CALL FOR PAPERS I C U I M C 2013 The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication January 17-19, 2013, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia http://www.icuimc.org http://www.imcom.org International cosponsored by SIGAPP GENERAL INFORMATION: This conference explores emerging interests and novel ideas in the area of information management, communication technologies and their implication of social interaction. The aim of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication is to provide a forum promoting new visionary approaches and interdisciplinary researches. The conference brings researchers together from academia and industry, encourages the exchanges of ideas and information, and provides a…

2012 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012) October 22nd-26th, 2012 Doubletree Suites, Santa Monica, California, USA http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012 SUBMISSIONS WEBSITE IS OPEN KEYNOTE SPEAKERS MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES ANNOUNCED The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2012, will take place in Santa Monica, California (USA), October 22nd-26th, 2012. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human, human-robot, 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. ICMI 2012 will feature a…

IIiX 2012: Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium http://iiix2012.org Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012 Call for Papers The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect information retrieval (IR) and information seeking, how these contexts impact information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and behaviors improves the design of interactive information systems. The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to information access by bringing together members of the research communities in information seeking behavior (Behavior Track), user interface design for IR systems (Interface Track),  interactive IR (Interaction…

The Alan Turing Centenary Conference June 22-25, 2012 Manchester, UK http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ During the twentieth century, a number of thinkers – including Kurt Gödel, von Neumann, and Alan Turing – brought the breadth and depth of vision needed to make a number of key breakthroughs. This was particularly true in the areas of computational science, mathematics, physics, and developmental biology. Important accompanying developments were the building of the first computers; the subsequent use of these computers to simulate human intelligence, the use of mathematics to clarify the limitations and potential of computing machines; the engagement at theoretical and practical levels with…

HC2 Summer School For more information: http://hcsquared.eu/hc2-summer-school-2012 Enquires: hcc.summerschool@unicatt.it HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. HC2 (http://hcsquared.eu/) promotes and facilitates Human Computer Confluence research in Europe. We are pleased to announce the organization of the 1st Summer School on Human Computer Confluence, which will take place in Milan, Italy, on 18-20 July 2012. The Summer School will be hosted and organized by the Doctoral School in Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology at the Università Cattolica…

Materials and Sensations 2012 MS 2012 is the third meeting of the “Materials and Sensations” series, for researchers and engineers from a variety of disciplines interested in the role of physical, chemical, mechanical properties of materials in the elicitation of sensations and emotions. It aims to stimulate research on appearance-based engineering of materials, and to promote discussion and collaboration between scientists from industry and academia. Visual, tactile and non-cosmetic olfactory properties will be given special attention, but the field of auditory properties shall also be considered. Through modelling issues, special attention will be given to comparison or mixing of real…

CALL FOR PAPERS PRIMA 2012 The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia September 3-7, 2012 http://www.prima2012.org Co-located with PRICAI 2012, DC 2012 and PKAW 2012 Important Dates Workshop proposals:  December 15, 2011 Papers/Tutorial proposals:  April 10, 2012 Author notification:  May 28, 2012 Camera-ready papers:  June 15, 2012 Workshops and Tutorials:  September 3-4, 2012 Conference:  September 5-7, 2012 Agent computing is an exciting, transformational approach to developing computer systems that can rapidly and reliably solve real- world problems that usually demand human knowledge and expertise. The value, power and flexibility of agent and multi-agent…

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Computer special issue: The Internet of Things: The Next Technological Revolution Final submissions due: 1 July 2012 Acceptance notification: 15 August 2012 Final papers due: 15 October 2012 Publication date: February 2013 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cocfp2 IEEE Computer seeks submissions for a February 2013 special issue on the Internet of Things. The IoT promises to be the most disruptive technological revolution since the advent of the World Wide Web. Projections indicate that up to 100 billion uniquely identifiable objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020, but human understanding of the underlying technologies has not kept pace. This…

SPECIAL CALL FOR LEARNING GAMES, SERIOUS GAMES AND GAME-BASED EDUCATION Immersive Education 2012 Boston Summit World’s leading immersive learning experts & practitioners convene June 14-16 in Boston BOSTON, MA – March 02, 2012 – The Immersive Education Initiative today issued a special call for learning games, serious games and game-based education to be presented at iED 2012 Boston this June. April 1st is the abstract deadline for papers, posters, workshops, panels and general presentations. May 1st is the abstract deadline for demos and outliers (novel late-breaking research and technology). Details are available on the official Immersive Education (iED) Summit website…

European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics ECCE 2012, Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, Scotland 28 – 31 August 2012 http://www2.napier.ac.uk/companions/ECCE12.html We invite long or short papers, posters, doctoral work-in-progress and proposals for workshops and tutorials in the areas of cognitive ergonomics, human technology interaction and cognitive engineering. This year’s theme is Re-thinking cognition. Cognition is no longer viewed as being merely “rules and representations” but is now seen to be situated, distributed, shared, embodied and embedded. We invite researchers to consider how these new treatments have shaped and perhaps, even, overturned their thinking and practice.…

First Call for Papers GAME-ON North America 2012 7th Annual International North-American Conference on AI and Simulation in Games August 16-18, 2012 Digipen Institute of Technology Organized by The European Technology Institute Hosted by Digipen Institute of Technology, Redmond-Washington, USA Co-Sponsored by EUROSIS Digipen Institute of Technology See: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/320 AIM AND TOPICS Games have become an important part of our everyday life, not only as a means of entertainment, but also by providing a unique venue for recreation, training, health intervention and artistic creation. The aim of the 7th annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn’NA 2012) is to bring together…

CALL FOR PAPERS: CASA 2012 WORKSHOP ON AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL ROBOTS AND VIRTUAL HUMANS PLACE: NEC, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore DATE: May 9, 2012 Web: http://conference.ntu.edu.sg/casa2012/Workshops/AutonomousSR-VH/Pages/AboutWorkshop.aspx The Institute for Media Innovation (IMI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce Autonomous Social Robots and Virtual Humans workshop, alongside the 25th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2012), is to be held on May 9, 2012 at the Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC) on the NTU campus in Singapore. Autonomous social robots and autonomous virtual humans have a lot in common as they can…