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Job: Delft University of Technology – Assistant/Associate Professor in Man-Machine Interaction

Job description

The Assistant/Associate Professor will focus on performing research in the Cognitive Engineering subfield of MMI, and supervising PhD students in this field. She or he will be responsible for teaching in the area of Man-Machine Interaction and supervising interns, Bachelor’s and Master’s students. The appointee will be responsible for management tasks, acquisition of research projects, and valorisation. The appointee will support and work closely with Prof. I. Heynderickx on topics in the area of display- and lighting-related applications for consumer well-being. Examples of current areas of research are applications for Internet TV, the creation of social experiences, and atmosphere creation with light. For these research topics the appointee will collaborate with Dr. Ir. W.-P. Brinkman and Dr. Ir. P. Wiggers of the MMI group.

Requirements

Applicants should hold a PhD degree and have experience in and knowledge of the areas of applied visual perception and user-centred design.… read more. “Job: Delft University of Technology – Assistant/Associate Professor in Man-Machine Interaction”

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Online avatar-based speed skating debuts for Vancouver Olympics

[From Free-Press-Release.com; watch a local news segment on this topic from NBC 15 in Madison, Wisconsin here]

Speed Skating “Avatar” Racers Debut at Vancouver Olympics

By Bruce Winkler on February 5, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 5, 2010 — The world’s first Virtual Reality Speed Skating avatars will be unveiled by RA Sports, LLC at the Winter Olympics Pavilion in Vancouver, where, onsite participants will race virtual avatars on-line, in real time, against competitors in both Holland and London. The “skaters” will utilize new Speed Skating Simulators equipped with inertial sensors allowing them to race their on screen avatars down the track based on their physical prowess.

“This experience is as close to real competition as it gets!” says Bruce Winkler, company owner and Chief Innovation Officer “The sounds and excitement of the speed skating experience come to life as racers compete with avatars controlled by live oponents halfway across the world.”… read more. “Online avatar-based speed skating debuts for Vancouver Olympics”

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Call: Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (ISSN: 1757191X; print on demand and online) is seeking contributions to its 2(3) issue (winter 2010). Papers from all areas associated with video/computer games and virtual environments are welcome.

Deadlines: 30 April 2010 for long articles; 15th May 2010 for short articles,  conference/project reports, poster abstracts, interviews and reviews.

Please note that, as of this issue, we are also inviting submissions of MACHINIMA REVIEWS.

The following (new) word limits apply:
Long articles: 5000-8000 words
Short articles: 3000-5000 words
Conference and other reports: 1000-2000 words
Reviews (books, websites, games, machinima), poster abstracts
and interviews: 1500-3000 words.

Please send your submissions in anonymized form to Astrid Ensslin at a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk. Reviews should be submitted to the Reviews Editor, Matthew S.S. Johnson, at matjohn@siue.edu. Machinima reviews should be submitted to Phylis Johnson at phylisj@yahoo.com.

For informal inquiries and the Intellect styleguide, contact Isamar Carrillo Masso at isamar.carrillo@gmail.comread more. “Call: Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds”

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Siri, your personal assistant mobile app

[From MIT’s Technology Review Editors blog; see a 3 minute video of Siri here]

Friday, February 05, 2010

An Intelligent Software Assistant Debuts

By Erica Naone

Last year, we selected the “intelligent software assistant” Siri as one of our top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009.

Now, you can try the software out for yourself, as the app has be added to Apple’s app store.

Siri, which the company’s CEO Dag Kittlaus describes as “the mother of all mashups with a big brain in the front,” tries to perform all sorts of useful tasks based on simple voice or text commands. The iPhone version can, for example, be used to find upcoming local events, make reservations at a restaurant, or check the weather. The voice technology is licensed from Nuance and Siri’s core technology, which allows it to understand, classify, and respond to user requests, is licensed from the CALO project–a massive artificial-intelligence effort that has made major strides in machine learning in recent years.… read more. “Siri, your personal assistant mobile app”

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Call: International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces (PPD10)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces (PPD10)
http://www.hitlab.utas.edu.au/wiki/PPD10

25 May 2010, Rome, Italy

held in Conjunction with
AVI 2010, the 10th International Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~avi2010/

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: Mar 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 30, 2010
Camera ready version: Apr 10, 2010
Workshop: May 25, 2010

Recent developments have seen the wide spread proliferation of both large shared displays and small display technologies. In parallel we have seen the emergence of new classes of device which support both touch or multi touch interaction. Examples of small touch driven devices include PDAs, iPads, Tablets and iPhones and examples of large interactive surfaces (multi-touch driven displays) include the MERL Diamondtouch and Microsoft Surface. Interactive surfaces offer great potential for face-to-face work and social interaction and provide natural ways to directly manipulate virtual objects whereas small devices afford the individual a personal workspace or “scratch space” to formulate ideas before bringing them to a wider audience.… read more. “Call: International Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces (PPD10)”

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Live motion capture interactive hologram at Abba exhibition

[From the News section of the ABBAWORLD web site]

25 January 2010

Dreams Come True at ABBAWORLD – Perform Live with ABBA on Stage!

In what promises to be one of the most exciting and spectacular features of the upcoming ABBAWORLD exhibition, the audience will be able to sing and dance together with the Swedish supergroup ABBA on stage. With the high definition holographic video system Eyeliner, ABBA returns to the stage through a holographic illusion of the group for the visitor to interact with. Senior director of production Mats Daleskog of Touring Exhibitions, the company behind ABBAWORLD, says, ‘‘We were very impressed with the Eyeliner system when it was presented to us by Musion Systems, and we immediately knew that this was something we had to incorporate into ABBAWORLD. It’s an amazing, seemingly magical technology, and Musion Systems have really excelled themselves when it comes to this one.’’… read more. “Live motion capture interactive hologram at Abba exhibition”

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Call: CGAMES 2010 International Computer Games Conference

CGAMES 2010 Louisville
The 15th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GAMES CONFERENCE

AI, Animation, Interactive Multimedia, Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

28th – 31st July 2010

Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Organised by the University of Wolverhampton, UK, in association with the University of Louisville and the IEEE TCSIM Computer Society.

http://www.cgamesusa.com/

The International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games organised by The University of Wolverhampton, UK, is one of the leading research conferences devoted to the advancement of the theory and practice of games development. It brings together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art in computer games research, perspectives of future developments and innovative applications relevant to games development and related areas. Past conferences have attracted hundreds of participants from the industry and the academia from around the globe http://www.cgames.org/.

The main aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, games developers, sound, graphics, video, and animation developers, education and training industry from around the world to exchange ideas on design methods, research and development, and development methodologies that are beneficial to the computer games industry and the academia.… read more. “Call: CGAMES 2010 International Computer Games Conference”

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Digital images give home buyers a vivid new perspective

[From the Washington Post]

Housewatch

Digital images give home buyers a vivid new perspective

By Katherine Salant
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Can you know what it feels like to stand in a house without actually standing in it? Can a computer-generated image of an interior that includes every detail, right down to the high-heeled shoes on the floor of a dressing room where the imaginary owner kicked them off, truly convey a sense of place?

These are not theoretical questions. As computer-generated virtual-reality images of homes become less costly to generate, many in the home-building industry expect them to play a central role in the buying experience.

If the two virtual-reality houses I saw at the International Builders Show last month in Las Vegas are any indication, the quality of the presentation will vary, and your reaction will depend on where you are in the buying process — just beginning your search and surfing the web to learn about builders and locations, or seriously interested in a specific house and in pursuit of details about the finished product.… read more. “Digital images give home buyers a vivid new perspective”

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Call: CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

Collaboration Researchers International Working Group presents

16th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology
(CRIWG 2010)

When: Sep 20, 2010 – Sep 23, 2010
Where: Maastricht, The Netherlands
Submission Deadline: Mar 26, 2010

Call For Papers

The CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology seeks scientific papers that inform the design, development, deployment, and use of collaboration technology (groupware) and the work practices they support. Founded in 1995, CRIWG has become a significant forum for researchers and professionals to exchange ideas and experiences about problems and solutions related to collaboration technology.

Most challenges in the collaboration technology field require a multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach. CRIWG seeks papers on groupware from a wide variety of academic perspectives and epistemologies, ranging from collaborative and exploratory research, to theory building and testing, applied research, design science, engineering, and innovative evaluation methods. Researchers can report their ideas, theories, models, designs and experimental results to CRIWG either by submitting full paper contributions, in case of mature works, and shorter papers reporting innovative work in progress.… read more. “Call: CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology”

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Scholars test emotion-sensitive tutoring software

[From Education Week]

Published Online: December 22, 2009; Updated: January 5, 2010

Scholars Test Emotion-Sensitive Tutoring Software

‘Intelligent’ Systems Respond to Students’ Cues

By Debra Viadero

A high school student is working on a geometry problem with her tutor, “Jane.” The student solves the problem incorrectly and expresses frustration. Empathetic, Jane shows momentary frustration, too.

Then she responds encouragingly, “Let’s read again what the problem is asking.”

This scene would not be out of place in most educational environments were it not for one important detail: Jane is a character on a computer screen.… read more. “Scholars test emotion-sensitive tutoring software”

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