Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Augmented Human Conference – Digital Art Section Call for artwork submissions Deadline January 13th



The third Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2012)
Augmented Human Conference – Digital Art Section
Call for artwork submissions
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Megève, France, March 8th - 9th, 2012
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 The third Augmented Human (AH) International Conference will be held in Megève on March 8th and 9th 2012 after being in Tokyo last year. The AH international conference focuses on scientific contributions towards augmenting humans capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience.
 The “Digital Art Section” category at AH2012 is dedicated to digital works in all forms and formats, from software pieces to network art to installations related to the topic of “augmented human”. The conference is looking for works that exemplify the unique contribution of digital media to the human experience and demonstrate the exciting perspectives that result from the reality of an augmented human existence. Contributions should already be in an advanced stage so that they can be realized at least partially in an exhibition space. Consequently, works in a purely conceptual state will not be accepted. Artists wishing to submit such concepts should consider a submission as a paper in the main conference section.
 Since the conference venue is an upper-class ski resort with many art fans, a special Augmented Human and Art (AHA) exhibition session open to the public will be organized on March 10th and 11th if enough demonstrations and art materials are accepted to the conference. Works accepted to the exhibition may be put on sale during the exhibition session.
 Participation is open to individuals, groups, institutions, companies etc.
 Exclusively commercially oriented activities in the sense of product advertisement are excluded.
 Submission Details
There is a special demonstration/art material paper format: each work has to be entered in the form of a paper (2 pages maximum) formatted according to the ACM format and that may contain a link to video or a website. It must include the name of the proposal, an artist statement,  a resume of the artist(s) involved, and a description of the intended work. Additionally, the documentation should explain the essentials of how the work functions (space requirements, materials, form of interaction, role of the participants, interaction flow, mode of display, etc.) This information is essential and no works will be accepted without this information. Additional material (sketches, photos, etc.) may be included with all entered works.
Please use the easychair system for submissions and tick the category Augmented and Digital Art. Details are available here: http://www.augmented-human.com/page/ah12-acm-submission
  
Committee members AHA 12 Digital Art Section
 Hartmut Koenitz        University of Georgia (Chair)
Janet Murray  Georgia Institute of Technology
Ken Knoespel Georgia Institute of Technology
Gabriele Ferri  Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Università di Bologna
Patrick J. Coppock     Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Digdem Sezen Istanbul University Faculty of Communications
Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen            Istanbul University Faculty of Communications
Martin Rieser  Art + Design, DeMontfort University
Mads Haahr    Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Kevin Quennesson      Multimedia Artist, San Francisco
Noam Knoller Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Robert Strzebkowski  FB Informatik und Medien, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin
Udi Ben-Arie  Department of Film and TV, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Patrícia Gouveia          Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
Ido Iurgel         Universidade do Minho/Centro de Computação Gráfica
Niklas Vollmer            Georgia State University
Diane Gromala            Simon Frasier University

Monday, January 09, 2012

AH '12 - Final submission deadline 13 January 2012 23:59 PST


Call for Papers AH 2012



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The Third Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2012)
Megève, France, March 8th - 9th, 2012 
http://www.augmented-human.com
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The third Augmented Human (AH) International Conference will be held in Megève on March 8th and 9th 2012 after being in Tokyo last year.

The AH international conference focuses on scientific contributions towards augmenting humans capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As for AH'10 and AH'11, the proceedings of the conference should be published in theACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series. As the conference venue is an upper-class ski resort with many art fans, a special Augmented Human and Art (AHA) exhibition session open to the public should be organised on March 10th and 11th if enough demonstration and art material are accepted to the conference. The art researchers may choose to put on sale theirart material exhibited during the exhibition session.


Scopes and Interests:The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Augmented and Mixed Reality
Internet of Things
Augmented Sport
Sensors and Hardware
Wearable Computing
Augmented Health
Augmented Well-being
Smart artifacts; Smart Textiles
Augmented Tourism and Games
Ubiquitous Computing
Bionics and Biomechanics
Training/Rehabilitation Technology
ExoskeletonsBrain Computer 
Interface
Augmented Context-Awareness
Augmented Fashion
Augmented Art
Safety, Ethics and Legal Aspects
Security and Privacy


Submission Categories:


There are four paper categories to be published in the ACM digital library according to the ACM format :


1) short paper (4 pages, 15 minutes presentation during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)
2) full paper (8 pages, 30 minutes presentation during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)
3) poster paper (2 pages, poster presented during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)
4) special demonstration/art material paper (2 pages, demonstration/art material during the public exhibition on March 10th and 11th)


Important Dates:


January 13th 2012 23:59 PST, all papers submission deadline (full, short, poster, demos...)
February 3rd 2012, author notification
February 10th 2012, camera-ready copy and ACM copyright submitted
March 8th and 9th 2012, scientific conference in Megève
March 10th and 11th 2012, potential augmented human and art public exhibition (to be confirmed)


Organizing Committee:

Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University, Japan
Pranav Mistry, MIT, USA
Guillaume Moreau, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Peter Fröhlich, FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria
Jacques Lefaucheux, JLX3D, France
Masahiko Inami, Keio Media Design, Japan
George Baciu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Ivan Poupyrev, Disney Research, USA
Jean-Louis Vercher, CNRS et Université de la Méditerranée, France
Hartmut Koenitz, University of Georgia, USA
Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ken Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Gabriele Ferri, Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Università di Bologna, Italy
Patrick J. Coppock, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Digdem Sezen, Istanbul University Faculty of Communications, Turkey
Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Istanbul University Faculty of Communications, Turkey
Martin Rieser, Art + Design, DeMontfort University, United Kingdom
Mads Haahr, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Kevin Quennesson, Multimedia Artist, San Francisco, USA
Noam Knoller, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Robert Strzebkowski, FB Informatik und Medien, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Germany
Udi Ben-Arie, Department of Film and TV, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Patrícia Gouveia, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Ido Iurgel, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
Damien Ehrhardt, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France
Karla Felix Navarro, School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dzmitry Tsetserukou, EIIRIS, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Masaaki FUKUMOTO, NTT DoCoMo Research Labs, Japan
Ken Endo, MIT, USA
Kentaro Fukuchi, Meiji University, Japan
Bogdan Stanciulescu, Mines Paris Tech, France


AH 2011 full information: http://www.augmented-human.com