CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS’11) Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, Boston, MA, USA April 4-9, 2011 http://www.scs.org/springsim/2011?q=node/205 Manuscript Submission: October 31, 2010. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). As part of the 2011 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim’11; http://www.scs.org/springsim/2011) the 2011 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent community as well as the simulation…

‘Brave New Worlds – the Ethics of Education in Popular Digital Technologies’ The Higher Education Academy has funded the Learning Lab to support a Special Interest Group (SIG) that explores the ‘informal’ ethics of educational interventions in popular digital technologies and as part of its activity, a one-day event has been planned to discuss and explore this area.  A more detailed overview is below. Event Details This event be hosted by Kathryn Trinder at Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday 27 October 2010 between 10am – 3pm.  Places are available at £40 per person which is inclusive of refreshments and lunch. …

Litquake San Francisco’s Literary Festival Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind http://litquake.org/events/virtual-reality October 5, 2010 6:30 pm Cost: $12; free to Mechanics Institute members Venue: Mechanics Institute Library Address: 57 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA What do you really know about the characters you meet on the page? Are you sure it’s healthy to visit imaginary worlds—even if they come from someone else’s imagination? And how well do authors know the characters they invent? These questions and yours will be addressed by our panel: a neurologist-novelist and expert on how we know what we know,…

BIOMED 2011 Ninth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology 27 – 29 July 2011 Riga, Latvia Supported by the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/biomed-2011.html The ninth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology is a well established and recognised forum for dissemination of the latest research and applications in this important field. Advances in medical and biological technology are transforming medical care and treatment; in great part this is the result of the interaction and collaboration between medical sciences and engineering. This has resulted in substantial progress in health care and in the…

Collaborating Now  Collaborating Now would like to invite essays from writers in arts-related disciplines for a book focused on the state of contemporary collaborative practices in the arts. The Collaborating Now Project began in 2009 with an international collaborative artwork project in which artists in New Zealand and around the world created a collaborative artwork (facilitated by Gregory Sholette) and discussed their ideas about collaborative art. Authors are invited to investigate why and how contemporary artistic practices and theories have recently emerged as ways of engaging in and thinking about collaborative art, why there is a sudden, renewed interest in…

Call for Papers The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image announces its call for proposals for the 2011 conference, June 8-11, 2011, in Budapest, Hungary. The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media. Members of SCSMI seek to understand, among other things, the ways in which perceptual and neural processing relate to spectators affective responses, to viewers’ comprehension of film narratives, and to the saliency of particular formal features of films.…

Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects at IUI 2011 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA February 13th 2011 http://www.smart-objects.org/ Deadline for paper submissions: 12 November, 2010 THEME There is this undeniable ongoing trend to put computing capabilities into everyday objects and places. Well known examples range from smart kitchen appliances and objects (smart coffee machines, smart knifes and cutting boards) up to smart meeting rooms and even city-wide infrastructures. These smart objects are fully functional on their own, but added value is obtained through communication and distributed reasoning. While other venues have focused on the many technical challenges of implementing…

Modeling Human Communication Dynamics NIPS Workshop, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Friday, December 10th, 2010 http://projects.ict.usc.edu/hcd2010/ Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2010 Face-to-face communication is a highly interactive process in which the participants mutually exchange and interpret verbal and nonverbal messages. Both the interpersonal dynamics and the dynamic interactions among an individual’s perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes are swift and complex. How people accomplish these feats of coordination is a question of great scientific interest. Models of human communication dynamics also have much potential practical value, for applications including the understanding of communications problems such as autism and the creation of socially…

Call for Papers 13 October 2010: Devices that Alter Perception (DAP 2010) http://devices-alter.me/10/ Sensors, actuators, implants, wearable computers, and neural interfaces can do more than simply observe our bodies: these devices can also alter and manipulate our perceptions. This workshop will promote the design and critique of systems whose explicit purpose is to alter human percepts. Participants will be asked to present abstracts, images, videos and demonstrations that focus on devices that shape perceptual phenomena. The goals of the workshop are to: (1) document an emerging field of device design; (2) facilitate the development of these devices by sharing designs;…

23-24 June 2011: EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep – Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication International Conference 2011 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN! EKSIG 2011 will address the theme of “SkinDeep – Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication”. The conference will be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Organisers: Kerstin Mey, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes, Linden Reilly Venue: University for the Creative Arts, UK Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org Contact: [email protected] CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for the theme…

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) Call for papers Special Issue on: “Haptic and Audio-Visual Stimuli: Enhancing Experiences and Interaction” Guest Editors: Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Esko Dijk, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Multimodal stimulation is capable of creating strong effects on users, because the effects of the various stimuli can reinforce each other. This form of stimulation can be used to enhance entertainment experiences, as well as well-being and relaxation experiences. The causes of these strong effects and the exact relation to intensity, spatial distribution and timing of the stimuli are the…

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS IN PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING: SPECIAL ISSUE ON EXTREME NAVIGATION Guest editors: David McGookin (University of Glasgow) and Charlotte Magnusson (University of Lund) SYNOPSIS Location-based data and services for geographical and navigational information (such as electronic maps and gps directions), are usually presented using visual displays. With the increasing complexity of information, and the variety of contexts of use, it becomes important to consider how other non-visual sensory channels, such as audition and touch, can be used to communicate necessary and timely information to users. Activities such as running, rock-climbing and cycling, are all examples of activities…