The 9th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology September 26-28, 2011 Eindhoven, the Netherlands http://www.envpsych2011.eu The 9th biennial conference on Environmental Psychology aims to bring together people interested in the field of environmental psychology to meet, share experiences, present research, and discuss ideas with regard to the state of the art in environment and behavior research. Key themes of the conference include, but are not limited to, the built and natural environment, conservation behavior and sustainability, environmental perception and decision making, environmental risks and stress, methods and theories in environment-behavior research, proxemics, restoration and health. We encourage, in particular, theoretical and…

Call For Participation CHI 2011 Workshop Gamification: Using Game Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts http://bit.ly/grn-chi2011 “Gamification” is an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-game systems to improve user experience (UX) and user engagement. The recent introduction of ‘gamified’ applications such as Foursquare to large end-user audiences promises new lines of inquiry and rich data sources for the many endeavors in human-computer interaction (HCI) that have explored game-related heuristics, design patterns and dynamics of motivating, positive user experiences – endeavors as various as persuasive technology, funology, incentive centered design, the social psychology of online communities,…

Call for Participation Social Game Studies at CHI 2011 http://bit.ly/socialgames-chi2011 “Social games”, defined as games played and distributed on Social Networks, have become a digital gaming phenomenon. The most popular games boast tens of millions of users each month, using simple mechanics to reach a vast audience apparently under-served by traditional digital games. This enormous success raises important questions about game design, interface design, psychology and the social power of online networks. This one-day workshop will convene academics and practitioners in the HCI community and other fields to share and discuss the state of the art in social games design…

Question Of Human Identity And Consciousness To Be Examined At Public Event The New York Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the Nour Foundation, will present a public event, “To Be or Not to Be: The Self as Illusion” on Tuesday, December 7, at 6:00 pm. Renowned philosophers Thomas Metzinger and Evan Thompson will join cardiologist and expert on near-death experiences, Pim van Lommel, to examine recent developments in neuroscience and philosophy that shed light on whether our conscious experience of a unified Self is reality or illusion. Krista Tippett, creator and host of Public Radio’s Being will serve as…

3rd Global Conference Videogame Cultures Friday 8th July 2011 – Sunday 10th July 2011 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the mass use of computers and videogames for entertainment and focus on the impact of innovative videogame titles and interfaces for human communication and ludic culture. …

Call for Papers GW 2011 – the 9th International Gesture Workshop Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction May 25-27, 2011 ILSP – Institute for Language and Speech Processing /ATHENA RC, Department on Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece Organisers: Eleni Efthimiou, Language Based Assistive Technology Group – Sign Language Technologies Team, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/ATHENA RC Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Department on Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Christian Vogler, Language Based Assistive Technology Group – Sign Language Technologies Team, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/ATHENA RC The International…

Special Issue of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces: INTERACTING WITH EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS GUEST EDITORS: Elisabeth André, Institute of Informatics, Augsburg University, Germany; andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de Marc Cavazza, School of Computing, University of Teesside, UK; m.o.cavazza@tees.ac.uk Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS – LTCI, Télécom ParisTech, France; Catherine.Pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr OVERVIEW: Despite advances in enhancing the expressivity of embodied conversational agents (ECAs), communication with ECAs remains an unnatural experience due to an often encountered asymmetry in communication channels, in which user input modalities tend to be less sophisticated due to the limitation of input processing. This is becoming a limiting factor as virtual actors become an…

Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on EYE GAZE IN INTELLIGENT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION Main submission deadline: December 15th, 2010 If you should have problems to meet this deadline, please let us know. http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE Partly because of the increasing availability of nonintrusive and high-performance eye tracking devices, recent years have seen a growing interest in incorporating human eye gaze in intelligent user interfaces. Eye gaze has been used as a pointing mechanism in direct manipulation interfaces, for example, to assist users with “locked-in syndrome”. It has also been used as a reflection of information…

Call for Papers Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations University of Huddersfield, UK, March 10th-11th 2011 1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010 Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation, sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, ecology A two-day conversational* conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation. In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and…

HCI 2011 – Health, Wealth and Happiness Call for Papers The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. HCI 2011 will be held between the 4th of July and the 8th July, 2011, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The HCI Educators conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011 and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British Computer Society. This year we will be looking for papers to put…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions: 24 January 2011 IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERFACES AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION 2011 Rome, Italy, 24- 26 July 2011 (http://www.ihci-conf.org/) part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2011) Rome, Italy, 20 – 26 July 2011 (http://www.mccsis.org) Conference background and goals The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2011 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology…

NOTHING LEFT TO THE IMAGINATION? Sheffield Hallam University, England 21-24 June 2011 Call for Papers The Department of Media Arts and Communication is hosting a cross-disciplinary conference which considers the implications for viewing, spectatorship and participation arising from recent technological developments in image production; developments which have the capacity to increase detail, precision and fidelity. Nothing Left to the Imagination? encourages participants to explore the ways in which the tendency towards the production of immaculate image quality impacts on the experience of visual media. Does heightened visual experience enhance, compete, or co-exist, with the potential for cognitive pleasure, immersion and…