Cultural Computing: New Frontier for Entertainment Computing

In the 21st century we are getting into the era of “Cultural Computing” where computers would be able to handle specific forms and human characteristics that hide behind each culture. In this symposium we want to introduce and discuss still unveiled possibilities of Cultural Computing which would analyze and visualize substantial cultural issues such as sensitivity, memory, spirituality, storytelling, racial characteristics, etc. that have not been treated in computer science and engineering so far. There are various possibilities in this area. From art point of view, Cultural Computing could go beyond the present media art by treating various kinds of cultural issues. From technology aspect, it would open up a new area in computer technologies that so far have been only treating the digitization of cultural heritages/contents to preserve them. The 2nd IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium attempts to focus this emerging and challenging area by bring various fields together and explore boundaries and new frontiers. This symposium will be a single track, highly selective set of presentations and discussions of visionary concepts, advanced technology, interactive demonstrations/installations, etc.

The symposium will include, but is not limited to, the following topics:
1) Preservation of cultural heritage using computers
2) Preservation of traditional technologies using computers
3) Treating models and types in cultural contents
4) Education of cultures using computers
5) Interactive installation treating cultural contents

Submission of papers:January 31, 2010
Notification to authors:April 20, 2010
Camera-ready copies:May 15, 2010
Conference:20-23 September 2010

Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the concept, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.

Artech 2010 aims at bringing the scientific, technological and artistic community together, while promoting the interest in the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, a common space for discussion and exchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital artists and a way of understanding and be delighted with new forms of digital expression.

Artech 2010 includes new topics concerning the relation between digital culture, architecture and design. In traditional design processes, architects work with aesthetic, functional, technical, economic and social elements in order to achieve a final structural design proposal. Generative Computational Design processes share these same concerns, despite the fact that innovative digital tools are forcing new approaches for architectural design to emerge. If in the past paradigms, architects have built what they could represent and represented what they could build, in the new emerging paradigms they are less limited in this regard, due to the integration of generative design systems with digital production technologies including, among others, virtual reality and ambient intelligent artifacts.

Full papers submission: 27 November 2009
Conference: 21-23 April 2010

7th International Conference on Design & Emotion
Chicago October 4-7, 2010
Hosted by The Institute of Design, IIT

The Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Design & Emotion Society are pleased to invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago, October 4-7. The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference will offer workshops, research paper presentations, design case presentations, and poster presentations. The conference language is English.

Since this conference was first established in 1999, what many predicted then came to be. Technologies are now able to achieve emotional qualities and design examples using these technologies abound. While we have made significant progress in research and practice relevant to emotional factors in design, many fundamental questions remain unanswered and new issues have been raised as we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural and economic environments. We are at the stage for another leap forward in the development of new understanding and vision of emotional factors in design through our critical reflection, innovative exploration and collaborative endeavor. This conference calls for your contribution to this exciting international forum of research and practice representing academic, professional and business communities.

DEADLINE February 15 2010: Official deadline for paper, deign case and workshop submissions

website: http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

1-Apr-09    DAC09    Digital Aesthetics and Culture    California USA    13-Dec-09
2-Apr-09    Cumulus 2009    Hemispheric shifts across learning teaching and research    Melbourne Australia    12-Nov-09
3-Apr-09    AUC    Australian Apple University Consortium: you can take IT with you    Canberra Australia    27-Sep-09
6-Apr-09    ECGBL    European Game-based learning    Graz Austria    12-Oct-09
7-Apr-09    vsmm 2009    Vision or Reality? Computer Technology and Science    Vienna Austria    9-Sep-09
10-Apr-09    DMAMH 2009    Digital Media and its Application in Museum & Heritage    Qingdao China    25-Jul-09
10-Apr-09    ACM MULTIMEDIA         Beijing China    19-Oct-09
13-Apr-09    CHINZ    NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction    Auckland New Zealand    6-Jul-09
14-Apr-09    vast2009    Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage    Malta    22-Sep-09
15-Apr-09    Cyberworlds    CYBERWORLDS    Bradford UK    7-Sep-09
15-Apr-09    Pacific Island Archaeology    Relevance and Engagement    Koror, Palu    1-Jul-09
15-Apr-09    DiGRA 2009    Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory    London UK    1-Sep-09
24-Apr-09    Del    Designs on E-learning    London UK    2-Sep-09