LUDO 2014 – Game Audio Conference April 10th – 12th 2014 University of Chichester, UK http://www.ludomusicology.org/ludo-2014/ The Ludomusicology research group is pleased to announce the third annual conference on video game sound and music, featuring: Keynote address by Kevin J. Donnelly (Southampton University) Industry sessions with game audio professionals More speakers and events to be confirmed We are currently accepting proposals for 20-minute research papers. While we will consider papers on any topic related to video game audio, the conference themes this year are: Canons and curating game music Simulation, immersion and “the real” in sound and audio Game audio…

2nd Global Conference: Transmedia: Storytelling and Beyond Wednesday 14th May – Friday 16th May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: The Global Research Project on Transmedia was launched in Sydney, Australia in January 2013 with a programme that brought together researchers, educators, industry practitioners and other stakeholders across the professional and disciplinary spectrum. (The programme is available online at http://tinyurl.com/bnysnt4.) Discussions highlighted critical issues concerning techniques for user engagement; research, pedagogy and curriculum design; and evaluative techniques for complex and dynamic user engagement. The conversations highlighted the diversity of transmedia projects and fostered a greater appreciation of the ways in…

The 3rd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays 2014 In cooperation with ACM / SIGCHI 5-6 June, 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.pervasivedisplays.org/ info@pervasivedisplays.org PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 February 2014 Building on the success of the 2012 and 2013 events, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. This event will take place in Copenhagen in 2014 and will include a keynote address. In addition to research papers we are also soliciting submissions for posters and demonstrations – see http://www.pervasivedisplays.org/ for more details of the submission process for these. CALL FOR PAPERS As digital…

Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space Issue 8: Playgrounds Submission Deadline: Dec. 1, 2013 http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/ This issue of Media Fields investigates the connections between media, space, power, and various approaches to “play” across culture and society. In this issue we seek conversations that embrace play in all its polysemy. We invite papers that investigate how mediated play spaces can become spaces to negotiate labor, power, resistance, agency, or subjectivity. To that end, what is a mediated play space? What is the history of mediated play spaces? How are non-play spaces subverted to become play spaces, and what…

The 2014 IEEE Haptics Symposium (http://2014.hapticssymposium.org/) solicits proposals for tutorials and workshops, to be held on February 23, 2014 preceding the full conference. Tutorials should disseminate knowledge of established research areas that are relevant to the haptics community. Workshops are forums where specific research topics are presented and discussed aimed at extending the normal disciplinary boundaries of haptics. In all cases we strongly encourage interested organizers to contact the HS14 Workshops and Tutorials Chair as soon as possible to discuss suitability of the proposed topic (send e-mail directly to Antonio Frisoli (ma.frisoli@sssup.it) or to mworkshops@hapticssymposium.org.…

Experience Design for Behaviour Change Parallel Session at HCI International 2014 http://designforbehaviorchange.wordpress.com Following the popularity at HCI International 2013 where our parallel session was one of the largest of the conference, we invite you to HCII 2014 Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2014. This Parallel Session aims to bring together a multidisciplinary set of researchers and industry professionals interested in designing behavior change interventions. The session is part of the conference’s thematic area Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU). For more information please visit the Conference Website at http://hcii2014.org/duxu.php. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite contributions that explore how experiences can be…

[Note: Papers and several other types of submissions are also sought – see http://tvx2014.com for details   –Matthew ] TVX 2014 – Call for Workshop Proposals TVX is the leading international conference for research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. TVX 2014 will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on the 24-27th June 2014.…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Machine Ethics in the Context of Medical and Care Agents (MEMCA-2014) To be held at: AISB-50, Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW, UK Convention dates:  1-4 April 2014. We are pleased to announce a Symposium on Machine Ethics in the Context of Medical and Care Agents, as part of the AISB-50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, between April 1st and 4th, 2014 (detailed Convention programme tba).  The Convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) (http://www.aisb.org.uk) OVERVIEW OF MEMCA-2014 SYMPOSIUM: Robots and…

Call For Participation! i-Docs 2014 Bristol, UK March 20-21, 2014 http://bit.ly/19tWoHF Following the success of the i-Docs Symposia in 2011 and 2012, we are delighted to invite you to participate in i-Docs 2014, two full days devoted to considering the expanding and rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary The Symposium is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose, and hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, Bristol. The event will be held at Watershed on Bristol’s Harbourside – Thursday 20 and Friday 21 of March 2014. Keynote speakers confirmed so far: Kate Nash (University of Tasmania), Hank…

Call for Papers 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) May 26-28, 2014 University of Houston Houston, Texas, USA Full details: http://graphics.cs.uh.edu/casa2014 The University of Houston and Computer Graphics Society are pleased to announce the 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) to be held on May 26-28, 2014 at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA. CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. We seek research full papers, short papers, and posters…

CALL FOR PAPERS UMAP2014: 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 7-11 July 2014, Aalborg, Denmark http://um.org/umap2014/ UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This…

International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014 10-13 June 2014 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2014/ Important Dates: Submissions due: January 31, 2014 Author notification: by March 15, 2014 Final submissions: due April 15, 2014 Conference: June 10-13, 2014 Computational Creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. As a field of research, this area is thriving, with progress in formalising what it means for software to be creative, along with many exciting and valuable applications of creative software in the sciences, the arts, literature,…