Call for Papers The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics Special Issue on Virtual Worlds: Where Image Processing meets Computer Graphics http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/3DLife/2013/04/cfpvw/ The Visual Computer is dedicated to reporting on the state-of-the-art of research in the field of graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality. This special issue in the Visual Computer aims at presenting a representative sample of innovative research, methods and techniques towards the creation of realistic virtual humans. The main goal is to achieve horizontal integration by bringing together the typically disparate research communities working on 3D image processing, computer graphics, human computer interaction, affective computing and…

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS AI-2013: Cambridge, UK, December 10th-12th 2013 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2013/ Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society) The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe. Please note that it is our strong intention that (as for many previous years) the proceedings of AI-2013 will be published in December, thus meeting the deadline for inclusion in the UK government’s Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2014). CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AI-2013 is the thirty-third SGAI International Conference on…

Call for Papers: CASFE’2013 Workshop Context-aware Adaptation of Service Front-Ends To be held on June 24, 2013 in London, UK (co-located with EICS 2013) www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2013 Important Dates: Submissions deadline: Extended to April 29, 2013 Notifications of acceptance: Extended to May 6, 2013 Camera Ready Versions: May 13, 2013 Description Engineering interactive systems that are aware of the characteristics and constraints of the context of the user becomes challenging when several user’s profiles, platforms and environments are considered. In this sense the adaptation of user interfaces raises as an important approach for stakeholders to implement and provide systems whose user interfaces…

AIIDE-13 The Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment October 14-18, 2013 Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Submission deadlines: Workshop proposals due Mar 15, 2013 Research papers due May 7, 2013 Practitioner track abstracts due May 7, 2013 Playable experience abstracts due May 7, 2013 Demonstration abstracts due May 7, 2013 Doctoral consortium applications due June 14, 2013 Paper acceptance notification: June 26, 2013 AIIDE-13 – the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment – is intended to be the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic AI researchers.…

Call for Participation Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference September 30th – October 1st, 2013 in Greenville, North Carolina The ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit a project report, research paper, or poster session on the design of communication for interactive systems in industry, education, recreation, scientific research, and social exchange. SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction design, content strategy, information architecture, user experience, and technical communication. Ideas for topics The theme of the SIGDOC 2013 conference…

International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory Inaugural Conference University of Malta Institute of Digital Games and the Department of English 31st October-1st November 2013 This inaugural event in the Digital Games and Literary Theory Conference Series follows on from a successful International Workshop held at the University of Malta last year. That event established the scope, appeal and timeliness of interdisciplinary research involving Game Studies and Literary Theory. While there are ample conference opportunities for discussion of the impact of Game Studies on other fields in the Humanities and on the amenability, in turn, of Game Studies to…

CALL FOR PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND POSTERS 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON (RE)CREATING LIVELY CITIES THROUGH AMBIENT TECHNOLOGIES: ARTS, CULTURE AND GASTRONOMIC EXPERIENCES (CLCAT) http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/relci2013 IN CONJUCTION WITH INTERACT 2013, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – 6th-9th September 2013 Deadline for 2-5 pages position papers: 12th May 2013 (strict deadline) Artur Lugmayr (Tampere Univ. of Technology), Tampere, Finland, lartur@acm.org Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane Australia, h.choi@qut.edu.au Kirralie Houghton, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane Australia, kirralie.houghton@qut.edu.au Digital and interactive technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in everyday lives of people around the world. Application of technologies such as real-time, context-aware,…

ACM Creativity and Cognition 2013 17th-20th June, 2013, Sydney, Australia. University of Technology, Sydney http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com Registration OPEN Registration for the conference is now open at http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com/?page_id=541 Early Registration is available until May 8 2013. WORKSHOPS Workshops Chair: David A. Shamma (Yahoo!) Workshops are excellent ways of interacting with a small group of researchers and practitioners dealing with a particular topic. Creativity and Cognition is very excited to have 5 workshops proposed to run in conjunction with the conference. These will all run on the 17th of June.…

CASA| Computer As Social Actor http://casa-workshop2013.blogspot.com August, 28th Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Satellite event of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2013) We invite all researchers that focus their research on Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction to participate in this workshop and to share their views on the development of technological components, design methodologies, and the adoption of CASA solutions and services. By discussing different approaches to human-machine and human-human interaction technologies we aim at investigating the social abilities of technologies and we attempt to define the concept of Social Actorship. The CASA Workshop will focus on…

CALL FOR CASES Cases on Societal Effects of Persuasive Games A book edited by Dr. Dana Ruggiero (Bath Spa University, United Kingdom) To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/XMwQW8 Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 Introduction Video games are a vibrant and integral part of society that is growing, and it is important to study their possible effects on society. Academics such as Ian Bogost, Mary Flanagan, Jane McGonigal, and Michael Evans support the idea that video games can change perceptions about certain topics. Using theoretical models in conjunction with case studies, this casebook will demonstrate how game designers, researchers,…

Natural User Interfaces (NUI) Documentation FINAL CALL / 3 MIN We kindly invite NUI designers and users to participate and distribute our 3 min survey on Natural User Interfaces (NUI). [English] http://tinyurl.com/cwm6uzv (9 short multiple choice questions)…

Call for Papers Challenges from the Future: Bridging the gaps through HCI Education INTERACT2013 Workshop, September 2, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa http://futurehcieducation.wordpress.com/ The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is currently being posed with many new challenges. These are being triggered by the rapid advancement of technology, in areas such as social media, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and gestural user interfaces. Simultaneously, the HCI research field is going through a series of paradigmatic changes in itself, from user interface design, to interaction design and user experience design. While it is good to see that HCI is keeping up with…