Call for Papers: A Sonic Geography: Rethinking Auditory Spatial Practice Interference: A Journal Of Audio Culture An online peer-reviewed journal in association with Gradcam and the CTVR, Trinity College Dublin http://www.interferencejournal.com/ There now exists a significant body of work exploring the confluence of spatial and sonic practices, with recent literature acknowledging the role of sound in the ongoing production, regulation and conceptual representation of space. Aural architecture, soundscaping and sonic sculpture abound, as do accounts of sonic strategies for the delineation of territory, the performance of identity, and the management of difference within physical, and more recently, mobile, virtual, and…

Cognitive Science & the Moving Image Wednesday 30th March 2011  2:00 – 4:30 pm followed by a wine reception Red Room, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Professor Murray Smith, The University of Kent Professor Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University of London Dr. Tim Smith, Birkbeck, University of London CCW Graduate School is delighted to present three leading scholars, representing different perspectives and disciplines, who are now turning to science to expand the territory of film history and theory. They have been working with cognitive scientists, some using the latest brain imaging techniques, in…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Workshop Scientific Theatre (SciT’11) Multidisciplinary Approach to Designing Intelligent Environments In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) Nottingham – UK. 25th-26th of July 2011 http://scientific-theatre.com Background: Technology is becoming increasingly people centric. Intelligent environments, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, sensing and mobile technology etc are all about people (of various backgrounds) interacting with technology. This workshop is an attempt to encourage multidisciplinary approach to designing Intelligent Environments and open up (often sophisticated) research advances in IT to as wide an audience as is possible. To achieve this, the most ancient form of communication,…

A Symposium on Game-Based Learning (GBL) will be organised at Waterford Institute of Technology on 19th – 20th May 2011. The purpose of this symposium is to: Report on the use of GBL in Irish primary, secondary and third-level education Define the roadmap for GBL in Ireland Provide evidence of the effectiveness of GBL to both motivate and learn Identify how GBL can be included and facilitated in Irish instructional settings. Target Audience This symposium will bring together teachers, lecturers, students and researchers, and provide insights from different perspectives such as educational psychology, sociology, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence,…

TaPRA Conference 2011 University of Kingston, UK 7th- 9th September 2011 Theatre & Performance Research Association Performance and New Technologies Working Group Performative interfaces: do machines dream of electric sheep? As a working group interested in the performative interfaces between humans and technologies, we feel that questions about how we interact with machines; the intimacy of that interaction and the immersive nature of these performances have been lost in a maze of theoretical dependency. Rather than looking at the humanity of the interaction, we tend to justify these interfaces through cerebral analyses based on various theories from Deeluze/Guattari’s rhizome to…

Workshop: Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision 26 and 27 March 20011 Caird Room, Department of Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/cspe/events/cognitiveandcross-modaleffectsonvisionworkshop/ Confirmed Speakers: Ophelia Deroy (Philosophy, Paris XII) Charles Spence (Psychology, Oxford) Dustin Stokes (Philosophy, Toronto) Erik van der Burg (Psychology, Amsterdam) Petra Vetter (Psychology, Glasgow) Wayne Wu (Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon) This workshop is jointly organised by Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow) and Athanassios Raftopoulos (Cyprus) under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow and CenSes: Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of…

AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing August 31 – September 3, 2011 Volterra, Italy http://www.avsp2011.org/ The 11th international conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) will be held from August 31 to September 3, 2011, directly following the INTERSPEECH2011 conference. AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, being focused on synergy effects of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences have attracted a lot of researchers in various fields, such as psychologists, computer engineers, neuroscientists, linguists, phoneticians, and robot engineers. The AVSP2011 conference will consist of oral and poster presentations,…

Audio Mostly 2011– “A conference on interaction with sound” in co-operation with ACM – SIGCHI September, 7 – 9 – Coimbra, Portugal http://www.audiomostly.com CALL FOR PAPERS – AUDIO MOSTLY 2011 – 6TH CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION WITH SOUND Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue – holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, create attention and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games and virtual environments, the ability to interact through and with sound are still today underused. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by…

Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell’11) July 25th-26th, 2011 Nottingham, UK BACKGROUND AND GOALS: The workshop will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines to contribute to the 3rd year of the International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being (WISHWell 2011). Healthcare environments (within the hospital and the home) are extremely complex and challenging to manage from an IT and IS perspective, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare…

Call for Papers ‘Social Computing’  at the International Conference on Computing and Philosophy see http://www.ia-cap.org/IACAP_2011_CFP.pdf Check also: http://iacap11.wordpress.com/program/track-7-social-computing/ International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) First International Conference of IACAP: celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences; Conference Theme: “The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?” Aarhus University — July 4-6, 2011 Important dates Feb 28, 2011: Abstract submission deadline March 30, 2011: Notification of acceptance NB: Up to six bursaries of $500.00 each will be awarded to authors of the best PhD student or post-doc extended abstract, in support of travel and related costs for attending IACAP?11. Track…

Call for Papers Embodied and Narrative Practices: Clinical and Practical Applications A two-day conference 11-12 July 2011, De Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire For applied and clinical work in a variety of areas like psychopathology and physiotherapy, as well as in educational and various institutional contexts, it is important to have a good understanding of how embodied and social cognitive processes function to support everyday interpersonal relations and social understanding. Recent research on social cognition that draws from developmental psychology, phenomenology, embodied cognition, and narrative theory has been challenging standard approaches to social cognition taken in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy.…

Entertainment Interfaces Track at Mensch & Computer 2011 Chemnitz, Germany, 11.-14. September 2011 http://entertainmentinterfaces.uebermedien.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20th March 2011 ORGANIZERS Maic Masuch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands Joerg Niesenhaus, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany AIMS AND SCOPE The track “Entertainment Interfaces” offers researchers, developers, and designers a platform to present innovative ideas in the area of interactive entertainment with a focus on interaction in games and other entertainment products and to discuss design challenges and the evaluation of entertainment interfaces. The aims of the track are to strengthen the awareness of the relevance of user-friendly…