design4health2013: invention, adoption and diffusion Lab4Living at sheffield Hallam University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the 2nd European conference on Design 4 Health 2013. The conference will be held at Sheffield Hallam University from 3-5 July 2013, Sheffield (UK). About the conference This conference seeks to explore the relationship between design, and health and wellbeing. Good design can deliver widespread benefits to society but how can design practice and processes meet the challenges of health and wellbeing in the 21st Century? Through this conference we aim to develop environments and propose creative strategies for future living…

CALL FOR PAPERS IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2013) Prague, Czech Republic, 22 – 24 July 2013 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2013) Prague, Czech Republic, 22 – 26 July 2013 (http://www.mccsis.org) Deadline for submissions (1st call – new date): 28 February 2013 Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Associate Professor Boyan Bontchev, Department of Software Engineering, Sofia University, Bulgaria Conference background and goals: This conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on…

The User Experience Professionals Association’s Boston Chapter (UXPA Boston) Usability and User Experience 2013 http://upaboston.org/2013/01/28/user-experience-conference-52913/ Join us on Wednesday, May 29th for the twelfth annual UXPA conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel! Learn about and discuss critical topics in usability and user-entered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. This conference offers unique content and one-of-a-kind learning opportunities for all – newcomers and seasoned professional alike. Check back for updates as we get closer to the conference date. 32 Sessions! This one-day conference includes four simultaneous tracks, giving you a choice of 32 presentations. Join over 500 attendees…

Call for Papers Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing 2013 Part of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Crete, May 14th-17th 2013 The expressive use of virtual cameras, mis-en-scene, lighting and texturing within 3D synthetic environment shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of games and virtual worlds. Cinematics produced in virtual worlds will play a role not just for entertainment, but also for training, education, health-care communication, simulation, visualization and many other contexts. The automatic creation of cinematics in these environments holds the potential to produce video…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games CIG 2013 Niagara Falls, Canada, 11-13 August 2013 http://eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dashlock/cig2013/ Games are an ideal domain for the study of computational intelligence. They are not only fun to play and interesting to observe, but they also provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. The 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. The financial support of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is pending. PAPER SUBMISSION 15 March 2013…

10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013) 26-28 August 2013, Coral Beach Conference Hotel and Resort Paphos, Cyprus http://mobiwis2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) aims to advance the state of the art in scientific and practical research on mobile Web and information systems. It provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector in an effort to disseminate latest research results and to share knowledge and experiences regarding tools, techniques, technologies, models, and methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in the mobile…

«Teoria», 1/2014 Ripensare la ‘natura’/ Rethinking ‘Nature’ Guest Editor: Flavia Monceri Call for papers: The notion of nature is one of the most recurring, and perhaps questioned notions, in Western philosophy and the social sciences. Although its definition was never obvious, nature currently seems in need of a more radical rethinking, also due to the increasing relevance of research fields that compel to its revision. This is just the goal of the present issue of «Teoria», by means of collecting contribution coming not only from philosophical but also social, psychological, literary and artistic sciences, at the aim to provide a…

Call for Papers Point of View in Memory & Imagery: Philosophical & psychological perspectives on perspective Macquarie University, Friday-Saturday, 10-11 May 2013 Abstracts due Feb 15 Enquiries to John Sutton, [email protected] Overview This workshop will address perspective-taking in remembering and imagining. We welcome offers of papers from philosophers and psychologists, and from related disciplines. We are particularly interested in proposals which discuss relations between visual or visuospatial perspective and other kinds of perspective, or which address interactions between internal and external perspectives on one’s past, future, or possible actions and experiences. Background When I remember my past experiences, I may…

Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SPECIAL SESSION at CYBERWORLDS 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE http://www.vc.media.yamanashi.ac.jp/cw2013/ 21-23 OCTOBER 2013, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology Chair: Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 18, 2013 Send your paper to: [email protected] More information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/ Full papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 5 pages have to be submitted electronically in MS Word data formats. The papers must be written in English. Please use the following template for preparing your papers from: http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/cwtemplate.doc By submitting a paper the authors confirm that their…

5 September 2013: CHORD CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives’ The conference will be held at the: Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) and the M&S Company Archive invite proposals for papers that explore the relationship between retailing and the senses, in Britain and beyond. We welcome papers focusing on both buying and selling, approaching the topic from any discipline and focusing on any historical period. We invite contributions that explore the connections between retailing and any one or more of the senses: Sight Smell Taste…

Special workshop “Methodology of gaming simulation for learning, research and design” You are cordially invited to a workshop on Methodology of gaming simulation for learning, research and design at the 44th conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA). The ISAGA 2013 conference will take place June 24 – 28, 2013, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

INSIGHT 2: ENGAGING THE HEALTH HUMANITIES The call for proposals for the InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, an international exhibition and publication offering frameworks for examining linkages, experiences, visualisations and productive imaginings at the nexus of the health humanities, design and community engagement. The health humanities, an interdisciplinary domain of study which connects the arts, humanities, bioethics and social sciences, among other areas, is concerned with human needs and experiences related to health and healthcare. A human-centred design approach to health and well-being involves community members in identifying, and co-creating solutions to, issues and problems that affect them. Community…