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Month: August 2010

  • Job: Lecturer in Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics at University College London

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    Lecturer in Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics The Department of Computer Science at University College London Full Time The appointment will be on UCL Grade. The salary range will be Grade 7 £35,415 -£38,441 per annum /Grade 8 £39,510 to £46,635 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Computer Science at University College London seeks applications for an academic faculty position in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics (VECG) group. The post will be associated with the Engineering Doctorate Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation (EngD VEIV Centre). We are looking for someone with…

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  • Skullcandy headphones offer online AR dressing room

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    [From The Ski Channel Television Network] Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 @ 16:35:48 PM Skullcandy debuts virtual reality dressing room Sure pro skier Tom Wallisch looks stylish in the new Skullcandy Roc Nation headphones, but will you? That’s the age old question that once faced consumers but not anymore. Skullcandy has launched a first in the headphone space and something never before seen in the action sports world, debuting a virtual dressing room for their Roc Nation Aviator headphone. By downloading a simple plugin, and accessing the user’s webcam, the Skullcandy Virtual Room tracks the users eyes and displays live footage…

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  • Can Hollywood redesign humanity?

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    [From Big Think’s Hybrid Reality blog] Can Hollywood Redesign Humanity Parag and Ayesha Khanna on August 29, 2010 Most people do not come to Hollywood for deep conversation, but as we explained with respect to “serious games,” the entertainment universe is producing an impressive array of products that can educate youth to think more constructively about real-world problems through experimenting with solutions in online environments. There is also a new breed of film-makers who are advancing the cause of techno-optimism in ways that contradict the dystopian visions of robots taking over the earth. When we convened a salon of film-makers, online…

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  • Call: International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2010)

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    First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2010) (Co-Sponsored by ACM IIIT Allahabad Professional Chapter & NI ACM SIGCHI) Organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India December 28-30, 2010 Allahabad, India Important Dates: Submission of papers (all categories) : September 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance : October 10, 2010 Camera-ready manuscripts due : October 30, 2010 Conference Workshop : December 27, 2010 Early Bird Registration deadline : October 25, 2010 For any further information regarding conference visit http://iitm.iiita.ac.in/ or email us at iitm@iiita.ac.in ACM Conferences Calendar Link of IITM 2010: http://campus.acm.org/public/chapters_conf_cal/index.cfm?ConfId=81788 Designing interactive systems is…

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  • HP projection technology could take a page from Star Wars

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    [From InfoWorld] August 19, 2010 HP projection technology could take a page from Star Wars Businesspeople would be projected into meetings the same way R2D2 projected a hologram of Princess Leia By Paul Krill | InfoWorld In the future, business meetings might seem like a scene out of the movie “Star Wars,” if  technology envisioned at Hewlett-Packard comes to fruition. Stars Wars-like 3-D projection technology is on the drawing board at the company, with the potential to project businesspersons at many locations into virtual reality-like meetings, reducing the need to hop on airplanes and spend significant time away from home.…

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  • Call: “Haptic Services in Vehicles” at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)

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    I would like to inform you that IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) announced a new topic, “Haptic Services in Vehicles”. You are invited to submit your papers to “Mobile Applications and Services” track by September 30. Potential haptics related topics are solicited in, but are not limited to the following categories: In-vehicle haptic data communication networks Wireless haptic data communication in vehicular networks In-vehicle multimedia systems In-car haptic user interfaces Haptic-enabled mobile robots Haptic-enabled unmanned vehicles: UGV, UAV, etc. Haptic-enabled driving simulators Haptic-enabled virtual vehicle design and assembly In-vehicle human factors: human haptic perception & performance Active safety through haptic…

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  • Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D

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    [From BLDGBLOG] Augmented Metropolis Posted August 23, 2010  Keiichi Matsuda, a recent graduate—with distinction—from the Bartlett School of Architecture, whose film Domestic Robocop was featured on BLDGBLOG several months ago, has a new project out: Augmented City. And it’s in 3D. The [2:46 minute] film “focuses on the deprogramming of architecture and the spontaneous creation of customised, aggregated spaces,” Matsuda writes. We see its central protagonist surrounded by pop-up menus and projected touchscreens, able to switch urban backgrounds—graffiti to gardens—in an instant. …

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  • Call: Interactive Stories for Health Interventions at ICIDS 2010

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    Interactive Stories for Health Interventions October 31st, 2010, Edinburgh UK Half-day Workshop (9:30am -12:30pm) at ICIDS 2010 (the third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) November 1st – 3rd 2010 Organizers: Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, Lynn Miller Call for Participation Increasingly interactive stories are used as tools in developing health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Interactive stories provide unique power to teach and change people’s behaviors as they allow the user to experience and learn in context. Further, the story, and intervention messages, can be tailored based on user profiles and the user’s patterns of interaction within the intervention. Research…

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  • Brazil’s KAIAK introduces world’s first scented online banner

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    [From BizBash Hive] World’s First Scented Online Banner – Smell This! by Community on August 17, 2010 Ever heard of smell-o-vision? Back in 1960 one film was made, ironically called “Scent of Mystery,” that brought-to-life a very cool idea – pumping smells into the theatre that corresponded with scenes happening in the movie.  So when the characters on screen were eating at a restaurant the audience would smell the food. Fast forward 50 years later to Brazil and the world of KAIAK – a top selling men’s fragrance that is sold exclusively door-to-door.  The company wanted to let people know…

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  • Call: ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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    First Call for Papers ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems http://www.eics2011.org/ Pisa, Italy | June 13-16, 2011 EICS 2011 is the third international conference devoted to the engineering of interactive computing systems. EICS focuses on methods, techniques, and the tools that support them, for designing and developing interactive systems. It brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities. Systems of interest include traditional as well as non-traditional interactive systems, development processes (e.g. agile software development), design tools (e.g.…

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  • HP’s wide, wide, wide high-definition screen

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    [From VentureBeat] HP’s Phil McKinney shows off a wide, wide, wide high-definition screen August 20, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Hewlett Packard is working on a display with a really wide screen. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer at the Personal Systems Group at HP, showed off the concept for the screen at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference this week in San Jose, Calif. The screen is so wide that you can see an entire pro basketball court at the same time. McKinney referred to the screen as a “triple wide high-definition” screen that is created by stitching together images from lots of…

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  • Call: 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2011)

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    CAADRIA 2011 Call for Papers – Abstract Due September 7, 2010 Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending The 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Dates: April 27-29, 2011 Host: School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia Submission guidelines and other information: http://www.caadria2011.org/ Contemporary advances in design are shaped by computational design methods, strategies and technologies, regardless of whether these advances are manifested in the design and construction of a building, in related theory and analysis, or in the ways in which future designers and scholars are educated. Architectural computation in the…

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