Meaningful Play 2012 October 18-20, 2012 Michigan State University http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/ Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions),…

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘The 21st Century Body’ Symposium 18th May 2012, London Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.  As our knowledge and its application continues to grow and expand, the range, scope and magnitude of what we are able to achieve seems to…

From: Ute Kreplin (U.Kreplin@2011.LJMU.AC.UK) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 Subject: Research Study Hi Liverpool John Moores University invites you to take part in the ARtSENSE Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey. The survey asks you to give subjective ratings, i.e. your thoughts and feelings, towards artworks on a number of scales. The survey is part of the ARtSENSE project. ARtSENSE tackles a very important problem in the modern usage of Information Communication Technology in cultural heritage domain. It aims to bridge the gap between the digital world with the physical in a highly flexible way in order to enable a novel and…

2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Affective Computing (CIAC) June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dongruiw/CIAC.html Organizers: Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands, anijholt@cs.utwente.nl Dongrui Wu, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, drwu09@gmail.com Aim and Scope: Computational intelligence is a set of Nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex real world problems to which traditional methodologies and approaches (first principles, probabilistic, black-box, etc.) are ineffective or infeasible. It includes neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, chaos theory, etc. Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately…

The 4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids July 2nd to 6th, 2012 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK As part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing Organised by Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) Website: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-symposium-computing-philosophy/Pages/default.aspx Poster: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-symposium-computing-philosophy/Documents/AISB-Symposium-2012-Poster.pdf Symposium Overview Turing’s famous question ‘can machines think?’ raises parallel questions about what it means to say of us humans that we think. More broadly, what does it mean to say that we are thinking beings?…

eLSE 2012 eLearning and Software for Education Conference Important Dates Submission of abstracts: December 16th Full paper submission: March 1 Decision notification: March 20 Conference date: April 26-27th Website: http://www.elseconference.eu/ We are pleased to announce that ELSE 2012 will be held from April 26-27, 2012 at Bucharest. The Call for Proposals is now open; the deadline for is December 16th, 2011. To submit a proposal, please use the submission form found at www.elseconference.eu…

[Note: Questionnaire participants are limited geographically but all are invited to become involved in the project. –ML] Dear colleagues, Synchronous learning technologies are transforming the way many students learn and academics teach, but exactly how are they being used? To help answer this question we are seeking your input. Specifically, we invite Australian and New Zealand tertiary educators to take 15 minutes and share their related expertise and experiences by completing an online questionnaire: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/blendedsynchronicity (Australian and New Zealand participants only) This questionnaire is being administered as part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project titled “Blended synchronicity:…

Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 3rd Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 3.-6.9.2012 Deadline: 16.3.2012 Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructed a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of…

Call for papers ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment 7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference Deadline of the Call for Paper Submission: 22, December 2011 Call for papers: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/65309 It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts have also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities.  Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation…

Call for Papers: Fun and Games 2012- The 4th International Conference on Fun and Games September, 4(Tue)-6(Thur), 2012 Toulouse, France http://FNG2012.org/ IMPORTANT SUBMISSION DATES Tutorials (for organizers, 2 pages): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Workshop proposals (for organizers, 4 pages): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Fun and Food Concepts (for organizers): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages): March 12th, 2012 (5pm CET) Work-in-progress (2 pages): April 30th, 2012 (5pm CET) Workshop submissions (for participants): (see individual workshops) Demonstrations (1 pages): April 30th, 2012 (5pm CET) Game design competition (5 pages): May 31st, 2012…

EVOGAMES 2012 (part of evo*, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April 2012) evo* on the web: http://evostar.dei.uc.pt/2012/ Extended (final) submission deadline: 7 December 2011 Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games Games, and especially video games, are now a major part of the finance and software industries, and an important field for cultural expression. They also provide an excellent testbed for and application of a wide range of computational intelligence methods including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and temporal difference learning. There has been a rapid growth in research in this area over the last few years. This event focuses on new…

Travel and Imagination [1] Edited by: Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Like so many words associated with tourism, ‘imagination’ is an accepted though somewhat obdurate notion. We accept it because it is, after all, something that is central to our consciousness and perception, operating almost imperceptibly whether we are awake or asleep. But beyond this, imagination also takes up an endlessly complex form because the term is linked to a constellation of other phenomenon: dreams, make-believe, fantasy, memory and remembering, perception, the ‘mind’s eye’, understanding, world-views, learning, story-telling – in all its many…