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Anybot: The robot that visits your cubicle

[From CNN]

The robot that visits your cubicle

By John D. Sutter, CNN
July 30, 2010

(CNN) — When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.

“I can see if people are busy on something — and then won’t interrupt them,” he said this week. “Or, you know, if they’re doing something that looks interesting, or if they look stuck, I’ll have a conversation with them.”

This isn’t your standard “Office Space” conversation. Blackwell boots up a “telepresence robot” — which looks like a combination between a Segway and Johnny 5 from those “Short Circuit” movies — to talk to his employees from his home, 10 miles from Anybots’ office in Mountain Home, California.… read more. “Anybot: The robot that visits your cubicle”

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Call: EuroITV2011 – 9th European Interactive TV Conference

EuroITV2011 – “Ubiquitous TV”

9th European Interactive TV Conference

June 29th to July 1st 2011 – Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.euroitv2011.org/

1st Call for Papers

EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. The organizing committee invites you to submit original, high quality papers addressing the special theme and topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. The main conference proceedings will be published by ACM.

The special theme is “Ubiquitous TV”, with a focus on the redefinition of the concept of television itself, as it now refers not to a specific device, but rather a specific kind of content present almost everywhere, from the traditional TV set, to the PC, passing through the mobile phone or the screens in taxis and throughout the city, freeing television from the TV set and bringing it out of the home.… read more. “Call: EuroITV2011 – 9th European Interactive TV Conference”

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Adding sensation of temperature to users’ experience of a simulated environment

[From Christopher Mims’ Mims’s Bits blog at MIT’s Technology Review]

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction

An experimental new game controller adds the sensation of hot and cold to users’ experience of a simulated environment

Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part of how we interact with computers, in the form of iPads, rumbling video game controllers and even three-dimensional joysticks. As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it’s logical to ask what’s next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there’s a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics.

Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers.

In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.… read more. “Adding sensation of temperature to users’ experience of a simulated environment”

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