Month: May 2011
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Call: “Collaborative usage and development of models and visualizations” – Workshop at ECSCW 2011
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Read more: Call: “Collaborative usage and development of models and visualizations” – Workshop at ECSCW 2011Workshop: “Collaborative usage and development of models and visualizations” at ECSCW 2011 (European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work) Date: 24 or 25 September, 2011 (still pending) Venue: Aarhus University, Denmark http://www.imtm-iaw.rub.de/events/ecscw/index.html.en Download the workshop description here. The usage of graphical representations of work and business process such as process models can be considered a common practice in modern organizations. As their development can become a complex task it is reasonable to draft them collaboratively. Also they become increasingly useful when used by larger groups throughout an organization. However despite modeling being a popular approach in practice, models are hardly…
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Bin Laden compound now a virtual training ground for commandos
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Read more: Bin Laden compound now a virtual training ground for commandos[From Wired magazine’s Danger Room blog] Bin Laden Compound Now a Virtual Training Ground for Commandos By Spencer Ackerman May 18, 2011 TAMPA, Florida — To passers-by, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half the size of a basketball court inside a convention center. In his mind, he’s wearing a full set of body armor, his face obscured by a ski mask with a death’s head silkscreened on it. And he’s just dropped a terrorist inside Osama bin Laden’s Abbotabad compound. “Pushing out!” he yells, eyes obscured to the outside world by virtual reality goggles.…
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Call: Telepresence Options Magazine
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Read more: Call: Telepresence Options MagazineTelepresence Options Magazine – Your Guide to Visual Collaboration Telepresence Options is pleased to announce the launch of Telepresence Options Magazine. The new magazine which is available in hard copy and a digital edition covers the latest in telepresence and effective visual collaboration technologies. Readers can reserve a free hard copy and access the digital edition immediately at: www.TelepresenceOptions.com/magazine The Spring 2011 issue includes: What is Telepresence? The ROI of Telepresence in a World of Economic and Geopolitical Uncertainty Robotic Telepresence: A Primer & Tale of the Tape Understanding the Telepresence Marketplace Creating Telepresence Environments – A Design Guide …
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol offers a mixed reality ‘city park’
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Read more: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol offers a mixed reality ‘city park’[From a promotional brochure (in pdf format) on the web site of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol] Airport Park Amsterdam Airport Schiphol offers a surprising new attraction: a green ‘city park’ www.schiphol.nl/airportpark Airport Park is for everyone to enjoy. Relax, work, meet people and enjoy food and refreshments in the park. Once beyond passport control, passengers will now be able to spend their time at the airport in a surprising, park-themed area. Travellers can even step outside to enjoy the sunshine on the terrace. Airport Park offers an all-embracing city park experience, unique in the world. Airport Park owes its park feeling…
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Call: Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective
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Read more: Call: Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspectiveAustralasian Journal of Educational Technology Special issue 2012, Volume 28: Call for articles Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective Submissions are invited for a forthcoming special issue of AJET to be published in early 2012, entitled Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective, edited by Mark J.W. Lee (Charles Sturt University and University of New England), Dr Barney Dalgarno (Charles Sturt University) and Dr Helen Farley (University of Southern Queensland) for the DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group. As announced in AJET Editorial 27(1) and to be publicised through various listservs and society news bulletins, Virtual worlds in…
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Google Street View steps inside
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Read more: Google Street View steps inside[From MIT’s Technology Review] Street View Steps Inside Google will let users check out a restaurant’s décor without leaving their computer Monday, May 9, 2011 By Tom Simonite Since 2007, Google’s Street View service has provided interactive panoramic photos that make it possible to virtually stroll down streets all over the globe. Within the next two days, Street View users will be able to click on the doorways of some restaurants and other businesses to take the experience indoors. At the Social Loco conference in San Francisco last week, Google vice president Marissa Mayer, who leads the company’s location-based technologies,…
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Call: GAMEON-NA’2011 – 6th Annual International North-American Conference on AI and Simulation in Games
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Read more: Call: GAMEON-NA’2011 – 6th Annual International North-American Conference on AI and Simulation in GamesGAME-ON North America 2011 6th Annual International North-American Conference on AI and Simulation in Games September 28-30, 2011 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA Organized by The European Technology Institute Co-Sponsored by EUROSIS Conference web site: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/294 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Aim Games have become an important part of our everyday life, not only as a means of entertainment, but also by providing a unique venue for recreation, training, health intervention and artistic creation. The aim of the 6th annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn’NA 2011) is to bring together academics, researchers and commercial game developers from North America…
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Yoostar lets gamers step into shoes of Royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
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Read more: Yoostar lets gamers step into shoes of Royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace[A press release from Yoostar via Business Wire] You May Now Kiss the Bride (or Groom): Fairy Tales Can Come True….It Can Happen to Yoo as Yoostar Releases Free Download of the Royal Kiss Scene for Kinect for Xbox 360 By Business Wire May 12, 2011 It was the moment the world cheered – with over two billion people watching across the globe, the image of Prince William and Kate Middleton enjoying their first public kiss is sure to become one of the most iconic images of 2011. Now Kinect for Xbox 360 owners can make their own Royal Wedding…
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Call: Journal of Robotics issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications
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Read more: Call: Journal of Robotics issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with ApplicationsJournal of Robotics: Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011 Call for Papers http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/cnar11/ It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the second special issue of Journal of Robotics in year 2011. The call for publications on cognitive and neural sciences related to robotic systems appeared to be a successful challenge. Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation and other control and engineering systems. Recent developments of humanoid and human-like robots are a milestone in the field of robotics, and they can be a platform for breaking new ground…
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‘Real-world’ approach to medical training uses inflatable theater, realistic silicon models
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Read more: ‘Real-world’ approach to medical training uses inflatable theater, realistic silicon models[From the Reporter blog of Imperial College London] A Model Patient Sam Wong, Communications and Development 13 May 2011 In the Paterson Wing at St Mary’s Campus, a surgeon tries to stem the flow of blood from a patient who’s been stabbed in the abdomen. As a heart monitor bleeps urgently and fluid continues to emerge, the pressure of the situation is inescapable. Yet the man lying on the operating table is not a man at all, but a very convincing dummy. Simulated operations are increasingly becoming a major part of a surgeon’s training. Virtual reality is commonly used to…
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NY museum explores small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities
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Read more: NY museum explores small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities[From the web site of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) , which features more information and many images] [Image: Alan Wolfson’s Canal St. Cross-Section, 2009-2010] Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities June 7 – September 18, 2011 Virtual reality has been a powerful factor in shaping our social and artistic environment since the 1970s. Today, innovations in digital technology have completely transformed film, video, and television: extraordinary special effects and three-dimensional imaging created using computer-based software are commonplace. However, while the digital world continues to expand into more and more areas of our lives, a profound human…
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Call: ISPR 2011 conference (deadline: June 5)
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Read more: Call: ISPR 2011 conference (deadline: June 5)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…
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