CFP: Culture and Computing 2013

[Akira Maeda <amaeda [at] media.ritsumei.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会の皆様，

立命館大学の前田と申します．

9月16-18日に京都で開催される国際会議「Culture and Computing 2013」
のご案内をさせていただきます．

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Call for Papers

The International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture and Computing 2013)

Date: September 16-18, 2013
Venue: Nakagawa Hall, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University, 
Kyoto, Japan
http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/

Culture and Computing is a new research area which aims to 
overcome different cultural issues in international communities 
using information and communication technologies (ICT). There 
are various research directions in the relations between 
culture and computing: 
to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), 
to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital 
humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media
art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural
agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies
via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), 
and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web 
(cf. net culture).

The International Conference on Culture and Computing provides 
an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future 
of culture and computing, which has been held in cultural 
cities including Kyoto, Japan (2010, 2011) and Hangzhou, China 
(2012). The fourth conference (Culture and Computing 2013) will 
be back to Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, organized with 
an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural 
computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along 
with a number of co-located events. To understand the 
proceedings at the previous conferences, please visit below. 
http://www.astem.or.jp/virtual-lab/culture/conference

Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of 
culture and computing, but all papers are expected to be 
suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. We have Main Track 
and Special Track sessions. The Main Track will present a 
collection of academic research results. Examples of suitable 
paper topics for the Main Track include:

- Archiving cultural heritages
- Information environments for humanity studies
- Art and design by information technologies
- Digital storytelling
- Intercultural communication and collaboration
- Culturally situated agents and simulations
- Game and culture
- Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web
- Culture and brain science
- VR (virtual reality) application for culture
- Digital libraries for cultural materials
- Sound archiving of intangible cultural properties

The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are 
organized for the purpose of encouraging discussions in hot 
areas. We have Special Tracks for "Digital Humanities" and 
"Culture based Media Art & Music" at this conference. Please 
visit the following page for the paper topics of the Special 
Tracks:
http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/special_paper.html

* Paper/Poster Submission

Submitted papers/posters must report original work that has
not been previously published.

There are two types of presentations (oral and poster) for
each track. For oral presentation in the Main Track, a full
paper with a limit of six (6) pages should be submitted, and
for oral presentation in the Special Tracks, a short paper
with a limit of two (2) pages should be submitted by the paper
submission deadline. For poster presentation in all tracks,
a poster paper with a limit of two (2) pages should be
submitted by the poster submission deadline. 

Papers/posters should follow the formatting instructions
for publishing with IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Publishing Services.

All submitted papers/posters will be reviewed by three 
distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing. 
Accepted papers/posters will appear in the conference 
proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be 
included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL).

- Paper

Main Track papers (full papers) and Special Track papers (short 
papers) should be submitted electronically with an abstract 
(150 words) via EasyChair at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not 
exceed 6 pages for Main Track and 2 pages for Special Track in 
Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template.

- Poster

Posters (Main Track and Special Track) should be submitted 
electronically via EasyChair at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2013
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not 
exceed 2 pages in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s 
Standard template.

* Important Dates

- Main Track

Papers:
Abstracts due: April 5th, 2013
Papers due: April 12th, 2013
Author notification: May 22nd, 2013
Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013

Posters:
Posters due: April 19th, 2013
Author notification: May 22nd, 2013
Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013

- Special Track

Papers:
Abstracts due: April 5th, 2013
Papers due: April 12th, 2013
Author notification: May 22nd, 2013
Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013

Posters:
Posters due: April 19th, 2013
Author notification: May 22nd, 2013
Camera ready due: June 20th, 2013

* Organization

- Honorary Chair

Hiroshi Harashima (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

- General Co-Chairs

Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)

- Program Co-Chairs

Donghui Lin (Kyoto University, Japan)
Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

- Program Committee [Main Track]

Richard Beacham (King's College London, UK) 
Jean-Pierre Briot (CNRS, Brazil)
Philippe Codognet (CNRS & University of Tokyo, Japan)
Christiane D. Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Sidney Fels (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) 
Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc. USA)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Sarah Kenderdine (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Yong Liu (Zhejiang University, China)
Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Japan)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT, USA)
Takanobu Nishiura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Yoshihiro Okada (Ryukoku University, Japan)
Zhigeng Pan (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
Mario Paolucci (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Tetsuo Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, France)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Juan-Luis Suarez (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) 
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naomi Yamashita (NTT, Japan)
Takashi Yoshino (Wakayama University, Japan)
Hai Zhuge (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

- Program Committee [Special Track: Digital Humanities]

Richard Beacham (King's College London, UK) 
Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland, USA)
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Chair
Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)
Andrew Prescott (King's College London, UK) 
Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)

- Program Committee [Special Track: Culture based Media Art & 
Music]

Ken Coates (University of Waterloo)
Philippe Codognet (CNRS & University of Tokyo, Japan) 
Shlomo Dubnov (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Jean M. Ippolito (University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA)
Vibeke Sorensen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Alistair Swale (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan) Chair
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