The International Conference on Cultural Heritage (CH) brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, the use of cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the CH content. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, SME’s, owners, managers and conservators of cultural patrimony.

Paper submission for full papers 28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time)
Paper submission for project and short paper 28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time) Proposals for showcases 28th of May, 2012 (24:00 London-UK time) Event October 29th – November 3rd, 2012

CFP: 6th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL-2012)

07/03/2012Conferencecfps, Conference, ECGBL, IrelandEMC

Final call for papers for this Conference being held at The River Lee Hotel, Cork, Ireland on the 4-5 October 2012. This call is open until 16th of March 2012. Further details can be found at: http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2012/ecgbl12-call-papers.htm

Over the last ten years, the way in which education and training is delivered has changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. One such new technology that holds considerable promise for helping to engage learners is Games-Based Learning (GBL). The Conference offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to GBL to share their thinking and research findings. Papers can cover various issues and aspects of GBL in education and training: technology and implementation issues associated with the development of GBL; use of mobile and MMOGs for learning; pedagogical issues associated with GBL; social and ethical issues in GBL; GBL best cases and practices, and other related aspects. We are particularly interested in empirical research that addresses whether GBL enhances learning. This Conference provides a forum for discussion, collaboration and intellectual exchange for all those interested in any of these fields of research or practice.

The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited.

CFP:ozchi 2012

04/03/2012Conferencecfps, Conference, HCI, Melbourne, OZCHIEMC

OzCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. It attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. The conference also welcomes perspectives from design, architecture, engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines. OzCHI 2012 is being held In cooperation with the ACM and accepted long and short papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library.

The conference will be held in the Advanced Technologies Centre at the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn campus. Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th November are devoted to workshops, tutorials and a doctoral consortium. Wednesday 28th November to Friday 30th November will contain the main body of the conference The conference theme, Innovation, Immersion, Integration, Inclusion and Interaction. The theme reflects both the global nature of HCI and the diversity of cultures within which people incorporate interactive use of computers in their daily lives. It also reflects how HCI practitioners and researchers conduct their research and build their applications. *Submissions All submissions must use the two column OzCHI proceedings template: OZCHI proceedings template. OzCHI 2012 will use the EasyChair conference paper management system.

Detailed instructions will be found on the conference website www.ozchi.org Friday 15th June, 2012

Submission of Long Papers/Tutorial proposals/Workshop proposals/Industry Day proposals Friday 31st August, 2012

Submission of Short Papers/Demos/Doctoral consortium applications

CFP: International Symposium on Cooperative Design and Visualization, CDV2012, IEEE

03/03/2012ConferencecfpsEMC

CDV2012 is part of the 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV2012), 10-13 July 2012, LIRMM/CNRS University of Montpellier 2, France.

Submission details here.

The rapidly growing amount, availability and complexity of information pose great chances for a more holistic understanding of yet undiscovered interdependencies within systems and disciplines. Recent developments show that areas such as economics and trading, legislation, planning and design need new techniques for assessments and risk management. Quite often it is hard to predict and to communicate what effects certain sanctions will have – or even why they are particularly selected as a part of an action plan. The importance to clearly visualize and communicate system effects present an incontestable value – especially if combined with instant and interactive techniques, which stimulate a fruitful exchange between disciplines. Interdisciplinary questions drive evermore cooperation and analytical work in teams. Since each discipline provides its personal visual and textual languages these barriers have to be overcome when it comes to true cooperation. Enhanced – while still being generic – techniques for supporting and managing cooperative processes need to be found.

Games & Culture November 2011; 6 (6) Special Issue on History and Heritage in Games and Virtual Worlds

02/03/2012design, game, Journal, virtual heritageAlan Peacock, Alison Gazzard, Charles E. Hughes, Darin E. Hughes, Ear Zow Digital, Games & Culture, heritage, history, Jeffrey Jacobson, Kate Thompson, Lori C. Walters, Shannon Kennedy-Clark, virtual heritageEMC

URL: http://gac.sagepub.com/content/6/6.author-index
Guest editors: Erik Champion and Jefferey Jacobson

Alison Gazzard and Alan Peacock, Repetition and Ritual Logic in Video Games
Games and Culture November 2011 6: 499-512, doi:10.1177/1555412011431359
Shannon Kennedy-Clark and Kate Thompson, What Do Students Learn When Collaboratively Using A Computer Game in the Study of Historical Disease Epidemics, and Why?
Games and Culture November 2011 6: 513-537, first published on December 7, 2011 doi:10.1177/1555412011431361
Lori C. Walters,Darin E. Hughes, and Charles E. Hughes,Interconnections: Revisiting the Future
Games and Culture November 2011 6: 538-559, doi:10.1177/1555412011431360

There is hopefully an editorial / introduction (by Dr Jeffrey Jacobson, Director of http://publicVR.org, and myself) in the November 2011 6(6) issue.
And Jeffrey’s name should have appeared first, sorry Jeffrey!

DIGHUMLAB, Denmark, and me..

29/02/2012Academic, design, Digital Humanities, virtual heritageAarhus, Aarhus University, denmark, DIGHUMLAB, digital humanities, Ear Zow DigitalEMC

I will take up a new role in Aarhus Denmark, project leader/manager of DIGHUMLAB, (or DigHumLab), the new Digital Humanities Lab, to “to spearhead the structuring of the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB”. It is hosted by Aarhus University, but part of a consortium including Aarhus University, Aalborg University, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark.

cfp: iED Europe 2012 Summit Paris papers due 27 July 2012

28/02/2012Conferencecfps, immersive education, ParisEMC

http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/EUROPE/
iED Europe 2012 Paris, the second Summit organized by the newly formed European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative, builds on the success of the previous iED Europe 2011 Spain Summit. The European Summit complements international iED Summits organized by the Immersive Education Initiative (see http://mediagrid.org/summit for archives).
Refereed Paper Abstract Submission Deadline 16 July 2012
Refereed Paper Submission Deadline 27 July 2012
Notification of Refereed Paper Acceptance 28 September 2012
Camera-ready Refereed Paper Deadline 26 October 2012
iED Europe 2012 Paris Summit 26-27 November 2012

CFP : Taking Archaeology Digital, A Conference on the Use of New Technologies in Archaeology

22/02/2012Conference, virtual heritage2012, Canada, cfps, Conference, Taking Archaeology Digital, University of Puget SoundEMC

University of Puget Sound, Oct. 25-28, 2012, Canada
URL: http://archaeology.pugetsound.edu/RedfordConference2012/index.html

Technology is changing our world in ways that previous centuries could not have imagined, and it is a constant struggle for us to keep up with these frequent changes and innovations. While archaeology is a very old practice, only in the later 20th century was it given serious methodological consideration, and now, in the 21st century, this explosion in the availability of technological tools offers the potential to transform the practice of archaeology. But the mere existence of a new tool, no matter how fun and exciting it might seem, does not necessarily translate into good use of that tool. This is the theme we hope to address in the upcoming Redford Conference in Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound, October 25-28, 2012.

We invite proposals for papers and presentations that explore the question of how archaeologists can best make use of the vast range of possibilities that technology opens up. We are particularly interested in presentations from people who may have already had some experiences in trying to fit new technologies into archaeological practice. Often those who study the past have had difficulty adapting their practice to the existence of new tools, and one goal is to help us learn from the experiences of others.

Some issues we hope to address include:

How do technological tools allow archaeologists not only to do their work differently, but better?
What kinds of new questions do these tools allow us to ask, and why are those questions useful to a broader understanding of the ancient world?
How is the processing of archaeological material after an excavation affected – from archiving data through to publication?
How can we maximize the possibilities offered by the new digital technology?

While all areas relating to the question of how to make technology work best for archaeologists are open, we anticipate focusing our discussions on three areas and especially encourage submissions that relate directly to them:

Fieldwork: How do traditional archaeological methods intersect with digital technologies? What problems can technology help us solve in the field? And just as important, perhaps, how might the limitations of these technologies hinder us or, at the very least, not help us in our fieldwork?
Archiving: If technology increases the amount of information we gain from the field, how can this information be stored so that it can be efficiently accessed again in the future? How can we account for future changes in technology that might make current storage techniques obsolete? How can we avoid the loss of data when that happens, and mitigate any problems that the technological change-over might present?
Publication: What possibilities for publication are opened up by digital technology? How can we make these new electronic publications more valuable, and increase the quality and not just the quantity of the published material? Is peer review still important, and how will it be connected to the new publication possibilities?

The conference will include both demonstrations of technological innovations as well as critical discussion of the value of such innovations. Confirmed speakers include:

Nick Eiteljorg II, Center for the Study of Architecture
Sebastian Heath, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Norbert Zimmerman, Vienna Academy of Sciences

Proposals for papers should be sent to Eric Orlin at eorlin. The deadline for receipt of proposals is April 1, 2012. Some subsidies may be available to help offset travel costs for speakers.

cfps galore: calendar of HCI conferences

21/02/2012Conferencecfps, HCI, hcibibEMC

http://hcibib.org/events.html
in particular

Dates	Conference	Full Name	Location	Archive
2012-04-16 2012-04-20	WWW 2012	21st International World Wide Web Conference	Lyon, France	HCI ACM
2012-05-14 2012-05-16	IASTED-HCI 2012	7th IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction	Baltimore, Maryland
2012-05-21 2012-05-25	AVI 2012	11th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces	Naples, Italy	HCI ACM
2012-05-21 2012-05-25	CTS 2012	International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems	Denver, Colorado
2012-05-21 2012-05-23	NIME 2012	New Interfaces for Musical Expression	Oslo, Norway
2012-06-05 2012-06-08	EuroVis 2012	14th Eurographics – IEEE Symposium on Visualization	Vienna, Austria
2012-06-05 2012-06-08	ICMR 2012	2nd International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval	Hong Kong, China
2012-06-06 2012-06-08	Persuasive 2012	7th International Conference on Persuasive Technology	Linköping, Sweden
2012-06-10 2012-06-14	JCDL 2012	12th Joint International Digital Libraries Conference	Washington, DC	HCI ACM
2012-06-11 2012-06-15	DIS 2012	9th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	HCI ACM
2012-06-12 2012-06-15	IDC 2012	11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children	Bremen, Germany	HCI ACM
2012-06-18 2012-06-22	ISWC 2012	16th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers	Newcastle, United Kingdom
2012-06-18 2012-06-22	Pervasive 2012	10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2012-06-25 2012-06-28	EICS 2012	4th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems	Copenhagen, Denmark	HCI ACM
2012-06-25 2012-06-28	Hypertext 2012	23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	HCI ACM
2012-07-16 2012-07-20	UMAP 2012	20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization	Montréal, Québec, Canada
2012-07-21 2012-07-23	IADIS 2012	International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction	Lisbon, Portugal
2012-08-12 2012-08-16	PDC 2012	12th Participatory Design Conference	Roskilde, Denmark
2012-08-26 2012-08-29	ASONAM 2012	4th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining	Istanbul, Turkey
2012-09-05 2012-09-07	FNG 2012	4rd International Conference on Fun and Games	Toulouse, France	HCI
2012-09-05 2012-09-09	Ubicomp 2012	14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	HCI ACM
2012-09-12 2012-09-14	BCS-HCI 2012	26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction	Birmingham, United Kingdom	HCI ACM
2012-09-23 2012-09-27	TPDL 2012	16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries	Pafos, Cyprus
2012-09-29 2012-10-03	Mobile HCI 2012	14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services	San Francisco, California	HCI ACM
2012-09-30 2012-10-04	VL/HCC 2012	IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2012-10 2012-10	UIST 2012	25th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology	TBA	HCI ACM
2012-10-03 2012-10-05	SIGDOC 2012	30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication	Seattle, Washington	HCI ACM
2012-10-13 2012-10-17	NordiCHI 2012	7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction	Helsinki, Finland	HCI ACM
2012-10-23 2012-10-26	ICMI 2012	13th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces	Santa Monica, California	HCI ACM
2012-10-27 2012-10-31	GROUP 2012	9th International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work	Sanibel Island, Florida	HCI ACM
2012-10-29 2012-11-02	CIKM 2012	21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management	Maui, Hawaii	ACM
2012-11-11 2012-11-14	ITS 2012	7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces	Cambridge, Massachusetts	HCI ACM
2012-11-28 2012-11-30	IITM 2012	2nd International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia	Allahabad, India	HCI
2013-02-16 2013-02-20	CSCW 2013	15th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work	San Antonio, Texas	HCI ACM
2013-04-27 2013-05-01	CHI 2013	31st Human Factors in Computing Systems	Paris, France	HCI ACM
2013-07-21 2013-07-26	HCI International 2013	15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction	Las Vegas, Nevada	HCI
2013-09-02 2013-09-06	INTERACT 2013	13th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction	Cape Town, South Africa	HCI
2013-09-30 2013-10-04	HFES 2013	57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society	San Diego, California	HCI
2014-04-26 2014-05-01	CHI 2014	32nd Human Factors in Computing Systems	Toronto, Canada	HCI ACM

cfp International Conference on New Media, Memories and Histories

21/02/2012ConferenceEMC

http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/NewMedia/
organized by Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) 5-6 October 2012, abstracts due 16 April 2012

Memory studies has emerged as a growing field of research in recent years, attracting scholars from various countries in diverse disciplines. The introduction of the new media has augmented the zeal for memory-making practices in different societies around the world. The Internet and participatory tools of Web 2.0 has contributed to the upsurge in user-generated content. Much of these contents are generated through narratives, stories, pictures and even videos, which also provide a remarkable possibility in fostering and facilitating the production of memories and histories. Furthermore, the Internet’s capability for information storage and sharing has afforded people platforms to impart their recollections of the past. As such, the intersections involving new media, memory and history are attracting academic interest from scholars in Sociology, Geography, History, Communication, Cultural Studies and Information Studies, who are drawing upon various theoretical and methodological approaches in examining the juxtaposition between new media, memories and histories.

In this regard, the conference is conceptualized to gather scholars from different disciplines to deliberate and reflect on key issues, paradigms and research trajectories, as well as to identify possible collaboration opportunities for further investigation on memories and production of historical knowledge in a new media age. Suggested themes for papers in the conference will include (but not limited to):

(1) New media, memory and popular culture
(2) Digitizing memories of wars, trauma and disaster
(3) New media and the production of historical knowledge
(4) Virtual museums and memory
(5) Digital storytelling and memory
(6) Social networking sites and their impact on memories
(7) Nation-building through memories in the digital age
(8) Digital memories and cultural heritage
Primarily, the conference will allow scholars to reflect upon the reciprocal relations of new media, memories and histories, and to probe the distinctions between new media and traditional media environments in enabling remembering and/or forgetting. Through the conference, academics will also interrogate the power dynamics and tensions of the different social actors that construct memory-texts and memory discourses via new media. It is hoped that the conference will serve as a platform in the development and formation of new approaches, methodologies and directions in the study of the interface between new media, memories and histories.

cfp: Buildings, Books and Blackboards:Intersecting Narratives RMIT Melbourne

21/02/2012ConferenceEMC

Buildings Books and Blackboards:Intersecting Narratives 2012 Conference @ RMIT University Melbourne
28th November-1st December 2012
Email macarroll@csu.edu.au
URL http://buildingsbooksandblackboards.blogspot.co.nz/p/call-for-papers.html

CFPs for 2012

19/02/2012Conferencecfps, conferencesEMC

START	DUE	CONFERENCE	THEME	LOCATION
2-May-12	1-Feb-12	Hi-tech Heritage	Digital Tech Changing Our Views of the Past?	Amherst USA
29-May-12	1-Mar-12	FDG 2012	Foundations of Digital Games	North Carolina USA
5-Jun-12	31-Jan-12	Critical Heritage	Papers due 31-12-11	Gothenburg Sweden
6-Jun-12	21-Feb-12	Nordic DiGRA	Global and Local: Games in Culture & Society	Tampere Finland
11-Jun-12	7-Mar-12	DIS	Designing Interactive Systems posters and demos	Newcastle UK
6-Jul-12	30-Apr-12	Palladio workshop	Palladio Lab	Vicenza Italy
2-Sep-12	6-Mar-12	vsmm2012	Virtual Systems in the Information Society	Milan Italy
3-Sep-12	29-Feb-12	ICDHS	Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies	São Paulo Brazil
12-Sep-12	11-Feb-12	eCAADE2012	“Digital Physicality\|Physical Digitality”	Prague Czech Rep.
4-Oct-12	16-Mar-12	ECGBL2012	European GameBased Learning	Cork Ireland
22-Oct-12	7-Mar-12	icmi2012	multimodal interaction	Santa Monica USA
29-Oct-12	12-Mar-12	acmm2012	multimedia (full paper due 9 April)	Nara Japan
14-Nov-12	14-Apr-12	SIGRADI 2012	in[formation]	Fortaleza, Brazil

START	DUE	CONFERENCE	THEME	LOCATION
5-Jun-12	31-Jan-12	Critical Heritage	Papers due 31-12-11	Gothenburg Sweden
2-May-12	1-Feb-12	Hi-tech Heritage	Digital Tech Changing Our Views of the Past?	Amherst USA
12-Sep-12	11-Feb-12	eCAADE2012	“Digital Physicality\|Physical Digitality”	Prague Czech Rep.
6-Jun-12	21-Feb-12	Nordic DiGRA	Global and Local: Games in Culture & Society	Tampere Finland
3-Sep-12	29-Feb-12	ICDHS	Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies	São Paulo Brazil
29-May-12	1-Mar-12	FDG 2012	Foundations of Digital Games	North Carolina USA
2-Sep-12	6-Mar-12	vsmm2012	Virtual Systems in the Information Society	Milan Italy
11-Jun-12	7-Mar-12	DIS	Designing Interactive Systems posters and demos	Newcastle UK
22-Oct-12	7-Mar-12	icmi2012	multimodal interaction	Santa Monica USA
29-Oct-12	12-Mar-12	acmm2012	multimedia (full paper due 9 April)	Nara Japan
4-Oct-12	16-Mar-12	ECGBL2012	European GameBased Learning	Cork Ireland
14-Nov-12	14-Apr-12	SIGRADI 2012	in[formation]	Fortaleza, Brazil
6-Jul-12	30-Apr-12	Palladio workshop	Palladio Lab	Vicenza Italy

I have been asked by someone which one I will attend. Funding and timing permitting, Nordic Digra, ECGBL or VSMM are my preferences.

Call For Papers – SIGraDi 2012

19/02/2012Architecture, Conference2012, architectural computing, Conference, SIGRADIEMC

The XVI SIGraDi Conference will take place in Fortaleza, Brazil, between November 14th and 16th 2012, focusing the debates on the theme form[in]formation. The challenges and efforts of our times are related to information. They deal with the progressive processes in which data is organized, and how this information can be communicated in various shapes and perceived as knowledge. Contemporary processes of design and production of the object, architecture and the city, require the digital manipulation of information. This manipulation allowed the resurgence of design processes based on emerging shapes, using algorithms and grammar; it is this digital progress that allows for the information management of BIM and other protocols of collaborative tasks; it also allows the idea formation in virtual realities, or even incorporated by the matter itself, through CAD-CAM technologies.

It is this process of formation, this continuos flux of reducing entropy, that comprises our matter. It is acknowledging this flux that we propose the XVI SIGRaDi Conference: the investigation of the processes of form[in]formation.

The sub themes for SIGraDi 2012 are related to the new procedures, media and practices of urban and architectonic design, the diverse manifestations of art, and design. The abstract submission should consider this multiplicity, choosing the topic that best suits the approach or envision of the work, according to the following tracks:

Poetics of design
Information modeling and Simulation
Information design and interface
Design Process
Collaborative environment as a support for design
New production systems
Teaching strategies and curriculum

Schedule and abstracts

We invite you to submit abstracts with a maximum of 600 words until April 15th 2012. Abstracts may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. You must also indicate your work interest area, approach and category. You can add five (5) keywords and a synthesis image.

Abstracts will be reviewed and evaluated through a blind peer review process by an International Scientific Committee. Criteria for acceptance are relevance, originality, premises, level of development and clarity of presentation.

The notification of acceptance is expected before July 15th 2012, and the full papers can be submitted until September 15th 2012.

All conference information and communication will be available through the conference website http://www.sigradi2012.com.br and through email contato@sigradi2012.com.br

Biofeedback and Virtual Environments journal article out

11/02/2012Academic, Architecture, design, game, Journal, virtual heritagebiofeedback, Champion, Dekker, IJACEMC

It has been published:
Erik Champion and Andrew Dekker, Biofeedback And Virtual Environments, International Journal of Architectural Computing, Multi Science Publishing, ISSN 1478-0771 (Print), Volume 9, Number 4 / December 2011. Full Text PDF (481.5 KB), DOI 10.1260/1478-0771.9.4.377, Pages 377-396. Online Date: Friday, February 03, 2012.

CFP: Cultural actions and digital media, V!RUS journal

10/02/2012gameCultural actions, digital media, journal, V!RUSEMC

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit articles to the seventh issue of the V!RUS journal,
edited by the Nomads.usp – Center for Interactive Living Studies, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The issue’s theme is “Cultural actions and digital media”, and the deadline is march 19th, 2012. Papers can be written in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
More info:http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus06/?sec=11&item=1〈=en

Please help us to release this call sending this message in your mailing lists and your online social media contacts.

Click on the image below to visit the journal’s sixth issue “Creation in process+es” or follow the link:http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus06

cfp: eCAADe 2012, Prague: Deadline for abstracts has been extended to 11 February 2012

05/02/2012Architecture, Conferencecfps, eCAADe, PragueEMC

The deadline for handing in extended abstracts to eCAADe 2012, Prague, has been extended to 11 February 2012.

cfp: Palladio Lab workshop

05/02/2012ConferenceEMC

The Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio is organising a workshop entitled Palladio Lab as part of the Palladio Library project supported by ARCUS SpA. It will focus on the use of digital techniques in the study and appreciation of Andrea Palladio’s work and take place in Vicenza at the Palazzo Barbarano on 6 July 2012.

A space will be provided for contributions by scholars wishing to present original research on Andrea Palladio using digital techniques (data-base, three-dimensional reconstructions of plans never built, elevations etc.). Such contributions, up to a maximum of six, will be selected by a scientific committee, which will examine them anonymously and assess them on the basis of originality, clarity, importance of content, conclusions and results.

The official languages are Italian and English; presentations will be made in one of these. It is intended to publish the proceedings of the workshop.

Timing and information

The material must reach the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura A. Palladio, Contra’ Porti 11, 36100 Vicenza by 30 April 2012 at 12 noon using the on-line system, which will be active from 13 February atwww.cisapalladio.org/workshop2012/. A confirmation email will be sent to the corresponding author that the paper has been correctly sent to the organisers.

Advice of acceptance of papers submitted: 31 May 2012.
Consignment of definitive papers for publishing of the proceedings: 30 June 2012.

For information

Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura A. Palladio, Contra’ Porti, 11 , 36100 Vicenza tel.: 0444 323014, fax: 0444 322869 mail:fototeca@cisapalladio.org

Digital Classicist London 2012: Call for Papers

28/01/2012ConferenceEMC

Digital Classicist London 2012: Call for Papers
January 24th, 2012 by Gabriel Bodard The annual Digital Classicist London seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012.
We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information scientists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields.
The seminars will run on Friday afternoons (16:30-18:00) from June to mid-July in Senate House, London, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (ending early this year to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games). In previous years collected papers from the seminars have been published in a special issue of Digital Medievalist; a printed volume from Ashgate Press; a BICS supplement (in production). The last few years’ papers have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher.
There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire).
To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist London Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words togabriel.bodard, by midnight UTC on April 1st, 2012.
More information will be found athttp://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

CFP: The 9th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and,Engineering – www.cdve.org, Sept. 2-5, Osaka, Japan

24/01/2012ConferenceEMC

CDVE2012 Abstract deadline is approaching

The 9th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering -www.cdve.org, Sept. 2-5, Osaka, Japan

The Abstract submission deadline is: Feb. 15, 2012

You should submit the abstract and the paper by Easychair system. Please check how to submit a paper inhttp://www.cdve.org/submit.html .

Even the abstract submission is not obligated. You can submit a full paper without an abstract. However, we highly recommend you to submit an abstract to increase the chance of your paper acceptance and raise the quality of the papers.

Our keynote speaker will be Professor Renate Fruchter at Stanford University, founding director of the Project Based Learning Laboratory. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag on their Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS).

All the original paper abstracts on our conference topics are welcome. The papers should not be published nor submitted elsewhere. We emphasize the cooperative aspect of all of them but not the disciplines themselves. Please make sure that your paper addresses the cooperative aspect.

Please feel free to forward this call to any parties and link the conference website to your own website.

We look forward to seeing you in Osaka, Japan!

The Humanities and Heritage

17/01/2012virtual heritagedigital humanities, heritage, humanities, NEHEMC

I have a little personal research project partially on the backburner, my own view of digital humanities. To improve my viewpoint I have been reading articles on the Internet (our library is a bit behind in this area) on definitions of humanities, for I think that is part of the problem in defining “digital humanities”. Lo and behold I found this (interesting if ironic) definition of humanities, with a strong emphasis on heritage:

National Endowment For The Humanities

According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”

Ear Zow Digital

Interactive History & Digital Culture

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