CAA 2012 Registration system is now open

The CAA2012 registration system is now open:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/registration/index.html

The early bird registration rates will end on 1 February. We very much look forward to seeing you in Southampton in March.

As part of the registration process we would very much like you to provide us with your social media profiles e.g. twitter, linkedin, academia etc. If you agree we will place these on the CAA2012 website in order to create an online community in advance of the conference and to help interactions during and after it. Please also follow @caasoton if you are a twitter user for regular updates.

See you in March!

 

Second Call for Papers Computer Applications in Archaeology 2012

CAA2012 Call for Papers

Submissions are requested for the 2012 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology to be hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton.http://www.caa2012.org

The main aim of the CAA conference is to bring together researchers, professionals and students with an interest in the field of computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology. We therefore welcome submission of abstracts in English of up to 500 words that:

–              Describe original, technically excellent, critical, and/or synthetic research

–              Focus on interesting computation and/ or quantitative methods and theories applied in archaeology and related disciplines

You may choose to present your research via a long paper (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and handover), short paper (10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions and handover), or a poster. You may submit your research to a specific proposed session or to the general session. Poster sessions will run on each day of the conference and posters will be linked in the conference documents and website to the sessions to which they were submitted. Please indicate your preference in your submission.

Provisionally the conference will be divided into six themes:

1.            Data Analysis, Modelling, Management, Integration and Visualisation

2.            Field and Lab Recording

3.            Geospatial technologies

4.            Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia and Museums

5.            Simulating the Past

6.            Theoretical Approaches and Context of Archaeological Computation

The list of proposed sessions is available online:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/submissions/CAA2012_proposed_sessions.pdf

You should submit your paper via the CAA2012 Open Conference System available online:

https://www.ocs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/CAA/2012/schedConf/cfp

The deadline is 11:59pm 30 November 2011. Accepted papers will be announced and conference booking system will open on 21st December 2011. Please note that at least one of the authors of a paper or poster must be registered for and attend the conference.

All research presented at CAA2012 may be submitted after the conference for peer review for publication in the conference proceedings. These will be published prior to CAA2013.

Note: If you would like your paper to be considered for the CAA Recycle Award then please indicate this in your submission:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/award/index.html

Look also for our session about the study of movement:

Loc(i) Motion: Current technologies and computational methodologies for exploring human movement in the past and present

Computer Applications in Archaeology – Call for papers

Hey guys,

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers is open for our session in the CAA conference that is taking place at the University of Southampton in March 2012.

Loc(i) Motion: Current technologies and computational methodologies for exploring human movement in the past and present

Patricia Murrieta-Flores*, Angeliky Chrysanthi* and Stuart Dunn^

*University of Southampton

^King’s College London

Human movement and mobility has always been a challenging topic in the field of archaeology –involving research both in past and contemporary settings- due to the static nature of material culture which usually conditions both its interpretation and reception. Research on movement also, features in discourses pertinent to spatial perception, wayfinding and embodied experience providing thus, an ideal ground for interdisciplinary research.

Movement in past societies can be considered a scalar phenomenon whose study requires the consideration of diverse temporal and spatial scales. In order to understand how people travelled and moved during the past, it is necessary to delve into a series of theoretical and practical issues that range from the basic variables and factors that affect human movement such as physiology, perception, and social relationships, to the specific conditions of the environment in which the studied society lived. In the past decade, a wide range of computational approaches in different disciplines has been developed helping us to shed light into a variety of hypothesis related to human movement.

Similarly, current technological advances in motion capture, tracking systems and simulation techniques enable the study of human movement and the experience of moving both in real and virtual spaces; and to extrapolate from one to the other. This has unlocked a variety of new territories for research and practice-led work which informs the computer-mediated fields of heritage such as site and visitor management, fieldwork, serious games in cultural heritage, museology and visitor experience studies. It also allows us to (re) consider some of the assumptions that lie behind the capture and presentation of 3D imagery of archaeological features and environments.

The purpose of this session is to bring together the various technologies and computational methodologies used by archaeologists and other specialists that explore past and present human movement. We also welcome papers that examine potential lines of collaboration on this topic between a diversity of fields like physiology, psychology, archaeology, heritage management, design and computer science.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/submissions/index.html