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…

Call for papers Inner movement – the motor dimension of imagination 1-3 December 2011 Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent, Belgium This conference explores the role of the moving and gesturing body in the imaginative perception of works of art. Bodily resonance with the way a work of art is or has been created or performed is an essential part of much of our aesthetic experience and appreciation. This kind of ‘inner movement’ is part of our experience of a whole range of works of art, from an implicit tracing of the draftsman’s hand in drawings to an embodied…

6th MASTA @ EPIA 2011 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications 10-13 October 2011, Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt/masta Submission deadline: May 10, 2011 Introduction Since 1993, the area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been present in all EPIA Conferences, both as individual tracks and as autonomous workshops. Focusing on a fundamental subject of Artificial Intelligence, the 6th edition of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications – MASTA 2011 Thematic Track, will be a forum for presenting and discussing the most recent and innovative work on MAS. Departing, from the end of the 1980’s, from…

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) Special Issue on Development, Evaluation and Deployment of Multi-touch Systems Call for papers (http://www.dur.ac.uk/shamus.smith/SI_MT_IJHCS.html) (http://www.dur.ac.uk/shamus.smith/CFP_IJHCS_MT.pdf) Submissions due 30th July 2011 Introduction and topics Multi-touch technologies have a long history-one that even predates the public adoption of graphical user interfaces. While early systems offered glimpses into its potential, they were hampered by the technology of the times: Processors were not fast enough to adequately process multiple inputs; projector-based systems offered low resolution, a bulky setup, and shadowing effects; users often had to be inconveniently tethered; ad-hoc systems were expensive to build and difficult to deploy;…

eNTERFACE’11  the 7th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces Call for Participation The eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of leading professionals in multimodal human-machine interfaces together with students (both graduate and undergraduate), to work on a prespecified list of challenges, for 4 complete weeks. In this respect, it is an innovative and intensive collaboration scheme, designed to allow researchers to integrate their software tools, deploy demonstrators, collect novel databases, and work side by side with a great number of experts. It brings together…

International Virtual Environments Research Group (IVERG) Conference 2011 Immersive Technologies for Learning: Virtual Implementation, Real Outcomes http://www.iverg.com/iVERG/Details.html Call for papers The organising committee encourages the submission of individual abstracts focused on the use of virtual worlds in the following areas: Citizenship, identity and virtual environments for learning Media, multimedia and virtual reality Adaptive and intuitive environments Computer mediated communication e-Learning e-Portfolios m-Learning Games for education Grids for education Apps for education Emerging technologies Creativity Educational technology futures Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted by Friday 8th April 2011. …

Call 4 Abstracts 5th Vienna Games Conference Future and Reality of Gaming – FROG11 Applied Playfulness Competence, Media and Sociability of Play Vienna City Hall, Austria, Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October 2011; http://bupp.at/frog Vienna’s annual Games Conference, “Future and Reality of Gaming” (FROG), offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, researchers and scholars from various other fields, education professionals, and gamers from around the world. The main objective of the FROG11 is to explore the phenomena of applied playfulness in regard to questions of media competence, media convergence, the sociability of…

Academic MindTrek 2011: Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Demos, and Workshops 28th -30th September, 2011 Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/, http://www.mindtrek.org/2011/academic In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI publications will be published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters or in journals We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from 28th – 30th September 2011, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Among the media to be discussed, will be business, social, technical…

GAMES, SIMULATIONS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS IN EDUCATION: WHAT EVIDENCE DO WE HAVE THAT THEY CHANGE PRACTICE? SIG Event: April 15th, London Knowledge Lab. The event will feature a keynote by Sian Bayne and an update on JISC’s work on virtual worlds and gaming presented by Clare Killen While there’s a lot of interest in games, simulations and virtual worlds, and much talk of their potential, there is arguably less evidence about what their benefits are. Where there is evidence, this is often for the feasibility of new pedagogic approaches or of student enjoyment – not necessarily about learning. The purpose…

Researching Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments 2011 (ReLIVE11) Creative Solutions for New Futures 21st – 22nd September 2011 Innovation in teaching and learning through virtual worlds was a major theme of ReLIVE08, the first conference to bring together researchers and educators in this field. In the three years since this event, our understanding of what it means to work, play and learn in these spaces has increased significantly, generating a rapidly growing body of academic knowledge. Whilst virtual worlds are providing us with platforms for innovation, and new opportunities to understand and address the needs of learners in the 21st…

VIRTUAL FUTURES DIGITAL NATIVES: FEAR OF THE FLESH University of Warwick, UK, 18-19 June 2011 http://virtualfutures.co.uk/ “as art collapses into science, centralised control dissipates into networks, and culture migrates beyond man, the old models of explanation, classification and discussion are rendered obsolete.” -Virtual Futures, 1996 15 years since the last event, the Virtual Futures Conference is set to return to the University of Warwick campus. The revival aims to reignite the debates over the implications of new and future communication technologies on art, society and politics. The conference will take place on the 18th-19th June 2011 and include paper presentations,…

Special Issue of Journal of Evolution and Technology A Journal for the scholarly exploration of the evolution of the human species. on “Expanding Human Boundaries: Cognitive Enhancement, AI and Mind Machine Mergers” Expected publication: November 2011 Submissions are invited for a special issue of the journal on the topic of ethical, legal, and social implications of cognitive enhancement, mind machine mergers (cyborgization), uploading and artificial intelligence. Guest editors: Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical Center, New York, USA Russell Blackford, PhD LLB, University of Newcastle, Australia Contact us with any questions at lglenn3000@gmail.com or russellblackford@bigpond.com.…