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Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media (University of York)
by Jonathan Hook 09 May '18

09 May '18

Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media (University of York) Salary Range: £31,604 - £38,832 a year Apply by: 08/06/2018 https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we… <https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_we…> We invite applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media to contribute to the University of York’s BSc in Interactive Media programme. Launched in September 2014, this interdisciplinary BSc programme achieved an overall satisfaction score of 95% in the 2017 National Student Survey, and was in the top 5 for 6 measures in its subject area. Within the Russell Group, the BSc in Interactive Media programme scored the highest for 6 measures in its subject area. This position will commence mid-September 2018 and will be available as a full time appointment for a period of 9 months. The successful candidate will lead and teach on existing modules covering introductory software development in Processing (Java) and the interactive media software development process (e.g. system design, user experience, prototyping and project management). Depending on your experience, you will also contribute to teaching software development for games and virtual environments or media asset creation (e.g. the editing of images, videos, audio and 3D models). You will complement the dynamic interdisciplinary teaching team of the BSc Interactive Media programme that spans programming, design, media production and humanities, and work with motivated and highly creative students in a rewarding and productive Interactive Media community. We seek applicants with a postgraduate degree, ideally a PhD but at least a Masters degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Computer Science, HCI or Games Design and Development) and with experience of teaching at HE level. The applicant must have essential knowledge of object oriented programming, especially Java and Unity (C#), key software development methodologies and lifecycles, and software project phases. The applicant must also have the skills to design, manage and deliver their own teaching, carry out assessment duties, engage with a wide ranging audience, as well as supervise student work. With respect to personal attributes, the applicant must demonstrate attention to detail and commitment high-quality work, a collaborative ethos, a positive attitude to colleagues and students, willingness to work proactively and ability to plan and prioritise their own work. The role will be held within the University’s interdisciplinary Department of Theatre, Film and Television (TFTV). TFTV was established in 2006, and is a highly innovative department which brings together research, teaching and commercial activities in the fields of interactive media, film, television and theatre. In September 2010, we moved into a £30m purpose-designed building with superb facilities for both production activities and academic study. In 2015, the department together with Computer Science started leading the Digital Creativity Labs, a newly funded £18m flagship project of the UK Government’s Digital Economy programme. Please direct informal enquiries to the BSc in Interactive Media Programme Leader, Dr Jenna Ng (telephone: 01904 325277; e-mail: jenna.ng(a)york.ac.uk) Jonathan Hook Lecturer in Interactive Media Department of Theatre, Film and Television University of York, Baird Lane, YO10 5GB +44 (0)1904 325238 www.jonhook.co.uk <http://www.jonhook.co.uk/>

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IFIP-ICEC || Computers in Entertainment || 18-20th Sept 2018 || DL(extended) papers 21st May 2018 || Poznan, Poland
by Artur Lugmayr 06 May '18

06 May '18

========================================================================== ========================================================================== ========================================================================== 17th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING (ICEC'18), co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC'18) “ explore . create . reflect . develop ” Bridging the gap between technology, HCI, business, design, and art in entertainment Date: 18-20 September, 2018 Venue: Poznan, Poland http://www.ifip-icec.org HIGHLIGHTS: - DEADLINES extended: 21st May 2018 - Papers, 4th June Posters, Demos, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions - 4 GREAT WORKSHOPS: * Bio-Sensing Platforms for “Wellness Entertainment” System Design: Bio-Sensing, Interactive Media Art, and Wellness Entertainment * Designing Entertainment for the Aging Population (DEAP 2018) * Entertainment Computation - A Key for Improving Inclusion and Reducing Gender Gap? * Workshop on Robot Competitions - KEYNOTE SPEAKER Keynote Speaker Prof. Ellen Yi-Luen Do from Univ. of Colorado Boulder, US “From Design Computing to Creating Unique Technologies for Everyone” - breaking NEW ACTIVITIES@ICEC: art exhibition, ICEC award, new conference areas - NEW AREAS@ICEC media studies, human-computer-interaction, business & information systems - IFIP ICEC Entertainment Award STAY IN TOUCH - Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EntertainmentComputing/ - Subscribe to our Mailinglist on www.ifip-icec.org - Twitter: @IFIP_ICEC ========================================================================== ========================================================================== ========================================================================== The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computation is the longest lasting and prime scientific conference series in the area of Entertainment Computing. It brings together practitioners, researchers, artists, designers, and industry on the design, creation, development, use, application and evaluation of digital entertainment content and experience systems. The conference series is cross-disciplinary, and stretches over the domains of computer science, human-computer-interaction, content production, digital games, multimedia, media studies, art, and design. The conference series aims at presenting high quality scientific results spanning from theory to application, use-cases, experience, and demonstrations. We solicit papers, posters, and demonstrations, as well as we are looking for tutorial and workshop proposal. The conference theme for 2018 is “Explore . Create . Reflect . Develop”. All papers are published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Best full papers are recommended to publish in a special issue of the Elsevier Entertainment Computing Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: · March 14, 2018: Workshops (notification March 30, 2018) · EXTENDED May 21, 2018: Long and Short Papers (notification June, 5 2018) · EXTENDED June 4, 2018: Posters, Demos, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions (notification June 5, 2018) · June 19, 2018: Camera Ready Papers Due (all tracks) · July 1, 2018: Suggested Deadline for Workshop Papers · July 1, 2018: Art Exhibitions Entries · August 1, 2018: Doctoral Consortium Application - Short (6pp) and long papers (12pp) - Posters (4pp + the actual poster in A0 as pdf) - Art, Demonstrations and Interactive Exhibits (4pp including description of the experience) - Industry track (1pp + modality /demonstration, justification of modality: demo/presentation) - Workshops and tutorials (4pp) - Doctoral consortium (4pp) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND CONTACT INFORMATION All submission guidelines can be found on the conference website on http://www.ifip-icec.org. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please contact us under contact(a)ifip-icecc.org. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS The conference is organized by the IFIP-TC14 - Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA - General Chair - Kathrin Gerling, KU Leuven, BELGIUM - General Chair - Esteban Clua, Fluminese Federal Univ., BRAZIL - Program Chair - Licinio Roque, from Universidade de Coimbra, PORTUGAL - Program Chair - Rainer Malaka, Univ. of Bremen, GERMANY - IFIP TC 14 Chair TOPICS We invite the submission of papers, posters, demos, tutorials and workshop proposals on the design, development, and study of broad forms of digital entertainment. Topics include but are not limited to: Emerging Topics in Entertainment Computing - Ubiquitous Computing and Interfaces in Entertainment - Immersive and Virtual Multimedia Experiences - Quality of Services (QoS), and Quality of Experience (QoE) - AI, Big Data, and Deep Learning in Entertainment - Content Production and Production Systems Digital Games and Interactive Entertainment - Game Design and Development - Interactive Narratives & Digital Storytelling - Entertainment Robots, Toys & Smart Gadgets Design, Human-Computer Interaction, and Analysis of Entertainment Systems - Experience Design & Analysis - Telemetry & Semi-Automated Analysis - Methodologies, Tools & Techniques for Entertainment - Human Factors & Performance of Entertainment Applications & Technology Interactive Art, Performance and Cultural Computing - Digital Art & Installations - Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality & Entertainment - Ubiquitous/Pervasive Entertainment - Sound, Music & Performance - TransMedia and Entertainment - Social Computing Entertainment Devices, Platforms & Systems - Digital Entertainment Hardware & Devices - Ambient Entertainment - Digital Broadcasting and Digital Cinema - Interactive Television and Broadcasting Theoretical Foundations and Ethical Issues - Emotions and Affective Interaction - Social / Cultural Impacts of Digital Entertainment - Issues of Public Relations & Advertising Through Entertainment Entertainment for Purpose & Persuasion - Serious & Learning Games - Games for Health & Well-Being - Games For Change & Social Impact Games - Exergaming - Advergames and Digital Marketing Computational Methodologies for Entertainment - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Entertainment - Procedural Content Generation - Computer Graphics & Visual Effects - Big Data in Entertainment - Security & Privacy in Entertainment[K1] Media Studies, Communication, Business, and Information Systems - Information Technology in Media Industry - IT and the Economics of Media Business - Audience Measurement and Participation - Interplay between technology, content, and consumer choice - Adoption and diffusion of technology driven media products - New communication models through emerging new technologies

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[IEEE_VPG] Call for Nomination - VGTC/VPG Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao 04 May '18

04 May '18

*** Please distribute widely throughout your institutions as appropriate DEADLINE: *June 15th 2018* The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC <http://vgtc.org/>) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG <http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group>) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS <http://ieeevis.org/> conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2016 and August 15, 2018 are eligible for the 2018 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARD The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) <http://www.computer.org/cga>. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the VPG OC to handle details such as publicity and administration. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor, which includes: - the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, - the name and email address of the candidate, and - a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission. On behalf of the VPG Operating Committee Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME(a)computer.org <lme(a)computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel

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Final Call for Papers (Extended Deadlines) - VISSOFT 2018
by Andreas Kerren 04 May '18

04 May '18

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email ======================================================================= Call for Papers (Extended Deadline) VISSOFT 2018 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization September 24-25, 2018 - Madrid, Spain http://vissoft18.etsii.urjc.es Abstract submission date: May 15, 2018 (extended; technical paper track) Paper submission date: May 22, 2018 (extended; technical paper track) ======================================================================= Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including software development practices, evolution, structure, and software runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software engineering domain. The VISSOFT conference is principally a venue for publishing and discussing research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a community of researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. This year’s VISSOFT, co-held with ICSME, encourages a variety of submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel ideas and tools. VISSOFT topics of interest include: * Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code, dependencies, repositories, developer social networks like StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation, runtime logs, and DevOps data. * Visualization to support software development activities, including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension, software testing, and debugging. * Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization * Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education * Integration of software visualization tools with development environments * Empirical evaluation of software visualizations * Industrial experience with using software visualization * Applications of new technologies to enhance software visualization, including virtual reality, augmented reality, gamification, and machine learning. We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tools track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. == Technical papers == A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not include the bibliography, which is not limited in length. The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL to the video should be provided. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a response to reviewer requests for clarifications before a final decision is made. After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool, data, model, etc.). The following section provides more info about it. Important Dates: Abstract submission date: May 15, 2018 (extended) Paper submission date: May 22, 2018 (extended) Author response period: June 9 - June 11, 2018 (extended) Notification: June 15, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == Artifacts == Traditionally, technical research papers are published without including any artifacts (such as tools, data, models, videos, etc.), even though the artifacts may serve as crucial and detailed evidence for the quality of the results that the associated paper offers. Following the effort initiated at ESEC/FSE’11, authors of accepted technical papers at VISSOFT 2018 can have their artifacts evaluated by the program committee. Positively evaluated artifacts will be reflected in the paper publication, presentation, and be formally announced during the conference. A paper with an accepted artifact will have five extra minutes of presentation which can be used to present the artifact. The authors will also be invited to demo the artifact during the interactive informal demo session organized for the tool demo track. Given the short time between the acceptance notification and the deadline to submit the artifact, we suggest the authors to start preparing it beforehand. Finally, for more information about the artifact evaluation process visit http://www.artifact-eval.org. Important Dates: Artifact submission: June 22, 2018 Artifact notification: July 11, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == NIER and Tool papers== We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 11, 2018 Notification: July 2, 2018 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2018 == Organizing Committee == General Co-Chairs: J. Ángel Velázquez Iturbide, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain http://www.lite.etsii.urjc.es/members/angel-velazquez/ Jaime Urquiza Fuentes, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain https://jaime-urquiza.blogspot.com.es/ Program Co-Chairs: Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden http://homepage.lnu.se/staff/akemsi/ Mircea F. Lungu, University of Groningen, The Netherlands http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.f.lungu/ NIER/Tool Co-Chairs: Katherine E. Isaacs, University of Arizona, USA http://cgi.cs.arizona.edu/~kisaacs/ Michael Burch, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://www.tue.nl/staff/m.burch Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Johan Fabry, Raincode Labs, Belgium https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw-9h4AAAAAJ&hl=en Roberto Minelli, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland http://robertominelli.com Most Influential Paper Award Chairs Wim De Pauw, Google Inc https://www.linkedin.com/in/wim-de-pauw-928397/ Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/ For updates, visit http://vissoft.info or follow * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevissoft/ * Twitter: @IEEEVISSOFT Best regards, Andreas Kerren and Mircea Lungu Program Co-Chairs

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DISA@VIS Call for Papers
by Dominik Moritz 02 May '18

02 May '18

The 3rd Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis (DSIA 2018), Co-located with VIS 2018, Berlin http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ October 21 or 22, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018. *** Submission Deadline: July 17, 2018 *** MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND The goal of DSIA is to foster innovative research at the intersection of databases, machine learning, and interactive visualization. In this workshop, we will explore the idea that the next generation of database, machine learning, and interactive visualization systems should not be designed in isolation. For example, machine learning techniques might recommend improved data transformation and visual encoding decisions. Or, database query optimizers might take advantage of perceptual constraints, while prefetching methods reduce latency by modeling likely interactions. This workshop seeks to jump start cross-pollination between these fields. The program will be split between invited talks from researchers in these communities, and speculative, ongoing work that straddles the areas. Please see http://www.interactive-analysis.org/ for links to the program from previous years. LIST OF TOPICS This workshop will focus on interactive systems: techniques, methods, architecture, systems that enable the user to interactively explore and analyze large amounts of data in the back end with little or no latency. We encourage late-breaking work, research in progress, and position papers in interactive analysis, broadly construed. For example, topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to): * design of database architectures for interactive analysis * novel database applications for interactive analysis * novel database techniques based on perceptual constraints and human-centered design * evaluation of database systems for interactive analysis * identify unique characteristics of databases for supporting vis * communication protocols between front and back ends * techniques for data storage, retrieval, compression, transformation, sampling, and streaming * techniques for metadata generation * front-end architectures that exploit these novel back-end capabilities We are interested, more generally, in the questions that arise at the *intersection* of these systems. SUBMISSIONS Papers are 4 to 6 pages excluding references in IEEE VIS paper format. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and authors can choose to include their papers in the IEEE archive. In addition to their presentation, authors have the option to give a demo of their system or tool. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: July 17, 2018 * Notification Date: August 7, 2018 * Final Version Due: August 17, 2018 (before VIS early registration deadline) * Workshop Date: October 21 or 22, 2018 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Dominik Moritz, University of Washington. * Joseph Cottam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. * Leilani Battle, University of Washington/University of Maryland. * Marianne Procopio, Tufts University. CONTACT Website: http://www.interactive-analysis.org Email: organizers(a)interactive-analysis.org

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CDVE2018 Short paper deadline approaching - May 10, 2018
by cdve .org 01 May '18

01 May '18

*CDVE2018 Call for Short Papers - The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering – paper deadline May 10, 2018* The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2018 will be held from October 21 - 24, 2018 in Hangzhou, China. You are welcome to submit papers to the conference. The conference proceedings of CDVE2018 will be published by the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All accepted short papers will be published with the full papers in the proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The topics of the paper should be within the scope of the conference. See the conference web page *http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html <http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html>* for detailed information. At least one keyword of your paper should be in the call of papers. All the papers should follow the LNCS format restrictively. The submission page is: *http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2018 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2018>* *Short Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2018*. Short papers - 4 pages, Notification of acceptance of short and full papers: June 10, 2018. *Poster Paper submission deadline:* June 20, 2018 *Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors:* July 10, 2018 October 21 - 24, 2018: CDVE2018 conference in Hangzhou, China *Venue* Hangzhou is the most famous city in its natural scenery in China and the booming base of the China internet e-commerce miracle. It is near Shanghai. We will visit the head quarter of the company Alibaba during the conference. You will enjoy it for sure! *Contact* All questions about submissions should be emailed to cdve2018(a)easychair.org If you still want to submit a full paper of 8 pages, you are welcome to submit it before May 10, 2018. Please feel free to forward this call. -- The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. October 21 - 24,2018, Hangzhou, China Email: cdve2018(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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