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…

First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2010) (Co-Sponsored by ACM IIIT Allahabad Professional Chapter & NI ACM SIGCHI) Organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India December 28-30, 2010 Allahabad, India Important Dates: Submission of papers (all categories) : September 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance : October 10, 2010 Camera-ready manuscripts due : October 30, 2010 Conference Workshop : December 27, 2010 Early Bird Registration deadline : October 25, 2010 For any further information regarding conference visit http://iitm.iiita.ac.in/ or email us at iitm@iiita.ac.in ACM Conferences Calendar Link of IITM 2010: http://campus.acm.org/public/chapters_conf_cal/index.cfm?ConfId=81788 Designing interactive systems is…

I would like to inform you that IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) announced a new topic, “Haptic Services in Vehicles”. You are invited to submit your papers to “Mobile Applications and Services” track by September 30. Potential haptics related topics are solicited in, but are not limited to the following categories: In-vehicle haptic data communication networks Wireless haptic data communication in vehicular networks In-vehicle multimedia systems In-car haptic user interfaces Haptic-enabled mobile robots Haptic-enabled unmanned vehicles: UGV, UAV, etc. Haptic-enabled driving simulators Haptic-enabled virtual vehicle design and assembly In-vehicle human factors: human haptic perception & performance Active safety through haptic…

Interactive Stories for Health Interventions October 31st, 2010, Edinburgh UK Half-day Workshop (9:30am -12:30pm) at ICIDS 2010 (the third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) November 1st – 3rd 2010 Organizers: Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, Lynn Miller Call for Participation Increasingly interactive stories are used as tools in developing health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Interactive stories provide unique power to teach and change people’s behaviors as they allow the user to experience and learn in context. Further, the story, and intervention messages, can be tailored based on user profiles and the user’s patterns of interaction within the intervention. Research…

First Call for Papers ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems http://www.eics2011.org/ Pisa, Italy | June 13-16, 2011 EICS 2011 is the third international conference devoted to the engineering of interactive computing systems. EICS focuses on methods, techniques, and the tools that support them, for designing and developing interactive systems. It brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities. Systems of interest include traditional as well as non-traditional interactive systems, development processes (e.g. agile software development), design tools (e.g.…

CAADRIA 2011 Call for Papers – Abstract Due September 7, 2010 Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending The 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Dates: April 27-29, 2011 Host: School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia Submission guidelines and other information: http://www.caadria2011.org/ Contemporary advances in design are shaped by computational design methods, strategies and technologies, regardless of whether these advances are manifested in the design and construction of a building, in related theory and analysis, or in the ways in which future designers and scholars are educated. Architectural computation in the…

The 3D Experience 3D Entertainment and Technology Festival September 24-26, 2010 Times Square, New York http://the3dexperience.org/ Experience 3D Digital Cinema, Home Entertainment & More… At the Center of the Most Exciting City on the Planet! Our Annual Event: For 3 days, top innovators, industry leaders and filmmakers will gather in Times Square to showcase the latest advances in 3D for 2010 and beyond. From Hollywood blockbuster 3D screenings to in-home entertainment, professionals, 3D fans and the general public will be brought into the 3rd dimension like they’ve never been before.…

Call for Papers ENVIRONMENT 2.0 Leonardo – Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Guest Editor: Drew Hemment Leonardo calls for papers documenting cross-disciplinary thinking on participatory observation and mapping of the environment, climate and biodiversity; environmental data systems and services; and environmental sustainability in a networked society. Leonardo is soliciting texts that document the works of artists, researchers and scholars involved in the exploration of citizens as environmental data gatherers, and new approaches to environmental data systems and environmental sustainability. There is no deadline for this call – submissions may be made at any time. Themes…

“Video Game Worlds” panel Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference New Orleans, LA March 10-13, 2011 Submissions are still welcome for a panel on the subject of video game worlds, so be held at the 2011 SMCS conference in New Orleans, LA. Please submit your proposal as soon as possible. This panel invites submissions addressing the history, analysis, and theory of video game worlds. Where do these worlds fit into the array of virtual and imaginary worlds presented by other media, other fictions, and other kinds of play? How can we characterize video game worlds as sites of spatiotemporal…

Siggraph 2011, Vancouver (7-11 August 2011) – Game Papers CFP Submissions due 18 Janurary 2011, 22:00 UTC/GMT Full details about the conference and information about submissions at http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/for_submitters/game-papers Researchers are encouraged to submit Game Papers in which they present original work focusing on the design and experience of computer game play. Creative communities that design and develop commercial and non-commercial video games, as well as academic scholars studying video games, game play, human-computer interaction, and game culture are welcome to submit rigorous innovative work in the field. Game Papers explore key issues in video games, inform and substantively advance our…

5th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010 Submission DEADLINE for Posters, Demos, Tutorials & Doctoral Symposium: September 6th, 2010 ITS 2010 November 7-10, 2010 Saarbrücken, Germany http://www.its2010.org/ http://precisionconference.com/~tabletop/ The ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010  (ITS) is a premiere venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface technologies. As a new community, we embrace the growth of the discipline in a wide variety of areas, including innovations in ITS hardware, software, design, and projects expanding our understanding of design considerations of ITS technologies and of…