[ecrea] Inputs/Outputs: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction

Registration is now open for the conference "Inputs/Outputs: 
Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, 
Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer 
Interaction", which will be held at University of Sussex on 26 June 2013.

The cost for academic staff and professionals is £40 and £25 for 
students. Please see http://www.inputs-outputs.org/ and 
http://inputsoutputsconference.eventbrite.co.uk/# for further details.

Engagement — and related terms such as involvement, motivation, 
absorption, immersion and presence — is a key term in the public 
discourse of politics, enterprise, theatre and education.  The goal of 
this symposium is to engage a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary
academics, practitioners and funders interested in deeper engagement 
(and related terms) to discover the progress toward solutions made in 
other disciplines they may never have thought about before — to lead 
toward novel collaborative solutions and projects.

The title “Inputs/Outputs” concerns the interaction between ‘sender’ and 
‘receiver’.  Examples of human-centred inputs are computer games, 
immersive theatre, novels, music, and classroom lessons; examples of 
outputs are emotions, memories, neural activities, autonomic changes, 
and motivated behaviours (e.g. tweeting about the experience). In 
interactive experiences, there are many difficulties in proposing 
potential causal relationships because the human responses being sought 
may themselves be viewed as causes.

The rationale for the symposium is to improve the models (and their 
predictability) for understanding the relationship between cause 
(pre-designed interventions) and effects (emotions, memories, neural 
activities) engendered in the audience (or end-user).  To further 
clarify avenues for research, this inter-disciplinary symposium will 
focus its discourse on teasing apart scripted factors (inputs to the 
audience) that elicit or cause states like engagement, and on the human, 
observable effects that result from states like engagement (outputs from 
the audience).

Presentations will focus on the questions that the discussion will be 
centred around:

    * Assessment and quantification of engagement in different fields
    * Methodology and modalities for measuring engagement in different 
fields
    * The relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual 
engagement

Speakers
To date, our confirmed speakers are:

• Alessandro Vinciarelli, Social Signal Processing/University of Glasgow
• Anna Cox, Human-Computer Interaction/University College London
• Punchdrunk
• Fabian Ramseyer, Nonverbal Synchrony in Psychotherapy/University of Bern
• Mixed Reality Lab/University of Nottingham
• Effie Lai-Chong Law, User Experience/University of Leicester
• Hugo Critchley, Emotional psychophysiology, Brighton and Sussex 
Medical School
• Judith Good, Interactive systems and learning/University of Sussex
• Dan Pinchbeck, The Chinese Room
• Anthony Churnside, BBC Research & Development
• Richard Gunn, EPSRC
• Jonathan Freeman, Goldsmiths
• Nick Medford, Brighton and Sussex Medical School



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