EuroITV2012 – “Bridging People, Places and Platforms” 10th European Interactive TV Conference 4th – 6th July 2012 – Berlin, Germany http://www.euroitv2012.org/ 1st Call for Papers EuroITV is the leading international conference for media and interaction related to video and television.  This year’s theme of “Bridging People, Places and Platforms” focuses on synergies to support current practice and to explore new perspectives – empowering users to interact with content and each other across localities and across various delivery platforms and media. Researchers and practitioners from all over the world meet to discuss latest advances on media technology, HCI, systems & technology,…

CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS’12) Florida Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL, USA March 26-29, 2012 http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012?q=node/205 Manuscript Submission: November 30, 2011. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). Co-located with the 2012 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW) As part of the 2012 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim’12) (http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012) the 2012 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a…

Call for Participation – A Telepresence Timeline The International Society for Presence Research (ISPR; https://ispr.info) is creating a timeline of important developments related to telepresence. Please participate by submitting your suggestions for items to be included in the timeline by using the short form here – the list of developments will be refined at the ISPR 2011 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland October 26-28 and installed on the ISPR web site after that. We’ve divided telepresence-related developments into the categories of TECHNOLOGY, PUBLICATION, INSTITUTION, CULTURE and IDEA (see the form for details and examples). Note that in addition to developments that have occurred,…

The Third Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2012) Megève, France, March 8th – 9th, 2012 http://www.augmented-human.com/ The third Augmented Human (AH) International Conference will be held in Megève on March 8th and 9th 2012 after being in Tokyo last year. The AH international conference focuses on scientific contributions towards augmenting humans capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As for AH’10 and AH’11, the proceedings of the conference should be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series. As the conference venue is an upper-class ski resort with many art…

Call for participants – short media survey: We’re a team of researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia who would very much appreciate your help with a short survey about your experiences with media. The survey is about a common media experience researchers call telepresence, in which viewers/users feel present in or connected to the people or things in the media. Your responses will help us understand these experiences and, we hope, lead to the creation of more engaging, useful and enjoyable media for us all. The survey only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and you can find it by going…

Call for Paper Proposals The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image announces its call for proposals for the 2012 SCSMI Conference, June 13-16, 2012, at Sarah Lawrence College (June 13-15) and New York University (June 16) in New York. The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neuro-physiological, and evolutionarypsychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media. Members of SCSMI seek to understand, among other things, the ways in which perceptual, psychological and neural processes relate to spectators’ affective responses, to…

Innovative Research in Virtual Worlds 2011 Conference 3rd – 4th November 2011 Coventry University Techno Centre With Gala Dinner at St Mary’s Guildhall Registration is now open! Learning Innovation Applied Research Group is hosting its first two-day conference, Innovative Research in Virtual Worlds, on the 3rd and 4th November 2011. A dissemination event for the Leverhulme Trust funded CURLIEW project, IRVW 2011 provides an opportunity to interact, discuss and collaborate on the topic of innovative research in virtual worlds. IRVW 2011 will focus on a number of virtual world themes, including the CURLIEW project’s three PhD topics – pedagogical design, learner identity and…

Call for Submissions ACM Interactions Magazine The Editors-in-Chief of ACM Interactions magazine invite authors to submit articles and other features for publication. Interactions magazine is the mirror on the human-computer interaction and interaction design communities and beyond. It is the multiplicities of conversations, collaborations, relationships and new discoveries focused on how and why we interact with the designed world of technologies. Interactions magazine carries a special voice that lies between practice and research with an emphasis on making accessible and engaging HCI research in practitioner communities.

Call Announcement Emerging Learning Design 2012 Conference “Innovative Practices for Digital Teaching and Learning” June 1, 2012 Montclair State University http://eld.montclair.edu This one-day event will bring together educators from a wide variety of settings to share and learn about exemplary practices in hybrid, online, and emerging instructional technology pedagogy. [Note the “Immersive Technology” track below] Proposals will be peer reviewed and must be submitted via the online form at http://eld.montclair.edu by December 1st, 2011. For the proposal submission, please provide a title, 50-word description and 250-word abstract.

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 Fourth IASTED African Conference on Modelling and Simulation AfricaMS 2012 Science and Technology – A Platform for Sustainable Development September 3 – 5, 2012 Gaborone, Botswana SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation Technical Committee on Optimization World Modelling and Simulation Forum (WMSF) HOST ORGANIZATION University of Botswana CONFERENCE CHAIR Prof. Francis Ogwu University of Botswana, Botswana LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Prof. George O. Anderson University of Botswana, Botswana LOCATION Located in Southern Africa, Botswana is a country famous for the Kalahari Desert, friendly people, and beautiful…

Conference Announcement / Call for papers 7th Global Conference Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues Thursday 3rd May – Saturday 5th May 2012 Prague, Czech Republic This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the growing adoption of information technologies for inter- human communication. The project will also focus on assessing the continuing impact of emergent cybermedia for human communication and culture. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which cybermedial and technological advances are occurring.