application Papers (and Notes) We invite paper submissions of papers (max. 10 pages) and notes (max. 4 pages) of two possible types: academic and application. Academic papers…

Call for Papers CRIWG 2013 – 19th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology 30 October – 1 November 2013, Wellington, New Zealand http://criwg2013.vuw.ac.nz INTRODUCTION We invite you to participate in the 19th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology. The Conference is a major forum for academic researchers to exchange their experiences related to the development and use of collaboration technology. The Conference adopts the double-blind peer review process: only papers submitted by anonymous authors, anonymously reviewed by three members of the Program Committee, and meta-reviewed by the Program Chairs are accepted for publication. The Conference has a strong focus on…

Call for papers VISUAL LEARNING: EMOTION — EXPRESSION — EXPLANATION Conference to take place in Budapest, November 15-16, 2013 Conference organized by the Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. (http://www.vll.mpt.bme.hu) Speakers will include: Petra Aczel David Freedberg James E. Katz Zoltan Kovecses Sybille Kraemer Contributions are invited from educational, communication, and media theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics: educational theory and visual learning images, aesthetics, art history images and media theory metaphor and emotion images in psychotherapy visual rhetoric pictorial meaning pictorial communication visual imagery…

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop DIECH: Design of Interactive Experiences for Cultural Heritage Sites by End Users In conjunction with IS-EUD 2013 (http://iseud.net) June 10 2013, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark THEME Cultural heritage (CH) sites, such as museums, archaeological parks and historical city centers, are interesting places to study human-technology interaction. They are particularly important places for having rich interactive learning experiences, for different age groups and dimensions (families, school parties etc.). Interactive technologies play an important role in CH sites. A particular aspect in this context is studying user interaction with physical spaces, especially through mobile technology and interrelated…

VS-Games 2013 (the 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications) 11-13 September 2013, Bournemouth University, UK http://www.vsgames2013.org/ VS-Games 2013, the fifth outing of the International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, will be hosted at Bournemouth University, UK between the 11th and the 13th of September 2013. With the conference organized in previous years at locations such as Coventry (UK), Braga (Portugal), Athens (Greece) and Genoa (Italy), it will take place, for 2013, at the state of the art Kimmeridge House building of Bournemouth University, situated at the main Talbot campus of the…

The 9th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces July 15th – August 9th 2013; Lisbon (Portugal) After the previous workshops which had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this hands-on workshop, the 9thedition will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free…

This is a call for papers for a special issue on “Embodiment and Empathy: Current Debates in Social Cognition” to be published by the journal Topoi. http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245 Special issue “Embodiment and Empathy: Current Debates in Social Cognition” Topoi 2013 / 3 (September issue 2013) Guest Editor: Dr. Nivedita Gangopadhyay Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution Ruhr-University Bochum Germany http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/mibra/gaeste_en.html The interdisciplinary field of social cognition is currently witnessing the emergence of a number of theories which stress the importance of understanding the other’s embodied intersubjective engagement prior to gaining a theoretical understanding of the other as a “minded” being…

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of Virtual Reality “Validating cyber-interventions for training, wellbeing and sustainability” We define cyberinterventions as the attempt at modifying people’s actions, meanings and habits with a protocol that is primarily supported by a digital environment, with the final goal of increasing wellness of a consentient user and to serve values shared by the society at large. Typical domains of “cyber-interventions” are, for instance, applications designed to increase consumers’ awareness of the environmental consequences of each single consumption act; cognitive-behavioral therapeutic interventions carried out with virtual environments; virtual simulations aimed at training users in the…

CALL FOR PAPERS PETMEI 2013 – 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction August 13, 2013 http://2013.petmei.org/ organised as a dedicated conference track at the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2013) in Lund, Sweden (http://ecem2013.eye-movements.org/) Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their accepted papers for inclusion in a PETMEI special issue in the Journal of Eye Movement Research (http://www.jemr.org) VISION AND GOALS Despite considerable advances over the last decades, previous work on eye tracking and eye-based human-computer interfaces mainly developed use of the eyes in traditional (“desktop”) settings that involved…

design4health2013: invention, adoption and diffusion Lab4Living at sheffield Hallam University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the 2nd European conference on Design 4 Health 2013. The conference will be held at Sheffield Hallam University from 3-5 July 2013, Sheffield (UK). About the conference This conference seeks to explore the relationship between design, and health and wellbeing. Good design can deliver widespread benefits to society but how can design practice and processes meet the challenges of health and wellbeing in the 21st Century? Through this conference we aim to develop environments and propose creative strategies for future living…

CALL FOR PAPERS IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2013) Prague, Czech Republic, 22 – 24 July 2013 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2013) Prague, Czech Republic, 22 – 26 July 2013 (http://www.mccsis.org) Deadline for submissions (1st call – new date): 28 February 2013 Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Associate Professor Boyan Bontchev, Department of Software Engineering, Sofia University, Bulgaria Conference background and goals: This conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on…

The User Experience Professionals Association’s Boston Chapter (UXPA Boston) Usability and User Experience 2013 http://upaboston.org/2013/01/28/user-experience-conference-52913/ Join us on Wednesday, May 29th for the twelfth annual UXPA conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel! Learn about and discuss critical topics in usability and user-entered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. This conference offers unique content and one-of-a-kind learning opportunities for all – newcomers and seasoned professional alike. Check back for updates as we get closer to the conference date. 32 Sessions! This one-day conference includes four simultaneous tracks, giving you a choice of 32 presentations. Join over 500 attendees…