Call for Papers: Ethnographic Fiction & Speculative Design Workshop http://www.designculturelab.org/ethnographic-fiction-speculative-design-workshop-cfp/ Ethnographic Fiction and Speculative Design is a full-day workshop at the 5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies–C&T 2011, in Brisbane, Australia, 29 June-2 July, 2011. Position papers are due 1 April, 2011. Please email submissions to [email protected]. Introduction While pervasive technology development and implementation proceed apace, the potential social and cultural implications – including the ways in which end user communities can be active participants in these processes – remain underexplored. The inherent invisibility of the technological infrastructure required to support these emerging networks makes it difficult to identify…

“I Know Where I’m Going” Remote Access to World Heritage Sites from St Kilda to Uluru 23-24 November 2011- Edinburgh (UK) CALL FOR PAPERS At a time of economic crisis and environmental threat, countries everywhere are addressing the dual challenge of protecting and preserving their natural and cultural heritage while maximizing its economic value. This two-day international conference will focus on the potential of new technologies to create high-quality, remote-access, visitor experiences for World Heritage Sites and other sites of cultural, historical and natural significance where remote access is desirable or necessary. The conference has three main aims: To showcase…

This is a general message that the Learning in Higher Education (LIHE) site is open for submission of abstracts for the book tentatively titled – TRANSFORMING UNIVERSITY TEACHING INTO LEARNING VIA SIMULATIONS AND GAMES – to be published in conjunction with the International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education (LIHE) The call for contributions is at http://lihe.wordpress.com/future-events/lihe11-australia/symposium-call/ You are invited to submit your abstracts for the conference process and publication. The schedule leading to the publication date is set out below and details on what to include in your proposal are on the web site. The…

IACAP 2011 International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) First International Conference of IACAP: Celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences Aarhus University (Denmark) – July 4-6, 2011 Conference Theme, “The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?” In the West, philosophical attention to computation and computational devices is at least as old as Leibniz. But since the early 1940s, electronic computers have evolved from a few machines filling several rooms to widely diffused – indeed, ubiquitous – devices, ranging from networked desktops, laptops, smartphones and “the internet of things.” Along the way, initial philosophical attention – in particular, to…

Call for Papers: A Sonic Geography: Rethinking Auditory Spatial Practice Interference: A Journal Of Audio Culture An online peer-reviewed journal in association with Gradcam and the CTVR, Trinity College Dublin http://www.interferencejournal.com/ There now exists a significant body of work exploring the confluence of spatial and sonic practices, with recent literature acknowledging the role of sound in the ongoing production, regulation and conceptual representation of space. Aural architecture, soundscaping and sonic sculpture abound, as do accounts of sonic strategies for the delineation of territory, the performance of identity, and the management of difference within physical, and more recently, mobile, virtual, and…

Cognitive Science & the Moving Image Wednesday 30th March 2011  2:00 – 4:30 pm followed by a wine reception Red Room, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Professor Murray Smith, The University of Kent Professor Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University of London Dr. Tim Smith, Birkbeck, University of London CCW Graduate School is delighted to present three leading scholars, representing different perspectives and disciplines, who are now turning to science to expand the territory of film history and theory. They have been working with cognitive scientists, some using the latest brain imaging techniques, in…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Workshop Scientific Theatre (SciT’11) Multidisciplinary Approach to Designing Intelligent Environments In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) Nottingham – UK. 25th-26th of July 2011 http://scientific-theatre.com Background: Technology is becoming increasingly people centric. Intelligent environments, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, sensing and mobile technology etc are all about people (of various backgrounds) interacting with technology. This workshop is an attempt to encourage multidisciplinary approach to designing Intelligent Environments and open up (often sophisticated) research advances in IT to as wide an audience as is possible. To achieve this, the most ancient form of communication,…

A Symposium on Game-Based Learning (GBL) will be organised at Waterford Institute of Technology on 19th – 20th May 2011. The purpose of this symposium is to: Report on the use of GBL in Irish primary, secondary and third-level education Define the roadmap for GBL in Ireland Provide evidence of the effectiveness of GBL to both motivate and learn Identify how GBL can be included and facilitated in Irish instructional settings. Target Audience This symposium will bring together teachers, lecturers, students and researchers, and provide insights from different perspectives such as educational psychology, sociology, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence,…

TaPRA Conference 2011 University of Kingston, UK 7th- 9th September 2011 Theatre & Performance Research Association Performance and New Technologies Working Group Performative interfaces: do machines dream of electric sheep? As a working group interested in the performative interfaces between humans and technologies, we feel that questions about how we interact with machines; the intimacy of that interaction and the immersive nature of these performances have been lost in a maze of theoretical dependency. Rather than looking at the humanity of the interaction, we tend to justify these interfaces through cerebral analyses based on various theories from Deeluze/Guattari’s rhizome to…

Workshop: Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision 26 and 27 March 20011 Caird Room, Department of Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/cspe/events/cognitiveandcross-modaleffectsonvisionworkshop/ Confirmed Speakers: Ophelia Deroy (Philosophy, Paris XII) Charles Spence (Psychology, Oxford) Dustin Stokes (Philosophy, Toronto) Erik van der Burg (Psychology, Amsterdam) Petra Vetter (Psychology, Glasgow) Wayne Wu (Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon) This workshop is jointly organised by Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow) and Athanassios Raftopoulos (Cyprus) under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow and CenSes: Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of…

AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing August 31 – September 3, 2011 Volterra, Italy http://www.avsp2011.org/ The 11th international conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) will be held from August 31 to September 3, 2011, directly following the INTERSPEECH2011 conference. AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, being focused on synergy effects of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences have attracted a lot of researchers in various fields, such as psychologists, computer engineers, neuroscientists, linguists, phoneticians, and robot engineers. The AVSP2011 conference will consist of oral and poster presentations,…

Audio Mostly 2011– “A conference on interaction with sound” in co-operation with ACM – SIGCHI September, 7 – 9 – Coimbra, Portugal http://www.audiomostly.com CALL FOR PAPERS – AUDIO MOSTLY 2011 – 6TH CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION WITH SOUND Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue – holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, create attention and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games and virtual environments, the ability to interact through and with sound are still today underused. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by…