CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Methods to Account for Values in Human-Centered Computing held in conjunction with the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012 Workshop website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign/ IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission: January 3rd, 2012 Notification: February 10th, 2012 Workshop at CHI: May 5th or 6th, 2012 AIMS AND SCOPE The overarching theme of this workshop focuses on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Participants will examine the current state of the art in methods for accounting for values in human-centered computing; analyze and document the benefits and drawbacks of current practices;…

NAFEMS UK Conference 2012 Engineering Simulation: Realising the Potential http://www.nafems.org/events/nafems/2012/ukconf12/ Simulation has the potential to transform a company’s engineering processes – providing unprecedented insight into product performance and inspiring innovation by allowing novel concepts to be explored and evaluated. NAFEMS, the independent association for the engineering analysis community, is holding its UK conference during 30-31 May 2012 with the primary aim of helping attendees realise the full potential of their engineering simulation and analysis. The 2012 NAFEMS UK Conference will explore the extent to which this potential has now been realised, and what more can be achieved.…

Int’l Symposium on “Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies”, a CNRS project named “EpistHOMME+” 28 March 2012, Laval FRANCE Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one’s personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in the name of progress people…

Call for Workshop Proposals The Pervasive Health 2012 Workshop Organizing Committee invites proposals for the workshop program of the 6th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest within pervasive computing related to health-specific applications. Workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views. Important Workshop Dates December 9, 2011 (23:59 EST): Workshop proposals deadline December 23, 2011: Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop December 38, 2011: Workshop calls online (by the organizers)…

HCI 2012 Birmingham People and Computers XXVI You are invited to participate in HCI 2012, which will be held in the UK’s second city, Birmingham. Some History HCI 2012 is the 26th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS, the BCS Interaction SG. Since its establishment in 1985, the conference has become the leading annual HCI conference in Europe. As well as being a leading venue for dissemination, the conference has a history of nurturing research careers- many of the leading HCI researchers published their early papers here and it is recognised for helping students and new…

Call for Papers (for the full text of this call please see: http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/THCIcfp.pdf) A special issue of Human-Computer Interaction “Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions Considered Globally” Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2011 Special issue editors: Irina Shklovski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Janet Vertesi Princeton University, USA Silvia Lindtner University of California, Irvine, USA Lucy Suchman Lancaster University, UK HCI researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the role of technology in relation to global processes. ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), emerging markets, new forms of mobility, and the internationalization of organizations dominate contemporary conversations about information and…

Call for papers MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 5 Helsinki, 14-16 June 2012 The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences is delighted to host the 5th Models and Simulations (MS5) conference in Helsinki. Conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/ms5 The previous MS meetings have taken place in Paris, Tilburg, Charlottesville, and Toronto. As before, the overall theme of the conference will be the philosophical and methodological issues of simulations and models, broadly construed. Papers on any aspect of this theme are welcome from both philosophers and practicing scientists. One focus of the 5th meeting will be on models and simulations…

ECAI 2012 — Call For Papers www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012 ECAI is the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI); it is the premier forum for presenting Artificial Intelligence results in Europe. The twentieth conference in this series, ECAI 2012, will take place in Montpellier (France), August 27-31. ECAI 2012 will gather researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence from all over the world; they will present the latest results and identify new trends and challenges in all subfields of Artificial Intelligence as well as demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced Artificial Intelligence technology.…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: December 31, 2011 Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories Edited by:  Nuno Norte Pinto, University of Coimbra, Portugal José António Tenedório, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal  António Pais Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal  Josep Roca, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain  Introduction This book aims to present the state-of-the-art of the development and application of all kinds of new virtual technologies based on the use of hardware and software developed to represent and simulate virtual environments, built spaces, and buildings, and the interactions of these new technological solutions with…

Beyond Sports vs. Games Workshop @ ITU Copenhagen Friday, February 17, 2012 Organizers: T.L. Taylor, Emma Witkowski, Miguel Sicart, and Douglas Wilson of the IT University of Copenhagen. Full details: http://game.itu.dk/index.php/Beyond_Sports_vs._Games_workshop Description: Ten years of game studies have passed with little exploration of sports as a key link in the study of computer gaming. Despite the huge popularity of sports titles, the growth of e-sports, or the general adoption of “sporting attitudes” and practices, not much work has been done to unpack the nature of computer game play as sport. Conversely, forty years of sports studies have produced only limited…

Virtual Worlds III 3-5 July, 2012, Paris, France http://www.virtual-worlds.net/vw2012/ Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce and call for papers for the Third International Conference on Virtual Worlds (VW’2012) which will be held from July 3 to 5, 2012 in Paris (La Défense). Background A Virtual World can be defined as a computer-simulated environment with its own physical and biological laws, populated by dynamic interacting entities such as artificial creatures and human avatars. Whereas Virtual Reality largely focuses on the design of 3D immersive spaces, and Artificial Life on the modeling and study of life-like systems, Virtual Worlds embrace both…

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/activities/special-issues/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 and human factors,…