Collaborating Now  Collaborating Now would like to invite essays from writers in arts-related disciplines for a book focused on the state of contemporary collaborative practices in the arts. The Collaborating Now Project began in 2009 with an international collaborative artwork project in which artists in New Zealand and around the world created a collaborative artwork (facilitated by Gregory Sholette) and discussed their ideas about collaborative art. Authors are invited to investigate why and how contemporary artistic practices and theories have recently emerged as ways of engaging in and thinking about collaborative art, why there is a sudden, renewed interest in…

Call for Papers The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image announces its call for proposals for the 2011 conference, June 8-11, 2011, in Budapest, Hungary. The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological 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 and neural processing relate to spectators affective responses, to viewers’ comprehension of film narratives, and to the saliency of particular formal features of films.…

Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects at IUI 2011 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA February 13th 2011 http://www.smart-objects.org/ Deadline for paper submissions: 12 November, 2010 THEME There is this undeniable ongoing trend to put computing capabilities into everyday objects and places. Well known examples range from smart kitchen appliances and objects (smart coffee machines, smart knifes and cutting boards) up to smart meeting rooms and even city-wide infrastructures. These smart objects are fully functional on their own, but added value is obtained through communication and distributed reasoning. While other venues have focused on the many technical challenges of implementing…

Modeling Human Communication Dynamics NIPS Workshop, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Friday, December 10th, 2010 http://projects.ict.usc.edu/hcd2010/ Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2010 Face-to-face communication is a highly interactive process in which the participants mutually exchange and interpret verbal and nonverbal messages. Both the interpersonal dynamics and the dynamic interactions among an individual’s perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes are swift and complex. How people accomplish these feats of coordination is a question of great scientific interest. Models of human communication dynamics also have much potential practical value, for applications including the understanding of communications problems such as autism and the creation of socially…

Call for Papers 13 October 2010: Devices that Alter Perception (DAP 2010) http://devices-alter.me/10/ Sensors, actuators, implants, wearable computers, and neural interfaces can do more than simply observe our bodies: these devices can also alter and manipulate our perceptions. This workshop will promote the design and critique of systems whose explicit purpose is to alter human percepts. Participants will be asked to present abstracts, images, videos and demonstrations that focus on devices that shape perceptual phenomena. The goals of the workshop are to: (1) document an emerging field of device design; (2) facilitate the development of these devices by sharing designs;…

23-24 June 2011: EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep – Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication International Conference 2011 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN! EKSIG 2011 will address the theme of “SkinDeep – Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication”. The conference will be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Organisers: Kerstin Mey, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes, Linden Reilly Venue: University for the Creative Arts, UK Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org Contact: info@experientialknowledge.org CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for the theme…

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) Call for papers Special Issue on: “Haptic and Audio-Visual Stimuli: Enhancing Experiences and Interaction” Guest Editors: Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Esko Dijk, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Multimodal stimulation is capable of creating strong effects on users, because the effects of the various stimuli can reinforce each other. This form of stimulation can be used to enhance entertainment experiences, as well as well-being and relaxation experiences. The causes of these strong effects and the exact relation to intensity, spatial distribution and timing of the stimuli are the…

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS IN PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING: SPECIAL ISSUE ON EXTREME NAVIGATION Guest editors: David McGookin (University of Glasgow) and Charlotte Magnusson (University of Lund) SYNOPSIS Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are all examples of activities…

1st Call for Papers Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence (WACI 2011) IEEE 2011 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence April 11 – 15, 2011 Paris, France http://www.ieee-ssci.org/2011/waci-2011 Full paper submission due: October 31, 2010 Taking into account emotions (or more generally affects) is currently widely explored to improve the quality of human-machine interaction and to ease the communication with users or potential customers. Affective or emotional computing covers a wide range of issues, challenges and approaches, both for emotion simulation (in particular for new generations of intelligent agents), emotion elicitation, expression and recognition. The latter is declined along several types of…

Academic Exchange Quarterly Summer 2011, Volume 15, Issue 2 Expanded issue up to 400+ pages. Articles on various topics plus the following special sections. Games and simulations in education Feature Editor: Maria Mavrommati, PhD candidate- Instructor, Department of Applied Informatics University of Macedonia, Greece Email: mmavrom@uom.gr or mariamavrommath@gmail.com Focus: The proposed issue will focus on the use of games and simulations in education, secondary and tertiary. Specific interest on theoretical and practical research on the field, its purposes, functions, potentials and limitations.…

9th International Conference Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2010) In-cooperation with ACM SIGMM December 1-3 2010, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.mum2010.org GENERAL INFORMATION MUM 2010 is a renowned annual international conference, which provides a forum for presenting the latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The single-track conference is very competitive (acceptance rate of 25% in 2009) and brings together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. Accepted papers will be published in the MUM 2010 Conference Proceedings and ACM Digital Library. Accepted demos and posters will also be included in…

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (SW/TX PCA/ACA) Joint Conference April 20-23, 2011 San Antonio, TX The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development.  Possible areas include (but are not limited to):  Alternative reality games Archiving and artifactual preservation Competitive/clan gaming Design and development Economic and industrial histories and studies Educational games and their pedagogies Foreign language games and culture Advertising (both in-game and out) Game art/game-based art…