Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell’11) July 25th-26th, 2011 Nottingham, UK BACKGROUND AND GOALS: The workshop will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines to contribute to the 3rd year of the International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being (WISHWell 2011). Healthcare environments (within the hospital and the home) are extremely complex and challenging to manage from an IT and IS perspective, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare…

Call for Papers ‘Social Computing’  at the International Conference on Computing and Philosophy see http://www.ia-cap.org/IACAP_2011_CFP.pdf Check also: http://iacap11.wordpress.com/program/track-7-social-computing/ International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) First International Conference of IACAP: celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences; Conference Theme: “The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?” Aarhus University — July 4-6, 2011 Important dates Feb 28, 2011: Abstract submission deadline March 30, 2011: Notification of acceptance NB: Up to six bursaries of $500.00 each will be awarded to authors of the best PhD student or post-doc extended abstract, in support of travel and related costs for attending IACAP?11. Track…

Call for Papers Embodied and Narrative Practices: Clinical and Practical Applications A two-day conference 11-12 July 2011, De Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire For applied and clinical work in a variety of areas like psychopathology and physiotherapy, as well as in educational and various institutional contexts, it is important to have a good understanding of how embodied and social cognitive processes function to support everyday interpersonal relations and social understanding. Recent research on social cognition that draws from developmental psychology, phenomenology, embodied cognition, and narrative theory has been challenging standard approaches to social cognition taken in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy.…

Entertainment Interfaces Track at Mensch & Computer 2011 Chemnitz, Germany, 11.-14. September 2011 http://entertainmentinterfaces.uebermedien.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20th March 2011 ORGANIZERS Maic Masuch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands Joerg Niesenhaus, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany AIMS AND SCOPE The track “Entertainment Interfaces” offers researchers, developers, and designers a platform to present innovative ideas in the area of interactive entertainment with a focus on interaction in games and other entertainment products and to discuss design challenges and the evaluation of entertainment interfaces. The aims of the track are to strengthen the awareness of the relevance of user-friendly…

Workshop on Cultures in Game/worlds Call for Participation at the Cultural Studies Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois 24th-26th March Location: Building S, Room 1306 Hour: March 26th, 9 am and later if scheduling allows RSVP March 5, 2011 We call the virtual environments that constitute the topic of this workshop “game/worlds.” Game/worlds are 3d virtual environments developed for play and other entertainment, social interaction, cultural exploration, and virtual design/exchange. These worlds have captured the attention of researchers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of game/worlds as environments for cultural studies…

“Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011: Emerging Experiences” Hosted by the UL Interaction Design Centre and the Irish Museums Association, with the support of IxDA Limerick University of Limerick, Ireland May 26-27, 2011 http://www.idc.ul.ie/techmuseums11 New Deadline for paper submissions: 20th of February Themes of the Conference in 2005 “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums” brought together a group of academics and practitioners discussing novel ways of conceptualizing the museum experience in light of the presence of interactive technologies. The second edition of this conference on the theme of “Emerging Experience” will further the discussion on novel approaches for understanding people¹s experiences in museums…

Perceiving Others’ Minds Friday 1st July 2010 Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building University of Manchester M13 9PL http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/philosophy/events/pom/ Speakers: Peter Goldie (University of Manchester) Rowland Stout (University College Dublin) Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Anil Gomes (Birkbeck College, London) Will McNeill (University of York) Attendence is free but please register by e-mailing Joel Smith. The event is funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. We know a lot about each others’ mental lives. There’s a question about how we know what we do. There’s no doubt that perception plays a role in securing us some of this knowledge. It is often by…

The 7th International Designs on eLearning Conference DeL 2011: Creative learning spaces of the future Aalto University September 13 -16 2011 http://www.designsonelearning.net/conferences/face_to_face/sept2011/del_sept2011.htm Aalto University is a new multidisciplinary university, where science and art meet technology and business. The University is located in Espoo and Helsinki in Finland. Call for papers The notion of space regains fresh momentum every time we interact with the world around us. As mobile devices weave into the fabric of everyday life, we are no longer confined to a specific location, time and place in accessing and interacting with communications technologies. Interfaces become more adaptable and…

First Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence (HCIAmI’11) To be held during the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’11) 26 July 2011, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Following the success of HCIAmI’10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010), HCIAmI’11 will provide a forum to explore the concepts and applications of the multi-disciplinary area of human-centric interfaces, modelling, and computing for Ambient Intelligence application design. It will enable the exchange of experiences from around the world concerning the use of technologies which offer unobtrusive, intuitive, or adaptive interfaces. These technologies have a major potential to…

Call for Papers: Creating Second Lives 2011: Crossing Boundaries September 8th & 9th 2011 School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University Conveners: Dr Eben J. Muse and Dr Astrid Ensslin Submission deadline: 30 April 2011 The Creating Second Lives conference is a chance to explore lives lived in virtual worlds, electronic games, MMORPG and other parts of cyberspace. Following Creating Second Lives 2008: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities, the theme of Creating Second Lives 2011 is the blurring of boundaries in the mixed reality of ubiquitous computing and augmented reality. New technologies are moving users into the screen (Microsoft’s Kinect),…

Call for Papers: International Workshop on “Language – Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents: Integrating Vision, Action and Language“ http://sifnos.ilsp.gr/Poeticon/aaai-workshop A Satellite event of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2011), 7-11 August, 2011, San Francisco, USA http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php Scope Endowing artificial agents with language and action abilities has been a quest in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) subfields. A number of AI applications require coupling of language and motoric or visual action (and objects), ranging from language-based human-robot interaction to event recognition. Recent years have witnessed great advances in different disciplines that provide the theoretical and technological framework for an interdisciplinary…

IVA 2011 – International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents GALA 2011 – The Gathering of Lifelike Agents Festival  Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://iva2011.ru.is September 15-17, 2011 Reykjavik, Iceland Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2011 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with…