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CHI 2011 Workshop
Gamification: Using Game Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts

http://bit.ly/grn-chi2011

“Gamification” is an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-game systems to improve user experience (UX) and user engagement. The recent introduction of ‘gamified’ applications such as Foursquare to large end-user audiences promises new lines of inquiry and rich data sources for the many endeavors in human-computer interaction (HCI) that have explored game-related heuristics, design patterns and dynamics of motivating, positive user experiences – endeavors as various as persuasive technology, funology, incentive centered design, the social psychology of online communities, motivational affordances, or game UX.

The goal of this one-day workshop at CHI 2011 is to bring together HCI researchers and practitioners from these diverse fields to take the next step forward by building a shared picture of the current state of approaches and findings pertinent to gamification, and to identify synergies, key opportunities and questions for future research.

Submission details

We invite researchers from all theoretical and methodological backgrounds to submit a 2-4 page position paper in the CHI extended abstracts format on ongoing empirical work, (potentially summative) accounts of existing approaches and findings, or work that might otherwise elucidate the user experience, psychology, social dynamics and design of information systems employing game elements via e-mail to chi2011 (at) gamification-research.org.

Note that at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference.

Organizing Committee

• Sebastian Deterding, Hamburg University, Germany
• Dan Dixon, University of the West of England, UK
• Lennart Nacke, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Kenton O’Hara, Microsoft Research Cambridge, USA
• Miguel Sicart, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Schedule

• Submission deadline: January 14, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2011
• Workshop: May 7 or 8, 2011 (final date to follow)

Links

• CFP: http://bit.ly/grn-chi2011
• Further information: http://gamification-research.org/chi2011
• Updates: http://twitter.com/gamifyresearch

Oggi processo le email, quindi sto ripescando un po’ di call recenti.

Dal 4 all’8 luglio 2011, alla Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK si terrà la “25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction”.

Se siete interessati, la submission scade il 21 gennaio, e l’indirizzo della call è: http://www.hci2011.co.uk/

Buona scrittura!

All’Università di Huddersfield, UK, il 10 e l’11 marzo 2011 si terrà questa interessante conferenza, definita della call “conversational” e interdisciplinare.

Gli approcci alla data visualisation ritenuti coerenti sono:

• Sensual, aesthetic, poetic and conceptual approaches
• The role of inter-, trans-, or meta-disciplinary collaboration
• Methods, case studies or frameworks that facilitate dialogue and exchange across disciplines
• Themes around sustainability, ecological literacy or climate change
• Physical installations that transcend screen-based modalities
• Sonic visualisation and sonification
• Interactive and immersive visualization
• Affective visualisation (real time representation of affective data)
• Aesthetic and semantic investigation of data sets
• Novel interfaces for navigation of data
• Human statistical data (such as bio-signal, biological, birth-rates, energy consumption)
• Astrophysical and cosmological data and simulations (such as solar wind, cosmic radiation, planetary motions, large scale structures, N-body simulations, gravitational waves)
• ‘Displays’ that make use of natural forces such as light, water, fog, wind etc. as outputs
• Pollution and environmental data (weather, gravity, volcanoes, earthquakes)
  Visualisation / mappings of complex networks or processes
• Live data (local and remote)
• Neuro-plastic applications
• Open APIs, open platforms, open formats, open hardware

La deadline per l’abstract (300 parole) è il 6 dicembre 2010.

L’indirizzo per la submission:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsvis2011

Buon lavoro !

La 9° Conferenza Internazionale su Mobile e Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2010) si terrà a Limassol, Cipro, dal 1 al 3 dicembre 2010.

Quest’anno è stato organizzato dalla University of Technology (www.cut.ac.cy) e dalla Frederick University (www.frederick.ac.cy), sempre di Cipro.

Tra i keynote ci saranno:

• "ErdOS: A Social Network Operating System for Mobile Resource Pooling", Prof. Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
• "Network Coding and User Cooperation on Mobile Phones", Prof. Frank Fitzek, University of Aalborg, Denmark

Per la registrazione, che scade il 3/11/10: http://www.mum2010.org/registration.html

Buona conferenza a tutti

Tira una strana aria, in Università: sarà per il vento di riforma, sarà per i concorsi che si avvicinano (forse), sarà che una volta finito il dottorato ci si ritrova sospesi in un Limbo di fantasmi…
In soldoni, i colleghi mi sembrano sempre più attenti alla pubblicazione, alla partecipazione a conferenze e congressi vari.

Per chi volesse affilare le armi prima di gettarsi nella mischia dell’Impact Factor, segnalo questo simposio, organizzato dalla LIHE (International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education – http://lihe.wordpress.com/):
LIHE – Writing for Journal Publication (ulteriori informazioni qui)

Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications

Copioeincollo dalla call:

The third in a series of biennial international conferences on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), will be held in Wrexham, North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 8th to Friday 11th September 2009.

The conference will draw together researchers and developers from academia and industry across all fields of Internet computing and engineering.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition to a full
technical programme, including keynote presentations, papers, posters, tutorials and
special sessions, the social itinerary will include a visit to the historic English city of Chester and a mediaeval Welsh banquet at Ruthin Castle.

ITA 05 and ITA 07 were extremely successful events. ITA 09 aims to be bigger and better in every way. Come and join us in Wrexham in September 2009!

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is
6 February 2009.

Enquiries: v.grout@glyndwr.ac.uk
Web address: http://www.ita09.org
Sponsored by: British Computer Socie

Ecco, diciamo che l’assegno di ricerca, per quanto dignitoso, non riuscirebbe a sostenere la partecipazione (del tutto surrettizia, tra l’altro) a questa conferenza:

ED-MEDIA 2009: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

• June 22-26, 2009
• Honolulu, Hawaii   (Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort)
• Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2008

La call la trovate qui: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm