Design Festivals 07 – Call for Proposals
Friday, March 16th, 2007http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
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Description:
CEPHAD is an informal international organization created to stimulate the flow of ideas between research in philosophy and research in design.
The 2nd Singapore Design Festival will be held from 28 November to 8 December 2007. The Festival will be a multifaceted experience focusing on the design process and the conceptualisation of ideas. In essence the Festival aims to build upon the design culture in Singapore and around the world, making it an interactive and “live” experience of the design process and its end products.
The Festival activities will take place around Singapore downtown, fanning out to other areas all over Singapore. With a focus on design development, the Festival offers a broad range of activities including conventions, country presentations, curated exhibitions, workshops, open houses, product placements, award ceremonies and opportunities to meet other leaders in the design arena.
From designers to design policy makers, agencies, schools, media, related industries, businesses and the general public – all are welcome to participate, enjoy and learn.
www.designsingapore.org/RunScript.asp?Page=255&p=ASPPg255.asp
12 JUne 2007: Call for Workshop Participation. Transmedial Interactions and Digital Games, Salzburg, Austria
http://hcid.informatics.indiana.edu/ace2007/
held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Workshop Aims & Goals
As virtual worlds and games grow in importance, present limitations in access to them limits their ability to achieve their potential. In persistent online worlds, peer actions and event changes have cumulative effects that are consequential to individuals, whether or not they are available, just as in real life. But unlike real life, where we have plenty of tools to help us juggle multiple responsibilities, access into virtual worlds today occurs through a single access point; active participation requires a significant stationary commitment. Even the most dedicated users have difficulty keeping up with the dynamic information. To remain active and included, users need better ways to communicate, cooperate, and coordinate. Transmedial access, in which players’ access to a game and their characters/data is made possible across different devices, offers a promising solution to this problem. It also inaugurates a new category of interaction design: transmedial interaction.
This workshop explores the state of the art of transmedial interaction in games, which today unfortunately is often at most mere afterthought. It provides a participatory environment in which attendees can chart new paths forward, from developing viable business models and understanding the technical infrastructure to developing critical vocabularies and evaluative frameworks.
The workshop is intended for a broad audience, which will collaboratively achieve the following:
- Review current state-of-the-art examples of transmedia interactions in entertainment computing, especially video games
- Survey the technical infrastructure needed for transmedia interactions in digital games (e.g., feedback, adaptivity, etc.)
- Understand how the strength and weakness of different media channels shape player experiences during transmedia interactions
- Construct design guidelines for transmedial interactions and determine the components needed for successful and seamless transmedial interaction design
- Consider evaluation criteria for transmedial interactions
Submission
We encourage participation from diverse academic disciplines including design, HCI, computer science,, media and game studies, strategic communications, and psychology, as well as industry experts and practitioners, for a total of 15-20 people. Specifically, this workshop will create a synergy among the following target audiences:
- Online and mobile game designers interested in developing appropriate mechanisms to overcome the difficulty of designing for multiple media channels and cross-media experiences
- Interaction designers and researchers interested in human-human and human-machine interactions across devices, including mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Gaming industry pioneers interested in the exploration of novel ways to extend and integrate different media channels’ capacities to create cross-device and cross-network experiences for their target customers
- Entertainment computing marketers interested in identifying key challenges and solutions in promoting transmedial experiences
Participants will be selected based on 2-4 page position papers that address workshop goals. Send submissions (PDF) to Shaowen Bardzell (selu [at] indiana.edu) with subject “ACE 2007 Workshop Submission” by March 30, 2007.
Publication:
Accepted position papers will be published on the workshop website. Depending on the outcomes of the workshop and the interests of the workshop attendees, the organizers may also coordinate further publications.
From Business to Buttons focuses on how to create positive effects for the business and for society when designing Information Technology. The conference, arranged for the first time in 2007, takes place in Malmö, Sweden. June 14-15.