5th Workshop on Tabletop Games

December 7th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

We welcome research papers at the 5th Workshop on Tabletop Games, held on 11th of April at the Foundations of Digital Games conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

Analog games have seen a surge of interest: board game cafés, new titles, and a more accepting culture to role-playing games as a pass-time has fueled a boom in sales. However, academic research is relatively stagnating upon the analog domain as an object of design, due to both the interdisciplinary nature taking cues from computer science, narrative creation, psychology, and due to a lack of good publication venues for such works. Although being integrated to achieve crucial outcomes such as brain health diagnosis, industrial training, recruitment process, analog games have been under-studied in terms of human factors consideration and design improvisation. The workshop endeavors to highlight such issues by discussing existing solutions and potential areas of improvement. Furthermore, the aim of this workshop is to address the gap between research and practice, looking at the ways in which academics can apply their tools to the discussion of analog games; this includes but is not limited to board games, war games, and tabletop role-playing.

We welcome paper submissions describing novel research, with a page limit of 8 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games conference. The deadline for papers is 27 January 2023. Submissions can be made via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdg2023 (choose the Workshop on Tabletop Games track)

 

TOPICS

 

Tabletop games span a broad range of applications, but indicative topics for papers include but not limited to:

 

* Player/User Experience Testing and Playtest Methodologies

* Design and Manufacturing of Physical Game Objects

* Impact of 3D printing and rapid prototyping

* Rules Generation, Development, and Extraction

* Crowd-Funding Development and Processes

* Social Networks and Discussion Groups on Analog Games

* Impact of YouTube (i.e. video rule-books) on games rules presentation

* IoT Technologies in Games Objects

* Procedural Content Generation

* Technology applied to the understanding of play

* Historical Reviews, Post Mortem, and Lessons Learned

* Dos and Don'ts of Game Design

* Applications of tabletop games (education, personal transformation, cultural heritage, etc)

* Digital support/extensions to tabletop games (including XR)

* Ancient tabletop games.

 

 

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Papers submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review, and each submission will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation of their paper at the workshop. Presenters are expected to attend physically.

All submissions should be anonymized, as the review process is double-blind. All submissions should be in PDF format and comply with the new ACM interim template and need to import ACM CCS 2012 concepts. Both one-column and two-column ACM format options are acceptable, and both LaTeX and Word ACM templates are acceptable for producing the PDF file.

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (to the “Workshop on Tabletop Games” track).

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Paper submission deadline: 27 January 2023

 

Author notification deadline: 3 March 2023

 

 Camera-ready paper deadline: 24 March 2023

 

WEBSITE

 

More details can be found on https://tabletopgamesworkshop.org/ 

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ICME 2023: Call for workshop proposals

December 6th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Call for Workshop Proposals
 
July 10-14, 2023, Brisbane, Australia
 
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is a flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. ICME serves as a premier forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems and applications, from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. ICME workshops aim to explore emerging research topics, bridge the multimedia research advances with other research areas, and trigger live discussions among researchers and practitioners. The Workshops will be held in conjunction with ICME 2023 in Brisbane, Australia.

We seek proposals from individuals and teams interested in organizing exciting and compelling workshops. A workshop proposal should provide the following information:
 

  • Title, scope, topics and duration (half or full day) of the workshop
  • Workshop format (papers, posters, demos, panels, invited speakers, etc.)
  • Rationale
    • How is the workshop related to ICME2023;
    • Why the workshop topic is current and important;
    • Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality;
    • Its difference from other workshops and conferences covering similar topics
  • History of the workshop if any (organizers, where it was held, number of submissions, number of accepted papers, numbers of attendees in past years)
  • Organizing team and tentative committee lists (organizers, steering committee if any, confirmed TPC members, endorsement by society TCs, etc.).
  • A draft of the call for papers, if available.

 
Workshop proposals should not exceed four pages and should be submitted to the Workshop Co-Chairs.


Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on various criteria including the quality and level of details of the proposal, the theme of the workshop, its relevance to the main conference, and the overall balance of the conference workshop program.
 
Important Dates:

  • Workshop proposal submission:     Dec. 15, 2022
  • Workshop paper submission:         March 23, 2023

 
Workshop Co-chairs:

Main conference website: http://2023.ieeeicme.org

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mark your calendars: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics conferences

December 6th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

 

Dear Friends,

 

At today’s meeting of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society Board, it was decided that the 2025 IEEE SMC conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, on October 5-8, 2025.

 

The next IEEE SMC conference SMC’2023 will be in Maui, Hawaii, October 1-4, 2023; deadline for special session proposals February 1, 2023; deadline for

workshop and tutorial proposals and for papers March 30, 2023, see https://ieeesmc2023.org/ for details.

 

IEEE SMC’2024 will be in Kuching City, Sarawak, Malaysia, on  October 7-10, 2024.

 

IEEE SMC'2026 will be in Seattle, Washington, October 11-14, 2026.

 

Papers using machine learning are always welcome at this series of conferences, mark your calendars – and see you there!

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InMed-23: THE COUNTDOWN IS ON

December 6th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Call for Papers – InMed 2023

InMed 2023: 11th International Conference on Innovation in Medicine & Healthcare

14-16 June, 2023 | Rome, Italy

http://inmed-23.kesinternational.org/submission.php

Part of KES multi-themed hybrid conference Smart Digital Futures which groups AMSTA-23, IDT-23, HCIS-23, InMed-23, SEEL-23 and STS-23 in one venue

http://sdf-23.kesinternational.org/

Aim

The KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-23) will gather a multi-disciplinary group consisting of researchers and engineers, managers, students and practitioners from the medical arena, to discuss the ways that innovation, knowledge exchange and enterprise can be applied to issues relating to medicine, surgery, healthcare and the issues of an ageing population.

 
A central theme of the conference will be Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems which will cover the ways in which modern intelligent systems contribute to the solution of problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners today, addressing the application of these systems through all of the strands of the event.

Dates, Conference and Publication

•       Submission Deadline: 09 January 2023

•       Acceptance Notification: 13 February 2023

•       Camera Ready Submission: 06 March 2023

•       Presentation at Conference: 14-16 June 2023

•       Publication: Springer; Series on Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

Scope

Innovation in Medicine & Healthcare is a conference covering innovative approaches to meeting the needs of both practitioners and patients internationally. Papers are invited from both the medical profession and from whose supporting them. 

Topics (although this list is not intended to be exhaustive) might include: –

  • Smart medical devices & systems
  • Innovation in Regenerative Medicine
  • Gene Therapy
  • Sensors
  • Medical Diagnostics and Biomarkers
  • Service Delivery
  • Technology Enabled Healthcare Services
  • Advanced Medical Materials Technology
  • Telehealth
  • Reglatory frameworks for new technology
  • Computer-aided diagnosis
  • Computer-assisted surgery
  • Biomedical modeling and simulation
  • Macine learning and deep learning in medicine and healthcare
  • Medical internet of things
  • Big data in healthcare


Workshop on Smart Medical Systems

We are pleased to announce the Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems workshop to take place within the Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare Conference. 

The aim of the workshop is to gather a mulit-disciplinary group of experts and interested non-experts consisting of smart systems researchers and engineers, practitioners from the medical arena, managers and students to discuss the ways that intelligent systems and smart technology can be applied to issues relating to medicine, surgery and health care.

Contributions are sought on a wide range of applicable topics including the following:-

Clinical Decision Support Systems
Electronic Health Records and other Hospital Information Systems
Big Data Analytics in Healthcare
mHealth and Telemedicine Systems
Personal Health Coaches
Digital Patient Modelling and Cohort Analysis
Data Mining, Machine learning, Deep Learning and Predictive Modelling
Visual and Predictive Analytics
Disease Characterization and Multi-scale Modelling
Cognitive Radiology
Imaging and Genetics Biomarker Discovery
Data Analysis and Decision Support for Personalized Medicine
Decision Support and Data Analysis for Biomedical Research and Clinical Trials
Click Here to Submit your Paper

Call for Invited Sessions

An invited session consists of a presentation session of 6 to 12 or more papers on a specific conference topic, organised as half or full day mini-conference. We invite senior scientists who have a special interest in a specific conference topic to take responsibility for an invited session, gathering papers from a range of research expertise around the world.  

Researchers who would like to organise one or more Invited Sessions on topics falling within the scope of the conference are invited to submit a proposal for consideration.
Click Here to Download Invited Session Template

For details of the sessions accepted so far see here:
http://inmed-23.kesinternational.org/cmsISdisplay.php

IS01: Future of AI-Driven Smart Healthcare for Everyone

IS02: Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Interventions for Children with Developmental Disorders

IS03: Data Driven Models for Health Care Systems

IS04: Digital Architecture and Economics for Internet of Things, Big data, Cloud and Mobile IT in Healthcare

IS05: Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers which are not under review for another conference, workshop, or journal by the time of submission. The contributors should address one or more research areas included above.

Detailed submission information is available on the conference page  

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MDPI Applied Sciences Special Issue “Advanced Video Surveillance System”

December 6th, 2022 Daniela Lopez de Luise

Dear Colleagues,

The goal of this special issue is to consider the video surveillance as a whole, from data acquisition to ethical reflections, including methods and applications. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/HZ9T2277PQ)

Data
Acquisition by color, infrared, thermal, depth and other types of cameras
Video management and analysis, from the edge to the cloud
Camera challenges like perspective effects, fish-eye distortions, mobile cameras, etc.
Open access datasets for reproducible research

Methods
Image processing, machine learning and deep learning for computer vision
Learning paradigms and transfer learning for videos
Gap reduction between offline training and online deployment
Multi-camera re-identification and tracking methods
Benchmarking state of the art methods

Applications
Video understanding, action and behavior recognition, video anomaly detection, perimeter intrusion detection, etc.
From area protected by a single camera to smart cities protected by a camera network
Intelligent video based systems and multi-modal systems

Ethics
Video surveillance or video protection? that is the question
Fairness and privacy in video surveillance
Panoptic society risk
Ethic-by-design video based systems

Dr. Quentin Barthélemy

Dr. Thierry Bouwmans
Guest Editors

 

Manuscript Submission Information

 Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2300 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

 

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