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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BBC R&D, Children's BBC, IRT and ZDF are hosting a collaborative workshop titled ‘Toys and the TV: Serious Play’ to tackle interaction design and interfaces with respect to the use of the TV by children!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With the advent of connected TVs and connected toys, there is an opportunity to develop exciting novel interaction paradigms and innovative forms of user experiences around how children might view and interact with TV programmes. We have a comprehensive website: <a href="http://toys-n-tv.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663399">http://toys-n-tv.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This year, ACM IMX (previously TVX) workshops are being held on the 17th of June in sunny Barcelona, Spain: <a href="https://imx.acm.org/2020/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663399">https://imx.acm.org/2020/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We would like to invite practitioners, designers and researchers to submit a 1-2 page position paper, by email to toys.n.tv@gmail.com. It should containing the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Author names and bios<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Challenges addressed<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Details of any related research<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More information on the ‘suggested’ challenges can be found here: <a href="http://toys-n-tv.org/challenges" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663399">http://toys-n-tv.org/challenges</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We will prioritise proposals submitted by authors who can demonstrate a diverse and inclusive perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission deadline: 17th of February, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Workshop date: 17th of June, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We expect at least one author of each accepted position paper to attend the workshop and the participant must register for the whole of IMX to take part.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hope to see you in Barcelona!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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