CALL FOR PAPERS IE 2012 21-22 July 2012 Auckland, New Zealand ieconference.org/ie2012 The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.…

iACToR’s 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference Experience the Future of Health & Well-­Being September 25–28, 2012 | Brussels, Belgium http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/CYBER17 CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012 Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012 The Interactive Media Institute, in collaboration with the Virtual Reality Medical Institute, is pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation’s (iACToR) 17th Annual Conference. The CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference (CYBER17) is scheduled for September 25-28, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. CYBER17 brings together researchers, clinicians, funders and policymakers to share and discuss trends in…

PURBA 2012 – CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) In conjunction with Pervasive 2012 Newcastle, UK | June 18-22, 2012 http://www.ibm.com/ie/dublinresearchlab/purba Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012 Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in…

IUI 2012 – the 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces February 14-17, 2012 – Lisbon, Portugal http://iuiconf.org/ Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier international conference for bringing together researchers from academia, nonprofit organizations, industry and practitioners of the trade, who are working on Novel Interaction and Intelligent Interfaces, including related empirical studies and technologies. IUI 2012 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, February 14-17 2012. Major Topics of Interest to IUI include: Intelligent interactive interfaces, systems, and devices, Ubiquitous interfaces, Smart environments and tools, Human-centered interfaces, Mobile interfaces, Multimodal interfaces, Pen-based interfaces, Spoken and natural language interfaces,…

The second Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning (iGBL2012; http://www.wit.ie/gbl/igbl2012) will be organized at Waterford Institute of Technology on 7th & 8th June 2012. The purpose of this symposium is to: Report on the use of GBL in primary, secondary and third-level education Provide evidence of the effectiveness of GBL to both motivate and learn Identify how GBL can be included and facilitated in instructional settings Target Audience This symposium will bring together teachers, lecturers, students and researchers, and provide insights from different perspectives such as educational psychology, sociology, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence, Game Design, or Instructional Design. It…

Call for Papers: Royal Musical Association Study Day Ludomusicology: Game Music Research – Approaches and Aesthetics The Ludomusicology research group will be hosting a study day on video game music to take place on the 16th April, 2012 at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. This will be the first UK musicology symposium dedicated to video game music. The study day will include research papers and discussion workshops. The confirmed speakers include: Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool), Nimrod Productions (game audio production company) and Isabella van Elferen (Utrecht University). We are seeking papers for the Royal Musical Association Study Day on video…

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image invites submissions for its 3rd issue. Submission deadline: 15 February, 2012 (abstracts) The third issue of Cinema takes up the theme of embodiment and the body, its relationship to cinema’s history (theory and practice), and its reawaken in a recent body of research attentive, not only to film, but also to video and to new media. In the last few years, creative and theoretical work have focused in the body, either as phenomenological encounter immersed in everyday practices, or as a material process made of fluids, energies and forces, arguing, in both…

WORKSHOP ON EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS at AAMAS 2012 June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea CALL FOR PAPERS [apologies for cross-postings, please distribute] Workshop Organizers: João Dias (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, PT) Janneke van der Zwaan (Delft University of Technology, NL) Jason Tsai (University of Southern California, USA) Senior Steering Committee: Ana Paiva (PT) Catholijn Jonker (NL) Stacy Marsella (USA) Virginia Dignum (NL) Goals: The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the creation of what we call “empathic agents”. Empathy has been associated with the processes that make a person…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CHI WORKSHOP ON GAME USER RESEARCH CHI-GUR (Game User Research): Exploring Methodologies http://hcigames.businessandit.uoit.ca/chigur/ Important Dates: January 13, 2012 – Submissions Deadline February 2, 2012 – Acceptance Notification May 5-6, 2012 – Workshop The workshop is scheduled as a 2-day workshop held at Austin, Texas; co-located with ACM CHI May 5-6, 2012. The workshop is intended to be a gathering of current game user experience practitioners and researchers. The goal of the workshop is to expand our knowledge of the different methodologies currently in practice within the area of games user research as well as the utility and…

Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea CALL FOR PAPERS The Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team will host an international conference on “Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture and the Arts” from June 1st to 2nd, 2012 and invites suitable contributions for presentation at the conference. Genetic engineering and digital technology are more than just supplement of human intellectual and physical ability; they seem to bring fundamental changes to the nature of what it means to be human. Such changes have been seen in how philosophy, literature, art,…

Journeys Across Media University of Reading (UK) Thursday 19th April 2012 Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research. Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an…

Call for Papers: Interacting with Computers Special Issue on the Social Implications of Embedded Systems http://www.journals.elsevier.com/interacting-with-computers/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-the-social-implications-of-embedded-systems/ Special Issue Editors Dr Stuart Moran, Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Tekniker IK4, Avenida Otaola, 20, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain Research on Embedded Systems or Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and its associated sensory and mobile technologies, is shifting focus from studies in controlled research laboratories, to emerging prototype implementations in real world everyday applications. The future application of PerCom is envisaged to cover almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. The benefits of PerCom are numerous…