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MindTrek 28-30 September 2011, University of Tampere, Finland.

Check out the conference program.

Or consider the call for papers:

The organising committee invites you to submit original, high-quality full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the conference proceedings.

We are interested in contributions in the topic areas of social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, games, media management and open source such as:

- case-studies (successful and, especially, unsuccessful ones)

- oral presentations of fresh and innovative ideas

- artistic installations and running system prototypes

- user-experience studies and evaluations

- technological novelties, evaluations and solutions

- scientific, business or media-orientated contributions

- proposals for your own workshops

Themes

Social Media

- business models, service models, and policies

- social media in innovation and business - intra- and interorganizational use of social media - questions related to identity, motivation and values

- blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice

- knowledge management and learning with social media - experience management with social media - crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks

- enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations

- evaluation and research methods of social media

- social media and community design- benefits and limitations of social media applications

Ambient and Ubiquitous Media

- applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology

- ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and mixed reality contexts

- next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and human-computer interaction

- art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or cultural applications

- context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive internet, and smart daily objects

- personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and ergonomics

- ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and audience research

- software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous

- theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems

- business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce, and policies

Digital Games

        - theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play         - analysis of player experience         - game design research         - economy and business models in the game industry         - innovation in and around games         - digital distribution of games         - online gaming         - social and casual gaming         - player-created content         - pervasive and ubiquitous gaming         - mobile and cross-media gaming  

Open Source

          - establishment of an open source community         - practices on developing open source software         - practices for maintaining a successful project         - open source software processes         - differences on using open source software and closed source software         - using open source in a commercial context         - quality aspects in open source software         - teaching open source software in adacemia and industry

Media Business and Media Management

        - media policy, politics, practices, conception, and media regulation         - organizational structures, practices, and strategies         - production technology, processes, and optimization         - business models, service models, public funding, and media economics         - patterns of media use, engagement, and consumer experiences         - advertising, media consumption, new audience models, and media user models         - competition analysis, media governing, assessment, performance indicators         - business and media management in new media genres: gaming, social media, Internet, digital cinema, iTV         - traditional media business and management: broadcasting, publishing, journalism, and movie industry         - innovative service designs, strategies, and ideas         - teaching & training of media management and media business Workshop Proposals

Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with MindTrek 2010. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 1 page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings.   Tutorial Proposals