[ecrea] Call for Papers INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and Human Computer Interaction

INPUTS / OUTPUTS: Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Causality in 
Engagement, Immersion, Presence and Related Concepts in Performance and 
Human Computer Interaction

University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
26 June 2013

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 15 MARCH 2013

Engagement is much sought after in the public discourse of politics, 
theatre and education. Immersion, presence, and motivation attract 
further research to the engagement continuum. The goal of this symposium 
is to inspire an interdisciplinary spectrum of academics, practitioners 
and funders interested in deeper engagement (and related terms) toward 
novel collaborative solutions and projects. By mixing practitioners and 
researchers from arts, media and science, the conference will offer a 
platform for adaptation of discoveries made in other disciplines.

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, physiological 
changes, and motivated behaviours.

The rationale for the symposium is to improve the models for 
understanding the relationship between cause (pre-designed or scripted 
interventions) and effects (emotions, memories, neural activities) 
engendered in the audience or end-user. In interactive experiences, 
proposing causal relationships is made more difficult as human responses 
are sometimes conflated with causes. The symposium will focus its 
inter-disciplinary 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).

We welcome submissions on the central questions of the conference:

* The relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual engagement
* Results from assessment and quantification of engagement in different 
fields
* Methodologies and modalities for measuring engagement in different fields

Other relevant topics include: rapport, immersion, ‘presence’, hypnotic 
absorption, neuroscience of engagement, interactional synchrony, 
engagement during interactivity in HCI, social signal processing, games, 
and the arts.

Presentations should take the form of posters or 15-minute papers. We 
also welcome proposals for workshops or panels. For posters and 
individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract as well as a short 
biographical note of 100 words. For panel and workshop proposals, please 
provide a brief outline of the session’s aims together with abstracts 
and biographical notes for each speaker and for the proposed panel chair 
or discussants.

Please bear in mind that the conference is an interdisciplinary 
platform, and that submissions should be easily understood by an 
audience from outside of your discipline.

All proposals should be emailed as pdf to the organisers at 
(io-conf /at/ sussex.ac.uk)
All proposals will be acknowledged and successful contributions confirm 
no later than 15 March 2013.
For information about speakers and programme, please visit 
www.inputs-outputs.org

Russell Pearce
Carina Westling
Harry Witchel


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