CFP: History and heritage in games and virtual worlds: Special Issue of Games and Culture July 27, 2010 Title: History and heritage in games and virtual worlds: Special Issue of Games and Culture (SAGE). The virtual worlds of modern games provide a unique way for us to interact with our memories, interpretations, beliefs, and traditions. This can be the digital simulation and interpretation cultural heritage in the real world, or the equally real social legacies of online communities. We invite you to tackle the complex issues of making these histories come alive in this special issue of Games and Culture.…

The website of European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work can be found at http://www.ecscw2011.org/ ECSCW 2011 – The Twelfth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW 2011 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into cooperation in real world settings, designs of innovative technologies to support collaboration, and studies dealing with the appropriation of these technologies. Conceptual work related to theory building is encouraged, as well. ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of life. Submissions should address the unfolding practices of everyday work and…

INPUT_OUTPUT Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments SPONSORED BY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | TYLER SCHOOL OF ART | ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT The symposium and exhibition are part of the annual Design Philadelphia Festival. Symposium: Oct. 8 Exhibition: Oct. 6-19 Tyler School of Art, Main Campus “INPUT_OUTPUT: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments” will address the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experienced within architecture and related disciplines. The emergence of new and ultra-performing materials, parametric design and modeling tools, integrated design technologies, and developing digital fabrication and prototyping techniques establish an interconnected…

Registration opens for ICIDS 2010 Early registration deadline Sept 7th 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 01-03 November 2010, Edinburgh, UK http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010 ICIDS is the premier international event on Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), showcasing work that seeks to redefine the experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer-generated story worlds in interactive entertainment, computer games, education, therapy and other interactive digital applications.…

Liverpool Biennial 2010: Touched Conference Saturday 18 September 2010 from 11.00 – 17.00 at LJMU Art & Design Academy, Liverpool The conference is part of Touched, the International exhibition for Liverpool Biennial 2010, which opens on 18 September and runs until 28 November. Speakers include: Tehching Hsieh, artist; Alfonso Lingis, philosopher and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus of Penn State University; Coco Fusco, artist, writer and Chair of the Fine Art Department at Parsons/The New School for Design.; Tania Bruguera, artist; Mark Waugh, Director of Afoundation and Co-director of the International Curators Forum (ICF); Prof. Steven Connor, writer, critic, broadcaster and…

EuroITV2011 – “Ubiquitous TV” 9th European Interactive TV Conference June 29th to July 1st 2011 – Lisbon, Portugal http://www.euroitv2011.org/ 1st Call for Papers EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. The organizing committee invites you to submit original, high quality papers addressing the special theme and topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. The main conference proceedings will be published by…

2010 International Conference on Distance Learning and Education – ICDLE 2010 ICDLE 2010 will be held during Oct 3-5, 2010 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. Conference web site: http://www.icdle.org/ Deadline for Paper Submission (Full Paper):  July 30, 2010 The 2010 International Conference on Distance Learning and Education (ICDLE 2010) is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Distance Learning and Education. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. …

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of The Information Society TITLE: The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data LINK TO FULL CALL: http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/readers/CFP_DeathAfterlifeImmortality.pdf GUEST EDITORS: Connor Graham, Martin Gibbs, Dave Kirk, John Phillips SYNOPSIS As emergent information technologies increasingly pervade people’s lives, they are also increasingly a part of their dying and their deaths. Digital fragments such as text messages, Web pages, social networking sites, blog comments and so on populate an identity that promises to linger through these shards of ourselves as never before. However, as bodies decay and decompose after death, so do the digital fragments of…

Call For Papers: Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ) The Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first peer-reviewed publication devoted to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. It is published twice a year in print by Intellect Books in collaboration with the University of the Arts London. MIRAJ offers a widely distributed international forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks. The editors invite contributions from art historians and critics, film and media scholars, curators, and, not least, practitioners. We seek pieces that offer theories of the present moment but…

User Interface Design for Virtual Environments: Challenges and Advances Editors: Dr. Badrul H Khan, McWeadon Education, USA Call for Chapters: Full Chapters Due: August 30, 2010 Introduction In the Information society, the advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has created a digital society and broadened the scope sharing innovations globally. In this globally digital society, people use electronic devices in almost anything they do in their lives: from brushing teeth to driving a car. In the fast moving digital society, people are encountering newer features associated with emerging technologies including (but not limited to): computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication…

Dear colleague, You are invited to present and/or participate in the Group-Awareness in Online Work, Learning & Games Workshop in the HCI 2010 – http://www.hci2010.org/ The 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction – HCI2010 ‘Play is a serious business’. 6th – 10th September – University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114026525289972&ref=ts   Workshops: http://hci2010.abertay.ac.uk/workshops.html Group-Awareness in Online Work, Learning & Games ABSTRACT With the rapid advance of Web 2.0 technologies online group collaboration has become increasingly popular. Groupware applications and technologies are now accessible to all branches of academia and industry with leaders and visionaries embracing them in…

American Telemedicine Association (ATA) ATA 2011 Call for Presentations ATA 2011 will be the largest international meeting and exposition focusing exclusively on telemedicine, telehealth & remote medical technologies. If you use telecommunications solutions for healthcare, this is the single most important event of the year! Recognized throughout the world as the primary forum for the telemedicine industry, ATA’s peer-reviewed educational program sets the standard for continuing medical education on the topics of telemedicine and telehealth. We invite you to submit an abstract to be considered for inclusion in the ATA 2011 Sixteenth Annual International Meeting and Exposition educational program. Abstracts…