19.1458, Calls: Semantics,Syntax/Czech Republic; Pragmatics/Italy

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Subject: 19.1458, Calls: Semantics,Syntax/Czech Republic; Pragmatics/Italy

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1)
Date: 30-Apr-2008
From: Mojmir Docekal < docekal at phil.muni.cz >
Subject: Czech in Formal Grammar 

2)
Date: 30-Apr-2008
From: Anna Spagnolli < anna.spagnolli at unipd.it >
Subject: Presence 2008-11th Intl Workshop on Presence

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:34:56
From: Mojmir Docekal [docekal at phil.muni.cz]
Subject: Czech in Formal Grammar
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Full Title: Czech in Formal Grammar 

Date: 12-Feb-2009 - 14-Feb-2009
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Mojmir Docekal
Meeting Email: docekal at phil.muni.cz
Web Site: http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk/cfg/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2008 

Meeting Description:

CFG 2009 calls for submissions from anyone working on formal approaches to the
natural language, particularly Czech. 

Dear friends,

the Department of Czech Language and Department of Linguistics and Baltic
Languages at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University invite you to the Czech
in Formal Grammar 2009 conference. The conference will take place on 12 - 14
February 2009 in Brno, Czech Republic.

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:35:04
From: Anna Spagnolli [anna.spagnolli at unipd.it]
Subject: Presence 2008-11th Intl Workshop on Presence
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Full Title: Presence 2008-11th Intl Workshop on Presence 

Date: 16-Oct-2008 - 18-Oct-2008
Location: Padua, Italy 
Contact Person: Anna Spagnolli
Meeting Email: info.presence08 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.presence2008.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 23-May-2008 

Meeting Description:

PRESENCE 2008 will provide an open discussion forum to share ideas regarding
concepts, measurement techniques, findings, and applications related to presence
in mediated environments. 

Call for Papers

PRESENCE 2008 

11th Annual International Workshop on Presence
Padova, Italy
October 16-18, 2008
Second Call for Papers
Submission deadline (extended): May 23, 2008

Overview:

Academics and practitioners with an interest in the concept of (tele)presence
are invited to submit their work for presentation at the 11th Annual
International Workshop on Presence, to be held in Padova, Italy, on October
16-18, 2008. 

Often described as a sense of ''being there'' in a mediated environment,
telepresence is broadly defined as a psychological state or subjective
perception in which a person fails to accurately and completely acknowledge the
role of technology in an experience. It is a rich, fascinating subject of
scientific investigation, artistic exploration and diverse application, with
increasingly important implications for the ways in which people interact and
technologies are developed. Designing technologies and imagining practices to
modify, prolong and reconfigure the possibilities of being present has been a
continuous endeavor of the human species, from early attempts at constructing
communication and transportation devices, to the many current technologies we
continue to develop to reach other places and people. Originally focused on
bringing ''presence'' from the real world to a simulated one, the phenomenon is
today analyzed and investigated in the context of diverse environments and
involves questioning simple distinctions between ''real'' and ''artificial''.
This opening to a wide range of mediated environments is accompanied by a
growing involvement of different research fields that are continuously updating
and modifying the contours of presence scholarship. The phenomenon of presence
is challenging from a scientific point of view as much as it is viable in
everyday life, where people participate in simultaneous mediated experiences,
feeling present or co-present in digital locations without any need for explicit
instructions and orchestrating technical and cognitive resources to control and
enhance presence. What it means to be present in mediated environments is then
an extremely relevant and enticing question, bearing all sorts of implications
for the design and application of diverse technologies.

Topics:

Continuing with the series of annual workshops, PRESENCE 2008 will provide an
open discussion forum to share ideas regarding concepts, measurement techniques,
technologies, and applications related to presence. Issues of prominent interest
include (but are not limited to): 

- Presence in shared virtual environments and online communities 
- Presence in social interactions with virtual agents and digital counterparts 
- Real bodies, avatars and cyborgs 
- Presence and ubiquity with mobile and geo-location technologies 
- Presence as a socio-cultural achievement; practices, preferences and material
resources to manifest presence 
- Realistic action in virtual environments 
- Parasocial interaction and relationships 
- Cognitive processes and the sense of presence 
- Linguistic and non-verbal strategies to create, negotiate and challenge
presence in mediated environments 
- Neuropsychology of presence 
- Presence affordances in digital technologies 
- 3D sound, acoustic environments and presence 
- Advanced broadcast and cinematic displays (stereoscopic TV, HDTV, IMAX) 
- Haptic and tactile displays 
- Holography 
- Affective and socio-affective interfaces 
- Presence analysis, evaluation, and measurement techniques 
- Causes and consequences (effects) of presence 
- Presence augmentation through social, physical, and contextual cues 
- Presence, involvement and digital addiction 
- Presence applications (education and training; medicine; e-health and
cybertherapy; entertainment; communication and collaboration; teleoperation;
usability and design; art and performance, etc.) 
- Presence theory; historical investigation of presence concepts; fictions,
constructions and realism; transportation, flow, absorption, awareness;
philosophical perspectives on presence 
- Ethical and societal implications of presence technologies 
- The future of presence experiences

Original, high quality papers are sought which make substantial contributions to
the field. All accepted papers will be collected in the printed volume (with
ISBN) of the official conference Proceedings, and will also be permanently
available for download on the ISPR conference archive (http://ispr.info).
Authors may also be invited to revise their paper for publication in a special
issue of PsychNology Journal (ISSN: 1720-7525), or a special issue of Virtual
Reality (ISSN: 1359-4338/1434-9957)
For submission guidelines please check the conference website (URLs are reported
below).

Important Dates (Changed):
- May 23, 2008 - Submissions due (via ISPR online submission and review system) 
- May 15, 2008 - Early registration opens 
- July 7, 2008 - Acceptance/Rejection notifications 
- September 1, 2008 - Finished, camera-ready papers due (via ISPR online
submission and review system) 
- September 5, 2008 - Early registration closes 
- October 1, 2008 - Late registration closes (onsite registration only) 

Pre-Conference Events:
The conference will be preceded by two half-day events:
- Ethics with presence and social presence technologies
 (organized by the PASION and HTLab)
- E-Mental Health. Second European Workshop on Cybertherapy, rehabilitation and
e-mental health
 (organized by HTLab and Interactive Media Institute-Europe)

Venue:
The conference will take place in Padua (Italy), offering a chance to visit its
8 centuries old university and middle-age city center, as well as the close city
of Venice.

Organization:
PRESENCE 2008 is co-organized by the International Society for Presence Research
(ISPR) and the Human Technology Lab (HTLab) at the University of Padua. 
Conference Co-Chairs:
Luciano Gamberini, Anna Spagnolli (HTLab, University of Padova, Italy)

Program Committee:
Mariano Alcaniz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain 
Ilkka Arminen, University of Tampere, Finland 
Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy 
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 
Jeremy N. Bailenson, Stanford University, USA 
Rosa Baños, University of Valencia, Spain 
Woody Barfield, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 
Gary Bente, University of Cologne, Germany 
David Benyon, Napier University, UK 
Frank Biocca, Michigan State University, USA 
Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town, South Africa 
Cristina Botella Arbona, Universitat Jaume I, Spain 
Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Cleveland State University, USA 
Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany 
Yvonne de Kort, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 
Jonathan Freeman, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK 
Doron Friedman, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC Herzliya, Isreael 
Andrea Gaggioli, Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy 
Luciano Gamberini, University of Padua, Italy 
Marco Gillies, University College London, UK 
Ilona Heldal, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 
Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland 
Matthew T. Jones, Temple University, USA 
Nicole Kraemer, University of Cologne, Germany 
Rita Lauria, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA 
Kwan Min Lee, University of Southern California, USA 
Jane Lessiter, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK 
Christian Licoppe, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Télecommunications, France 
Matthew Lombard, Temple University, USA 
Katerina Mania, University of Sussex, UK 
Fabrizia Mantovani, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy 
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 
Francesco Martino, University of Padova, Italy 
Rod McCall, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany 
Caroline Neveyan, Performing Arts Labs, UK 
Miriam Reiner, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 
Giuseppe Riva, Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy 
Albert Skip Rizzo, University of Southern California, USA 
Daniela Romano, University of Sheffield, UK 
Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives, ICREA Research Professor, IDIBA, Spain 
Fabiola Scarpetta, University of Padova, Italy 
Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, UK 
Melissa E. Selverian, Temple University, USA 
Mel Slater, University College London, UK 
Michael Smyth, Napier University, UK 
Anna Spagnolli, University of Padua, Italy 
Phil Turner, Napier University, UK 
Susan Turner, Napier University, UK 
Aleksander Väljamäe, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 
Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 
Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, BBC Research & Innovation, UK 
John Waterworth, Umeå University, Sweden

Contacts:
For information on the conference: info.presence08 ( at ) gmail.com
For information on ISPR: help ( at ) ispr.info
For information on the 'Ethics with presence technologies' pre-conference event:
ethicspresence ( at ) gmail.com 
For information on 'e-Mental Health' pre-conference event:  emh08.info ( at )
gmail.com

Conference website: www.presence2008.org (also visible from
http://ispr.info/conference)
ISPR association website: http://ispr.info/

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