(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP) ======================================================= Culture & Computing’ 2012 Oct. 21-24, Hangzhou, China Web: http://183.129.143.130:2012/Home.html Contact: Fan Dai, [log in to unmask] To bring the computing techniques into the culture may be one of the newest research trends in recently. There are many successful research topics, which integrate the culture and computing, e.g. evaluating the trend of literature culture via data mining, constructing the scenes of culture heritages via 3D modeling, reappearing the culture heritages via AI etc. The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture & Computing) will be held in Hangzhou, a famous city with many cultural heritages in China, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing. To get more information about this series conference and understand the proceedings at the previous conference, please visit http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/. The third conference (Culture & Computing 2012) will be organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Chinese traditional culture, along with a number of co-located events. Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will present a collection of scientific or engineering research results. Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include: - Archiving cultural heritages - Information environments for humanity studies - Art and design by information technologies - Digital storytelling - Intercultural communication and collaboration - Culturally situated agents and simulations - Game and culture - Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web - Culture and brain science The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities and Robotics," "Asian Culture based Media Art", “Chinese Medicine and IT” and "Computing and Music" at this conference. In 2012, the proceedings will be published by IEEE (EI) and some special issues in journals such as Transactions on Edutainment (EI), Entertainment Computing [EI] and International Journal of VR will be arranged. Important Dates: Paper Submission: June 1, 2012 Authors Notification : July 20, 2012 Final Paper Submission and Registration: August 1, 2012 Conference: October, 22-24, 2012 Sponsors: Kyoto University, Japan Hangzhou Normal University, China VR Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics Co-Sponsors: ACM SIGCHI China Chapter Zhejiang University, China Xiamen University, China Organizers: Hangzhou Normal University, China Huzhou Teachers College, China General Chairs Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Zhigeng Pan (Hangzhou Normal University, China) G.W.M Rauterberg (Technical University Eindhoven,The Netherlands) PC Chairs Yunliang Jiang (Huzhou Teachers College, China) Yong Liu (Zhejiang University, China) Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan) Special Track Committee Co-chairs Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Jinhui Yu (Zhejiang University, China) Changle Zhou (Xiamen Univ., China) Workshop Co-chairs [DMDCM, Co-located Event] Yunliang Jiang (Huzhou Teachers College, China) Ryohei Nakatsu (NUS, Singapore) Jiejie Zhu (UtopiaCompression Corp, USA) Exhibition Committee Co-chairs Huaqing Shen (Zhejiang University, China) Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan) Wenzhen Yang ( Zhejiang Sci-Tech Universtity China) Industrial Workshop Committee Co-chairs Zhuxing Hu (Wenzhou Univ., China) Baokun Hu (Hangzhou Normal Univ., China) Publicity Co-chairs Shengyong Chen (Zhejiang University of Technology, China) Rieko Inaba(Kyoto University, Japan) Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece) Publication Co-Chairs Donghui Lin (NICT, Japan) Fan Dai (Hangzhou Normal Univ., China) Financial Chair Mingmin Zhang (Zhejiang University, China) Web Chair Jianwen Song (Chinese Academy of Arts, China) Local Organization Co-Chairs Guohua Zhan ( Hangzhou Normal Univ., China) Yonggen Gu (Huzhou Teachers College, China) Shuchang Xu (Hangzhou Normal Univ., China) Secretaries in General Junsong Zhang (Xiamen Univ, China) Bin Shao (Huzhou Teachers College, China) --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------