Call for Papers Space and Place 1st Global Conference Wednesday 14th September – Friday 16th September 2011 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Deadline: April 22, 2011 Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructed a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of…

Inventing the Future of Games A one-day symposium Presented by the Center for Games and Playable Media, UC Santa Cruz Friday, April 15th, 2011 Silicon Valley More information and registration: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/future2011 “Inventing the Future of Games,” a day-long symposium April 15 in Silicon Valley, aims to explore the possibilities of the next decade of gaming innovation. Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Games and Playable Media, the symposium will gather some of the brightest minds of academia and industry to discuss the advancement of game design and technology.…

A CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 12-13 April Moving in extended spaces I’m looking for 3-4 people with interest of working with projections and body-space awareness. Preferably I would like to work with people who have movement background (dance, physical theatre, Mime and alike) This workshop is built to explore our perception, sensors and movement in spaces that combines projections of another site which has other performers. Projecting another space in the room may create a feeling of an “extension” of the room or a portal to a different site, even more so when there are other people/performers in the other place.…

The 2nd International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications 19-20 September 2011 Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Topics of Interest: This Conference aims at collecting and disseminating knowledge on serious games technologies, design and development; to provide game designers and interdisciplinary communities with a peer-reviewed forum to discuss the state-of-the-art in serious games research, their ideas and theories, and innovative applications of serious games; to explain cultural, social and scientific phenomena by means of serious games; to concentrate on the interaction between theory and application; to develop new methodologies in various application domains using games technologies; and to explore…

JOURNAL OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS ISSN: 1876-1364 Published by IOS Press Thematic Issue: A Software Engineering Perspective on Smart Applications for AmI Deadline for manuscript submission: June 15th, 2011 Background This thematic issue addresses software engineering perspectives on the design, use and evaluation of Smart Applications for Ambient Intelligence and solicits contributions on recent developments and experiments with such applications in simulated smart environments as well as successful deployments in the real world. Currently, we witness various futuristic application domains that promise smart interaction between humans and computers, with smart objects enabling the internet of things, intelligent transportation…

Conference Call for Papers Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination Dates: 6th – 9th September 2011 Location: University of Glasgow Organisers: Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (University of Glasgow): Fiona Macpherson EXRE Centre of Research for Mind and Normativity (University of Fribourg): Fabian Dorsch Submission deadline: 15 May, 2011 (for further details, please see below)…

IEEE CBMS 2011, Bristol England http://www.cbms2011.org/ Deadline: April 20th 2011 Special Track: “Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare” The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2011) will be held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, from June 27th to 30th 2011. The conference will provide an international forum for discussing the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics and related fields. There will be regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their…

Call for Papers: Ethnographic Fiction & Speculative Design Workshop http://www.designculturelab.org/ethnographic-fiction-speculative-design-workshop-cfp/ Ethnographic Fiction and Speculative Design is a full-day workshop at the 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies–C&T 2011, in Brisbane, Australia, 29 June-2 July, 2011. Position papers are due 1 April, 2011. Please email submissions to speculativedesign@gmail.com. Introduction While pervasive technology development and implementation proceed apace, the potential social and cultural implications – including the ways in which end user communities can be active participants in these processes – remain underexplored. The inherent invisibility of the technological infrastructure required to support these emerging networks makes it difficult to identify…

“I Know Where I’m Going” Remote Access to World Heritage Sites from St Kilda to Uluru 23-24 November 2011- Edinburgh (UK) CALL FOR PAPERS At a time of economic crisis and environmental threat, countries everywhere are addressing the dual challenge of protecting and preserving their natural and cultural heritage while maximizing its economic value. This two-day international conference will focus on the potential of new technologies to create high-quality, remote-access, visitor experiences for World Heritage Sites and other sites of cultural, historical and natural significance where remote access is desirable or necessary. The conference has three main aims: To showcase…

This is a general message that the Learning in Higher Education (LIHE) site is open for submission of abstracts for the book tentatively titled – TRANSFORMING UNIVERSITY TEACHING INTO LEARNING VIA SIMULATIONS AND GAMES – to be published in conjunction with the International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education (LIHE) The call for contributions is at http://lihe.wordpress.com/future-events/lihe11-australia/symposium-call/ You are invited to submit your abstracts for the conference process and publication. The schedule leading to the publication date is set out below and details on what to include in your proposal are on the web site.…

IACAP 2011 International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) First International Conference of IACAP: Celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences Aarhus University (Denmark) – July 4-6, 2011 Conference Theme, “The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?” In the West, philosophical attention to computation and computational devices is at least as old as Leibniz. But since the early 1940s, electronic computers have evolved from a few machines filling several rooms to widely diffused – indeed, ubiquitous – devices, ranging from networked desktops, laptops, smartphones and “the internet of things.” Along the way, initial philosophical attention – in particular, to…