CALL FOR CHAPTERS Book on Pervasive Advertising To appear in Springer HCI Series Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: July 31, 2010 We invite you to submit chapters for the upcoming book on Pervasive Advertising. The book aims at providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in the field for researchers in HCI, Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Marketing, as well as management and practitioners in advertising industries. We invite chapters on technological, strategic and ethnographic issues of Pervasive Advertising. Possible topics include: New technology in mobile and digital signage advertising Audience Measurement Context Management and Personalization for Pervasive Advertising HCI, Interfaces and Interaction…

CALL FOR PAPERS **New deadline: 18 July 2010** Promoting and Supporting Healthy Living By Design A One Day Workshop at the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference University of Abertay, Dundee, UK – Monday 6 September 2010 Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer are currently the major causes of premature deaths worldwide. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that nearly three in four deaths will be caused by chronic diseases by the year 2030. Most of these deaths are linked to a small group of risk factors that are associated with lifestyle issues including poor…

Program announcement and early registration now open for: The 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Communication (ICIC 2010) August 19-20, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark ** Early registration (before 31-July) reduced to USD 325 (USD 200 for students) ** Registration: http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=840074 Program: http://langrid.nict.go.jp/icic2010/program.html Conference website: http://langrid.nict.go.jp/icic2010/index.html The International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC) was held in 2007 and in 2009 as the International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC). Because of the success of these workshops and the increasing interest in intercultural collaboration, its status was elevated to a conference for 2010. The main theme of this conference is intercultural collaboration, from both…

Special Issue of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL): Learning in 3D Journal Aims IJTEL fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on technology enhanced learning (TEL) approaches at the individual, organisational, national and global levels. Its key objective is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in, researching and contributing to the technology enhanced learning episteme. For this reason, IJTEL delivers research articles, position papers, surveys and case studies aiming: To provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology enhanced learning research issues To promote the international collaboration and exchange of ideas and know how…

Call for Papers International Journal of Arts and Technology: Whole Body Interaction: Applications, case studies, evaluations and critical theory Guest editors David England, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, d.england@ljmu.ac.uk Nick Bryan-Kinns, Queen Mary University, London, UK, nickbk@dcs.qmul.ac.uk The field of Whole Body Interaction has recently emerged to take a more holistic view of Human Computer Interaction. It is a research, philosophical and engineering approach to combining several aspects of human computer interaction. Whole Body Interaction encompasses Physical Interaction Physiological state – pulse, breathing, skin conductivity All human senses – including balance, propriocentric sense Cognitive Interaction Emotional context Social Context The…

Call For Papers, Videos, Tutorials/Workshops 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011) http://hri2011.net March 6-9, 2011, Lausanne Switzerland HRI 2011 is the 6th Annual Conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research. Scientists from across the world submit their bestwork and attend HRI to hear the latest theories, data, and videos from the world’s best HRI researchers. Each year, the HRI conference highlights a particular area. The theme of HRI 2011 is Real World HRI. This theme is intended to highlight HRI in which basic scientific research is further tested in real world settings or applied to questions…

5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness (UbiHealth 2010) in conjunction with 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2010) Copenhagen, Denmark, 26th September 2010 http://www.create-net.org/ubint/ubihealth Authors of papers of high merit will be invited to submit Full Papers to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal, Special Issue on “Mental Health and the Impact of Ubiquitous Technologies”. Submission deadline: 15th July 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS This workshop continues the line of UbiHealth workshops organized at the Ubicomp conference in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Up till now, the majority of research within Ubiquitous Healthcare (UbiHealth) has focused on ubiquitous…

Gaming and Gameness: Relating Avatars, Bodies, Perceptions, Actions, Virtualities, and Materialities in Computer Games Date: 22-24 November 2010 Course Venue: The scenic Sandbjerg Gods Conference Centre, Denmark: http://www.sandbjerg.dk/eng/welcome.aspx Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Associate Professor Espen Aarseth, Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Associate Professor Christian Ulrik Andersen, Department of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark Ph.D. Fellow Stine Ejsing Dunn, Center for Playware, The Danish School of Education, Denmark Professor Charles Ess, Guest Professor at Department of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark Senior Lecturer Dr Graeme Kirkpatrick, School of Social Sciences, University…

1st Call for Papers Special issue on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) http://tiis.acm.org/ A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, and human-centered multimodal interfaces is the ability to infer the affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate, timely output during sustained social interactions. Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the interaction or providing suitable empathic responses through the display of facial expressions, gestures, or generation of speech. This special issue will cover computational techniques for the recognition and interpretation of human multimodal verbal and non-verbal behavior,…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Enabling User Experience with future Interactive Learning Systems (UXFUL 2010) http://sgraf.athabascau.ca/UXFUL2010 held in conjunction with USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure 4 & 5 November 2010 Klagenfurt, Austria http://usab-symposium.uni-klu.ac.at/ *** Extended Deadline: July 6, 2010 *** Motivation Standard Information Systems for learning purposes have matured, technology is stable and masses of information can be made available to the learner. Most educational institutions are already using such learning systems either in a blended or purely online form for delivering parts of courses or fully online courses to their students. Besides such…

CALL FOR PAPERS Summer School ENGAGE (Immersive and Engaging Interaction with VH on Internet) September 13 – September 15, 2010 Hotel Alex, Zermatt, Switzerland Organized by MIRALab, University of Geneva and VRLab- EPFL, Switzerland Supported by CUSO, 3DLife project, and CyberEmotions project http://www.cuso.ch/3e-cycle/informatique/ http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/  http://www.cyberemotions.eu/ Aims and Scope Internet is evolving in a way that the concept of personalized intelligent media is coming to the forefront. Immersive virtual environments inhabited by socially intelligent and believable virtual characters and avatars will soon be part of the future media internet for engaging social and sensory interaction experiences. These characters should sense the…

The Immersive Internet – The Next Big Thing RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – As 3D, virtual reality and web technology continue to evolve and as Internet speeds climb ever faster at home, at work and through wireless, a new Internet beckons – The “Immersive Internet.” How can you and your business take advantage of opportunities created by virtual worlds, real-time collaboration, and the life-like experience of 3D? Internationally published and recognized expert in all things 3D, Dr. Tony O’Driscoll will discuss and demonstrate the potential of the Immersive Internet at Local Tech Wire’s Executive Exchange event on July 28.…