Conferences and special sessions
The ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems(EICS 2009)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
July 14-17, 2009
EICS (the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems) is a new international conference devoted to all aspects of the engineering of usable and effective interactive computing systems, ranging from traditional workstation-based interactive systems to those involving new and emerging modalities (e.g., gesture), applications (e.g., mobile and ubiquitous games) and development methods (e.g., extreme programming).
EICS focuses on tools, techniques and methods for designing and developing interactive systems. EICS brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities.
EICS is the continuation of the successful EHCI (Engineering of Human Computer Interaction) series of conferences sponsored by IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4. In addition, EICS 2009 will incorporate the 16th International Workshop on the Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSV-IS 2009).
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
http://www.springer.com/journal/12193
The Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) has launched a Call for papers for the Special issue devoted to the Summer Workshop on multimodal interfaces eNTERFACE'08 results. Deadline for papers submission is December 1, 2008.
For complete paper submission guidelines please visit: http://www.springer.com/journal/12193
IT Community News
Open Source Virtual Reality Spreads Out
A group of researchers is using a wireless open source virtual world to teach language learning to students, including allowing them to practice. "Dubbed ‘Realtown’, the newly-developed wireless environment incorporates a virtual supermarket, schools, pharmacy and bank, as well as background sounds that may be enabled to increase the environment’s realism," says the story. Realtown is actually just one of many applications of the open source framework DIVE though, which stands for Distributed Interactive Virtual Environments. Here's what it's all about and a look at some other open source virtual reality efforts.
eNTERFACE workshops
eNTERFACE’08 is finished! Visit the website to see the materials from the last days.
All the project reports, the open-source databases and code will be available from September 15
Publications
Call for papers: Journal Special Issue on Control and Intelligent Systems in Humanitarian Technologies
Deadline for submission: July 30, 2008 More details...



