Technology and Human Flourishing 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture Thursday, October 25-Saturday, October 27 Call for Papers Technology changes us—and the world around us—in countless ways. It eases our labor, cures diseases, provides abundant food and clean water, enables communication and travel across the globe, and expands our knowledge of the natural world and the cosmos. The stuff of science fiction is now, in many cases, reality, and it can make our lives longer, healthier, and more productive than ever. But technological advance is not without complication, and even ardent proponents of technology recognize that our present age…

CALL FOR PAPERS “Turing in Context II” Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, Computing Machinery and AI www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2 10-12 October, 2012 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium In the spirit of Alan Turing’s interdisciplinary research, an international meeting will be held at the Royal Flemish Academy for the Sciences and Arts, exploring recent research into the many directions brought together in his work. This meeting is the second Turing in Context event during the 2012 Turing centennial. The first was held at King’s College, Cambridge, 18-19 February 2012. It was an outreach event for…

SocialCom 2012 workshop on: Exploring Stances in Interactions: Conceptual and Practical Issues in Social Signal Processing Research http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/socialcom2012stance/ To be held as part of the Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), September 3-6, 2012. (http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012) Workshop date: September 3, 2012 Location: Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Submission deadline: 28 May 2012 (NEW) Please notice invited Speaker: Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/socialcom2012stance/speakers.html Contact: questions or submission/participation interest, please send an email to socialcom2012stance@gmail.com Goals and Topics The ability to understand stances adopted by participants during interactions is an important aspect of human social intelligence. Stances can…

The Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT) at the University of Amsterdam Film, Game, Emotion, Brain summer school July 14 -21 2012 Are you a postdoctoral researcher or a final year PHD student and you want to practice envisioning and setting up interdisciplinary research projects? And are you interested in accounts of the experience of film and games from the perspectives of psychology, neuroscience, computer science or cognitive media studies? Then participate in the CCCT summer school Film, Game, Emotion and the Brain in the center of Amsterdam, July 14- 21. During this week you will work together in…

CALL FOR PAPERS PETMEI 2012 – 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction September 8, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States http://www.petmei.org/2012/ in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2012) Recent developments in mobile eye tracking equipment and automated eye movement analysis point the way toward unobtrusive eye-based human-computer interfaces that are pervasively usable in everyday life. We call this new paradigm pervasive eye tracking – continuous eye monitoring and analysis 24/7. The potential applications for the ability to track and analyse eye movements anywhere and any time call for new research to further…

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence Title: Inforgs and the Infosphere: Themes from Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Guest Editor: Anthony Beavers Submission Deadline: 1 July 2012 Details: The philosophy of artificial intelligence is undergoing significant transformation in the wake of new technologies and conceptual developments that are having an increasingly widespread impact on the shape of society and human life more generally. Luciano Floridi’s research on the philosophy and ethics of information represents an innovative and fruitful approach to the unprecedented philosophical issues that are arising as a…

Human-Computer Confluence Research Challenges May 14-15, 2012, Vienna, Austria MOTIVATION HCI research over three decades has shaped a wide spanning research area at the boundaries of computer science and behavioral science, with an impressive outreach to how humankind is experiencing information and communication technologies in literally every breath of an individuals life. The explosive growth of networks and communications, and at the same time radical miniaturization of ICT electronics have reversed the principles of human computer interaction. Up until now considered as the interaction concerns when humans approach ICT systems, more recent observations see systems approaching humans at the same…

ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics 2012 Monday 18th June 2012 School of Music, University of Leeds, United Kingdom mme2012@icsrim.org.uk – http://www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk/icsmme/ Open Call for Proposals iscMME 2012 welcomes the submission of a wide range of Sci-Arts research with particular focus on Music, Multimedia and Electronics. Submissions fall into four categories: (i) papers & presentations; (ii) posters; (iii) demonstrations or installations (iv) live performance & composition. Details and requirements for each category are specified below. All submissions will be reviewed by the iscMME program committee.…

Call For Papers The 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling November 12th – 15th, 2012 Technology Park of San Sebastián, Spain http://icids2012.vicomtech.tv ICIDS is the premier international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), bringing together researchers interested in presenting recent results, sharing novel techniques, and exchanging ideas about this exciting new media. IDS redefines the narrative experience by empowering the audience to significantly participate in the story due to advances in technology. As such, it offers new possibilities for communication, education and entertainment, through the enriching of characters with intelligent behavior, the collaboration of humans and machines in the…

5th Annual Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference Inspire the Future  May 16-18, 2012 at National Defense University, Washington, DC Don’t forget to register for the best FCVW Conference Program we have ever had! Conference schedule is on the FCVW website (http://www.ndu.edu/icollege/fcvw).…

1st International Symposium Representations – Struggles for Reality Part of the Research Program on: Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves International Network for Alternative Academia (Extends a general invitation to participate) Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th of November, 2012 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Call for Papers This trans-disciplinary project explores the creation, consumption and dissemination of representations. It aims to map out the relationship between representations, conceptions of the real and cultural constructions of reality. Examining representations as developing at the intersections of epistemological, political and ethical modes of enquiry, this symposium offers the opportunity to reflect on the practice and the theory…

Digital Humanities Congress 2012 University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012 The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th – 8th September 2012. The Digital Humanities Congress is a new conference which will be held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts,…