Appel à communications - The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2013)

 

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

 

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.

 

The proceedings at the previous conferences are published online.

 

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: