Call for Papers DEADLINE: 20th of April 2013 The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience Institute of Philosophy of Language (IFL), New University of Lisbon (FCSH, UNL) Lisbon 30th -31th of May2013, 10-18h Organizers: Dr. Jorge Gonçalves Dr. Alexander Gerner (Members of the Research Project: Cognitive Foundation of the Self) “Fundamentos Cognitivos do Si” Site: http://foundationsoftheself.squarespace.com/ Funding: PTDC/FIL-FCI/110978/2009 Location:  IFL, FCSH, New University of Lisbon, Avenida de Berna, no 26, Lisbon (Portugal) Entrance to the workshop is free but please register via email.  Any additional question please contact: jorgalvesenator@gmail.com  alexandergerner@yahoo.com — From a theoretical point of view the experiences in which…

ACADEMIC MINDTREK CONFERENCE 2013 in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI “Making Sense of Converging Media” Call for Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Demonstration, Workshops, Tutorials 1st-4th October, 2013 Tampere, Finland http://www.academicmindtrek.org, http://www.mindtrek.org Long and short papers, posters, demonstrations, and extended abstracts due on: 10th May 2013 Tutorials and Workshops due on: 28th April 2013 Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level work will be published as book chapters or in journals CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, DEMOS, WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek…

TEI 2014 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Munich, Germany February 16 – 19, 2014 http://www.tei-conf.org/14/ Call for Participation The work presented at TEI focuses on physical interaction with computing technology and addresses design challenges, theories, experiences, systems, and new developments. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances. Research on tangible, embodied and embedded interaction has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade, under many different names and research topics and disciplines,…

Save the Date: JVWR [Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] workshop ICIS 2013 (Milan, Italy, December 15) and CFP for “Virtual Worlds – Meta Analysis” Issue Motivation and Scope The first thematic issue of our 7th year (next year) will focus on meta analysis of virtual worlds. The issue will connect with JVWR workshop in Milan, Italy on December 15th, 2013 (as part of AIS ICIS 2013 http://icis2013.aisnet.org/). For this issue, “meta-analysis” means a particular review of corpus of knowledge about an aspect of virtual worlds. It can be a classic literature review, or a more formal statistical meta analysis (see…

Call for Papers 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games Computer Game Space – Concept, Form and Experience We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Bergen, Norway, October 2-4 2013. Player experience and dynamics in computer games are structured around apparent spatial relations inside the gameworld. It is furthermore common to use spatial metaphors such as  “action space”, “possibility space”, “experiential space” to explain central aspects of…

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT) Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Special Issue on Technoethics and New Military Technologies Submission deadline: August 1, 2013 Guest Editor: Marcus Schulzke, State University of New York at Albany New military technologies are transforming warfare, allowing wars to be fought at longer distances, with greater asymmetries of risk, and at higher speeds than ever before. Some of these technologies seem to mark radical new directions in the way wars are fought by upsetting traditional military roles and introducing entirely new domains of conflict. Emerging technologies…

You are invited to participate in HCI 2013, which will be hosted by the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, London in conjunction with the British Computer Society from Monday 9th September 2013 until Friday 13th September 2013 Some History HCI 2013 is the 27th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS, the BCS Interaction SG. Since its establishment in 1985, the conference has become the leading annual HCI conference in Europe. As well as being a leading venue for dissemination, the conference has a history of nurturing research careers- many of the…

Call for submissions for Edited Book proposal: Gaming Beyond Screens We are currently seeking contributions to an edited collection on gestural gaming entitled Gaming Beyond Screens. In recent years there has been a surge of interest in digital games, platforms, and peripherals that employ gestural technologies. The Nintendo Wii, Rock Band, and Kinect are just some of the most popular examples in a long list of games and gaming devices that shift our attention away from the screen and towards bodies in motion. The phenomenon of gestural gaming raises a number of pressing questions for both academics and designers. For…

Call for Participation – TaPRA – 2013 Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) http://tapra.org/ University of Glasgow and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) 4th- 6th September 2013 Performance and the Body Working Group and Performance and New Technologies Working Group Title: Embodied Engagement: Participatory And Immersive Performance The Performance and the Body and Performance and New Technologies Working Groups are joining forces this year to explore different bodily, aesthetic, political, ethical and economical aspects of participation in the current performance milieu. In a performance context where hierarchies of participation are being reconfigured and traditional authorial claims are under stress,…

We are seeking a researcher for a position lasting two years at UNC Chapel Hill. The researcher will rotate between UNC Chapel Hill and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, spending six months per year at each institution. The Being There Centre’s research focuses on acquisition and display of 3D environments, large-format and mobile 3D displays, robotic humanoid avatars, and autonomous virtual humans. Position remains open until filled. Selected Possible Research Topics: Automatic real-time reconstruction of dynamic 3D environments using multiple cameras and depth imaging devices Novel auto-stereoscopic displays, conventional head-tracked stereoscopic displays Hardware-based and vision-based tracking technology for users,…

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…