Call: Submissions wanted on the theme of "Dance, Timing, and Musical Gesture"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Dance, Timing and Musical Gesture
13 - 15 June 2008 University of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, in
collaboration with Queen's University, Canada, invites abstracts for
an interdisciplinary, international conference on the topic of Dance,
Timing and Musical Gesture. The aim of the conference is to consider
the temporal dynamics, expressive possibilities and communicative
power of dance and musical movement. The meeting will include talks,
posters, dance workshops and performances and will take place in the
beautiful and culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. Three student
scholarships are available, covering registration and accommodation.

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008/index.html

Invited Speakers
Luis "Alien Ness" Martinez (New York City, USA) B-Boying and Hip Hop Culture
Prof. Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton University, UK) Dance Studies
Prof. Merce?de?s Pavlicevic (Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre,
UK) Community Music Therapy
Prof. Dee Reynolds (University of Manchester, UK) Dance and
Performance Studies
Prof. Daniel Stern (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Developmental
Psychiatry
Dr. Vicky Karkou (Queen Margaret University, UK) Dance Therapy
Dr. Peter Keller (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Neuroscience of
Movement Dr. Sophia Lycouris (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) Dance
Improvisation Dr. Jessica Philips-Silver (University of Montreal,
Canada) Neuroscience of Dance

Invited Performers and Workshop Leaders
Tricia Anderson (St. Andrews, UK) Choreography and Creative Dance Education
Etch N Sketch (Scotland, UK) B-Boy/B-Girl ?Breaking? Performers
Dr. Shelley Katz & Diana Gilchrist-Katz (ISC at Herstmonceux Castle,
UK) Gesture in Vocal Performance
Me?ta-Me?ta (London, UK) Cuban Jazz Performance

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 7 April 2008 Please send abstracts of
300-400 words to Dr. Nikki Moran (n.moran@ed.ac.uk), indicating your
discipline and your preference for a 15 minute talk, a 30 minute
workshop or a 1 hour poster presentation. For further information,
please contact Dr. Katie Overy (k.overy@ed.ac.uk) or Karen Ludke
(K.Ludke@sms.ed.ac.uk) or see the conference website
(www.music.ed.ac.uk/Research/imhsd/DanceConference2008).

Call: Call for Papers - IEEE HCI2007

Call for Papers - IEEE HCI2007 (due in 2 weeks)

4th IEEE Human Computer Interaction 2007
http://www.liacs.nl/~hci2007/

October 20th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(in conjunction with ICCV2007)

Send questions/requests by email to hci2007@liacs.nl

DEADLINES

July 9, 2007: Submission of full paper
August 6, 2007: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2007: Camera-ready full paper
October 20, 2007: Workshop

GOALS

Human computer interaction (HCI) is one of the foremost
challenges of our society. New paradigms for interacting
with computers are being developed which will define the
21st century and enable the world to communicate and interact
effortlessly and intuitively.

In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people,
they will need to understand their environment through vision
and auditory input. Moreover, HCI systems should learn how
to adaptively and intelligently respond depending on the context.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
whose work is related to human computer interaction.
We are soliciting original contributions which address
a wide range of theoretical and application issues in
human computer interaction including, but not limited to:

* New paradigms in HCI
* Affective detection and recognition
* Smart interfaces
* Human motion tracking
* Gesture recognition
* Multimedia data modeling and visualization
* Multimodal event detection and recognition
* Human motion and gesture recognition
* HCI issues in image/video retrieval
* Learning in HCI
* Input and interaction techniques
* Perceptual user interfaces
* Wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI
* Intelligent Virtual Environments

Authors should preferably use the paper submission web system to
submit full papers at

http://press.liacs.nl/hci2007/submit.html

(no longer than 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English).

All papers will be peer-reviewed. In the tradition of the
previous 3 meetings, these proceedings will also be
published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Michael S. Lew (General Co-Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University
Nicu Sebe (General Co-Chair), ISIS Group, University of Amsterdam
Erwin Bakker (Program Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University
Thomas S. Huang (Executive Chair), Beckman Institute, Univ. of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erwin Bakker, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Margrit Betke, Boston University, USA
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Edward Chang, Google Research, China
Ira Cohen, HP Research Labs, USA
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Rana el Kaliouby, MIT, USA
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, USA
Stefan Kopp, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Qiong Liu, FXPAL, USA
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University, UK
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Sun, Nanjing University, China
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Mathew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jordi Vitria, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research Labs, USA
Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA

SPONSORS

IEEE

Dutch National Science Foundation - NWO

Leiden University

University of Amsterdam

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Job: New Dance Horizons seeks General Manager

Regina based contemporary dance company, New Dance Horizons is currently
accepting applications for the position of General Manager.

The General Manager is responsible, with the Artistic Director, for the
ongoing operations of the organization.

Areas of responsibility include:
. Program Definition and Development with Artistic Director
. Financial management
. Program / Production management
. Facility Management
. Resource centre / archive management
. Operational and financial reports for the Board of Directors
. Relationships beyond NDH

New Dance Horizons is dedicated to the ever-changing expressions of
contemporary dance. As Saskatchewan's only professional contemporary dance
company focussing on the creation, production and presentation of
contemporary dance, New Dance Horizons plays a distinctive and integral role
in developing and strengthening the dance community within Regina and the
province. New Dance Horizons activities are designed and developed with
consideration of the history and the current state of contemporary dance in
Canada combined with the unique situation of dance in Saskatchewan.

Visit www.newdancehorizons.ca for more information about New Dance Horizons
and for a detailed job description.

Please send resume and cover letter to board chair Dave Solheim at
davesolheim@sasktel.net by Feburary 16, 2007. Possible start date as early
as mid-March.