CFP (Abstracts) Reminder.

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this symposium is Thursday 31st July. 

Stephen
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Conference Chair, LCEA09
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts


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Completing the Circle: 
Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work
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A one-day symposium in January 2009
organised by the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, London, UK
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This is a one-day symposium supported by the Computer Arts Society and the Design Research 
Society. Papers will focus on the use of novel methods, or methods newly borrowed from other 
disciplines, in evaluating the user's or audience's response to media such as websites, portable 
media (such as iPods, PSPs), pervasive games, film, videogames, technology-rich performance, 
interactive art. 

An aspect of interest is the use of interactive technologies to assist evaluative processes as well as 
to deliver interactive experiences. The aim is to share knowledge about evaluation methods and to 
debate the role and value of different forms of evaluation in relation to the arts and media. With 
this in mind, well-argued papers questioning the very idea of evaluation (especially scientific 
evaluation methods) in the arts, will also be accepted. 

All papers will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. The best papers will be expanded and 
edited for a special issue of the journal Digital Creativity.



For details see: http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=59&item=31


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The Call for Papers -- Abstracts invited now
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Researchers, artists, designers and others worldwide are invited to respond to the following 
deliberately provocative statement:

"The days when artists, media-makers or designers could work solely from personal conviction -- 
regardless of the reception of their work -- are gone. The intelligent artist or designer is now 
deeply interested in discovering the audience's or the user's response, and keen to use the many 
techniques and approaches now available for doing so."

Papers should focus on the use of novel methods, or methods newly borrowed from other 
disciplines, in evaluating the user's / audience's response to media such as websites, portable 
media (such as iPods, PSPs), pervasive games, film, videogames, technology-rich performance, 
interactive art. An aspect of interest is the use of interactive technologies to assist evaluative 
processes as well as to deliver interactive experiences.

Examples include: 
+ the use of eyetracking to study how people watch films
+ using galvanic skin response to discover game-players' level of arousal
+ repertory gird technique to analyse players' preferences in videogames
+ building art-making machines in order to reflect on art practice

The aim is to share knowledge about evaluation methods and to debate the role and value of 
different forms of evaluation in relation to the arts and media. With this in mind, well-argued 
papers questioning the very idea of evaluation (especially scientific evaluation methods) in the 
arts, are welcome.

Intending authors should send an abstract of less than 1,000 words.


The Call for Abstracts closes on 31 July 2008. 


For details see: http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=59&item=31


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Central London location of the Symposium 
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The Lansdown Symposium 2009 will be held on Monday 19th January 2009 at the
    British Computer Society
    The Davidson Building
    5 Southampton Street
    London, WC2E 7HA
    United Kingdom


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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/