The Processing Community Day initiative is supported by the Processing Foundation and has the goal of fostering programming and creative coding as tools among students, researchers and professionals. PCD@Coimbra aims at being a showcase for what is currently being developed in Portugal and also a place for stimulating discussion and initiating future collaborations.

In 2021, PCD@Coimbra will take place at 9th of December of 2021.

CALL

The PROCESSING COMMUNITY DAY COIMBRA 2021 is accepting artwork submissions on the theme “anachronism”. We invited professionals, researchers, students, designers and artists to submit individual or collective projects that visually and/or conceptually explore techniques or subjects related to persons, media, events, objects, languages from a different time period than the period
that the artwork was designed.
In this PCD@COIMBRA edition, we welcome the submission of outputs of a given system (or application), a proposal of an installation of the system itself and also the proposal of interaction with the system. Interested people may submit their work to three distinct tracks: system outputs as posters; installation of the system/application itself; and performance based on an interaction with the
system or its outputs.
The selected artworks will be exhibited and/or presented during the PCD@COIMBRA in one or many exhibition venues in Coimbra, Portugal.

REQUIREMENTS

(i) The artwork(s) must be aligned with the theme “anachronism.”
(ii) Code (any programming language) must be used in at least one stage of the design process. Code can be used either to produce materials (for example images or sounds) or in the final generation (generating the whole artefact/experience). Provided that you fulfil these requirements, you are allowed to use any media,
material or technique.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

We accept both individual and collective submissions. In the case of collective submissions, the authors must indicate one corresponding author who may be contacted by the organisers.
The participants are allowed to submit multiple entries.
Submissions can only be made via the online submission link (see Submission
section below).
Failure to comply these conditions will invalidate the participation.
NOTE: Participation is free of charge.

SUBMISSION

In addition to completing all the fields of the online form, you are required to submit the following materials:

(a) A brief description of your project (max. 500 characters) describing the concept and clearly stating how computer code was used. We accept descriptions in Portuguese and English (preferred language);

(b) Artwork files. The type of submission depends on the track.

We are accepting three distinct types of submission:

SYSTEM OUTPUT AS POSTER
Static system’s output designed in a poster format.
The output should be submitted in B2 poster format (500mm × 700mm) in
portrait orientation (PDF file, 300 DPI, Color profile: CMYK).

SYSTEMS / APPLICATIONS
Video demonstration or access to the submitted application.
The authors should provide the requirements of the installation.
The system should be submitted by providing direct access to the application.
Alternatively, a video may be submitted, preferably using a file hosting service
(e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive).

PERFORMANCE
Performance that involves the interaction with the system or its outputs.
The authors should provide the requirements of the installation.
The performance should be submitted in a video format, preferably using a file
hosting service (e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive).

DEADLINE
30th September 2021 (23:59 UTC)

SUBMISSION FORM LINK
https://forms.gle/7bcyjkVf85UQ15E3A

More information available in:
http://pcdcoimbra.dei.uc.pt/2021/
https://www.instagram.com/pcdcoimbra/
https://www.facebook.com/pcdcoimbra
https://twitter.com/pcdcoimbra

ehSemi 2022

The 2nd students’ seminar on Ehealth and Wellbeing aims to be a forum of discussion for students who develop research leading to innovative digital media solutions to improve people’s health, wellbeing and quality-of-life.
This seminar is an initiative from the E-health & Wellbeing group of DigiMedia centre and in 2022 it will have the 2nd edition (access the 1st edition website here). The keynote speaker will be Doctor Joana Feijó, Business Development Director of the Health Cluster Portugal (HCP), who will also run a workshop in “Health Technology Transfer models and case studies” in the day before.

SUBMISSIONS

All contributions must be submitted by students (of all degrees) and must be anonymous. This means that all data which may reveal the authors’ identity, namely in the acknowledgments or references section, must be removed. All contributions will be peer reviewed by a panel of experts. Contributions may be submitted both in Portuguese and English. Accepted contributions will be presented at the seminar in the same language they were submitted. Submissions should be done through EasyChair here.

PAPERS

Authors should submit an abstract with a maximum length of 500 words, excluding the references list. In-text citations and the references list should follow APA 6th style. The submission template can be downloaded here.

PUBLICATION

The abstracts of the papers presented in the seminar will be published in the seminar proceedings, under an ISBN reference on digital support. A selection of works will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in a book of the DigiMedia Collection, a UA Press book collection managed by DigiMedia focused on the publication of works in the scientific area of Digital Media.

AREAS

The seminar welcomes original contributions in the following themes (and not necessarily limited to):
• Accessibility and Universal Design;
• Active and Healthy Living;
• eHealth Inclusion, Resilience and Literacy;
• Social Media-based Interventions for eHealth and Wellbeing;
• Games and Gamification for eHealth and Wellbeing;
• Mobile Health (m-health);
• New Media Contents and Applications for eHealth and Wellbeing;
• Sensors, Wearables, IoT and Virtual Assistants for Health and Wellbeing;
• Privacy and Security Issues in e-Health and Wellbeing;
• Health Promotion and Public Health campaigns;
• eHealth Portals and Big Data;
• AI and eHealth;
• Pandemics and eHealth.

IMPORTANT DATES

The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest is the largest and most important global meeting of academics and advocates working at the intersection of intellectual property law and the promotion of public interest. The main objective of GCIP is to promote the formulation of evidence-based policies by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates around the world.

The specific objectives of the Congress were summarized in the 2011 Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and Public Interest.

The call-for-proposals for the collaborative agenda of #IPWeek2021, Intellectual Property Week, the Public Interest, and COVID-19: learnings, discoveries, and challenges is officially open.

From July 26 to September 17 we will be receiving proposals about the lessons and discoveries that the COVID-19 pandemic left to society, and future challenges in the post-pandemic period, in the relationship framework between intellectual property and the public interest.

Thematic lines:

More information available in: https://2021.globalcongressip.org/en/en_home/

ECSM

9th European Conference on Social Media
12 – 13 May 2022, a Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland

What is ECSM?

Social media is being adopted and applied in almost every area of human activity, be it for personal applications, in education, for commercial applications or in the public sector. The rapid uptake of social media is related to many factors including its ease of use and adaptability to different devices. However, it also poses some challenges and problems that need to be addressed and discussed. Taking this into consideration ECSM seeks to establish a home for researchers and practitioners with a wide range of approaches to engaging with the impact, use and potential of social media across disciplines. The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide array of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods.

Types of participation

• Academic Papers
• Case Studies
• Work in-Progress Papers
• Round Table Discussion Proposals
• PhD Papers
• Posters
• Non- Academic or Practitioner Contributions

Topics

• Social media in business
• Social media in education
• Social media in the present knowledge economy
• The networked citizen
• Monitoring and evaluating social media
• Security of social media

For more information on Key Topics check HERE

Submissions

Submission information HERE
Submit an abstract HERE

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 20 October 2021 04 November 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance: 29 October 2021
Full paper due for review: 09 December 2021
Notification of paper acceptance (with any requested changes): 17 February 2022
Earlybird registration closes: 03 March 2022
Final paper due (with any changes): 17 March 2022
Final Author registration date: 07 April 2022

All Papers accepted for ECSM after the double-blind peer review process will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. The conference proceedings have an ISSN (2055-7213) and will be assigned an ISBN on publication. Additionally, papers that have been presented at the conference will also be considered for further development an possible publication in the journals listed below. Note that journal editors are provided with the conference proceedings and will make selections if they feel work is appropriate and of sufficient quality for the journal. If invited to publish in a journal authors will be expected to develop the work by 40-50%, including a change of title and abstract. Individual journal procedures will need to be followed and there is no guarantee of publication.

Publication

• Online Information Review published by Emerald Insight, ISSN: 1468-4527
• International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments published by Inderscience, ISSN 2050-3962
• International Journal of Web-Based Communities published by Inderscience,
• Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society published by Emerald Insight, ISSN 1477-996X

Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Media (ECSM) are:

• Indexed in the ISI Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index
• Indexed by the Institution of Engineers and Technology in the UK (INSPEC)
• Listed in the EBSCO database
• Listed in the ProQuest database
• Indexed by Elsevier SCOPUS
• Indexed by Google Books and Google Scholar

What is miOne world?

miOne World is the 1st International Conference on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing, which gathers researchers, practitioners and industry representatives to discuss the design, development and evaluation of digitally mediated products for active ageing, sense of belonging and perceived wellbeing. It takes place online on 22 and 23 June 2021, being organized by the Department of Communication and Arts – DigiMedia, University of Aveiro jointly with University of Porto (FLUP) and Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (ESEV).

There are 2 typologies of participation in this conference:

1. Researchers who may present their scientific work in the field;
2. Universities of the Third Age / Daycare centres / Associations or other entities that can share and present their experiences.

The reflection and discussion take the form of R&D work, policies, case studies, demonstrations, entrepreneur experiences, reviews and methodological proposals. In addition, the conference will promote the debate about gerontechnology and digital wellbeing in times of pandemic influenza. The socio-techno-ethical dimensions associated to the adopted digitally mediated strategies to overpass  the boundaries of social distancing measures are under focus.

Topics

ICIEMC 2021

International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

July 1-2 (virtual format)

Theme “(Post)Pandemic Changes in Business, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour”

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS / CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR THESES

In this challenging context, the fifth edition of ICIEMC, to take place on July 1 and 2, 2021 in virtual format, aims to tackle these two major issues.

On one side, we actively seek scientific contributions related to the (post)pandemic changes in business, marketing and consumer behavior, related to any industry or service area and, on the other side, we value specific contributions linked to innovation in teaching and learning in higher education that have been motivated by the systemic shock effect generated by the pandemics, including teachers’, students’, higher education management’s or policy perspectives.

Important Dates & Details for Abstract & Paper Submission:

Abstract submission: March 15, 2021
Abstract acceptance notification: March 31, 2021
Procedure for abstract submission: send an abstract of maximum 250 words together with the title, author names, affiliation and track you are submitting by email to isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt>

Paper submission: May 3, 2021
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021 Camera-Ready papers: June 20, 2021
Procedure for paper submission: send your paper of maximum 5.000 words (references included) in the ICIEMC paper template using the CMT Platform for paper submissions:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICIEMC2021

Author registration & payment: June 11, 2021 ICIEMC Conference: July 1-2, 2021 (virtual format)

Important Dates & Details for Theses Submissions ICIEMC 2021 opens the possibility to run for a prize of Best Thesis in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Strategy, Tourism or Technology. To be eligible, applicants must have defended their thesis (Master in Science or PhD) in 2019 or in 2020. Proof of defense will be requested for selected applicants for the prize.

Thesis Abstract submission – May 3, 2021
Thesis acceptance notification: May 31, 2021
Thesis Submission Procedure: send an abstract of your thesis (500 – 1000 words), together with the title, author name, supervisor(s) name(s), degree, scientific area of the degree, institution that granted the degree and country to isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt> by May 3, 2021.

Regular Tracks

1. Consumer Behaviour & Neurosciences
2. Consumer Protection & Data Privacy
3. Digital Transformation in Entrepreneurship and Marketing
4. Entrepreneurship & Small Business Marketing
5. Marketing Communications, Social Media, Public Relations, Advertising & Promotion
6. Marketing in Specific Industries
7. Relationship Marketing, Sensory & Experiential Marketing
8. Strategic Marketing & Value Creation
9. Services Marketing & Customer Experience
10. Sustainable Marketing, Social Responsibility & Ethics
11. Tourism Marketing

Special Tracks

1. Innovation in Teaching / Learning in Higher Education – to be defined
2. Niche Tourism & Marketing Perspectives – Bruno Barbosa Sousa
3. (Post)Pandemic Changes in Business, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour – Irina Saur-Amaral & Sandra Filipe

Conference Team

Conference Chairs: Irina Saur-Amaral, Sandra Filipe & Elisabete Vieira

Organizing Committee: Ana Estima, Cláudia Ribau, Cristina Peguinho, Hugo de Almeida, Irina Saur-Amaral, João Batista, Joaquim Neiva Santos, Joaquim Marques, Luis Silva, Sandra Filipe, Sara Santos

mailto: isca-iciemc@ua.pt<mailto:isca-iciemc@ua.pt>

site: http://iciemc.pt

<StoryBits> conference

21- 23 April 2021 | Online

Chamada para propostas

A organização da conferência StoryBits convida à submissão de propostas de comunicação ou formatos de projeto, mesas temáticas e workshops, nomeadamente na área de Media Artes, investigações baseadas na prática, concluídas ou em curso. São aceites propostas em Português (PT), Inglês (EN) e Espanhol (ES).

Todas as submissões de artigos e projetos serão sujeitas a uma revisão cega por pares.

A comissão organizadora irá editar um livro, pelas edições LabCom, com uma seleção das comunicações e projetos apresentados no evento.

StoryBits convida à submissão de propostas nos seguintes temas:

• Ficção Interativa (IF)
• Narrativa computacional
• Documentário Interativo
• Cinema Interativo/Hiperfilme
• Realidade Virtual/Aumentada
• Narrativas de Dados/Database Storytelling
• Design narrativo/Interfaces Narrativos
• Narrativa para Videojogos
• Metodologias de projeto: colaborativos; multidisciplinares; equipas fragmentadas e remotas
• Outros que contribuam para a temática do evento

Datas para submissão de propostas:

Comunicação para artigo
Até 15 de Março de 2021

Projeto, Mesa Temática e Workshop
Até dia 21 de Março de 2021

Mais informação disponível na página do evento.

SLERD 2021

6th conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

24-25 June — blended

SLERD 2021 is organized by University Politehnica of Bucharest in collaboration with ASLERD.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SLERD 2021 is proud to invite colleagues – researchers and practitioners – from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development.

Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD 2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively attend it physically or virtually.
If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the previous 2020 SLERD.

Topics of interests

Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places for smart education, people in place centered design for smart education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart education.

Important Dates

• Paper submission:  15th March 2021, 23:59 GMT
• Notification of acceptance: 30th April 2021
• Camera-ready submission: 15th May 2021

Proceedings

Proceedings, as for previous editions, will be published by Springer in the Series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink.
Extended version of selected papers will be also included in a special issue of IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science

SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages).

Papers should be written according to the Spinger Instruction for Authors of the  series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies:
https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Link to the paper submission page on easy chair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021

CALL FOR PAPERS AND ARTWORK

ARTECH 2021 – Hybrid Praxis – Art, Sustainability & Technology, is the 10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, this time hosted in the city of Aveiro, Portugal, from 13 to 15 October 2021

The goal of the conference is to promote the interest in the current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, but also as a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences. It seeks to foster greater understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices. To this end, we cordially invite scholars, teachers, researchers, artists, computer professionals, and others who are working within the broadly defined areas of digital arts, culture and education to join us.

Main Topics

Authors are invited to submit papers from all areas related to digital art, but also art installations, interactive art or media artworks, for review by the international committee. Both research and applications papers are of relevance to ARTECH 2021.

Deadline for submission of proposals (papers and artwork): 03 May 2021

For more information please check the website of the event.

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A ARTECH 2021 – 10ª Conferência Internacional de Artes Digitais e Interativas, realizar-se-á em Aveiro (Portugal), entre os dias 13 e 15 de outubro, sob o tema Hybrid Praxis: Art, Sustainability & Technology.

O objetivo da conferência é promover o interesse na cultura digital e sua interseção com a arte e tecnologia como importante campo de investigação, mas também como um espaço comum de discussão e troca de novas experiências. A ARTECH 2021 procurará fomentar um diálogo sobre as artes e cultura digitais num vasto espectro de práticas culturais, disciplinares e profissionais.

Convidam-se professores, investigadores, artistas, designers, e outros profissionais que trabalham nas áreas amplamente definidas das artes digitais, cultura e educação, a participarem.

Tópicos

Os autores são convidados a submeter trabalhos de todas as áreas relacionadas com a arte digital, mas também instalações artísticas, arte interativa ou obras de arte mediáticas, para revisão pelo comité internacional. Quer os trabalhos de investigação quer os de aplicação são relevantes para a ARTECH 2021.

A data limite para submissão das propostas (papers e artwork) é 3 de maio de 2021.

Mais informações poderão ser consultadas no website da conferência.

 ESSACHESS

Journal for Communication Studies

Call for Papers for volume 15, nº1(29)/2022:

Information and Communication Technologies’ Role in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies is the only French journal in communication sciences to promote in French and English language original contributions in the field of social, cultural, symbolic or economic communication.

This special edition is seeking contributions in English or French, either empirical or theoretical, considering the role, function and purpose of the information and communication technologies in contributing for the preservation of cultural heritage.

In doing so, contributors are invited to consider (but not limited to) the following goals:
1) contribute to the reflection around cultural heritage;
2) contribute to the reflection on the interaction between communication systems and cultural heritage;
3) analyze the role of individuals in preserving cultural heritage;
4) understand how individuals, as guarantors of the communication systems development, relate to cultural heritage.

The importance of a special issue in this topic is perceived as the way in which the various possible perspectives (cultural, technological, sociological, psychological, political, among others) can be found in the same and only document. This will be a space where several relevant authors from the fields, with common interests, will be able to contribute to something as important for Humanity, as is the cultural heritage.

Guest editors:

Ana MELRO, University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL

Lídia OLIVEIRA, University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL

Ana Carla AMARO, University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL

Important dates:

–      May 30, 2021: submission of the proposal in the form of an extended abstract of maximum 2 pages. The proposal must include a list of recent references and 5 keywords.

–      June 20, 2021: acceptance of the proposal.

–      November 1st, 2021: full paper submission.

–      February 10, 2022: reviewer’s comments to be communicated to authors.

–      April 30, 2022: submission of paper with final revisions (after revisions).

–      July 2022: journal publication.

Please visit https://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/announcement/view/35 for more details regarding the Call and the guidelines for authors.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us (anamelro@ua.pt).