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Apologies for cross-posting

Dear all,
My name is Georgios Christou, and I'm a researcher and assistant professor at
European University Cyprus. Together with three more colleagues, we are
organizing a SIG at CHI2011, entitled "Designing for the UX of Sociability in
MMO Games". To get the discussion going, we have set up a questionnaire at:
http://georgioschristou.com/?p=104, which we kindly ask you to answer. The
questionnaire will take about 20 minutes to fill in, and will give us valuable
insight that we can convey to the participants of the SIG, so that we can begin
a discussion on how to design [...]

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European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2011

the 29th Conference of the

European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)

in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI

24-26 August 2011, Rostock, Germany

http://ecce2011.eace.net

- Designing Collaborative Activities -

CfP - Papers, Posters and Doctoral Consortium

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*** Deadline extension until April 18th ***

The new reviewing process could be misunderstood in previous calls.
Long papers and short papers will undergo a review process. Decision
is NOT based on extended abstracts! The extended deadline for full
papers, posters, and Doctoral Consortium is April 18, 2011. [...]

Apologies for cross-posting.

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Digital Libraries-Beyond the Desktop
June 16-17, 2011
Ottawa, Canada
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~unmil/BTD-2011/

A Workshop in conjunction with
The 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

The "Digital Libraries—Beyond the Desktop" workshop will be held on
June 16th and 17th, 2011 in Ottawa, Canada in conjunction with the
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. We solicit your
participation to make this workshop a success. [...]

GeoWordNet Public Dataset is now available in WordNet and RDF
formats.

WordNet format allows to use GeoWordNet Public dataset via
WordNet access libraries available for many programming
languages. For Java we recommend extJWNL.

RDF format allows to use GeoWordNet Public dataset via all
RDF-compatible software.

About GeoWordNet
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GeoWordNet is a semantic resource built from the full
integration of WordNet, GeoNames and the Italian part of
MultiWordNet. [...]

This is a final reminder for the Mobile HCI Poster deadline this Friday.
This is a great venue to showcase work in progress or small-scale studies
and receive feedback from Mobile HCI colleagues (before some of the fall
paper deadlines). We look forward to some great submissions by Midnight GMT
on Friday!
Mobile HCI 2011 Posters [...]

7th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2011

Submit your abstract today to participate in the 7th Symposium of the
International Society for Computational Biology Student Council on July 15th
2011 in Vienna!

The Student Council Symposium aims at bringing together young computational
biologists from all research areas and regions of the world. As the central
part of our symposium, 12 student presentations will be selected from the
submitted abstracts. This is your chance to present your work! We accept
abstracts covering both scientific studies as well as novel tools and
applications in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Accepted abstracts [...]

AUM 2011

International Workshop on:
Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences
to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation

In conjunction with UMAP 2011
Girona, Spain
11 - 15 July 2011

http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2011/

IMPORTANT DATES
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* 15 April 2011: Submission deadline (23:59 pm Hawaiian time)
* 13 May 2011: Notification of acceptance
* 17 June 2011: Camera-ready paper
* 11 or 15 July: AUM workshop [...]

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - IDC 2011 Workshop

*Opportunities and Challenges when Designing and Developing with Kids @
School*
in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Interaction
Design and Children

June 20th, 2011
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/KidsSchool/
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TOPIC:
The school context provides a fruitful and at the same time challenging
environment for getting children engaged in creative activities. This
one-day workshop wants to bring together researcher from a wide spectrum
of disciplines and research communities (interaction and user interface
design, game development, education) who share a common interest in
understanding the opportunities and [...]

apologies for any cross-posting:

CFP: join us in thinking about what/how to teach about Children &
Technology!

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Do you conduct research in the field of children & computers? Do you teach
university level classes on this topic?
Are you interested in how others have been teaching this topic in different
disciplines?
Do you feel like you constantly have to search the web for materials, papers
and references due to this topic's novelty, multidisciplinary nature and
ongoing developments? [...]

Google Summer of Code is supporting the Interface Ecology Lab’s
S.IM.PL(Support for Information Mapping in Programming Languages)
cross-platform
open source libraries for information and media centric interactive
applications.

Opportunities: students make $5000 for 3 months; mentors shepherd projects
of interest. Applications due April 8.

More info is at http://ecologylab.net/summerofcode.

The multi-layer architecture of S.IM.PL
(serialization
, services ,
meta-metadata)
develops an alternative approach to web semantics: one based on making it
easy to write cross-platform distributed software that performs complex
semantic actions, from multi-player games to sensemaking and creativity
support tools. S.IM.PL focuses on facilitating software development, not
just on [...]

EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTING
We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for
a special issue on Pointing at
Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds.
The submission deadline
is May 16, 2011.
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Spurred by the advancement in synthetic biology (Gibson et al., 2010) at
the J. Craig Venter Research
Institute the editors of Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer
Science) invite submissions to a
special issue on biological substrates as a computational diaphragm.
This topic leads to further research
questions on computation and the bio-signals produced by living
organisms.
We anticipate submissions will contribute to the [...]

*ICBL 2011: 4th International Conference on Interactive Computer-Aided
Blended Learning*
*(Apologies for cross-posting, please redistribute within your own group and
colleagues, thank you!)*

Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to be part of ICBL 2011:

4th International Conference on Interactive Computer-Aided Blended Learning
2-4 November 2011 in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
http://icbl.galileo.edu

ICBL 2011 Call for Papers (Deadline extension April 30th) [...]

In this final posting of the Call for Papers, we cordially invite
submissions to the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2011)
as well as to the related art program, tutorials, workshops, and graduate
student symposium.

Conference: Creativity & Cognition 2011
Website: http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html
Conference dates: November 3-6, 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Keynote Speakers: We are thrilled to have Guy Claxton (creativity and
learning; http://www.guyclaxton.com/), Sara Diamond (creativity and visual
arts;
http://www.ocad.ca/about_ocad/governance/board_governors/sara_diamond.htm),
and Atau Tanaka (creativity and music;
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/atau.tanaka) as three of our
keynote speakers. We expect to have additional invited talks from other
distinguished speakers as well. [...]

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of attending CHI (7-12 May, Vancouver, BC) that many courses are still available - see http://chi2011.org/program/courses.html

These courses represent excellent value for money since they are virtually free (USD 25 each) for registered conference attendees.

Among the 30+ to choose from, I'd like to draw attention to two that I am running:
- Agile User Experience and UCD (full day on 10 May)
- Card Sorting for Navigation Design (9:00-12:20 on 12 May) [...]

Dear List,

The following call might be of interest to those of you working in the field of Paralinguistics:

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Call for Papers
COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

Special Issue on
Paralinguistics in Naturalistic Speech and Language

http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/CSL_Special_Issue_Natural_Paralinguistics_CFP.pdf

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Paralinguistic phenomena including speaker states such as emotion or health condition, speaker traits such as personality, likeability, age or gender, as well as vocal behaviour such as laughter, sighs or hesitation, increasingly become part of every-day and future communication, retrieval, and surveillance systems. This requires present research to focus on realistic conditions in the sense of naturalistic occurrence of these phenomena, on [...]

Dear All,

Here is the CfP of ITS 2011. Apologies in advance for cross-posting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS & NOTES
6th Annual ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011

ITS 2011
November 13-16, 2011
Portopia Hotel, Kobe, Japan
http://its2011.jp/
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The Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2011 Conference (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 [...]

The Third International UKVAC Workshop on Visual Analytics (VAW2011)
6-8 September 2011
University College London, London, UK
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/securityinstitute/vaw2011

Proposals are invited for VAW2011, the third international UKVAC workshop on Visual Analytics. VAW addresses the exciting emerging field of Visual Analytics - the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visualisation. The workshop aims to bring together UK and overseas academics, government and industry experts with an interest in the role of visual analytics for supporting people in solving information intensive problems. VAW 2011 is supported by the US Department of Homeland Security and HM Government in the UK. [...]

Call for Industry Event Papers - 20th ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, UK, 27th October 2011

This year¹s CIKM conference will include an Industry Event, which will be
held during the regular conference program in parallel with the technical
tracks.

The Industry Event's objectives are twofold. The first objective is to
present the state-of-the-art in information retrieval, knowledge management,
databases, and data mining, delivered as keynote talks by influential
technical leaders who work in industry. The second objective is to present
interesting, novel and innovative industry developments in these areas. [...]

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CfP 2nd International Workshop on Evaluating

Player Experience in Games (epex11) In conjunction with Foundations of Digital Games FDG 2011

Bordeaux France

June 28, 2011

http://playerexperience.fdg2011.org

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DEADLINE EXTENDED! April 8th

There is a rapidly growing interest in evaluating player experience in games context, as well as other forms of digital interactive entertainment, for example via applying psychophysiological signals and user telemetry to obtain data on the user experience and the interaction between user and game, Developing useful methods for evaluating player experience in games is paramount for the design of interfaces that can better account for the user [...]

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EvAAL (evaal.aaloa.org) is a project created and supported by universAAL
(www.universaal.org) and hosted by AALOA (http://aaloa.org). It is an
open strategy for moving towards assessable user experience in AAL in a
series of annual competitions. The topic of the first open call for
competition is Indoor Localization which is a base technology for AAL
solutions. [...]