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CALL FOR ENTERTAINMENT KIDS WORKSHOPS ACE 2012:

9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012 (7th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference)

As part of ACE 2012 the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing, we are organizing an activity workshop that will bring together researchers, practitioners and local kids and engage them in exploring concepts such as creativity, experience and “cool”, ways of creating entertainment media and ways of expanding children’s understanding of entertainment computing and its potential. Our goals are two fold. First, we hope to nurture and inspire young children to create new value propositions that will benefit their individual selves, communities and countries. We want to view young children in developing countries as creative innovators and ambassadors of new technologies, rather than passive end-users consumers. Second it is hoped the individual workshops will act as seeds for further research by the participants and that the results of these efforts will be published in future ACE conferences and other academic or professional venues. The submission deadline for proposals is July 8. Further details can be found at: http://ace2012.info/post/22448296814/call-for-entertainment-kids-workshops-v2-0 We hope to see you all there Yoram Chisik and Janak Bhimani Entertainment kids co-chairs ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal, 5-7 November, 2012 Submit your work here: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ace2012-nepal ACE 2012 home page http://www.ace2012.info/ Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook For paper submission questions or help please contact papers@ace2012.info For general questions about ACE 2012 please contact info@ace2012.info Unsubscribe by email

ACE 2012: 9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012 (7th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference)

REMINDER: Papers Submission 15 June 2012
ACE 2012 is very excited to announce, the brilliant and eminent pioneer of computer chess, AI, and the cutting edge area of Love and Sex with Robots will be Keynote Speaker at ACE 2012 in Nepal. Make sure you are in Nepal to see what will be an amazing speech in an amazing location!

David Levy graduated from St. Andrews University, Scotland, in 1967, and then taught practical classes in computer programming at Glasgow University for four years, before moving into the world of business and professional chess playing and writing. He wrote more than thirty books on chess, won the Scottish Championship, and he was awarded the International Master title by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, in 1969. In 1968 David started a bet with four Artificial Intelligence professors that he would not lose a chess match against a computer program within ten years. He won that bet. Since 1977 David has been involved in the development of many chess playing and other programs for consumer electronic products. David’s interest in Artificial Intelligence expanded beyond computer games into other areas of AI, including human-computer conversation, and in 1997 he led the team that won the Loebner Prize competition in New York. His fiftieth book, Love and Sex with Robots, was published in November 2007, shortly after he was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht for his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners. David is President of the International Computer Games Association, and CEO of the London based company Intelligent Toys Ltd. His hobbies include classical music and playing poker.

ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org

Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal, 5-7 November, 2012

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ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org/

Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal, 5-7 November, 2012
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ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org/
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers Submission Due: 15 June 2012 (extended)
Workshop Proposals Due: 15 June 2012 (extended)
Art and Culture Track Submission Due: 1 July 2012
Creative Showcases (Demos) Submissions Due: 1 July 2012
Poster Papers: 15 July 2012

ACE has become the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing. Interactive entertainment is one of the most vibrant areas of interest in modern society and is amongst the fastest growing industries in the world. ACE 2012 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their innovative work and discuss all aspects and challenges of interactive entertainment technology, in an exciting, cultural, and stimulating environment.

ACE is by nature a multi-disciplinary conference, therefore attracting people across a wide spectrum of interests and disciplines including computer science, design, arts, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and marketing. The main goal of ACE is to stimulate discussion in the development of new and compelling entertainment computing and interactive art concepts and applications. All ACE participants are encouraged to present work they believe will shape the future, going beyond the established paradigms, and focusing on all areas related to interactive entertainment.

The theme of ACE 2012 is “Entertaining the Whole World” Kathmandu in Nepal “The Roof of the World” has been chosen as venue. In line with this theme ACE 2012 will also emphasize the use of easily available technology. Technology for entertainment design is getting cheap or even extremely cheap. Designing interactive entertainment with commercial off the shelf technology (cheap sensors, Kinect, Arduino, etc.) is becoming regular business. How can we use this development to invent yet more new ways of harnessing the entertainment power of creating? Can we convert consumers of entertainment into creators of entertainment, where the process of creating is maybe as important than the resulting product? Also in line with the theme of this year’s conference there will be a special track on “Art and Culture” for which we are inviting position papers, games or other forms of entertainment, and interactive works of art showcasing the diversity of art and culture found in today’s digital artifacts. For details about this track see the ACE 2012 website.

ACE 2012 TOPICS
Aesthetics
Affective Computing
Animation Techniques
Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality
Avatars and Autonomous Characters
Cultural Computing
Cultural Differences and Game Design
Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting
Educational and Fitness Games
Emerging World Entertainment Creation
Emerging World Youth Usage of Entertainment
Emerging World Entertainment Products
Entertainment Design Theory
Ethics and Games
Exertion Games
Interaction and Experience Design
Funology
Game Design, Programming and Production
Human-Robot Interaction
Children-Computer Interaction
Location-Based Entertainment
Mobile and Ubiquitous Entertainment
Museum and Cultural Heritage Applications
Interactive Storytelling
Persuasive Entertainment
Pervasive and Online Games
Serious Games for Cultural Awareness
Smart Gadgets and Toys
Social Impact
Sound and Music Design
Tangible Interfaces
Urban Games
Usability and Playability
User-Centred Design
Visual Arts

To encourage presentation of such multi-disciplinary work, we invite submissions that fall into the following tracks:

– Papers
Papers present original unpublished work in technical, design, and theory or social aspects of interactive entertainment. We especially welcome papers that relate to this year’s conference theme ?Entertaining the Whole World?E Submissions to this track should not exceed 8 pages in ACM format.

– Art and Culture
Position papers, games or other forms of entertainment, and interactive works of art showcasing the diversity of art and culture found in today’s digital artifacts. Contributions are encouraged from researchers, artists, game designers, practitioners and everyone else sharing the common goal of creating entertainment for the world.
For more information about this track visit the ACE 2012 webpages.

– Creative Showcase and Interactive Art
The Creative Showcases Demonstrations track is open to a large variety of submissions including, but not limited to technical demonstrations of prototype technologies of advanced entertainment technology, all varieties of video and computer games, web and mobile-based computer entertainment, audio, visual and other sensory forms of digital interaction. Submissions to this track should not exceed 2 pages in ACM format.
For more information about this track visit the ACE 2012 webpages.

– Posters
Provides researchers with an opportunity to present their preliminary or exploratory work, smaller projects or research findings that are not yet suitable for a regular paper, but nonetheless are merit of discussion from an open forum. Submissions to this track should not exceed 2 pages in ACM format.
For more information about this track visit the ACE 2012 webpages.

– Workshops
Conference workshops typically provide valuable in-depth discussions of specific topics in computer entertainment technology. If you are working in an emerging area in entertainment computing, please consider organizing a workshop. They are an opportunity to move a new field forward and build a community. These workshops may consist of both invited and contributed papers that will highlight exciting new developments and currents trends of research.
Papers, Art and Culture contributions, posters and Creative Showcase abstracts will appear in the ACE 2011 Digital Proceedings. Selection of papers will appear in special issues of Computers in Entertainment (ACM), and International Journal of Arts and Technology (Inderscience).

Awards:
Best papers and creative showcases, including the Art and Culture track, will be selected based on a jury of well respected pioneers in the field attending the conference. We will honour the authors of these publications by presenting awards including:
* Paper award categories: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
* Creative showcase award categories: Gold, Silver, and Bronze

NOTIFICATION DATES
Workshops: 30 June 2012
Papers: 15 August 2012
Posters: 15 August 2012
Creative Show Cases: 15 August 2012
Art and Culture track: 15 August 2012

CAMERA-READY DATES
Papers: 9 September 2012
Creative Show Cases: 9 September 2012
Art and Culture track: 9 September 2012
Posters: 9 September 2012

GENERAL CHAIRS
Aashmi Rajya Lakshmi Rana (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Ichiya Nakamura (Keio University, Yokohama-city, Japan)

PROGRAM CHAIR
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Email: anijholt@cs.utwente.nl
PROGRAM CO-CHAIR
Teresa Romao (CITI, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

SOCIAL MEDIA and POSTER CHAIR
Andres Lucero (Nokia Research center, Tampere, Finland)

ORGANIZING CHAIRS
Aashmi Rajya Lakshmi Rana (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Roshan Chamling Rai (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Ajith Perakum Madurapperuma (Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Singapore)

CREATIVE SHOWCASES CHAIRS
Dennis Reidsma (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)
Shoichi Hasegawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)

ART & CULTURE TRACK CHAIR
Guenter Wallner (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fernando Birra (CITI, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

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