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Apologises for cross posting Registration is open for the conference "Inputs/Outputs: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction", which will be held at University of Sussex on 26 June 2013. The cost for academic staff and professionals is £40 and £25 for students. Please see http://www.inputs-outputs.org/ and http://inputsoutputsconference.eventbrite.co.uk/#<http://inputsoutputsconference.eventbrite.co.uk/> for further details. Engagement — and related terms such as involvement, motivation, absorption, immersion and presence — is a key term in the public discourse of politics, enterprise, theatre and education. The goal of this symposium is to engage a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) to discover the progress toward solutions made in other disciplines they may never have thought about before — to lead toward novel collaborative solutions and projects. The title “Inputs/Outputs” concerns the interaction between ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’. Examples of human-centred inputs are computer games, immersive theatre, novels, music, and classroom lessons; examples of outputs are emotions, memories, neural activities, autonomic changes, and motivated behaviours (e.g. tweeting about the experience). In interactive experiences, there are many difficulties in proposing potential causal relationships because the human responses being sought may themselves be viewed as causes. The rationale for the symposium is to improve the models (and their predictability) for understanding the relationship between cause (pre-designed interventions) and effects (emotions, memories, neural activities) engendered in the audience (or end-user). To further clarify avenues for research, this inter-disciplinary symposium will focus its discourse on teasing apart scripted factors (inputs to the audience) that elicit or cause states like engagement, and on the human, observable effects that result from states like engagement (outputs from the audience). Presentations will focus on the questions that the discussion will be centred around: * Assessment and quantification of engagement in different fields * Methodology and modalities for measuring engagement in different fields * The relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual engagement