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Call: EdMedia 2015

Call for Participation

EdMedia 2015
June 22 – 25
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Submissions Deadline: December 12, 2014
Proposal Submission Guide & Form

[This call:  http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm]

INVITATION

EdMedia–World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.

EdMedia, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and annually attracts more than 1,500 leaders in the field from over 70 countries. For a list, see: Countries @ EdMedia.

We invite you to attend EdMedia and submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, tutorials, workshops, posters/demonstrations, corporate showcases/demos, and SIG discussions.… read more. “Call: EdMedia 2015”

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Immersive Dolby Atmos tech entering home and mobile markets

[From The Register, where the story includes many more images]

Dolby Atmos graphic

Dolby Atmos is coming home and it sounds amazing

Don’t bin your multichannel home cinema system just yet

By Steve May, 13 Aug 2014

Can Dolby Atmos save the beleaguered home cinema business? With sales of AV receivers tanking, makers of multichannel home theatre receivers are banking on the latest in surround sound technology to rekindle interest.

Dolby Atmos has been called 3D for your ears. It’s a cute label to describe a tangible leap forward for movie audio. Unlike traditional surround sound, Atmos is object rather than channel based, using metadata to position audio within a hemispherical three-dimension soundstage, adding height to the usual encircling speaker array. It’s gaining traction in Hollywood, with over 120 movies rendered in Atmos so far.

From a sound design point of view, Atmos offers unparalleled creative control, which no doubt explains its acceptance.… read more. “Immersive Dolby Atmos tech entering home and mobile markets”

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Call: HCI International 2015

HCI International 2015
17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
2-7 August, 2015
Los Angeles, California, USA

http://www.hcii2015.org/

PROPOSALS SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

  • Papers:  17 October 2014
  • Tutorials:  17 October 2014
  • Posters:  20 February 2015

HCI International 2015, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, which are held under one management and one registration, invite you to Los Angeles, California, USA, to participate and contribute to the international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of HCI, through the following modes of communication: Plenary / Keynote Presentation, Parallel Sessions, Poster Sessions, Tutorials and Exhibition.

The Conference will start with three days of Tutorials (2-4 August). Parallel Sessions, Poster Sessions and the Exhibition will be held during the last three days (5-7 August) of the Conference.

THEMATIC AREAS:

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“Experiencing is believing”: What VR could mean for ads and brands

[From The Guardian]

Woman using Oculus Rift

Experiencing is believing: what virtual reality could mean for ads and brands

If Facebook can pull off mass adoption of Oculus Rift, how will it change media and marketing? Mike McGee dares to dream

Posted by Mike McGee
28 August 2014

Facebook is hoping to create 1bn users for its virtual reality (VR) acquisition, Oculus. Sounds overly ambitious doesn’t it? But not impossible. After all, Google managed this level of adoption for Android. So let’s assume for a moment that it’s feasible and ask ourselves how mass uptake of VR will affect media and marketing?

VR is most commonly associated with gaming, where the kinship is clear. Perhaps the most obvious media connection is with Hollywood, where VR has the potential to completely revolutionise the film industry. From giving every viewer an IMAX-worthy “best seat in the house” to letting people interact with a film’s narrative and pause to reveal character backstories, VR has the power to utterly disrupt the passive film viewing experience.… read more. ““Experiencing is believing”: What VR could mean for ads and brands”

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Job: Postdoc researcher in HCI for remote patient care project in Ireland

The Centre for Affective Solutions for Ambient Living Awareness (CASALA) at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland are seeking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in Human Computer Interaction, full-time, for a 12-month project, with potential for extension for one further year. This project is an academic-industry collaboration being undertaken with Fujitsu Ireland and University College Dublin as partners.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The main goal of the project is to design, deploy and evaluate health and wellness technologies to support clinicians in remotely monitoring their patients. The postdoc will work closely with clinicians to design appropriate interfaces and visualisations of patient data, ultimately helping clinicians to make more informed decisions about their patients. A large part of the role will involve managing a study that follows older adult patients home from hospital. Sensing and interactive technologies will be deployed to monitor patients’ wellbeing and this data will be returned to clinicians through interfaces that have been designed.… read more. “Job: Postdoc researcher in HCI for remote patient care project in Ireland”

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Projection mapping and face tracking tech blur fantasy and reality

[From RocketNews24, where the story includes the 2:19 minute video (via Vimeo), along with many images from it]

Omote realtime face tracking

Amazing real-time projection mapping technology blurs line between fantasy and reality [Video]

Kay August 24, 2014

Projection mapping is a technology we seem to be hearing about quite often these days, and you may have seen it being used at various events or amusement park shows. But the video that we’re sharing with you today makes use of a highly unexpected and unusual surface to create a series of projection mapped images quite unlike anything we’ve seen before. In fact, the technology used in the video is so visually convincing that it seems to blur the line between reality and fantasy, and once you see it, we think you’ll be impressed by it too!

The video, which was created jointly by Japanese projection mapping specialist Nobumichi Asai and make-up artist Hiroto Kuwahara along with French digital image engineer Paul Lacroix, is titled Omote (), which is a word that refers to the mask used in the traditional Japanese musical drama of Noh.… read more. “Projection mapping and face tracking tech blur fantasy and reality”

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Call: Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2015)

2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2015)

12th to 14th June 2015
Shenzhen, China

Organized by:  IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Website:  http://2015.civemsa.ieee-ims.org/

Papers are currently being solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction technologies, and virtual environments for measurement systems & the related applications, from the points of view of both theory & practice

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full Paper Submission:  Thursday, Jan 01, 2015
Acceptance Notification:  Sunday, Feb 01, 2015
Final Paper Submission:  Sunday, Mar 01, 2015

To increase the quality of life and better support the economical development, we often appreciate adaptable solutions, simple interfaces, and virtual views for enhanced operation. The wide and increasing needs of adaptable and flexible solutions for many industrial, environmental, engineering, educational, entertainment, and biomedical applications point out the importance of using design methodologies and implementation technologies with high ability of adaptation and evolution.… read more. “Call: Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2015)”

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Developer warns first death in VR coming

[From GamesIndustry.bizGizmodo’s coverage is headlined “Could Virtual Reality Seem Real Enough To Kill You?”]

An Oculus Rift user reacts

[Image: From the 14:50 minute YouTube video “Oculus FACEBOOK Rift: The Best and Funniest OR Reactions Ever Compilation”]

“We’re very close to having the first death in VR”

Cloudhead Games’ Denny Unger warns devs of the responsibility that comes with VR’s immersive power

By Matthew Handrahan
Fri 22 Aug 2014

The emergence of virtual reality is one of the most exciting trends in contemporary game development. The unparalleled sense of immersion it affords points toward a whole new era of interactive entertainment, but that potential carries significant responsibilities.

In a Q&A session following a VR panel at Unite 2014 in Seattle, a member of the audience followed up the discussion around the incredible power of persuasion that VR developers can now harness with a provocative question: What are the “VR evils” that pioneering developers should avoid?… read more. “Developer warns first death in VR coming”

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Call: MuseumNext 2015

MuseumNext 2015
Geneva, Switzerland
19 – 21 April 2015

http://www.museumnext.com/

MuseumNext is Europe’s major conference on the future of museums. The event brings together delegates from around the world to discuss ‘what’s next?’ for the museum sector. We are now inviting the international museum community to participate in our 2015 conference by proposing presentations, workshops or panel discussions on the subject of ‘What’s next for museums?’ We are seeking excellent examples of today which shine a light on the museum of tomorrow.

The conference will be a dialogue about what’s next in all aspects of the museum, including architecture, exhibitions, technology, skills, collections, conservation, purpose and leadership.

All presentations should deliver thought provoking insight, showcase innovative ideas, reveal ‘how to’ or even share stories of what not to do.

At the end of each session we want delegates to be able to take away knowledge that they can apply to their own work.… read more. “Call: MuseumNext 2015”

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Project Syria uses VR to bring trauma of Syrian war to life

[From Motherboard, where the story features two videos and several more images]

User experiencing Project Syria

A New Virtual Reality Tool Brings the Daily Trauma of the Syrian War to Life

Written by Christopher Malmo
August 23, 2014

The situation for journalism in Syria is grim, and getting worse. With Bashar al-Assad on one side, and a handful of extremist rebel groups like the Islamic State on the other, journalist abductions and intimidation are common, with sometimes sickening results.

For a few years now, Syria has been categorized by the Committee to Protect Journalists as the most dangerous country in the world to be a reporter. Media coverage since the 2013 chemical attack a year ago has trailed off precipitously.

As the humanitarian crisis continues, it’s becoming more difficult to tell the story to people outside Syria. But thanks to the rapidly growing world of virtual reality technology, there is now a way to put people outside Syria on the ground in the middle of the war without risking their safety.… read more. “Project Syria uses VR to bring trauma of Syrian war to life”

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