Scope of Call and Purpose of Conference
Multimedia and e-contents are a rapidly growing field of academic instruction and professional training ranging from creative design to innovative ICT applications.
The EUROPRIX Academic Network Conference focuses on developments in teaching and learning the best use of the new technologies. Invited are for instance instructors in interactive media, art and design schools, professors from technical universities and ICT teachers from the applied sciences.  At the conference you will present your analyses on current trends in the industry and markets, new developments in demands from students and effects of teaching practices. The conference invites submissions that present scientific ideas and technological state-of-the-art inquiries, new techniques and teaching methods, successful cases in course developments, evaluation reports on teaching effects etc. The submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee. 

Program
The conference includes also 5 panel discussions to given themes. The program will be completed by presentations of Top Talent Professors and Nominees presenting their institutes, their courses and their lecture praxis.  The conference also includes the yearly strategy session of the EUROPRIX Academic Network for planning activities in the upcoming year. 

Call for Papers  
We are inviting papers on the general theme of the conference and for the following topics:
1.         Smart Interfaces – intuitive use of augmented and mixed realities
2.         Mobile Paradigm for content development
3.         Virtual versus real world - Second Life and other social services
4.         Teaching Interactive Story Authoring
5.         Mega trends in e-content – what do they mean for education?

Publication
Abstracts and full papers accepted for the conference will be published in the DUV -Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Germany in the Series on “Smart Media and Applications Research” edited by Peter A. Bruck.
Papers can only be published when also be presented at the conference. 

Schedule
Aug. 30: Submission deadline for abstracts 
Oct 5: Notification of acceptance 
Oct. 31: Submission deadline for full papers (camera ready) 
Nov. 23-24: Conference 

Abstracts should be at most 50 lines plus references, posters should be 8-10 pages and result in a 15-20 minutes presentation, papers should be 12 to 15 pages and result in a 30-40 minutes presentation.


All abstracts and papers must be submitted as an email attachment to egger@icnm.net. 



Conference Registration and Fee

Regular Fee: € 250

Reduced Fee: € 150 for Academic Network Members and CEE Participants

The fee includes participation in all conference sessions, the program of the Top Talent Festival and EUROPRIX Top Talent Award Gala, all documentation, coffee breaks and two lunches.

Program Board
• Peter A. Bruck – Austrian Research Centers, Vienna
• Daniel Kapelian – University of Paris 8
• Melissa Lee Price – Staffordshire University
• Ursula Maier Rabler – University of Salzburg
• Cai Melakoski – Tampere Polytechnic Univ. of Applied Sciences
• Rodica Mocan – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
• Alexander Nischelwitzer – University of Applied Scienes Joanneum, Graz  – Local Chair
• Michael Haller – Univ. of Applied Scienes Hagenberg
• Richard Vickers – Hull School of Art & Design 

For registrations, questions or further information please contact  
Academic Network Secretariat: Mrs. Jana Egger, International Center for New Media, Austria, Moosstrasse 43a, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, Tel: +43 662 630408-35  Fax: +43 662 630408-22, www.icnm.net    |  www.eadim.org

 Download the Call for Papers 2007 as PDF