HSI-2012 5th International Conference on Human System Interactions 6-8 June 2012, Perth, Australia http://hsi2012.debii.edu.au/ OVERVIEW: HSI conference series has become the most important international conference in the field of Human System Interactions, human system science and engineering, human factors in large complex systems, human space computing and cyber-physical systems, human environment interactions, and social-technical systems. HSI 2012 is technically sponsored by IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics and IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Human Factors. This international conference in Human System Interactions will be held in Perth, Western Australia from 6 to 8 June, 2012. The conference…

JANET Videoconferencing User Group Event Ravensbourne Greenwich Peninsula London If you use videoconferencing in an educational context, for example in a school, college, university or museum, please come along to our FREE event and: Explore a wide range of teaching content Meet suppliers to discuss your requirements Discover creative uses for videoconferencing Keep updated on JANET Videoconferencing Explore the latest in videoconferencing technology To register and find out more, please visit: http://www.ja.net/services/events/2011/vcuser/details.html VIDEOCONFERENCING AWARDS Inspire others by your use of videoconferencing If you have an interesting or creative use of videoconferencing that you would like to share, then why not…

Call for Papers Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0 http://glsconference.org/ June 13-15, 2012 Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 to be held June 13-15, 2012, with preconference activities on June 12 including the GLS Educators Symposium and the inaugural year of the GLS Doctoral Consortium at the Memorial Union on campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its eighth year, this grassroots “indie” event is evolving to include more innovative content formats and new programming. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations…

Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2012 Tuesday 10th July – Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA http://www.eva-london.org/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 22nd January 2012 *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 22nd January 2012…

UMAP 2012 — 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION Montreal, Canada, 16-20 July, 2012 http://www.umap2012.org/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The conference will take place at the UQAM university campus, situated in the very heart of the arts and…

PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance Edinburgh, 17-19 April 2012 Following on from two highly successful cross-disciplinary conferences in Ghent and Paris we are very happy to invite submissions for the above event. IMPORTANT DATES 05 December 2011: Submission deadline 19 December 2011: Review allocation to reviewers 09 January 2012: Review upload deadline 14 January 2012: Authors informed 17-19 April 2012: Conference CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk/ INVITED SPEAKERS Larry Maloney, Dept. Psychology, New York University, USA. Françoise Viénot, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Mike Chantler, Julie Harris, Mike Pointer SCOPE Originally focused on the perception of texture…

i-Docs 2012 : Call for Participation http://i-docs.org/ Following the success of i-Docs 2011, we are delighted to invite your participation in i-Docs 2012, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi on behalf of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol (http://dcrc.org.uk) The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23th of March 2012.…

PERCOM 2012 — CALL FOR DEMOS The IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, entering its tenth year, is a premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. The PerCom Demo Session offers high-quality demonstrations of all things pervasive from academia and industry. Demos demonstrating working  systems, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to PerCom are welcome. Demos from industrial researchers as well as demos from academia with a significant relevance to industry are particularly encouraged. A “Best Demo Award” will be  presented based on research value, originality, and presentation.…

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012 Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 22-26, 2012 First Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. Multimodal technologies are fundamentally changing the ways people interact with each other and with computers. Multimodal systems – recognizing language and gesture exchanged among people or as input…

EuroITV2012 – “Bridging People, Places and Platforms” 10th European Interactive TV Conference 4th – 6th July 2012 – Berlin, Germany http://www.euroitv2012.org/ 1st Call for Papers EuroITV is the leading international conference for media and interaction related to video and television.  This year’s theme of “Bridging People, Places and Platforms” focuses on synergies to support current practice and to explore new perspectives – empowering users to interact with content and each other across localities and across various delivery platforms and media. Researchers and practitioners from all over the world meet to discuss latest advances on media technology, HCI, systems & technology,…

CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS’12) Florida Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL, USA March 26-29, 2012 http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012?q=node/205 Manuscript Submission: November 30, 2011. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Co-located with the 2012 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW) As part of the 2012 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim’12) (http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012) the 2012 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a…

Call for Participation – A Telepresence Timeline The International Society for Presence Research (ISPR; https://ispr.info) is creating a timeline of important developments related to telepresence. Please participate by submitting your suggestions for items to be included in the timeline by using the short form here – the list of developments will be refined at the ISPR 2011 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland October 26-28 and installed on the ISPR web site after that. We’ve divided telepresence-related developments into the categories of TECHNOLOGY, PUBLICATION, INSTITUTION, CULTURE and IDEA (see the form for details and examples). Note that in addition to developments that have occurred,…