2 days to submit! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

UNLOOP's call for abstracts was just extended to March 29! And it's free of charge! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/ UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media as inducers of meaning, reflectiveness and higher-order thinking.

Come study with us in the Master in Interaction and Computational Media Design! Second phase of applications is open until April 2nd! More info at mdimc.fba.up.pt/index-EN.html #InteractionDesign #UXUIDesign #WebDesign #ApplicationDesign #GameDesign #XRDesign #ArtisticProduction #CreativeDirection

UNLOOP - Symposium On Interaction and Computational Media Design, FBAUP Porto, calls for extended abstracts by scholars, designers, artists, and students working within this expanded field. Submit your abstract before March 16. frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

The special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, dedicated to friction in games and computational media, that I guest edited with @ordeposodrac.bsky.social is now published and available in open access at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

For all the Swifties out there. [wink wink] Fill your blank space at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

...and this is today! Submit at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Come join the 💛 in Torino this July. The call is open at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

If you happen to be at Braga on the 10th, consider visiting Future Game! 🙂 bragamediaarts.com/noticia/futu...

If you happen to be in Porto tomorrow (4/12) consider paying us a visit. Miguel Sicart will be with us for a masterclass. Free and open entry to all! :) sigarra.up.pt/fbaup/en/NOT...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Power, and Collective Resistance in Gaming Cultures revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ij...

If you're in for it in August, you can read mine and Terhi's new paper featuring inconvenient pseudo-code games, entitled "Pseudocode poetics: Inconvenient interactions for meaningful dumbphone games", at elyra.org/index.php/el... . :)

“by calling LLMs ‘artificial intelligence’, we’re not just mischaracterising what these systems do; we’re also impoverishing our understanding of what human intelligence actually is. We’re essentially defining intelligence down to the narrow slice that current technology can simulate.”

Alison Gopnik@alisongopnik.bsky.social · last yr.

Interesting column by John Naughton at the Observer on AI as cultural technology. Claude agrees with us! Farrell et al (2025) Science, 387(6739), 1153-1156. Or rather the summary of information on intelligence the Claude system provides is reasonably accurate. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Happy to announce “Arte, Digital, Academia, Museu Zer0. Vol 2”, edited by Luísa Ribas and myself, and published by Museu Zer0 and i2ADS. Limited print copies are available and there's an open access version at i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/...

If you're in Porto on the 26th, come join us at the first symposium of the Computation, Hybrid Practices & Culture program at i2ADS. Our guest keynote will be Alessandro Ludovico @neural-mag.bsky.social Everyone is welcome!

This special issue will be guest edited by me, @miguelsicart.bsky.social and @ordeposodrac.bsky.social

Reminder: the call for articles on Friction in Games and Computational Media for a special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction is open until May 31st. This issue is guest edited by @miguelsicart.bsky.social @ordeposodrac.bsky.social and myself. More info at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

Miguel Carvalhais@carvalhais.org · 2y ago

New call for articles out: special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction on Friction in Games and Computational Media, guest edited by @ordeposodrac.bsky.social, @miguelsicart.bsky.social, and myself. Submissions are open until May 31st at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

New call for articles out: special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction on Friction in Games and Computational Media, guest edited by @ordeposodrac.bsky.social, @miguelsicart.bsky.social, and myself. Submissions are open until May 31st at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

Come work with us! We're hiring a post-doc researcher for six months to be part of the project “Break the loop: Driving meaningful interactions with inconvenient game design strategies”. The job posting is: sigarra.up.pt/spup/pt/noti... Applications can be submitted until February 21st.