SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS BNAIC 2010: The 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence Luxembourg, October 25-26 2010 http://bnaic2010.uni.lu Organised by: Computer Science and Communication Research Unit (CSC), University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor Introduction BNAIC is an international scientific conference for research in Artificial Intelligence. The BNAIC conferences series was initiated in 1988 by the Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence (later incorporating Belgium and Luxembourg to become the Benelux Association for AI) in order to promote research in AI among Benelux AI researchers, scientists and engineers…

Workshop on Exploring Collaboration with Shareable Interfaces **Update: we’re delighted to be able to announce that Pierre Dillenbourg will be the third keynote speaker at this event** 16th and 17th of September 2010 Call for participation: deadline 28th May 2010 This 2-day workshop at the University of Sussex aims to bring together researchers from across disciplines who are analyzing interaction, talk and gesture, involved in the development of collaboration. It will focus on how shareable interfaces can both support and help us understand processes of collaboration associated with typical and atypical development. It follows from the highly successful workshops on…

CALL FOR PAPERS: MobileHCI Workshop on Using Audio and Haptics for Delivering Spatial Information via Mobile Devices http://www.haptimap.org/events/organized-events/mobilehci.html Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal Submission deadline: May 10, 2010 Orientation and navigation are very important skills for getting along in daily life. The acquisition and use of these skills is based on the processing of visual, auditory and sensorimotor/kinesthetic information, denoting the relations between objects, places, and people. This multisensory information gives us cues about directions, distances, speed, headway, traffic, landmarks, obstacles, etc. With the recent availability of global positioning method, of comprehensive GIS systems, of powerful mobile computers and…

GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents) at IVA 2010 September 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia http://iva2010.org/gala  NOTE: Change of submission email address (gala2010@ncl.ac.uk) Extension of Deadlines: 14th May 2010 – GALA short paper; 1st  June 2010 – GALA flash video submission Call for Participation GALA IN A NUTSHELL: GALA is an annual festival to showcase the latest Animated Lifelike Agents created by university students and academic or industrial research groups. GALA was launched in 2005. GALA provides:  The GALA Final event, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art in the technology of virtual humans. The GALA Jury Award for student projects and the GALA Public…

THE NINTH WORKSHOP – SID 2010 – CALL FOR PAPERS  >>> EXTENDED DEADLINES <<< THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE DESIGN (SID-2010) Engaging With and Within Technologies – Social Relationships and Design Issues London, England September 13th-16th, 2010 http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sid/sid2010/ DATES Paper Submission – May 31st, 2010 Acceptance Notification – July 15th, 2010 Submission of Revised Paper – August 31st, 2010 Workshop site: Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Campus and Bedford Square Campus (Central London) http://www.rhul.ac.uk/ …

informing the design of the future urban landscape Workshop :: 17th August :: DIS2010 :: Aarhus, Denmark Workshop website :: http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/ It is envisaged that the urban spaces of the future will be saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and shape the increase of data residing in our environment will be a significant challenge. The forms in which this data will be presented, and how we decide to conceptualise it, is as yet unknown. Will the technologically enriched environment adapt to accommodate human/city contact points, and,…

IMMERSION Forum & Showcase, Party & Awards! www.immersion10.co.uk May 24, 2010, London, UK: IMMERSION is the leading international Forum & Showcase, focused on the business of games and immersive & social media. Ground-breaking sessions, leading strategy, world-beating developers and commissioners, exclusive networking. Virtual goods, micro-transactions, iphone, funding .. just some of the topics.…

Call for Participation: “Heritage Inquiries: A Designerly Approach to Human Values” August 16-17, 2010 Aarhus, Denmark An ACM DIS 2010 workshop http://www.dis2010.org/ URL: http://engagingexperience.dk/dis2010 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION This two-day workshop will bring together the interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners involved in the design of interactive systems and sharing a common interest in heritage matters.…

Dear colleagues: The Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (JCR) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal that explores the uses of advanced technologies for therapy, training, education, prevention, and rehabilitation and is currently indexed with PsycINFO, Gale and EBSCO. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board consisting of top clinicians, academicians, and researchers, JCR welcomes your manuscript submissions for publication in its future issues. To review previous issues, please visit our website at http://www.vrphobia.eu/.…

FutureEverything Conference, 12-15 May 2010 The FutureEverything conference for 2010 is our best and most ambitious yet. We are also delighted to present the world’s best speakers under our conference themes of ImagineEverything, Unlimited Connectivity, Open Data and The City Experiment. 12-15 May 2010 Manchester England The FutureEverything conference will take you on a journey through the most cutting-edge developments in a range of exciting fields. Join us to hear about why governments should open up the data that they hold, and what we can do with this information to change our lives. Listen to leading artists and scientists discuss…

4-6 NOVEMBER 2010:  The 11th Consciousness International Reframed conference ‘MAKING REALITY REALLY REAL’ In cooperation with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England, TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Trondheim, Norway, is hosting the 11th Consciousness Reframed International Research Conference, with the title of ‘MAKING REALITY REALLY REAL’. The conference will be part of Norway’s new biennial for art and technology, Meta.Morf, that takes place in Trondheim from October 7 to November 7, 2010. The Consciousness Reframed conference series was founded by Roy Ascott at the University of Wales in 1997. Consciousness Reframed is a forum for trans-disciplinary inquiry into…

GAMEON-NA 2010 6TH ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN GAME-ON CONFERENCE Digipen Institute of Technology REDMOND, WA, USA AUGUST 25-27, 2010 Organized by ETI Sponsored by EUROSIS DIGIPEN Institute of Technology Submission deadline: May 5th . Late submission deadline: June 1st.…