CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ITS 2013 Workshop – Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces: Walls, Tables, Tablets and Phones http://sites.google.com/site/collaborationsurfaces/ Submission of workshop papers:  August 9, 2013 Notification of acceptance:  August 23, 2013 The vast screen real estate, which is provided in large-scale interaction environments presents novel ways to visualize and interact with data-rich models. In parallel to this technological revolution, interactive surfaces have also become widespread in different sizes and devices, from large-scale walls to small tablets. Indeed, the tabletop community witnessed, in recent years, an increased usage of interactive tables, tablet-sized surfaces and mobile phones. The opportunities for innovation exist, but…

Call for Participation: Roleplaying Game Studies Handbook – A Workshop @ DiGRA 2013 The study of roleplaying games has remained a small and somewhat separate tradition within game studies writ large. Yet roleplaying games arguably defined and influenced many design elements of today’s digital games, and constitute a formational experience for many influential digital game designers. More importantly, the peculiarities of non-digital roleplaying games as a socially shared effort of imagination, storytelling, simulation, and gaming have generated insights that have much to offer to the wider field of game studies. Unfortunately, most publications in the field of roleplaying game studies…

Call for Participation 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’2014) Haifa, Israel February 24-27, 2014 http://www.iuiconf.org/ SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST IUI 2014 is the 19th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are very interested in contributions that bridge these two fields and also related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI researchers are interested in improving…

CALL FOR PAPERS 20th IEEE Haptics Symposium http://hapticssymposium.org Call for Participation: The IEEE Haptics Symposium, founded in 1992, is a vibrant forum where psychophysicists, engineers and designers of applications and interactions come together to share advances, spark new collaborations and envision a future that benefits from rich physical interactions between computers and human operators, generated through haptic (force and tactile) devices. In 2014, the Haptics Symposium will take place February 23-26 at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Houston, Texas, USA. This Haptics Symposium will be a standalone IEEE-sponsored conference, featuring a full day of tutorials and workshops (February 23), followed…

Call for papers and demos 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (#artel13) to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013. Extended submission deadline: 14.07.2013 Short URL: http://teleurope.eu/artel13 Twitter hashtag: #artel13 Introduction Awareness and Reflection are important aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and have to be adequately supported to enable learners to tap the potential of learning tools. The concepts awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing TEL (CSCW, CSCL, psychology, educational sciences, computer science, …). ARTEL13 aims to push forward the discussion and research on these concepts in TEL.…

International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking reality and time through film http://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014 7-10 May of 2014 Organized by CFUL – Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (www.centrodefilosofia.com) Hosted by Faculty of Letters and GoetheInstitut Lisbon CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 The deadline for abstract submission is 31st October, 2013 During the last two decades film has been increasingly recognized as a medium of philosophical reflection, in an ontological and epistemological perspective. But what does it mean to understand film as philosophizing? Can we access specific, reliable knowledge of the world and our relation to it through the aesthetic…

Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013) 12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy Organizers: Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo) & Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford) Website: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013 Online Registration: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/registration-participants Extended deadline (see below): 07.07.2013 In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models…

CALL FOR PAPERS Mechanics, Mechanisms & Devices: to Inform, Reflect & Change Behaviour Oct 15, 2013 http://seriousgames.sg/ICEC2013_WorkshopMechanics.php Workshop in conjunction with the IFIP 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2013, São Paulo, Brazil This workshop focuses on the design, development and evaluation of devices at the heart of gameplay and interaction – the mechanics, procedures, actions, mechanisms, systems, story and narrative, etc. – that provide messages, arguments, triggers, nudges and experience to inform and educate, encourage reflection and raise awareness, and to influence behaviour and for behaviour change. The workshop, co-located with IFIP ICEC 2013 12th International Conference…

To whom it may concern, My name is Kent Aardse and I am the guest editor of a special edition of the journal “Digital Studies/Le Champ Numerique.” This special issue is focused on ARGs in the Real World, and I believe that those interested in Presence Research may be able to contribute some exciting papers to our issue. [snip]…

NetGames 2013 The 12th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games Denver, Colorado, USA, December 9th-10th, 2013 In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMM http://netgames2013.cs.du.edu/ Important Dates: Full/short paper deadline:  July 30, 2013 Demo submission deadline:  August 30, 2013 Notification of decisions:  September 10, 2013 Registration of final papers:  September 24, 2013 Workshop dates:  December 9-10, 2013 OVERVIEW: The 12th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames 2013) will be held in Denver, CO, USA on December 9th-10th, 2013. NetGames brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry across the globe to present…

Habits in Human-Computer Interaction Workshop @ BCS HCI 2013 9th September 2013 @ Brunel University, London http://hci.bham.ac.uk/workshops/habit/ Major characteristics of our interactions with technology lie in their frequency and execution in stable contexts, which according to behavioural psychology, form crucial foundations for the development of habitual behaviours. Habits are currently addressed as implicit facets of interaction design through concepts such as consistency, intuitiveness and learnability. That said, little research has focused explicitly on the habitual nature of our interactions with technology, the implications for HCI of habituated interaction and how disrupting these digital habits can impact on HCI related concepts.…