CALL FOR PAPERS 20th IEEE Haptics Symposium: “Engaging and Connecting with the User” http://hapticssymposium.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper & Ext. Abstracts Due:  September 16, 2011 (firm) Tutorial / Workshop Proposals Submission:  October 13, 2011 Author Notification:  November 21, 2011 Camera-Ready Paper Submission:  December 19, 2011 Demo Submission:  December 19, 2011 Conference Dates:  March 4-7, 2012 Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops should be sent to the conference chairs by October 13, 2011 (earlier communication is strongly encouraged). LOCATION AND FORMAT The 2012 Haptics Symposium will be in Vancouver, Canada, in the heart of downtown at the Sheraton Wall Centre. The 2012 IEEE…

1st European Immersive Education Summit 28th and 29th November 2011 Leganes (Madrid, Spain) Important Dates Paper submission: 30th September 2011 Notification of acceptance: 14th October 2011 Final paper submission: 28th October 2011 Summit: 28th-29th November 2011 There is a growing interest in the use of virtual and mixed-reality environments for online teaching and learning. Immersive Education gives participants a sense of “being there” even when attending a class or training session in person isn’t possible, practical, or desirable, which in turn provides educators and students with the ability to connect and communicate in a way that greatly enhances the learning…

Call for Papers: Workshop on Role of Ambient Intelligence in Future Lighting Systems November 16th, Amsterdam, the Netherlands http://www.lightingami.id.tue.nl/ in conjunction with the Conference on Ambient Intelligence (http://www.ami-11.org/) Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 2nd, 2011 Notification of acceptance: September 15th, 2011 Workshop: November 16th, 2011 LED-based lighting systems have introduced radically new possibilities in the area of artificial lighting. Being physically small the LED can be positioned or embedded into luminaires, materials and even the very fabric of a building or environment. Together with new functionality and flexibility comes complexity; the simple light switch is not anymore sufficient to control…

Call for Papers Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Mobile Interaction with the Real World Mobile devices have become a part of our everyday lives as we increasingly rely on smartphones and tablets as personal information devices. The use of those devices for interactions with nearby physical objects has been a popular research area in the last years. We currently see a dramatic increase in the interest in this field as technologies like Near Field Communication (NFC) and TransferJet will soon be widely available to smartphone users, as camera-based interactions (e.g. based on 2D Barcodes or image…

Call for Conference Papers, Panelists and Installations SENSORY WORLDS: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory University of Edinburgh 7-9 December 2011 Full details at: http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/Sawyer/Conference.html Conference Theme It is through our senses that we investigate, navigate and know the world around us and the other beings, forces and phenomena that constitute it in its rich and lively variety. To consider the nature of sensory being is to be confronted by questions that examine the ways in which we engage with our environments and those that interrogate the very nature of embodiment. Constantly at work and yet often undervalued, the sensorium is…

CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) Valencia, Spain June 4–8, 2012 http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es ABOUT AAMAS AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of…

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Ethics and Information Technology on “Armed Military Robots” Ethics and Information Technology is calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue on the ethics of armed military robots, to be edited by Noel Sharkey, Juergen Altmann, Peter Asaro and Robert Sparrow. The need for this Special Issue became apparent at the Berlin meeting of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control in September, 2010. This meeting expressed deep concerns about the proliferation and development of armed military robots and identified a pressing need for more international discussion of…

Research on the blurring of reality and fiction in ARGs: Short online survey Hello fellow ARG players and researchers, My name is Mela Kocher and I am a Swiss games researcher. For my post-doc research project I am focusing on the blurring of the line between reality and fiction in alternate reality games (ARGs). The research project is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/). I am curious how the TINAG aesthetics are implemented in the game design and how players interpret the games in relation to the topic of reality and fiction. I’ve been playing ARGs myself and…

ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2011 Workshop on Human-Centered VR, AR and Gaming (VRCAI-VRAR 2011) Dec.11-12, 2011, Hong Kong, China http://liama.ia.ac.cn/vrcai2011/vrar.html http://www.vrcai2011.org Paper  submissions (up to 8 pages): 10 September 2011 Notification of paper acceptance: 19 September 2011 Camera-ready papers due: 30 September 2011 While the advances of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Gaming technologies are breathtaking taking into account the ever increasing power of mobile computing devices, the research community is challenged to investigate the factors that make computer graphics technologies effective, productive but also fun and engaging. Realizing the goals of VR, AR and Gaming and harnessing them…

Call for Papers 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Nature of Player Experience We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Madrid, Spain, on January 29th-31st 2012. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will refer to specific examples from computer games rather than merely invoke them in general terms. The over-arching theme of the…

The International Journal of Role-Playing (IJRP) is now accepting submissions for the 3rd issue, due out in winter 2011. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2011. The International Journal of Role-Playing invites researchers, designers, developers, academics, artists and others involved in the growing field of research related to role-playing to submit articles. The IJRP is a peer-reviewed journal, and welcomes submissions from any sphere of interest, knowledge network, research field or development sector that directly or indirectly relates to role-playing interests. Potential topics include but are certainly not limited to the following: Role-playing games, e.g. frameworks, storytelling and graphics; art,…

Call for Papers: Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and the Centre for Material Digital Culture present: Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy Abstract submission deadline 19th August 2011 November 4th 2011, University of Sussex Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Vanessa Toulmin (Director of the National Fairground archive) and Dr Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths). Confirmed plenary speakers: Dr Astrid Ensslin (Bangor), Dr Melanie Chan (Leeds Met), Professor Nick Till (Sussex), and Dr Jo Machon (Brunel). From magicians to immersive media and from the circus to cyborgs, the celebration and/or mistrust of illusion has been a central theme across a range of cultures. Notions…