3rd IEEE Intl Workshop on Social Implications of Pervasive Computing (March 2013, San Diego USA)

Location: San Diego, California, USA
Dates: 18-22 March 2013
Website: http://www.sipc2013.blogspot.com
Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2012

Held in conjunction with the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications – PerCom 2013 (http//www.percom.org/).

The technology associated with Pervasive Computing is progressively approaching levels of sufficient accuracy, dependability and suitable cost. As a result, we will soon see a shift from implementations in controlled research laboratories to implementations in real world everyday applications; the next stage in the development of pervasive computing. Pervasive technologies have the potential for literal pervasive use in almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. This ubiquity will enable and lead to, the emergence of new, unprecedented applications on a previously unseen scale. The benefits of this technology are numerous and wide ranging, but alongside this are the implications of the technology, brought about by the scale of pervasive computing and its use.

Research into the social aspects of pervasive computing has thus far generally focused on the positive applications of the technology, with insufficient discussion of its potential high impacting social consequences. The intention of this workshop is to focus on and explore the social implications of pervasive computing, and from this to develop theories, methods and guidelines to encourage the technology to achieve maximum benefit, with minimal consequence. If the implications of pervasive computing are to prevented/minimised, research must be discussed and conducted now, while the technology is still in development. This will lead to guidance for the wider pervasive computing community, and provide with sufficient time to consider the impact of the technology being developed.

5th Intl Conf on Design Computing & Cognition – Workshops & Posters (June 2012, Texas)

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Dates: Workshops 5-6 June 2012
Dates: Posters 7-9 June 2012
Location: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc12/
Deadline for proposals: 3 February 2012

Posters decribing research – both in progress and completed – are being solicited for the conference. This is an opportunity to present your work in an alternate mode than through formal research papers. In addition to the poster sessions there will be sessions for the presentation of short verbal descriptions of the poster material. At this stage only abstracts of the poster material need to be submitted.

Proposals are invited for half-day workshops on advanced topics related to design computing or design cognition. The workshops that succeed are those that provide considerable opportunity for discussion and are not run as mini-conferences.

Proposals for workshops should contain the following information in no more than 1000 words:
Workshop Title
Name of Chair(s) plus email contact
Committee of 3 to 5 people (preferably with international representation)
Goals of the workshop
Workshop format
Method of admission (e.g., no requirement, abstract, resume)

Submission and other details can be found at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc12/ .

5th Intl Conf on Design Computing & Cognition (Jun 2012, Texas)

Theme: Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research
Dates:8-10 June 2012 (preceded by Workshops 6-7 June 2012)
Location: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA
Website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc12/

This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition research. The conference will be followed by a series of state-of-the-art half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition.

A set of research papers that have been refereed by an international board of reviewers will be presented and published as a book. Posters describing ongoing research will be presented.

10th IEEE Intl Symp on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Oct 2011, Switzerland)

Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2011, Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.ismar11.org
Deadline for abstract submission: 11 May 2011

The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek to interactively combine real and virtual objects and environments in 3D. The basic paradigm enables fascinating new types of user interfaces, and is beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, and MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications.

This year we are proud to present the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2011). The symposium will be held on Oct 26–29, 2011 at Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland.

We invite you all to participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this exciting field!

ISMAR now invites contributions in two programs: the Science & Technology (S&T) program and a complementary Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) program.

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: Special Issue on Extreme Navigation (Oct 2010)

Call for journal papers in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: Special Issue on Extreme Navigation
Guest editors: David McGookin (University of Glasgow) Charlotte Magnusson (University of Lund)
Initial submission due: 20 October 2010

25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Web Technologies (Mar 2011, Taiwan)

25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Track on Web Technologies
21-25 March 2011, TaiChung, Taiwan
http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacwt11/

Web-related technologies are becoming more and more pervasive and powerful, with the advent of new exciting concepts, protocols, languages, and technologies such as Social Software, Web Services, the Semantic Web, AJAX.  Web applications are progressively evolving into rich and flexible environments where users can easily access documents, publish new content, share resources, and interact with others.  This new class of ubiquitous software systems is emerging, and fostering the evolution of new cooperation paradigms among people. Novel approaches and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the increasing complexity of these applications.  The Web Technologies track of ACM SAC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on practical and foundational aspects of Web technologies as well as other technologies that in the Web have found new and unexpected application fields.