Call for Papers: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance Themed edition on innovation, technology and converging practices in drama, applied theatre and performance RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance is a refereed journal aimed at those who are interested in applying performance practices to cultural engagement, educational innovation and social change. It provides an international forum for research into drama and theatre conducted in community, educational, developmental and therapeutic contexts. Contributions are drawn from a range of people involved in drama and theatre from around the world. It aims to bring the fruits…

Call for Papers 1st workshop on Augmenting Social Interaction through Affective Computing Workshop at ACII 2011 http://www.augmenting-social-interaction.org/ http://www.acii2011.org/ Augmenting Social Interaction through Affective Computing is the first workshop on affective computing that specifically aims to improve or enhance social interaction among humans. Social interactions, whether mediated or face-to-face, can benefit significantly from advances in affective computing and social signal processing. Example application areas include mental healthcare, training and coaching, negotiation, and close intimate interactions. To address this topic, we invite submissions on the relation between social interaction between humans and affective computing technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not…

CALL FOR PAPERS CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts Special issue on Quality of collaboration in design The focus of this special issue is on quality of collaboration across a variety of design situations, with a special interest on the detailed analysis of interactive dynamics in small groups or teams. Submission of intentions to contribute: May 16, 2011 (a more detailed time schedule is below) GUEST EDITORS Francoise Detienne, CNRS – Telecom ParisTech, francoise.detienne@telecom-paristech.fr Michael Baker, CNRS – Telecom ParisTech, michael.baker@telecom-paristech.fr Jean-Marie Burkhardt, University Paris Descartes, jean-marie.burkhardt@parisdescartes.fr SCOPE This special issue aims to bring together research…

CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Anniversary of the annual International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games Ottawa, Canada, October 6-7 2011 http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/netgames2011/ & Special Issue on Network and Systems Support for Games in Springer’s Multimedia Systems Journal http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~shervin/netgamessi/ NetGames brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to present the latest research results and challenges of today’s networked games, and to understand their requirements and possibilities in order to enable the next generation of networked games. NetGames also provides industry keynote and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited on all aspects of networked games, including (but not limited…

Call for articles European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics ERCIM News No. 86 (July 2011) Special Theme: “ICT for Cultural Heritage” (see also http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call) DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Wednesday 18 May 2011 Articles have to be sent to the local editor for your country (see About ERCIM News) or to the central editor peter.kunz@ercim.eu Please read the guidelines below before submitting an article!! coordinated by David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK and Martin Doerr, FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete, Greece The co-cordinators of this ERCIM News special theme invite short articles about ongoing research, development and deployment in Information and Communication Technology for…

CALL FOR PAPERS – “ARTS and VIRTUAL WORLDS” Cyberworlds Conference Special Session 2011 International Conference on CyberWorlds 4-6 October 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada http://cw2011.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 6, 2011 Send your submission and any other request to: gianluca.mura@polimi.it Chair Dr.Gianluca Mura In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Association Endorsed by IEEE VGTC Committee for IEEE technical co-sponsorship Proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS Organized by the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, with support from Informatics Circle of Research Excellence iCORE and School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Conference papers will be published in the proceedings…

Beyond Mobile Context Workshop on mobile interaction design practice and theory (+ Keynote by Prof. Paul Rodgers on Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art) 5 July 2011 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne Held in conjunction with BHCI 2011 (http://www.hci2011.co.uk/) For further information please visit http://beyondmobilecontext.wordpress.com/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: 1 May, 2011 Workshop: 5 July, 2011 (as part of BHCI 2011) General Theme: We are witnessing a new quality of mobile interactions triggered by emerging new mobile technologies and services ranging from location-based apps and mobile learning services to mobile projectors and wearable computing which in…

BCS HCI 2011 Workshop: Supporting Collaboration Through Multimodal and Cross-modal Interfaces 5th July 2011 Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Submission deadline: 1st May 2011 Full details: http://ccmi.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/hciworkshop Summary: With growing possibilities of using various modalities in human-computer interaction comes new opportunities for supporting richer, more effective and engaging collaborations. The use of multiple modalities to support collaboration also presents new challenges for the design, implementation and evaluation of collaborative systems. This workshop aims to bring together interested experts to examine and explore the issues associated with these areas of research. We invite two forms of submissions to the workshop:…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal (www.igi-global.com/ijats). The following describes the mission, the coverage, and the guidelines for submission to IJATS. MISSION OF IJATS The mission of IJATS is to disseminate and discuss high quality research on emerging technologies and successful systems based on the agent and multiagent paradigms. It features innovative findings from various fields of science, engineering, and technology. IJATS is an interdisciplinary journal that brings together researchers from academia, industry, and the…

Call for Papers: GameDays 2011 Serious Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports Darmstadt, Germany September 12-13 The GameDays have been established in 2005 as “Science meets Business” event in the field of Serious Games, taking place on annual basis in Darmstadt, Germany. The principle aim is to bring together academia and industry and to discuss the current trends, grand challenges and potentials of Serious Games for different application domains. Since 2010, the academic part has been emphasized resulting in a first Int’l workshop on Serious Games for Sports and Health with workshop proceedings and a special edition with selected…

APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION, APGV 2011 (http://www.apgv.org/index.html) August 27-28, Toulouse, France Submission system now open!! http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apgv2011 IMPORTANT DATES DEADLINE EXTENDED: Paper submissions (long and short): 26 April 2011 Notification of paper acceptance: 27 May 2011 Final papers due: 3 June 2011 Final TAP papers due: 1 July 2011 Poster submissions: 24 June 2011 Notification of poster acceptance: 27 June 2011 Final posters due: 1 July 2011 The Symposium for Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization APGV unites researchers in the fields of perception, graphics, and visualization. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas — in particular…

Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism SICSA Summer School St Andrews, Scotland, June 27th – July 1, 2011 http://sachi.org.uk/mmi-dt The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed on the painting, statue, mountain, ski run, castle, loch or other sight before them. In this school we focus on multimodal input and output interfaces, data fusion…