Call for Papers – Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) Special Issue: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2012 Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2013 Guest Editors: George Siemens, Athabasca University, Canada Valerie Irvine, University of Victoria, Canada Jillianne Code, University of Victoria, Canada Online learning is one of the fastest-growing segments of the education system. One of the recent innovations is the massive open online course (MOOC). Since 2008, numerous MOOCs have been run by public and elite universities. Most recently, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other universities have embraced the MOOC format through…

CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS’13) Bahia Resort, San Diego, CA, USA April 7-10, 2013 http://www.scs.org/node/344 Manuscript Submission: December 21, 2012. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Co-located with the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (Spring SIW) 2013 organized and conducted by the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). The Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS/DEVS 2013) will be a sub-conference of SpringSim. As part of the 2013 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim’13; http://www.scs.org/springsim/2013) the 2013 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies.…

FIRST Call For Papers 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL REHABILITATION – ICVR 2013 www.virtual-rehab.org/2013 Philadelphia, PA, USA August 26-29, 2013 Affiliated with the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (www.isvr.org) ICVR is an international conference that provides an overview of novel technological and clinical developments in the field of virtual reality and augmented reality applied to rehabilitation.…

Call for Papers for a Philosophy and Technology special issue: The Machine as Moral Agent and Patient GUEST EDITORS Joanna J. Bryson, Reader, University of Bath, UK David J. Gunkel, Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA INTRODUCTION One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Although initially limited to “other men,” the practice of ethics has developed in such a way that it continually challenges its own restrictions and comes to encompass what had been previously excluded individuals and groups—foreigners, women, animals, corporations, and even the environment. Currently, we stand on…

Smart Design Conference 2013 5-7 February 2013 The University of Western Sydney (Parramatta South Campus) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS CLOSES 28 OCTOBER 2012 The 2nd International Smart Design conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss issues, identify challenges and directions, and share their R&D findings and experiences in the areas of design, materials and technology. The University of Western Sydney, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University (UK), is proud to be hosting this conference in 2013. Conference Scope and Theme New materials and advanced technologies are critical to the economy of the twenty-first century. Good product designs merge…

ACII 2013 – CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction http://www.acii2013.org The fifth biannual Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on September 2-5, 2013. The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. This ACII edition will emphasize the humanistic side of affective computing by promoting publications at the cross-road between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life). The ACII conference will…

Call for Articles Engagement, Simulation/Gaming and Learning Special issue of Simulation & Gaming An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research SAGE Publications http://sg.sagepub.com/ | http://www.unice.fr/sg/ Guest editors: Nicola Whitton, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Alex Moseley, University of Leicester, UK Editor: David Crookall, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France An understanding of why and how players engage with games and simulations, and of the factors that can influence and enhance engagement, is crucial for the design and use of effective game- and simulation-based learning experiences. In commercial, educational and social settings, engagement drives the use and re-use of games/simulations, meeting…

Dear colleagues, I am a new PhD student starting a project on videoconferencing for personal and professional uses. I have completed a pilot study which involved recording the openings of some private Skype conversations, and I am now working on collecting more data. It would be very helpful for me to discuss some issues with other researchers, so if you are interested in a similar area or would like to know more about my project, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Dorottya Csenge Cserzo PhD Student at ENCAP, Cardiff University Email: cserzodc@cardiff.ac.uk…

Dear colleagues, Digital games research is a young, growing, multidisciplinary field of study. It spans disciplines as diverse as arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology, design, computer science, engineering and others. This diversity and richness is part of its strength but also one of its challenges. In order to gain insight into the views and needs of researchers working with/on digital games, three research organizations have joined hands to organize an international survey assessing the State of Digital Games Research: Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), www.digra.org Digital Games Research Temporary Working Group of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA),…

The International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place will have its 9th annual conference on April 26-28, 2013 at the University of Florida. The theme of the conference is “Mediated Spaces.” Mediated spaces infuse daily life. These spaces occur between. They also offer transitions from specific place to specific place. And in some cases, they constitute nodes that contain their own mediations. Such spaces mediate between people, between people and things, and between people/things and environments. In the latter, ecological conditions might require intermediate zones that work between inside and outside, between body and climate or less…