THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY SINGULARITY SUMMIT 2011 AUGUST 20-21 RMIT UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE What will tomorrow look like? Few could predict just how fast and dramatic the social, economic and political impacts of computer technology could be in our lifetimes. If present trends are to continue, computers will have more advanced and powerful ‘brains’ than humans within 25 years. This August, leading scientists, inventors and philosophers will gather at RMIT to discuss the upcoming ‘intelligence explosion’ that many now refer to as ‘The Singularity’- a technological breakthrough that promises to eclipse previous computing developments with the creation of super-human machines. The…

ATA 2012: American Telemedicine Association 2012 Meeting & Exposition Call for Presentation Now Open Participate in the biggest telehealth event of the year! April 29 – May 1, 2012 / San Jose, CA www.ATA2012.com Abstracts accepted thru September 15, 2011 Recognized throughout the world as the primary forum for the telemedicine industry, the ATA 2012 program meets the changing needs of professionals who utilize telehealth technologies. Whether you are a novice or expert, the ATA 2012 offers a revitalized approach to presenting and learning about telemedicine.  Submit an abstract before September 15, 2011 to participate in the biggest telehealth event of…

[Note: PEACH = Presence Research in Action; http://www.peachbit.org] Dear PEACH* community members, Under the umbrella of Fet Proactive – Human Computer Confluence (HCC) we are coordinating a new CSA called HC2 (http://hcsquared.eu/home). This is, although broader in scope, a continuation of the work carried out in PEACH and we would like to ask you all to participate. We shall be organising summer schools, workshops and other events and publications relevant for the Presence community and as before we shall be able to provide some financial support to those wishing to attend. We shall also be working on the definition of…

Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (HCI-KDD) @ USAB 2011 Conference Papers due to August, 8, 2011 http://www.hci4all.at/?page_id=334 Motto: “Human intelligence harnesses machine power” (Ben Shneiderman (2011)) In Biomedicine, Health Care, Clinical Medicine and the Life Sciences professional end users are confronted with increased masses of data. Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Retrieval (IR) or Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD) respectively, has long been working to develop methods that help end users to identify, extract, visualize and understand useful information from these masses of high dimensional and mostly weakly structured data.…

Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications; A Groundbreaking New Journal on the Applications of Digital Games to Human Health New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2011 – Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces the launch of Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H), a new, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the development, use, and applications of game technology for improving physical and mental health and well-being. The Journal breaks new ground as the first to address this emerging, widely-recognized, and increasingly adopted area of healthcare. Published bi-monthly, Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications will be released in…

ICCE 2011 Workshop On “Real Education in Virtual Worlds” URL: http://dtrip.ice.ntnu.edu.tw/CFP/2011REVW_CFP.htm November 28, 2011 ~ December 2, 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand Held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2011) Description Virtual worlds have generated much attention and interest among educators and researchers over the last few years. To response the increasing calls for practical evidences of applying virtual worlds in educational settings, the first workshop on Real Education in Second Life was held in conjunction with The 18th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2010). We had a fruitful harvest in the workshop. Researchers…

Call for Papers “Kill Switch: The Ethics of Simulation” A One-Day Conference at the Munich Ethics Referral Centre (MKE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich November 25, 2011 How can one adequately address the ethics of a video game player’s actions? There is a field of rapidly growing importance in ethics that has not yet been mapped sufficiently, a whole category of acts that has not yet been the focus of ethical theory, acts that are neither actually performed nor merely contemplated: simulated acts. Ethical theory has spent considerable energy investigating performed or contemplated actions, with some of the major ethical theories like consequentialism,…

Call for Papers and Projects by Graduate Students: Récit(s) et jeux numériques / Experiencing Stories with Digital Games A colloquium presented by the Concordia Research Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games at Entretiens Jacques Cartier 2011 October 1 & 2, 2011 Concordia University, Montreal About the Colloquium Despite recent advances in game hardware, interfaces and game mechanics, the most successful video games continue to emerge from a fundamental concern with telling and experiencing stories. This colloquium will bring together academic game researchers, industry designers and students to discuss new approaches to the analysis and creation of interactive digital narratives. By…

For those who missed the VIRTUAL FUTURES conference presentation summaries, videos and podcasts are now available online here: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/virtualfutures/ VIRTUAL FUTURES, a Cyber Conference on Art, Performance, Philosophy and Emerging Technology, returned to the University of Warwick on the 18-19 June 2011 after 15 years. This year’s highlights included presentations on artificial intelligence, bioengineering, bioethics, cybernetics, net security, performance art, social media, the future of copyright and virtual reality.…

CALL for PROPOSALS for SYMPOSIA AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing July 2nd to 6th, 2012 University of Birmingham http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [ http://www.aisb.org.uk/ ] and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [ http://www.ia-cap.org/ ] AISB and IACAP are delighted to be joining forces to run the above Congress in 2012. The Congress serves both as the year’s AISB Convention and the year’s IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing and by the broad and deep significance of…

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EMBODIED INTERACTION IN HCI AND INTERACTION DESIGN A Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI) Special issue editors: Paul Marshall (University of Warwick), Alissa N. Antle (Simon Fraser University), Elise van den Hoven (Eindhoven University of Technology), Yvonne Rogers (The Open University) For questions, please contact embodiedinteraction@wmg.warwick.ac.uk. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Proposals: July 8, 2011 (submit via embodiedinteraction@wmg.warwick.ac.uk) Response to Authors: August 12, 2011 Papers Due: October 28, 2011 (submit via Manuscript Central) Reviews Due: December 9, 2011 Author Notification: December 30, 2011 Revised Papers Due: February 24, 2011 Special Issue Published:…

Being There, Doing It: The Challenge of Embodied Cognition for Design Workshop to be held at Creativity and Cognition 2011 conference, Thursday, November 3rd 2011, in TSRB on Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, USA. Jelle van Dijk & Joep Frens Web site: http://sites.google.com/site/cc11embodied/ This workshop offers designers/researchers a deeper understanding of the way human beings, designed artifacts and the surrounding environment figure in situated and embodied couplings – and invites discussion of the role of artifacts within those couplings. It investigates how to apply embodied principles to interaction design, a complex challenge we believe deserves to be discussed amongst designers…