Category: Conferences and Seminars

The Audio Mostly (www.audiomostly.com) conference series is interested in sound Interaction Design & Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in general. Audio Mostly will take place from the 18th to 20th of September 2019 at the University of Nottingham in the city of Nottingham in the UK. The conference provides a space to reflect on the role of…

Reminder: paper submission deadline on May 21st The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate, immersive forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research andcomputer science disciplines. This explicitly includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer…

CALL FOR PAPERS Teaching Games:Pedagogical Approaches DiGRA 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop (TGPA:DiGRA2019) Context of Teaching Games Game studies, art, design, narrative, development, and game research method courses are proliferating across colleges and universities. Some classes are organized into formal game design programs while others are not. They can be offered in a wide range of departments…

ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. With this 12th edition of the…

Pro-Social Play!  International conference on Storytelling and Well-being across Media Borders 17-19 October, 2019, University of Kent, U.K. www.prosocial-narrative.org Conference Chairs: Chiao-I Tseng, Dieter Declerq, Nichola Shaunessy Plenary Speakers: Charles Forceville, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam Tobias Greitemeyer, Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria Anja Laukötter, Center for the History of Emotion, Max Planck Institute for Human Development,…

Games, Media and Communication: Quo Vadis? Call for presentations and panel proposals for the ECREA Digital Games Research Section symposium in collaboration with the Gaming Matters Research Cluster of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) 7-8.11.2019, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands The 2010s is almost over, and game studies is preparing…

DIS’19 workshop: Larping (Live Action Role Playing) as an Embodied Design Research Method. Embodied design methods are gaining popularity among design researchers. They leverage the physical and situated experience of designers to access and better understand present and future situations, humans, and design opportunities. In this one-day workshop, we will explore, engage with, and discuss…

Working Paper seminar for Game Jam Research(ers) Aalto University, Espoo, Finland 11.-12. June 2019 During the past decade game jams have become an important part of game industry ecosystems. As thousands of games are created in a wide variety of jams annually, these game creation events have become increasingly important sites for various game makers.…

* Material Manifestations of Dislocation and (Re)connection* in conjunction with ECSCW 2019 https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2019/ Sunday, June 9, 2019 Salzburg, Austria Workshop Website: https://hci.sbg.ac.at/sites/material-dislocation/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of position paper: April 8 Notifications to authors: May 2 Early bird registration: May 13 Workshop at ECSCW: Sunday, June 9 ECSCW main conference: June 10 – 12 SCOPE AND…

Call for Papers – British DiGRA 2019 The third annual conference of British DiGRA. 6 -7 June 2019 Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent The Diverging Game Mix. They welcome submissions that move beyond digital gaming, for example submissions relating to boardgames, LARP, pervasive games or other forms of analog gaming. As with last year, we…