Beyond Sports vs. Games Workshop @ ITU Copenhagen Friday, February 17, 2012 Organizers: T.L. Taylor, Emma Witkowski, Miguel Sicart, and Douglas Wilson of the IT University of Copenhagen. Full details: http://game.itu.dk/index.php/Beyond_Sports_vs._Games_workshop Description: Ten years of game studies have passed with little exploration of sports as a key link in the study of computer gaming. Despite the huge popularity of sports titles, the growth of e-sports, or the general adoption of “sporting attitudes” and practices, not much work has been done to unpack the nature of computer game play as sport. Conversely, forty years of sports studies have produced only limited…

Virtual Worlds III 3-5 July, 2012, Paris, France http://www.virtual-worlds.net/vw2012/ Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce and call for papers for the Third International Conference on Virtual Worlds (VW’2012) which will be held from July 3 to 5, 2012 in Paris (La Défense). Background A Virtual World can be defined as a computer-simulated environment with its own physical and biological laws, populated by dynamic interacting entities such as artificial creatures and human avatars. Whereas Virtual Reality largely focuses on the design of 3D immersive spaces, and Artificial Life on the modeling and study of life-like systems, Virtual Worlds embrace both…

Call for Papers The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics Special Issue on Virtual Worlds: Where Image Processing meets Computer Graphics http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/3DLife/activities/special-issues/cfpvw/ The Visual Computer is dedicated to reporting on the state-of-the-art of research in the field of graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality. This special issue in the Visual Computer aims at presenting a representative sample of innovative research, methods and techniques towards the creation of realistic virtual humans. The main goal is to achieve horizontal integration by bringing together the typically disparate research communities working on 3D image processing, computer graphics, human computer interaction and human factors,…

HSI-2012 5th International Conference on Human System Interactions 6-8 June 2012, Perth, Australia http://hsi2012.debii.edu.au/ OVERVIEW: HSI conference series has become the most important international conference in the field of Human System Interactions, human system science and engineering, human factors in large complex systems, human space computing and cyber-physical systems, human environment interactions, and social-technical systems. HSI 2012 is technically sponsored by IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics and IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Human Factors. This international conference in Human System Interactions will be held in Perth, Western Australia from 6 to 8 June, 2012. The conference…

JANET Videoconferencing User Group Event Ravensbourne Greenwich Peninsula London If you use videoconferencing in an educational context, for example in a school, college, university or museum, please come along to our FREE event and: Explore a wide range of teaching content Meet suppliers to discuss your requirements Discover creative uses for videoconferencing Keep updated on JANET Videoconferencing Explore the latest in videoconferencing technology To register and find out more, please visit: http://www.ja.net/services/events/2011/vcuser/details.html VIDEOCONFERENCING AWARDS Inspire others by your use of videoconferencing If you have an interesting or creative use of videoconferencing that you would like to share, then why not…

Call for Papers Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0 http://glsconference.org/ June 13-15, 2012 Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 to be held June 13-15, 2012, with preconference activities on June 12 including the GLS Educators Symposium and the inaugural year of the GLS Doctoral Consortium at the Memorial Union on campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its eighth year, this grassroots “indie” event is evolving to include more innovative content formats and new programming. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations…

Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2012 Tuesday 10th July – Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA http://www.eva-london.org/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 22nd January 2012 *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 22nd January 2012

UMAP 2012 — 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION Montreal, Canada, 16-20 July, 2012 http://www.umap2012.org/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The conference will take place at the UQAM university campus, situated in the very heart of the arts and…

PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance Edinburgh, 17-19 April 2012 Following on from two highly successful cross-disciplinary conferences in Ghent and Paris we are very happy to invite submissions for the above event. IMPORTANT DATES 05 December 2011: Submission deadline 19 December 2011: Review allocation to reviewers 09 January 2012: Review upload deadline 14 January 2012: Authors informed 17-19 April 2012: Conference CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk/ INVITED SPEAKERS Larry Maloney, Dept. Psychology, New York University, USA. Françoise Viénot, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Mike Chantler, Julie Harris, Mike Pointer SCOPE Originally focused on the perception of texture…

i-Docs 2012 : Call for Participation http://i-docs.org/ Following the success of i-Docs 2011, we are delighted to invite your participation in i-Docs 2012, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi on behalf of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol (http://dcrc.org.uk) The event will be held at the Watershed Media Centre in central Bristol on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23th of March 2012.

PERCOM 2012 — CALL FOR DEMOS The IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference, entering its tenth year, is a premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. The PerCom Demo Session offers high-quality demonstrations of all things pervasive from academia and industry. Demos demonstrating working  systems, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to PerCom are welcome. Demos from industrial researchers as well as demos from academia with a significant relevance to industry are particularly encouraged. A “Best Demo Award” will be  presented based on research value, originality, and presentation.

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012 Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 22-26, 2012 First Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. Multimodal technologies are fundamentally changing the ways people interact with each other and with computers. Multimodal systems – recognizing language and gesture exchanged among people or as input…