Call for Papers: 2013 Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending Play Can we still define play as an organizing principle in today’s technologically mediated world? Play can be hard work and serious business, and it’s time to push beyond the conceptualization of play as merely the pursuit of leisure and consider how the issues of power, affect, labor, identity, and privacy surround the idea and practice of play. The Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending Play invites submissions that seek to understand play as a mediating practice, and how play operates at the center of all media. We are interested in all…

Call for Participation Game Jam at CHI 2013 Paris, France, April 27 – 28 : 9:00am – 6:00pm Deadline for submissions is January 11th, 2013 Website: http://exertiongameslab.org/workshops-events/chi-2013-game-jam Contact: alan@exertiongameslab.org Game Jams – energized, fast-paced get-togethers of developers and artists to make digital games – have emerged as a way to generate and provoke novel game ideas. To introduce the HCI community to this collaborative fast-paced approach to quick results, we will be holding a 2-day Game Jam that focuses on new physical interfaces. During this hands-on workshop, participants will collaborate with other researchers and practitioners across the CHI community to…

An Art, Science and Technology Seminar, co-organised by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London and the Centre for Creative Collaborations, with the support of King’s College London Public Engagement THE VIRTUAL OBJECT AND HAPTIC INTERFACES When: Wednesday, 28th November 2012, 2PM Where: Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC), 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG http://www.creativecollaboration.org.uk/where.php With me, Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Lecturer in Digital Art History, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London and Dr David Prytherch, a glass sculptor and Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interfaces, User-lab, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University How…

Rivista di Estetica | http://labont.it/rivista-di-estetica July 2014: Screens Advisory editors: Mauro Carbone and Anna Caterina Dalmasso (mail to: annacate.dalmasso@gmail.com‎ and rivista.estetica@gmail.com) Deadline for submission: April, 30, 2013 Description: Nowadays screens have become, more or less consciously, our reference optical apparatus. Therefore, understanding our present experience of screens shall help us understand our present experience of seeing.…

Call for Papers The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013) 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. website: http://www.ecscw2013.org/ Submission deadlines: 4 February, 2013: Full papers and notes 8 March, 2013: Workshops and Master Classes 10 May, 2013: Demos/Videos, posters, Doctoral Consortium General Chair: George Angelos Papadopoulos. Program Chairs: Olav W. Bertelsen and Antonietta Grasso. ECSCW 2013 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into cooperation in real world settings and designs of innovative technologies to support collaboration. ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these…

7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2013 September 4-6, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/IDC2013/ Call for Papers The emergent field of Intelligent Distributed Computing focuses on the development of a new generation of intelligent distributed systems. It faces the challenges of adapting and combining research in the fields of Intelligent Computing and Distributed Computing. Intelligent Computing develops methods and technology ranging from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence and multi-agent systems to game theory. The field of Distributed Computing develops methods and technology to build systems that are composed of collaborating components. The symposium welcomes submissions of original…

TEI 2013 Work in Progress Submission 10-13 February, 2013: TEI Conference in Barcelona, Spain http://www.tei-conf.org/13/ TEI 2013 is the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction. 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. Work in Progress papers should be submitted as a PDF attachment to an email sent to tei2013_programchairs@googlegroups.com with the subject “TEI…

CALL FOR PAPERS TiGeR 2013 http://tiger.uvt.nl/ Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting June 19-21, 2013 Deadline for submissions: February 20, 2013 TiGeR 2013 is the combined meeting of the 10th International Gesture Workshop (GW) and the 3rd Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN) conference, and is hosted by the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. During TiGeR 2013, we aim to bring together researchers working on empirical and technical approaches to gesture production and comprehension. The meeting will contain a special theme-session on theoretical and computational models of gesture and speech production. During this special session,…

Codes of Engagement – Call for Papers 8th – 10th April 2013 Watershed, Bristol As the 18th anniversary of the first Computers in Art and Design Education conference approaches, those born in 1995 have just become our students. Many who then sensed the opportunities and need to make computers an integral part of Art and Design Education might feel that this is now a given. But has this only been the prelude to a greater set of challenges? How will the landscape change when we begin to teach pupils who’ve been taught how to code in schools? As computing moves…

CALL FOR PAPERS TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION 18th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal July 4-6, 2013 Special Corporate Workshop July 3, 2013 The School of Economics and Management (ISEG-UTL) and the SOCIUS research centre at the Technical University of Lisbon and the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) are organising the 18th Biennial International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), which will be held July 4 – 6, 2013, at the ISEG-UTL. On the early evening before, July 3 from 3-7…

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2013 Monday 29th July – Wednesday 31st July 2013 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 18th January 2013 *Visualising* Ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 18th January 2013…

Call for Papers The Third IEEE International Workshop on Social Implications of Pervasive Computing (SIPC ’13) in conjunction with the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications – PerCom 2013 (http//www.percom.org/) San Diego, CA, USA March 18 – 22, 2013 Sponsored by IEEE DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY 12th November http://www.sipc2013.blogspot.com BACKGROUND The technology associated with Pervasive Computing is progressively approaching levels of sufficient accuracy, dependability and suitable cost. As a result, we will soon see a shift from implementations in controlled research laboratories to implementations in real world everyday applications; the next stage in the development of pervasive…