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[Susan Gold]

The Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for  
Distance Leaning (MTDL 2010)

Firenze, Italy, October 29, 2010 http://MTDL2010.mine.tku.edu.tw

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010

Multimedia technologies and networking infrastructure have changed  
human social behavior. One typical example is education. The impact of  
distance learning to traditional universities in particular allows  
educational professionals to rethink about how to efficiently and  
effectively using multimedia technologies to improve instruction, as  
well as to encourage students to learn. Although multimedia  
technologies have already been used widely in e-learning, various  
considerations should be carefully addressed from both pedagogical and  
technological perspectives, to ensure the successful incorporation of  
these technologies in e-learning. This ACM workshop aims to discuss  
problems, current studies, and solutions in how to use multimedia and  
communication technologies to improve e-learning. Especially,  
presentations should address the difference between using and without  
using multimedia technologies in education. Practical solutions are  
encouraged, although pedagogical theories may be used to support the  
solutions. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Topics  
of interests include but are not limited to the following:

- Efficient Authoring Methods for Instruction Creation/Generation
- Management of Multimedia Learning Objects
- Multimedia Edutainment Technologies
- Multimedia Technologies for Collaborative Learning
- Multimedia Technologies for Game-based Learning
- Multimedia Technologies for Mobile/Situated Learning
- Multimodal Interactions for e-Learning
- Pedagogical Issues of using Multimedia Technologies in e-Learning
- Real-time Delivery of Multimedia Instructions
- Retrieval of Multimedia Learning Objects
- Server and System Architecture for Multimedia Instructions
- Usability Study of Multimedia Learning Objects

Submission Details
Each paper for submission should be formatted using the ACM  
Proceedings templates. It should be written in 9 points and must not  
be longer than 10 pages in length, including references and figures.  
Authors may submit their papers in PDF format via the ACM Multimedia  
2010 paper submission system. Note that the review process is double- 
blind, i.e., all submissions must contain no information identifying  
the authors or their organizations. For information, please contact  
Timothy K. Shih at tshih at cs.tku.edu.tw.

Important Dates
Paper Submission:                     21 May, 2010
        Author Notification:                   5 July, 20010
        Final Manuscript Due:                26 July, 2010

Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-Chairs
Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan
        Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
        Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland  
Technical
Program Co-Chairs Baltasar Fernandez-Manjsn, University Complutense de
Madrid, Spain
        Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
Web Site Chair
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Publicity Co-Chairs
        Frederick Li, Durham University, U.K.
        Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
        Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
        Nicoletta Sala, U. of Lugano, Switzerland and U. dell'Insubria
Varese, Italy

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Dpto. de Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial Facultad de
Informatica  ( Despacho 414) C/ Profesor Jose Garcia Santesmases S/N,  
Ciudad
Universitaria Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid - SPAIN  
Email
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BioS-Play: Workshop on Multiuser and Social Biosignal Adaptive Games  
and Playful Applications
(K.U.Leuven, 15 September 2010) workshop in conjunction with the Fun  
and Games Conference 2010

In a nutshell: System adaptation or enhanced communication based on  
biosignal data, or sensor data and system metrics, which captures user  
behavior.

Target domain: Social and multiplayer games and playful applications.

For researchers, theoreticians, and game designers.

Send 2 to 4-page ACM SIGCHI format position papers to
biosplay at affectivegaming.info by May 24, 2010. See also:
http://www.affectivegaming.info/biosplay/

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite you to submit position papers relating to the use of  
physiological, biological, or behavioral signals in social and  
multiuser games and entertainment applications. For this workshop the  
understood definition of biosignals is them being psychophysiologal  
signals such as EEG, EMG, GSR, or heart rate, but also pressure  
sensors, motion and gesture sensors, eye trackers, or behavioral  
gameplay metrics data. The workshop will focus on discussions  
pertaining to the design implications gathered from biometric data as  
well as methodologies concerning the application and analysis of the  
data.

Submissions are invited on the following topics (though not restricted  
to these topics):

- Related biometric or affective input gaming prototypes
- Experimental studies using biosignals
- Design proposals for games using affective input, adaptive input  
processing or biosignals for evaluation or interaction
- Conceptual analysis of biosignal data
- Related philosophical considerations (ethics, social impact,  
phenomenlogy)

Submissions are expected in the form of two to four-page position
papers, describing the area of research and motivation to join the
workshop. We expect that you will also describe your expectations of
the workshop.

Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI guidelines (HCI  
archive format), see http://chi2010.org/authors/format.html#archiveformat 
.

Position papers should be sent to biosplay at affectivegaming.info

Participants will be selected on the basis of the relevance of their
work and their interests and familiarity with the topic.

Accepted papers will be collected to a publication, which will be  
published by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. We will  
also consider possibility to organize a joint journal publication  
related to workshop themes.

DEADLINES

24 May 2010: Workshop submission deadline.

27 June 2010: Workshop acceptance/rejection deadline.

10 July 2010: Authors submit to organizers camera-ready versions of  
papers.

15 September 2010: Workshop at Fun and Games 2010.

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

Kai Kuikkaniemi, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (Finland)

Lennart Nacke, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Marko Turpeinen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (Finland)

Niklas Ravaja, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (Finland)

Guillaume Chanel, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (Finland)

Hannu Korhonen, Nokia Research (Finland)

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3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

01-03 November 2010, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010

Submission Deadline: June 14, 2010
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The advent of interactive graphical systems lays the basis for a new  
mode of story-telling realized as  Interactive Digital Storytelling  
(IDS), applicable to interactive entertainment, computer games,  
education, therapy and other interactive digital applications. It  
raises opportunities and addresses challenges for redefining the  
experience of narrative through interactive simulations of computer- 
generated story worlds.

IDS thus offers interesting new possibilities for games, training, and  
learning, through the enriching of virtual characters with intelligent  
behavior, the collaboration of humans and machines in the creative
process, and the combination of narrative knowledge and user activity  
in interactive artifacts. In order to create novel applications, in  
which users play a significant role together with digital characters  
and other autonomous elements, new concepts for Human-Computer  
Interaction have to be developed. Novel conceptions from theoretical  
work in the Humanities and interactive art must also be incorporated.

IDS draws on many aspects of Computer Science, and specifically on  
Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as narrative intelligence,  
automatic dialogue- and dramamanagement, cognitive robotics and smart  
graphics. In order to process stories in real time, existing modes of  
storytelling must be formalized into computable models, combining  
ideas from narratology with computer programming. This has so far  
resulted in a technological complexity largely inaccessible to  
potential creators of IDS and end-users. There is therefore a need for  
new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of dynamic  
story models, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the  
content. Finally, there is a need for theoretical foundations  
considering the integration of so far disjunctive approaches and  
cultures.

We welcome research papers, case studies and demonstrations –  
including interactive narrative art - presenting new scientific  
results, innovative technologies, creative insights, best practice  
showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in  
the multidisciplinary research field of interactive digital  
storytelling and its related application areas, e.g. games, virtual/ 
online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and entertainment.

Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not  
limited to:

* Interactive Storytelling Theory
* Virtual Characters and Agents
* Environments and Graphical Effects
* Interactive Cinematography
* Design of Sound Interactivity
* Story Generation and Drama Management
* New Authoring Modes
* Narrativity in Digital Games
* Mixed Realities and Mobiles
* Tools for Interactive Storytelling
* Emotion Design for Interactive Storytelling
* Non-Visual Senses for Interactive Storytelling
* Social and Cognitive Approaches for Interactive Storytelling
* Semantic knowledge for Interactive Storytelling
* Real-time techniques for Interactive Storytelling
* Collaborative environments for Interactive Storytelling
* Evaluation and user experience reports
* Case studies and demonstrations


*** SUBMISSIONS ***

All submissions should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
format (Information for LNCS Authors at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Papers  
must be in English.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review.
Submissions (of all categories) that receive high ratings in the  
review process will be selected for publication by the program  
committee as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print- 
ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX,  
TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required.

Submission categories:
- Full papers (8-12 pages in the proceedings)
- Short papers (4-6 pages in the proceedings)
- Demonstration and posters (2-4 pages in the proceedings)

For the submission and review process, we will use the Easychair  
conference management systemathttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icids2010


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

June 14, 2010 Submission deadline (all categories)
July 16, 2010 Author notification of the review result
August 13, 2010 Submission of the print-ready version
November 1-3, 2010 ICIDS Conference Interactive Storytelling 2010


A limited number of Student Volunteers will be granted free access to  
the conference in exchange for helping with on-site organizational  
tasks.
Details on application modalities will be published after the  
reviewing process.

*** COMMITTEES ***

Co-Chairs: Ruth Aylett, Paolo Petta, Mark Riedl
Organisation Committee Chair: Sandy Louchart
Workshop and Tutorials Chair: Meyii Lim
Sponsors Chair: Lynne Hall

Programme Committee
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Arinbjarnar, Maria - University of York, UK
Bae, Byung-Chull – Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea
Biggs, Simon - Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Boa-Ventura, Ana – University of Texas, Austin, USA
Bushoff, Brunhild – Sagasnet, Munich, Germany
Cavazza, Marc – University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
Champagnat, Ronan - L3i - Universite de La Rochelle, UK
Correia, Nuno – New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Crawford, Chris – Storytron.com, USA
Donikian, Stéphane – IRISA / INRIA, Rennes, France
Fencott, Clive – University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Göbel, Stefan – Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Grimm, Paul – FH Erfurt, Germany
Hitchens, Michael - Macquarie University, Australia
Iurgel, Ido - CCG Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
Jantke, Klaus P. – Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany
Kudenko, Daniel – University of York, UK
Lindley, Craig - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Magerko, Brian – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Marsella, Stacy - University of Southern California, USA
Müller, Wolfgang – University of Education, Weingarten, Germany
Nack, Frank – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nakasone, Arturo – National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Nitsche, Michael - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Pan, Zhigeng – Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Pelachaud, Catherine - CNRS Telecom ParisTech, France
Prada, Rui – Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal
Rank, Stefan - OFAI (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial  
Intelligence), Austria
Rety, Jean-Hugues – University Paris 8, France
Roberts, David - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Roussou, Maria - makebelieve design & consulting, Greece
Ryan, Marie-Laure – Independent Scholar, USA
Schneider, Oliver - IGDV, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
Seif El-Nasr, Magy – Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada
Mei Si - University of Southern California, USA
Sermon, Paul - University of Salford, UK
Spierling, Ulrike – University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany
Su, Wen-Poh – Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
Sumi, Kaoru – Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Swanson, Reid – University of Southern California, USA
Szilas, Nicolas – TECFA, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tychsen, Anders – Dragon Consulting, Denmark
Wages, Richard – Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Walsh, Richard – University of York, UK
Wright, Mark - University of Edinburgh, UK
Yannakakis, Giorgios - IT Universtiy of Copenhagen, Denmark
Yun-Gyung, Cheong - Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South  
Korea
Zagalo Nelson - University of Minho, Portugal

*** CONTACT ***

Email: icids2010 at macs.hw.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)131 451 4189
Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3327
Mail
ICIDS 2010 Organisation School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,  
Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton EH14 4AS,  Scotland (UK)

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Ruth Aylett                                   Professor of Computer  
Science
Mathematics and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK      Tel: 44-131-451-4189     Fax:  
44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/                      "Life is beautiful"

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Susan Gold
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard







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