Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, İstanbul Technical University and the Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University in İstanbul, Turkey on May 25-29, 2011. http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com/ Keynote Speakers: Ian Hodder (Stanford University) Richard Handler (University of Virginia) Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University) Charles Stewart (University College London) We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory, materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We invite papers that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites, monuments and objects at…

Dear Colleague, The EuroMov center at Montpellier-1 University in the south of France organizes a special conference in December 2011: SKILLS is the international conference of the SKILLS European Project (IST, Multimodal Interfaces, 2007-2011). It addresses fundamental and translational issues related to the acquisition, storage, maintenance and transfer of human skills using multimodal technologies such as virtual and augmented realities, human-machine interfaces, interaction design, and robotic systems. SKILLS aims at introducing a novel approach to technology-assisted skill acquisition or rehabilitation based on enactive and direct interaction between learner and technology. Perception-action and cognitive accelerators embedded in specific training protocols are…

October 21, 2010 News Release WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The role of gender in technology, especially robots, will be highlighted during a one-day symposium, art exhibition and film screening at Purdue University. “Robots and Representation: Emerging Issues in Gender, Technology, Design and Culture” is Nov. 5 in the Discovery Learning Research Center. “As engineering and technological advancements make humanoid robots in our everyday lives a reality, rather than science fiction, we want to better understand the role that gender plays in the design of actual robots,” said Shannon C. McMullen, an assistant professor of visual and performing arts and one…

FESTIVAL AS LAB European Cities of Advanced Sound (ECAS) CALL FOR ENTRIES Call for Entries Deadline:  24 October 2010 http://submit.futureeverything.org/ecas-festival-as-lab To launch the new ECAS European festivals network, a Euro 10,000 Commission is available for a new project responding to the theme Festival as Lab. This call for proposals seeks projects which take the form of an experiment, a prototype or a trial in a new type of art object, technology or form of participation. The commissioned project will receive a Euro 5,000 fee, up to Euro 5,000 production costs, plus additional limited staging costs and support. The deadline for…

“Directions of Realism” – Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference – February 18-19, 2011 A graduate conference sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, Baltimore, Maryland Is realism a coherent category, or was it ever? Can realism stake out its identity independent of rival categories like naturalism, idealism and expressionism? This conference seeks to explore the various meanings that the term “realism” takes on within and among disciplines like art history, philosophy, literature and film studies, to understand the issues involved in identifying a work or theory as “realist,” and to map out the various trajectories along which realist conceptions have developed…

SimTecT 2011 Asia-Pacific Simulation and Training Conference and Exhibition Call for Abstracts SimTecT 2011 will be held from Monday 30 May to Thursday 2 June, 2011 at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The major theme of SimTecT 2011 is “Achieving Excellence in Training and Decision Support through Simulation”. Download the SimTecT 2011 Call For Abstracts / Papers Brochure (607 KB PDF). Topics We are seeking papers specifically addressing your experience in delivering positive outcomes through simulation in two main areas: Training Decision Support We want to explore the extent of what is possible, and what enablers and…

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REHABILITATION ROBOTICS, ICORR 2011 June 29 – July 01, 2011 Zurich, Switzerland http://www.icorr2011.com/ Paper and workshop/tutorial submission date: January 14, 2011 ICORR is a biennial international IEEE conference that highlights the latest results from world leading research labs and clinics in the field of rehabilitation robotics. ICORR 2011 will have a special focus on clinical evaluation and promotion of interaction between engineers, clinicians and therapists. The conference will also include patient and caregiver testimonials as well as sessions about standardization of technology, technology transfer, and assessment tools.…

The Image Conference 2010 The 2010 International Conference on the Image will be held at the University of California in Los Angeles, USA from 2-3 December 2010. We invite prospective participants to submit a presentation proposal for one of the following parallel session options: a 30-minute paper; a 60-minute workshop; a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session; or a virtual session. We also encourage innovative presentation formats, such as roundtables, staged dialogues, screenings and performances. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream forms a talking circle, an informal forum for focused discussion of issues…

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS EVA London 2011 Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th July 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london We invite proposals for papers, demonstrations or short performances, workshops or panel discussions. A brief summary only is required for the selection process. We require the summary proposal on not more than one page. The title, authors’ name, affiliation and contact details including email address must be shown at the top of the page. This should be submitted electronically to easychair.org, an automated online submission system. You will be asked to create an account with the system before uploading your summary.…

The 2010 Workshop on Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well (DAI 2010) to be held at the AMI 2010 conference Malaga, Spain, 10 November 2010 Extended Submission Deadline: Sunday 17 October 2010 BACKGROUND The AmI ’10 (one-day) workshop titled “Designing Ambient Interactions – Pervasive Ergonomic Interfaces for Ageing Well”, will address the large number of emerging ergonomic and ambient interfaces that facilitate elderly inclusion and accessibility in the digital society. A large number of such interfaces and related interaction techniques (e.g. computing surfaces, voice/speech interfaces, haptics, multi-modal interfaces, context-aware interfaces, location-based interaction mechanisms) have been recently…

GAMEON ASIA’2011, The 3rd annual Asian Simulation and AI in Games Conference Digipen Institute of Technology, Singapore, March 1-3, 2011 The aim of the 3rd annual Asian GAME-ON Conference (GAME-ON ASIA’2011) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people from ASIA and the rest of the world, in order to exchange ideas on feasible techniques and research findings, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos…

iDocs – Symposium on Interactive Documentary Call for Papers and Presentations In an era of pervasive computing, social media and a networked ‘information society’, digital documentary is embracing new forms. Web-docs, docu-games, photo-reportages, trans-media projects and locative narratives are developing new languages of factual communication that challenge the established linear narrative of documentary. i-Docs is the first lab/symposium to be dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. The symposium will be a day-long event to showcase new projects and to discuss the artistic, economic and political implications of new forms of factual representation. i-Docs is convened by Judith…