International Conference on Digital Intelligence (Nantes): call for papers

Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various disciplines (ICT, humanities, biology & health...) in order to discuss and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm.

#di2014 will be jointly organized with Scopitone, the main French Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014, Sept. 16-21, 2014). #di2014 is at the heart of the Nantes Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014) which brings together conferences, workshops, demonstrations, performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy.

At once festive, innovative and hybrid, Nantes Digital Week appeal to a wide audience and will be organized around major events: Startup Weekend, Scopitone festival on Digital Art and Electronic Cultures, FabLab Day, Robotic Day, etc.

The program will be built around four main components: plenary invited talks, contributed talks in parallel sessions, artistic sessions, performances and works shared with the Scopitone festival and finally sessions and events related to the (real) economy of digital cultures.

I am involved as a member of the Program Committee in the smart cities area, chaired by Stéphane Roche (Department of Geomatics, Université Laval - Québec, Canada). Here you can find the call for papers in case you want to submit a paper.

• Submission deadline: May 16, 2014
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 16, 2014
• Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2014

--------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------

Papers should be submitted online using this form: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=di2014

Papers should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should be submitted in PDF format.

The submitted papers (technical or position papers, surveys) must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.

-------------------------------- TOPICS ------------------------------

Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Digital Art, IT for cultural, natural and scientific Heritage, In-museum Innovative Technology and uses

- Data: Big Data, Open Data, Linked Data, Data Journalism, Data Visualization

- Digital Organizations: Applications of new technologies to e-Business and e-Administration, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, m-Commerce, m-Marketing, Organizational and management issues

- Social Web: Social Network Analysis, Communities of practice / interest in social media and mobile devices, Collective intelligence, Collaborative production and Social Computing, Knowledge Ecosystems, Digital Ecosystems, Economics and social innovation on Digital Ecosystems

- Digital Identity: e-reputation (human, product, enterprise, government, etc.), Digital traces and memories, Privacy, Trust, Security and Personal Data Management Systems, Human factors (culture, affect, motivation, cognition) and user centered design in digital technology

- e-Learning: Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning, Policy and organizational issues in e-Learning, e-Universities, e-Schools, e-Learning technologies and tools, e-Learning standards (Open Course Ware, Open Access), open e-Learning : OER, MOOCs, virtual mobility

- Green Digital Economy: Green computing, IT for Sustainability, Smart Cities and Homes

- Digital Trends and Emerging Practices: Cloud Computing, Emotional Computing, Serious Games, Makers, FabLabs, MediaLabs, LivingLabs, ArtLab, innovative Digital Solution in Health, Tourism, Internet of Things, Digital Addiction Studies

- Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical and social issues of HRI, Bio-inspired robotics, Humanoid robotics, Socially intelligent robots, assistive (health & personal care) robotics, Transhumanism

- Human-Computer Interaction: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Design, User Experience and Usability

- Digital humanities: Philosophy of the Web, Digital Literature, Digital Literacy


--------------------------- PROCEEDINGS --------------------------

The accepted papers will be included in the electronic conference proceedings.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to scientific journals or a compilation volume of articles.

Week picks #21

BIG BANG DATA (May 8-October 26 2014)

Big Bang Data explores the phenomenon of the information explosion we are currently experiencing. The last five years have seen the emergence of a generalized awareness among academic and scientific sectors, government agencies, businesses and culture that generating, processing and above all interpreting data is radically transforming our society.
We all generate data, with our mobile phones, sensors, social networks, digital photographs and videos, purchase transactions and GPS signals. What is new is that it is increasingly easy to store and process these vast quantities of data that detect patterns (of incidents, behaviour, consumption, voting, investment, etc.). This fact is very quickly and completely changing the way decisions are made at all levels.
Is data the new oil, a potentially boundless source of wealth? Is it the ammunition for arms of mass surveillance? Or should it be primarily an opportunity, an instrument for knowledge, prevention, efficiency and transparency, a tool to help construct a more transparent, participatory democracy?
The CCCB has created a space for exhibition projects that bring an integrative approach to the culture of the 21st century and the far-reaching transformations of the digital age.
For the five months of Big Bang Data, the expository space will also be a platform for meeting and debating this highly topical theme, with workshops, hackathons, education programmes and meetups for local and international communities.

MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2014 (November 19-22 2014)

Architects, designers and artists meet with academia and industry, when the world’s premier media architecture event takes place on 19-22 November in Aarhus, Denmark, with a pre-event in Copenhagen. Across professions and nationalities, participants will create and discuss the media architecture of the future. And they will investigate how media architecture shapes people’s lives in the cities of the world.
The biennale brings together people and organisations that work with media and the built environment: With media facades, with urban screens and with buildings that communicate – be it with colourful LEDs, flashing light bulbs, or with heat-sensitive concrete that ’freezes’ the shadows of passers-by.

|city|data|future| INTERACTIONS IN HYBRID URBAN SPACE: THE URBANIXD EXHIBITION (September 24 2014)

The UrbanIxD project takes the view that cities in the future will contain a complex mesh of interconnected, heterogeneous technological systems. Technology will continue to evolve, and the data-reading and writing capabilities of cities will only increase, but mess and complexity will still be the background context.
The focus of the emergent field of Urban Interaction Design is public space and the relationships between people – with and through technology2. The currency of these interactions is data. Making sense of this data, and making it meaningful, transparent, useful and enjoyable is a challenge for interaction design.
The | City | Data | Future | exhibition speculates about the possible futures that city inhabitants might experience.

DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE 2014 (September 17-19 2014)

The main objective of #di2014 is to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a large variety of fields and to provide them with the opportunity to share their visions and research achievements as well establish worldwide cooperative research and developpement.
Areas of research include but are not limited to: Data, Social Web, Digital Humanities, Digital Identity, The commons, Digital Art, Smart Cities, Media and Digital Cultures, Human-Computer Interface, Digital Literature, Digital Literacy, Computational Thinking, Secutity, Safety and Privacy, e-Learning, Business intelligence.
The mindset of #di2014 is unique in bringing these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogs. We broadly invite contributions that describe original research, analysis, practices, and works-in-progress in all areas of Digital Cultures.

Week picks series features different initiatives and projects I found or want to highlight on this blog. It will help me track new findings from community groups, startups or local governments working and delivering solutions relevant to the issues covered on this blog. I often bookmark them or save them on Tumblr.