The First International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture and Computing 2010): Call for Papers

Postproceedings of the International Conference on Culture and Computing

We are organizing Culture and Computing 2010 as a collection of symposiums, panels, workshops, and exhibitions, hoping to share the issues, activities and research results regarding culture and computing.

To publish academic activities presented at the events of the conference, we invite you to submit papers for the conference post-proceedings that will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Note Series (LNCS).

Paper

Papers are solicited on any aspect of culture and computing, but should describe research results presented at the symposiums, panels, workshops, or exhibitions in Culture and Computing 2010: at least one of the authors should attend and present their research activities at the conference.

Submit your paper (PDF) written in English including an abstract (150 words) by e-mail to:
culture-postproceedings[at]ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Camera-ready papers should be 12 to 15 pages long and submitted in Springer LNCS format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer Web page:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Surface mail address and e-mail addresses should be included for all contributing authors.

Review

Since we have a fairly tight schedule, papers for review can be written in Japanese or English in any format. If you already prepared a paper for a workshop in Culture and Computing 2010, you can simply submit it for the conference post-proceedings review. However, if your paper will be accepted, your camera-ready paper should be submitted in English.

In order to ensure a qualified review process, the length of the papers for review should not be too short: at least 8 pages if formatted in the Springer Lecture Note Series (LNCS) format. Submitted papers will be reviewed by three distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing.

Important Dates

Deadline for titles and abstracts: January 31st, 2010
Deadline for papers for review: February 15th, 2010
Author notification: March 8th, 2010
Deadline for camera ready papers: March 31st, 2010

Program Committee

Ruth Aylett (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Toru ISHIDA (Kyoto University, Japan) Chair
Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc. USA)
Yasuhiro KATAGIRI (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Yasuhiko KITAMURA (Kansai University, Japan)
Tomoko KODA (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Toyoaki NISHIDA (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ana Paiva (Instituto Superior Te'cnico, Portugal)
Alicia Sagae (Alelo Inc. USA)
Naomi YAMASHITA (NTT, Japan)
Takashi YOSHINO (Wakayama University, Japan)
A. Charles Muller (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kiyonori NAGASAKI (Institute for Research in Humanities, Japan)
Takaharu KAMEOKA (Mie University, Japan)
Yoshinori SATO (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
Makoto GOTO (Hanazono University, Japan)

Contact

For further information, please contact culture[at]ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Toru ISHIDA (Kyoto University)

International Workshop on Agents in Cultural Context

The main theme of this workshop is how computational agents can be involved in cultural context. We are interested in both visible and invisible agents to support intercultural communication and collaboration to increase mutual understanding in our multicultural world.

This workshop is a part of the First International Conference on Culture and Computing.

Unlike other conferences, this conference consists of various symposiums, workshops, panels, demos, excursions, etc. Workshop attendees are invited to join any other events.

For further information, please contact culture[at]ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Paper

Papers are solicited on any aspect of agents in cultural context. Papers can address technologies to realize cultural agents, or laboratory and field studies of agents for intercultural communication and collaboration.

Submit your abstract written in English, by e-mail to culture[at]ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Submitted abstracts of papers should consist of about 1500-2000 words in PDF. No special format is required for abstract submission.

Accepted papers should be submitted camera-ready in Springer Lecture Note Series format. See http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0 .

Full papers should be 12 to 15 pages long in the LNCS format. Selected papers will be included in the post-proceedings of International Conference on Culture and Computing.

Important Date

Deadline for extended abstracts: January 10, 2010 (Extended!)
Author notification: January 11, 2010
Deadline for camera ready paper: January 31, 2010
Deadline for camera ready post-proceedings paper: March 31, 2010

Organizers

Ruth Aylett (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Chair
Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc. USA)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Tomoko Koda (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ana Paiva (Instituto Superior Te'cnico, Portugal)
Alicia Sagae (Alelo Inc. USA)