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Call: Context in the Home – Workshop of the Context-17 Conference

Call for Papers

Context in the Home
A Workshop of the Context-17 Conference
Paris, France, 20-23 June 2017, http://context17.lip6.fr/

Workshop website: http://venus.inrialpes.fr/context4home/

Submission due: December 30th, 2016

DESCRIPTION

This workshop will bring together researchers and professionals from different domains to discuss key issues in the implementation, evaluation and practical use of context for the development of smart objects, services, and applications that are useful, usable, and desirable in domestic settings. We welcome work on core enabling technologies such as hardware and software infrastructures that support, include or use context, open data for context benchmarking, bottom-up VS top-down approaches to context modeling, machine learning for human intention and activity recognition as well as for detecting exceptions to routines. We also invite work that addresses context from an end-user’s experience including intelligible context representation, controllability and inspectability of learning mechanisms, privacy and trust, as well as lessons learned from real world experiments.… read more. “Call: Context in the Home – Workshop of the Context-17 Conference”

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My first virtual reality groping

[Here’s a depressing example of the all-too-timely dark side of presence; it’s from Medium, where the story includes two screenshots from the QuiVr game. –Matthew]

Woman using VR

[Image: Source: The Verge]

My First Virtual Reality Groping

October 20, 2016
Jordan Belamire

Last week I was groped in virtual reality — did you know that could happen? I didn’t, but now I’m all the wiser.… read more. “My first virtual reality groping”

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Call: AAAI 2017 Workshop on What’s next for AI in games

AAAI 2017 Workshop on What’s next for AI in games
At the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)
San Francisco, California, USA
Workshop Date: February 4 or 5, 2017 (TBD)
http://movingai.com/aigames17/

Deadline for paper submissions: October 31, 2016 (extended deadline)

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wnaig2017

ABSTRACT:

With the recent success of AlphaGo, computers now dominate the field of classic board games. While many researchers have already broadened their games-related research beyond the goal of achieving high performance in traditional games, the recent achievement of this milestone result makes it an appropriate time to reflect as a field on what is next in AI in games. With this workshop we seek to bring the broader AI community into this conversation.

This workshop will provide a place for AI researchers working in diverse areas such as machine learning, neural networks, human-aware AI, goal planning, game theory, robotics, and more to share their techniques and findings with those working in games research and the games industry.… read more. “Call: AAAI 2017 Workshop on What’s next for AI in games”

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The NBA begins weekly VR broadcasts of basketball games

[Aside from the further expansion of VR presence experiences, it’s interesting that the NBA learned that it had to incorporate elements of traditional broadcasting into its 360-degree live broadcasts to maintain viewer attention and interest. This story is from Fortune. –Matthew]

NBA-NextVR broadcasting

Here’s How the NBA Is Stepping Up Its Virtual Reality Game

by Jonathan Vanian
October 20, 2016

The NBA is getting more serious with virtual reality.

NBA Digital, a joint venture between Turner Sports and the NBA that manages the league’s online properties, said that it will broadcast one basketball game a week that viewers can watch in 360 degrees. The first custom broadcast will debut October 27 when the Sacramento Kings play against the San Antonio Spurs. During the broadcast, the NBA will stream the game in 180-degrees, in which viewers can turn their heads to follow the action, while a graphical display of the game’s statistics will be streamed in another 180-degrees to accompany the broadcast.… read more. “The NBA begins weekly VR broadcasts of basketball games”

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Call: 3DUI 2017 – IEEE 12th Symposium on 3D User Interfaces

Call for Papers

3DUI 2017, IEEE 12th Symposium on 3D User Interfaces
18th & 19th March
Los Angeles, California, USA
http://3dui.org

Abstract submissions due: November 22, 2016 (midnight PST)

Since IEEE 3DUI 2016, there has been an explosion of new technology that requires 3D user interface solutions. There are therefore many open 3D user interface research questions and more new technologies required. The IEEE 3DUI 2017 Symposium is the conference to showcase your results to the community. For that purpose, IEEE 3DUI 2017 solicits high-quality Papers and Technotes within the scope of 3D User Interfaces.

The symposium will last for two days, and will be followed immediately by the IEEE Virtual Reality 2017 conference.

Papers (up to 10 pages) should describe original and mature research results and will typically include some evidence of the value of the research, such as a user evaluation, formal proof, or well-substantiated argument.… read more. “Call: 3DUI 2017 – IEEE 12th Symposium on 3D User Interfaces”

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Inception VR wants to be the Netflix of Virtual Reality

[Inception VR looks like another promising step toward the widespread adoption of presence-evoking VR experiences; the story from Digital Trends includes different images and a 2:34 minute interactive video. –Matthew]

Inception VR -Bringing Immersive Experiences to Life

This Company Wants to be the Netflix of Virtual Reality

By Andy Boxall
October 19, 2016

When you want to watch some great streaming video, where do you go? Netflix, perhaps? Amazon Video? There are fantastic original shows from both these titans.

Now, what if you’d like a similar, quality video experience for your virtual reality headset? Sure, there are many apps out there that pull together some great, and not so great, VR videos. But there’s no guarantee of quality, and no single destination to visit where you’ll always find something amazing, cool, and new to watch.

That’s where Inception VR comes in. It wants to bring everything that makes Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Video great to the world of VR.… read more. “Inception VR wants to be the Netflix of Virtual Reality”

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Call: MuseumNext Europe 2017

MuseumNext Europe
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
26-28 June, 2017
https://www.museumnext.com/get-involved/call-for-papers/

Deadline Friday 6 January (5pm GMT)

MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums, taking place in the world’s cultural capitals since 2009. The conference is a catalyst for innovation, transformation and collaboration in museums, galleries and heritage sites, with more than 900 individuals from 32 countries joining us in 2016.

Each MuseumNext conference has a theme, around which our community comes together to discuss the future of museums. For our European Museum Conference this theme is inspired by the wish to celebrate those people, ideas and technologies that are changing the landscape of the sector.

THEME – MUSEUM GAMECHANGERS

We invite opinions, expertise, case studies, discussions and workshops around the points below:

Leaders and cultural entrepreneurs – shaking up the museum sector, pushing boundaries and ensuring the future success and relevance of museums, galleries, science centres and cultural organisations in which they work.… read more. “Call: MuseumNext Europe 2017”

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How about a nice hot cup of virtual tea?

[This is an interesting demonstration of presence and its potential; the story from Engadget includes a second picture, and more information about ALPS’ development and application of haptic technology is available from the company’s website. –Matthew]

ALPS' virtual cup of tea

How about a nice hot cup of virtual tea?

Haptics combined with heating and cooling elements deliver the feeling (if not the taste) of a cup of tea.

Mat Smith
10.05.16

Electronics company ALPS tests (and manufactures) all kinds of things. But its virtual cup, made possible by haptic technology and heat transmission, is the electronics manufacturer at its weird best. The cup, which is the size of a typical tumbler, is able to transmit a material’s tensile strength and even the temperature of your beverage of choosing. That is, as long as it’s cold water in a plastic cup or hot tea in a mug.… read more. “How about a nice hot cup of virtual tea?”

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Call: International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO17)

Call for Papers – MOCO 2017

International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO17)
Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology
28-30th June, London UK
Goldsmiths University of London
http://moco 17.movementcomputing.org

Submission deadline:  23 January 2017

We would like to invite submissions for paper presentations, performances, workshops and more to the 4th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO) which is to be held in London.

MOCO is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the use of computational technology to support and understand human movement practice (e.g. computational analysis) as well as movement as a means of interacting with computers (e.g. movement interfaces). This requires a wide range of computational tasks including modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information but also an interdisciplinary understanding of movement that ranges from biomechanics to embodied cognition and the phenomenology of bodily experience. We therefore invite submissions from a wide range of disciplines including (but not limited to): Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Dance, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Sports Science, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Visual Arts, Robotics, Philosophy, Anthropology, Music, Affective Computing, Games, Healthcare and Animation.… read more. “Call: International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO17)”

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The Repository: Universal Orlando’s new VR horror experience scared us silly

[Halloween is a great context for refining intense presence experiences; this story is from IGN, where it includes more images and a 1:16 minute video. More details are available from The Washington Times, and the attraction’s website. –Matthew]

Universal Orlando's Repository uses VR

The Repository: Universal Orlando’s New VR Horror Experience Scared Us Silly

New theme park attraction proves VR isn’t just for videogames anymore.

By Matt Cabral
7 October 2016

Spend a day at Universal Orlando’s two connected theme parks and you’ll likely be asked to don a pair of plastic 3D glasses. Whether going toe-to-tentacle with Doctor Octopus in The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man or facing a fire-breathing dragon in Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, most of the parks’ coolest rides rely on an extra dimension to deliver a more immersive experience.

Enter the resort’s latest attraction, The Repository, however, and you’ll be asked to put on a far more sophisticated piece of headgear.… read more. “The Repository: Universal Orlando’s new VR horror experience scared us silly”

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