Call for Industry Track Papers, Demos, Posters, and Doctoral Consortium submissions 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2012) December 10-13, 2012 in Essen, Germany www.mum2012.org Organized by University of Duisburg-Essen MUM 2012, the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on December 10-13, 2012 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Essen, Germany. Import Dates: August 31, 2012 (23:59 EST):  Industry track paper submission deadline September 14, 2012 (23:59 EST):  Demo, poster, and doctoral consortium submission deadline October 12, 2012:  Notification of acceptance for industry track papers and demo, poster and doctoral consortium submissions…

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG) Call for papers: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games Special issue editors: Ian Horswill, Nick Montfort and R. Michael Young Stories in both their telling and their hearing are central to human experience, playing an important role in how humans understand the world around them. Entertainment media and other cultural artifacts are often designed around the presentation and experience of narrative. Even in video games, which need not be narrative, the vast majority of blockbuster titles are organized around some kind of quest narrative and many have elaborate stories…

Open call for CYNETART competition 2012 The international CYNETART competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion; in particular, to interdisciplinary and hybrid approaches. The call for submissions accompanies the festival every two years since 1996. This competition represents some of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the field of media art.…

1st International Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Applied in Skills Transfer, Healthcare and Rehabilitation (IMIASH 2012) to be held in conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE 12 (www.intenv.org) Guanajuato, Mexico. June 26-29, 2012 Workshop website: http://nadir.uc3m.es/imiash2012/ The first International Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces applied in skills transfer and healthcare and rehabilitation, co-located with the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 12) aims to bring together researches, developers and practitioners involved in the research area of machine learning, bio-signals processing, electronics, robotics, mechatronics, virtual & augmented reality, medicine and rehabilitation. Nowadays, multimodal interfaces have…

CALL FOR PAPERS EXPERIENCING DIGITAL GAMES: USE, EFFECTS & CULTURE OF GAMING Pre-Conference to ECREA’s fourth European Communication Conference, ECC 2012 (Istanbul, Turkey) 23 – 24 October 2011 In the past decades, digital games have diversified into a broad range of forms each with their specific interactions and experiences: from rapid button mashing in shooter games to group chat in role-playing games, to wild dancing in party games and to actual running around in a city and engaging with the environment in location-based mobile games. Thus digital games have increasingly come to be seen as generators of experiences rather than…

CFP Journal of Virtual Worlds Issue on Law and Virtual Worlds A Special Issue edited by: Melissa de Zwart, Adelaide Law School, Australia Greg Lastowka, Rutgers School of Law-Camden, USA Dan Hunter, New York Law School. USA The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research. The field of virtual worlds research is a continuously evolving area of study that spans across many disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a…

CRAFT RESEARCH CALL for SUBMISSIONS for the FOURTH ISSUE of CRAFT RESEARCH Editors Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton, UK email: k.niedderer@wlv.ac.uk Dr Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University email: katherine.townsend@ntu.ac.uk Submission The final date for submission of contributions for the fourth issue is Friday 1 June 2012. For guidance notes or further information, or to submit an article or review, please contact the editors or visit the journal’s website for details: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/ Aims & Scope Craft Research is the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the development and advance of contemporary craft practice and theory through research. The aim of…

Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility Symposium for AISB / IACAP World Congress 2012 – Alan Turing 2012 In recognition of the Turing Centenary, the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will convene a joint meeting with the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) on 2-6 July 2012 at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. As part of this meeting, we are hosting a symposium titled The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility. The symposium, which will take place 3-4 July 2012, seeks to bring philosophers, AI scientists, robotics engineers,…

SMPTE 2012 Technology Summit on Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound Date: Sat, 04/14/2012 – 9:00am – Sun, 04/15/2012 – 5:00pm SMPTE will hold its annual Technology Summit On Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound (formerly Digital Cinema Summit) at the NAB Show on 14-15 April 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Cinema Technology has historically been in the forefront of motion imaging invention.  Over the years, revolutionary new technologies were first tested and proven in the movie theater, only later to become mainstream in television broadcast or gaming.  Examples include the introduction of sound, color, widescreen, stereo, computer…

4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference – EUROMED 2012 October 29th – November 3rd, 2012 Limassol, Cyprus http://www.euromed2012.eu Dear colleagues, We are glad to invite you to the 4th Int. Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EUROMED 2012) which will be held in Limassol (Cyprus) October 29th to November 3rd, 2012 at the Amathus-Limassol hotel. The 4th EUROMED conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies…

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2012 WORKSHOP Play Experience Workshop – Reconciling PX Methods http://hcigames.businessandit.uoit.ca/gurfdg2012/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION May 29, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina Important Dates: March 5, 2012: submissions deadline May 12, 2012: Acceptance notification May 29 2012: Workshop The workshop is scheduled as a 1-day workshop held at Raleigh, North Carolina co-located with FDG May 29, 2012. This workshop will bring together researchers interested in GUR (Games User Research), including game evaluation, player experience, game-user research, game telemetry, think aloud, observed behavior, heuristics, metrics, and psycho-physiological measurements. The main goals of the workshop and the expected outcomes are…

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org/) is happy to announce the call for this “Managerial and Commercial Applications” issue edited by Shu Schiller, Wright State University, USA Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University, USA Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA You can access this call directly through our website. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines and…