Digital Humanities Congress 2012 University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012 The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th – 8th September 2012. The Digital Humanities Congress is a new conference which will be held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts,…

Call for Papers IVA 2012 Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://iva2012.soe.ucsc.edu/home September 12-14 Santa Cruz, California, USA Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2012 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social…

This call can also be found on the JVWR web site here. Call for Papers Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) Issue on Asian Perspectives GUEST EDITORS Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan DEADLINES Authors submission of abstract: April 15th, 2012 using the Journal publishing system (login at the top right of the journal site, state that you aim at the Asian Perspective issue.) Abstract submission will give authors quick feedback and allow editors to identify reviewers asap. Authors submission of full paper:…

The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP), formerly known as APGV, aims to further the development of inter-disciplinary research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, vision, haptics and acoustics. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas and the scope includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science. LOCATION: USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Co-located with Siggraph 2012 in Los Angeles DATES: 3-4 August 2012.…

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…