ISPR 2012 Conference Announcement
The board of directors of the International Society for Presence Research is pleased to announce that ISPR 2012, the 14th international conference on all things presence and telepresence, will take place on Wednesday-Friday October 24-26, 2012 in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). Full details and the Call for Papers will be posted in ISPR Presence News and on the ISPR web site in the weeks ahead.
Word cloud visualization of ISPR Presence News and Presence-L post titles
To provide a visual summary of what readers can find in ISPR Presence News items, we’ve used IBM’s Many Eyes software to create a word cloud based on the titles of the nearly 3,500 announcement posts on the Presence-L listserv from July 1999 to January 2010 and ISPR Presence News from January 2010 to July 1, 2011. The full-sized version of the word cloud can be found here; the list of titles used to generate the visualization are here (note that “Presence-related,” “News,” and “Call” were removed for the cloud). Please let us know what you think in the comments section for this post.
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Your reactions to Presence News items
ISPR Presence News has been limited to one-way communication about telepresence, but we want to know what you think about the diverse topics and ideas presented in our posts. So we’ve expanded the ISPR web site to to include your comments on Presence News posts. You can add your reactions – ideas for studying phenomena, suggestions for expanding theories, predictions about future developments, references to relevant publications and other resources, reports about conference experiences, and anything else that could be of interest to the presence community - at the bottom of any post on the site (they’ll be lightly moderated to avoid spam, flaming and other forms of inappropriateness). Please do share your insights with the presence community.
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International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference – ISPR 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland
October 26 – 28, 2011
A reminder that the submission deadline for ISPR 2011, the 13th International Workshop on Presence, is Sunday June 5, 2011.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference – ISPR 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland
October 26 – 28, 2011
Submission deadline: June 5, 2011
Introduction
Academics and practitioners interested in presence (short for telepresence) are invited to participate in the Annual International Conference on Presence, to be held in Edinburgh on October 26-28, 2011. The presence community comprises researchers in communication, computer science, psychology, entertainment, philosophy, the arts, education and other fields.
Presence exists in two overlapping flavours – social presence and spatial presence.
Social presence is the sense, the feeling and the experience of being with other people mediated by technologies such as teleconferencing, collaborative virtual environments, social networking, mobile communications and so on.
In contrast, spatial presence is the sense, the feeling and the experience of being in another place by way of technologies such as immersive and non-immersive virtual reality, movies, games, mixed reality systems and books.
ISPR 2011 follows a series of 12 successful PRESENCE conferences and provides an ideal forum for presentation of presence scholarship and applications that allow attendees to join together in synthesizing and expanding our collective knowledge and visions for the future regarding this compelling topic.
ISPR 2011 is co-organized by the International Society for Presence Research and the Centre for Interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University. Read more on Call: ISPR 2011 conference (deadline: June 5)…
Conferences April 9-14, 2011
Exhibits April 11-14, 2011
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Experience telepresence technologies and get perspectives from worldwide thought leaders on the future of this next generation visual communications platform and the business case and costs for deploying telepresence solutions. This two-day conference will present products, solutions and technical insights across a broad spectrum of business sectors.
Featured Speakers:
Left to right: Keynote – Mary Davie, General Services Administration; Hyoun Park, Aberdeen Research Group; Howard Lichtman, Human Productivity Lab; Christine Martin, California Telemedicine
and Health Center
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Posts return next week after ISPR 2011
Following tradition, ISPR Presence News posts will take a break while many of us gather this week for the ISPR 2011 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland (details on the web site).
If you can’t join us this year, please consider attending ISPR 2012 at this time next fall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Details and the call for papers will be coming soon!
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