The Virtual Worlds Research Network announces its inaugural conference to take place in Edinburgh, UK, May 16-18, 2012. In recent decades, the development and use of virtual worlds has grown from a niche interest to a phenomenon that affects tens of millions of people. As the nature of virtual worlds has evolved and their user base vastly increased, the research potential of virtual worlds has been recognized by a wide range of academic disciplines. The rapid development of research in and about this medium from investigators with various academic backgrounds means that cross-disciplinary communication and knowledge-sharing is extremely important to…

34th Annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference Bowie State University, Bowie, MD 04 – 06 October 2012 The Humanities and Technology Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly society that explores the impact of technology on human life from a broad range of perspectives. We welcome papers that investigate the cultural interaction of the humanities, science, engineering, and technology. While progress in science, engineering, and technology can benefit the individual as well as society at large, it also has the power to be detrimental. Modern technologies are capable of redefining identity, the nature of social and political bonds, as well as plundering…

Simulation Australia – Invitation Setting the agenda for completing the development of competencies in the use of simulations One-day workshop ­ March 23rd Civil Contractors Federation simulation centre in Adelaide Reasons for attending 1. You have a focus on standards and quality in the use of simulation in all arenas 2. To share the most up to date knowledge in the design of courses for qualified simulation educators 3. To contribute to answering these questions What is needed to be an expert in the use of simulation for learning? Who is qualified to evaluate the expertise? How do people become…

ISWC 2012 – the sixteenth annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers Newcastle, UK June 18-22, 2012 Submission Deadline: March 25, 2012 at 23:59 PDT ISWC 2012, the sixteenth annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC 2012 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. Juried Exhibition ISWC 2012’s Juried Design Exhibition invites submissions of original works of wearable technology and/or novel applications for new audiences using existing technologies. Submissions may…

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: [email protected] Dr Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University email: [email protected] 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…