A video message on ViPi and ATLEC project
Project coordinator Karel Van Isacker presents the projects ViPi and ATLEC.
Project coordinator Karel Van Isacker presents the projects ViPi and ATLEC.
The ViPi team can be found at following events in the near future:
ViPi is at WSIS 2012, Geneva, Switzerland, and recorded following videos that give a good impression of the work that is done on understanding and providing accessible education worldwide.
The first video features Jutta Treviranus (IDRC) on FLOE and Open Educational Resources at WSIS 2012.
The second video features Axel Leblois (Executive Director G3ict) on Lifelong Learning with Assistive Technologies at WSIS 2012.
These videos clearly illustrate the importance and relevance of the ViPi project.
We hope to publish some more videos in the next few days.
ViPi will attend the “Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Disability 2012” conference at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK on 23rd and 24th October 2012. ViPi will contribute with a paper on accessibility and the semantic web, as well as will have a dedicated booth. We hope to welcome you there.
The week before, the ViPi project will also organise its training workshop at Nottingham Trent University premises.
Visit the conference social media:
http://itag.gamecity.org/
http://www.facebook.com/iTAG.conf
http://twitter.com/#!/ITAG12
Call for papers:
The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners working with interactive technologies to explore and innovate within the areas of Education, Health and Disability. We have a particular focus on the use of gaming hardware and software to implement accessible solutions, interaction design using new input/output devices and the increasing impact of ubiquitous computing on our everyday well being.
The conference provides an excellent opportunity to showcase practice and to mainstream research ideas and outcomes. It introduces a wider audience to key findings and products from research and illustrates how practice feeds back into and informs research. The conference creates a forum for two-way communication between the academic and practitioner communities and particularly welcomes user led presentations and workshops.
The programme includes presentations of papers, workshops, and an exhibition space for demonstrations and posters. This event is held in partnership with GameCity – the World’s best-loved videogame festival (http://gamecity.org/) and delegates are welcome to attend all GameCity events including the opening drinks reception.
Scope:
As guidance to participants on scope of papers and activities we state that: ‘Education’ includes both compulsory and post-compulsory education; ‘Disability’ includes physical, sensory and cognitive impairment; and the impact of interactive technologies and games on health and well-being is also a focus of this conference. An emphasis is placed on practical applications and guides to where currently available training resources and tools can be found and used. A selection of papers will be published electronically in full, so presentations will be limited to 20 minutes for the key findings, including time for questions from the floor. It is hoped (as in previous years) that the best papers will be published in a special issue of a relevant academic journal.
Previous special issues have included:
Themes and topics:
The conference encourages multidisciplinary papers and examples of themes and topics include (but don’t let this restrict you):
Games Based Learning:
Game related Technologies:
Games for Health:
Accessibility and Design:
Web based technologies:
Those wishing to present papers or hold a workshop should send abstracts, to a maximum of 500 words. For those hoping to exhibit or produce a poster, a 300-word abstract is required. The deadline for submissions is Friday1st June 2012 to be sent to: karen.krelle@ntu.ac.uk
Final copies of accepted papers are required by Friday 14th September 2012.
There is a conference fee of £150 for 2 days, and £80 for 1 day registration. This price includes your invitation to the Game City opening event, lunch, and morning and afternoon refreshments.
Accommodation and Travel Links: https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/NCBITAGEHD2010
NottinghamCityTravel Link: http://www.nctx.co.uk/
Prizes Offered:
As in previous years prizes will be awarded!