Call for Papers: Fun and Games 2012- The 4th International Conference on Fun and Games September, 4(Tue)-6(Thur), 2012 Toulouse, France http://FNG2012.org/ IMPORTANT SUBMISSION DATES Tutorials (for organizers, 2 pages): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Workshop proposals (for organizers, 4 pages): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Fun and Food Concepts (for organizers): February 20th, 2012 (5pm CET) Full papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages): March 12th, 2012 (5pm CET) Work-in-progress (2 pages): April 30th, 2012 (5pm CET) Workshop submissions (for participants): (see individual workshops) Demonstrations (1 pages): April 30th, 2012 (5pm CET) Game design competition (5 pages): May 31st, 2012…

EVOGAMES 2012 (part of evo*, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April 2012) evo* on the web: http://evostar.dei.uc.pt/2012/ Extended (final) submission deadline: 7 December 2011 Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games Games, and especially video games, are now a major part of the finance and software industries, and an important field for cultural expression. They also provide an excellent testbed for and application of a wide range of computational intelligence methods including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and temporal difference learning. There has been a rapid growth in research in this area over the last few years. This event focuses on new…

Travel and Imagination [1] Edited by: Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Like so many words associated with tourism, ‘imagination’ is an accepted though somewhat obdurate notion. We accept it because it is, after all, something that is central to our consciousness and perception, operating almost imperceptibly whether we are awake or asleep. But beyond this, imagination also takes up an endlessly complex form because the term is linked to a constellation of other phenomenon: dreams, make-believe, fantasy, memory and remembering, perception, the ‘mind’s eye’, understanding, world-views, learning, story-telling – in all its many…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Methods to Account for Values in Human-Centered Computing held in conjunction with the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012 Workshop website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/ValuesInDesign/ IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission: January 3rd, 2012 Notification: February 10th, 2012 Workshop at CHI: May 5th or 6th, 2012 AIMS AND SCOPE The overarching theme of this workshop focuses on methods to account for human values in information technology design. Participants will examine the current state of the art in methods for accounting for values in human-centered computing; analyze and document the benefits and drawbacks of current practices;…

NAFEMS UK Conference 2012 Engineering Simulation: Realising the Potential http://www.nafems.org/events/nafems/2012/ukconf12/ Simulation has the potential to transform a company’s engineering processes – providing unprecedented insight into product performance and inspiring innovation by allowing novel concepts to be explored and evaluated. NAFEMS, the independent association for the engineering analysis community, is holding its UK conference during 30-31 May 2012 with the primary aim of helping attendees realise the full potential of their engineering simulation and analysis. The 2012 NAFEMS UK Conference will explore the extent to which this potential has now been realised, and what more can be achieved.

Int’l Symposium on “Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies”, a CNRS project named “EpistHOMME+” 28 March 2012, Laval FRANCE Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one’s personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in the name of progress people…

Call for Workshop Proposals The Pervasive Health 2012 Workshop Organizing Committee invites proposals for the workshop program of the 6th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest within pervasive computing related to health-specific applications. Workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views. Important Workshop Dates December 9, 2011 (23:59 EST): Workshop proposals deadline December 23, 2011: Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop December 38, 2011: Workshop calls online (by the organizers)…

HCI 2012 Birmingham People and Computers XXVI You are invited to participate in HCI 2012, which will be held in the UK’s second city, Birmingham. Some History HCI 2012 is the 26th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS, the BCS Interaction SG. Since its establishment in 1985, the conference has become the leading annual HCI conference in Europe. As well as being a leading venue for dissemination, the conference has a history of nurturing research careers- many of the leading HCI researchers published their early papers here and it is recognised for helping students and new…

Call for Papers (for the full text of this call please see: http://www.itu.dk/people/irsh/THCIcfp.pdf) A special issue of Human-Computer Interaction “Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions Considered Globally” Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2011 Special issue editors: Irina Shklovski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Janet Vertesi Princeton University, USA Silvia Lindtner University of California, Irvine, USA Lucy Suchman Lancaster University, UK HCI researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the role of technology in relation to global processes. ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), emerging markets, new forms of mobility, and the internationalization of organizations dominate contemporary conversations about information and…

Call for papers MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 5 Helsinki, 14-16 June 2012 The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences is delighted to host the 5th Models and Simulations (MS5) conference in Helsinki. Conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/ms5 The previous MS meetings have taken place in Paris, Tilburg, Charlottesville, and Toronto. As before, the overall theme of the conference will be the philosophical and methodological issues of simulations and models, broadly construed. Papers on any aspect of this theme are welcome from both philosophers and practicing scientists. One focus of the 5th meeting will be on models and simulations…

ECAI 2012 — Call For Papers www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012 ECAI is the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI); it is the premier forum for presenting Artificial Intelligence results in Europe. The twentieth conference in this series, ECAI 2012, will take place in Montpellier (France), August 27-31. ECAI 2012 will gather researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence from all over the world; they will present the latest results and identify new trends and challenges in all subfields of Artificial Intelligence as well as demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced Artificial Intelligence technology.…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: December 31, 2011 Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories Edited by:  Nuno Norte Pinto, University of Coimbra, Portugal José António Tenedório, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal  António Pais Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal  Josep Roca, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain  Introduction This book aims to present the state-of-the-art of the development and application of all kinds of new virtual technologies based on the use of hardware and software developed to represent and simulate virtual environments, built spaces, and buildings, and the interactions of these new technological solutions with…