Conférence

Organizational Overviews-have a great lab or research group you'd like to talk about?
Chairs: Teresa Chambel, Mary Czerwinski
organizational-overviews@interact2011.org
Organizational overviews describe work in organizations that have demonstrated excellence in, or made innovative contributions to the field of HCI. We expect contributions that address:
* Achievements and/or defeats
* Risks, challenges, trends, visions for the future and business opportunities
* Innovation management
* Organizational alignment with user-centered approaches
* Relationships between organizations, market and users
* Collaborative efforts involving several groups or organizations
Contributors should be members of universities, corporate or government research groups or institutions. We are also interested [...]

10th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING ICEC 2011

www.icec2011.org

5-8 October 2011, Vancouver, Canada

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing explores the application of computational technology to entertainment. The conference brings together practitioners and researchers interested in the art and design of entertainment computing applications. ICEC welcomes submissions on the design, engineering, application and theory of entertainment technology. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions, as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops. [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS
**apologies for cross-posting**

The 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
July 18-21, 2011 University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2011/index.html

DUE TO MANY REQUESTS, WE ARE EXTENDING THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE TO
MARCH 16, 2011.

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2011

The proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Springer.
Best Papers will be published in Evolutionary Computation Journal MIT
Press and BMC Bioinformatics. [...]

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1st CFP: Workshop on Government and Citizen Engagement

http://cs.au.dk/~mkorn/citizengov/

in conjunction with
5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2011)
29 June - 2 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2011
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The trend towards more user contributions on the web and an increased
interest in e.g. social media technology, from both governments and
citizens, leads to new potentials and challenges in designing for
citizen-government interactions. [...]

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***

See a CFP for the EGUK TP.CG conference that is being held at Warwick in
September 2011 and please think about submitting and forward to colleagues.

All the best, yours Martin

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Call For Papers EGUK Chapter Conference: http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG11/

The 29th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics
Association will be the ninth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
2011 Conference (TP.CG.11). It will take place at the University of
Warwick on the 7-9 September 2011, with a paper deadline of May 9th,
2011. All accepted papers will be published by Eurographics and [...]

Call for Papers - Mobile Family Interaction
Workshop at Mobile CHI 2011, 29 August 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden.
This workshop aims to deepen our understanding of mobile technology use by preteens. The ubiquitous nature of this technology opens up new possibilities for technology use and abuse that need to be considered by parents and governments. This technological change will also affect family interaction and parenthood, bringing up new uses for mobile technology throughout families. [...]

The department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University
of Technology is organizing the 1st International Conference on
Semiotics and Visual Communication themed “from theory to practice”.
The conference aims at exploring the broad subject of semiotics in a
wide sense, aspiring to bring together researchers and practitioners
who study and evaluate the ways that semiotic theories can be
analyzed, perceived and applied in the context of various forms in
visual communication. [...]

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students.

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1st International Workshop on Mobile Augmented Reality: Design Issues and Opportunities
@MobileHCI2011, August 30th, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.elizabethchurchill.com/MARWorkshop/index.html

Important Dates
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- Paper submission: 8th April, 2011
- Notification: 15th May, 2011
- Camera-ready submission: 1st June, 2011
- Workshop: 30th August, 2011 [...]

Workshop Programme for Tuesday 5th July 2011

Integrating Ambient Information into Healthcare Environments
Ruth Dalton, Nicholas Dalton, Paul Marshall, Rebecca Cain, Christoph Hölscher
This workshop will focus on the overlap between hospital building design and information design to examine how embedding context-specific, ambient information in healthcare buildings may support and guide the patient/visitor.
http://ambientinfomationhealthcareworksho.blogspot.com/ [...]

FINAL CALL FOR DEMOS: NEW DEADLINE MARCH 18th
(apologies for cross posting)

IDC 2011: The 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and
Children
In cooperation with ACM SIGCHI

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
June 19-23, 2011
www.idc2011.net

Demos may support any of the areas identified in the conference topics. We
particularly encourage demo proposals that speak to our conference theme
about the "pervasive technology landscape". Authors are encouraged to submit
demos that have not been previously published, that have not been shown at
previous IDC events, or that present a clear leap forward from previous
versions. Authors are [...]

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Call for Demonstrations and Videos at ECSCW 2011

12th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
September 24-28, Aarhus, Denmark.

http://www.ecscw2011.org/?page_id=77

Submission Deadline: April 25, 2011
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Call for Demonstrations and Videos

Live demonstrations and videos form an important part of the technical conference programme. Demonstrations of both research prototypes and commercial products by those directly involved in developing the systems are welcomed. The purpose of this session is to provide the authors with the ability to demonstrate their developments, to tell more about their research and results to interested participants, and to involve participants in [...]

Dear colleagues,

(Apologies for cross-posting)

We would like to to encourage you to submit proposals for workshops and master classes for ECSCW 2011 to take place 24 - 28 September 2011 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Masterclasses and Workshops will be held Saturday 24 - Sunday 25 September.

Workshops and Master Classes

Workshops are designed to offer an informal environment for focused group discussion and learning. Workshops may be for half-day or full day sessions. [...]

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted
to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group
or among colleagues, thank you!)

PEICS 2011

Second International Workshop on
Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems
(PEICS)
http://www.zmmi.de/PEICS2011

Organized at
3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing
Systems (EICS 2011)
Pisa, Italy
Monday, June 13th, 2011 [...]

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Call for Posters and Demonstrations at ACM Hypertext 2011

22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
June 6-9, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

http://www.ht2011.org/demos_posters.html

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2011
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Call for Posters and Demonstrations

To complement the main conference program, HT2011 will hold a combined
Demonstrations and Posters session. The purpose of this session is to
provide the authors with the ability to demonstrate their
developments, to tell more about their research and results to
interested participants; to involve participants in discussions about
their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback. [...]

*** Fourth Call for Papers ***

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information
Technology (CIT-2011)

http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/CIT2011

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and
Communications (ScalCom 2011)

http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SCALCOM2011

*** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2011 ***

31st August -- 2nd September 2011
Coral Beach Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus

CIT 2011
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CIT has become a primary venue for researchers and industry
practitioners to discuss open problems, new research
directions, and real-world case studies on all aspects of
computer and information technology. CIT is soliciting
original, previously unpublished and high quality papers
addressing research challenges and advances spanning over the
[...]

Dear all,
I am co-organizing a workshop for The EternalS Coordination Action (https://www.eternals.eu/
).
This project provides a platform for communication and cross-
fertilization among different research communities
for the development of futuristic technologies for very long-living
systems.
Learning Systems for Knowledge/Information Management and
Representation is one of the four broad areas
involved in the project.

You are now given the opportunity of voicing your ideas at the
workshop that is being organized in May 2011.
The First International Workshop on Eternal Systems (EternalS'11) will
be held in Budapest, Hungary, on May 3
-- the day before the European Future [...]

CHI2011 will be holding a women's breakfast. The tables at the
breakfast will discuss topics of particular interest to women in HCI and
similar technical fields -- work/family balance, career trajectories,
etc. Women and men are welcome.

You register for the breakfast ($10 -- the rest is covered by some
generous donors) as part of registering for the conference. Space is
limited. [...]

Reminder: The submission date is March 25, two weeks from tomorrow.

On behalf of the workshop co-chairs and program chair, we would like to
invite you participate in the 5th annual workshop on Web 2.0 Security
and Privacy. Started in 2007, this successful series of workshops has
attracted participation from both academia and industry, and participants
from around the world. [...]