DeSForM 2007: The 3rd European Workshop on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement

Call for Papers



**** Call for Papers ****

Revised Submission Deadline: 8th September 2007
 

**** Call for Demonstrator Proposals ****

Revised Submission Deadline: 8th September 2007

Send all manuscripts and proposals to: wendy.hutchinson@northumbria.ac.uk

Document Format

Please use the Springer templates for your manuscripts:
>> Springer template - MS Word format
>> Springer template - LATEX
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Timeline:

• Submission of Abstracts: 1 June 2007
• Advice on feasibility of abstracts: 15 June 2007
• Submission of Full Papers: REVISED: 8 September 2007
• Notification of Accepted Papers: 14 September 2007
• Deadline for Inclusion in Proceedings: 19 October 2007
• Conference: REVISED DATES: 12th & 13th December 2007


There will be room for 20 long and 20 short papers. It is planned to have the workshop proceedings published under the auspices of IFIP (Feijs, Kyffin, Young Eds.) Long papers are max 20 pages, short papers are max 5 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published either online or as a volume of Springer Verlag LNCS.

Examples

If you would like to know if your work fits the conference theme please read last year's Proceedings, containing all accepted papers and demonstrators proposals, which can be found in our Downloads section.

Direct submission

You may submit a paper directly by the deadline if you feel that the topic of your research is relevant to the themes and topics of DeSForM. However if you wish to check the relevance of your research you can submit an abstract by the deadline above to receive feedback from the Programme Committee. Your paper would then need to be submitted by Friday 27th July 2007.


Themes and Topics


1. Methods and Tools
Active forms
Theatre and choreography
Sketching in space and time
Aesthetics and notation of motion
Editing and scripting of movements

2. Theoretical developments
Meaning and perception
Conditions of applicability
Ambient versus interactive movement
Structuring mechanisms and linguistics
Gestalt theory and compositionality of meaning

3. Practice-based research and case studies Using movement as a mediator
Appropriation of the everyday
Effects of context on meanings
New typologies and ecologies of objects
Dependencies between form and movement