Month: April 2013
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Call: mLearn 2013 (mobile learning conference)
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Read more: Call: mLearn 2013 (mobile learning conference)The deadline for submissions for all tracks for mLearn 2013 has been extended to May 1, 2013. Full details of the conference are below. MLEARN 2013 – CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS October 22-24, 2013 in Doha, Qatar mLearn 2013 is now open for submissions from academic researchers, developers, professionals, practitioners, and educators from school education, higher education, industry, government, and international organisations. mLearn 2013 pushes further the paradigm of learning and mobility in converging technological environments. This includes applications of mobile devices in various contexts, but also calls for investigating new educational and technological ways and concepts for supporting…
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Virtual training center opens in Peoria to revolutionize health care and medicine
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Read more: Virtual training center opens in Peoria to revolutionize health care and medicine[From The Peoria Journal Star, where the story includes a 1:44 minute video and additional images; more images are available at The Journal Star’s Eye blog; the Center’s web site is here] Virtual training center opens in Peoria to revolutionize health care and medicine By Pam Adams of the Journal Star Last update Apr 26, 2013 PEORIA — Mayor Jim Ardis said it would be a recruiting tool for the world’s leading researchers and doctors. Dr. Sara Rusch, regional dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, called it the “catalyst for transformational change in our community.”…
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Call: The Visual Computer – Special issue on Virtual Worlds
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Read more: Call: The Visual Computer – Special issue on Virtual WorldsCall for Papers The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics Special Issue on Virtual Worlds: Where Image Processing meets Computer Graphics http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/3DLife/2013/04/cfpvw/ The Visual Computer is dedicated to reporting on the state-of-the-art of research in the field of graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality. This special issue in the Visual Computer aims at presenting a representative sample of innovative research, methods and techniques towards the creation of realistic virtual humans. The main goal is to achieve horizontal integration by bringing together the typically disparate research communities working on 3D image processing, computer graphics, human computer interaction, affective computing and…
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Travelling Marvel promotion lets you “Become Iron Man”
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Read more: Travelling Marvel promotion lets you “Become Iron Man”[From Gizmodo, where the story includes several additional images] Hands-On With the Iron Man Virtual Reality Setup: This is as Badass as Kinect Gets Chris Mills | March 26, 2013 To shamelessly promote the Iron Man 3 launch — 25th April, for you calendar-watchers out there — Marvel’s touring a nationwide Kinect-powered virtual reality setup that lets you ‘become’ Iron Man. And yeah, it’s pretty much as awesome as it sounds.…
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Call: AI-2013 – SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Read more: Call: AI-2013 – SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial IntelligenceCALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS AI-2013: Cambridge, UK, December 10th-12th 2013 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2013/ Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society) The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe. Please note that it is our strong intention that (as for many previous years) the proceedings of AI-2013 will be published in December, thus meeting the deadline for inclusion in the UK government’s Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2014). CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AI-2013 is the thirty-third SGAI International Conference on…
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USC develops Virtual Child Witness tool to train child interviewers
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Read more: USC develops Virtual Child Witness tool to train child interviewers[From The University of Southern California; more information is available here] USC develops virtual tool to train child interviewers By Evy Jacobson April 24, 2013 Conducting interviews with children who have witnessed a crime or have been victims of abuse or neglect comprises some of the most challenging and sensitive investigative work for attorneys, social workers and law enforcement officers. Getting a child to overcome embarrassment and fear and disclose information is a process where the wrong question or reaction can cause a child to withdraw, stop talking or provide misinformation. A joint research project between the USC Gould School…
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Call: CASFE’2013 Workshop – Context-aware Adaptation of Service Front-Ends
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Read more: Call: CASFE’2013 Workshop – Context-aware Adaptation of Service Front-EndsCall for Papers: CASFE’2013 Workshop Context-aware Adaptation of Service Front-Ends To be held on June 24, 2013 in London, UK (co-located with EICS 2013) www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2013 Important Dates: Submissions deadline: Extended to April 29, 2013 Notifications of acceptance: Extended to May 6, 2013 Camera Ready Versions: May 13, 2013 Description Engineering interactive systems that are aware of the characteristics and constraints of the context of the user becomes challenging when several user’s profiles, platforms and environments are considered. In this sense the adaptation of user interfaces raises as an important approach for stakeholders to implement and provide systems whose user interfaces…
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A life-sized, man-shaped boyfriend pillow for lonely women
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Read more: A life-sized, man-shaped boyfriend pillow for lonely women[From TAXI, where the story includes a 5:36 minute video] LOL: A Life-Sized, Man-Shaped Boyfriend Pillow For Lonely Women By Dorothy Tan, 22 Apr 2013 Utrecht-based Dutch designer and illustrator Noortje de Keijzer has created a funny and rather creepy knitted boyfriend pillow for lonely women who need a man in their lives.…
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Call: AIIDE-13: Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
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Read more: Call: AIIDE-13: Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital EntertainmentAIIDE-13 The Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment October 14-18, 2013 Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Submission deadlines: Workshop proposals due Mar 15, 2013 Research papers due May 7, 2013 Practitioner track abstracts due May 7, 2013 Playable experience abstracts due May 7, 2013 Demonstration abstracts due May 7, 2013 Doctoral consortium applications due June 14, 2013 Paper acceptance notification: June 26, 2013 AIIDE-13 – the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment – is intended to be the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic AI researchers.…
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Neuroscience explores why humans feel empathy for robots
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Read more: Neuroscience explores why humans feel empathy for robots[From the Smithsonian’s Surprising Science blog; a short video from the experiment is available at LiveScience] [Image: Brain scans show that the neurological patterns linked with pangs of empathy for humans also occur when we see a robot like WALL-E treated harshly. Image via Flickr user Rob Boudon] Neuroscience Explores Why Humans Feel Empathy for Robots April 23, 2013 Joseph Stromberg If, while watching WALL-E, your heart broke just a little bit when you saw the title character desperately travel across outer space in search of true love, it doesn’t mean you’re crazy. Sure, WALL-E is a robot.…
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Call: ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference
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Read more: Call: ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conferenceCall for Participation Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference September 30th – October 1st, 2013 in Greenville, North Carolina The ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit a project report, research paper, or poster session on the design of communication for interactive systems in industry, education, recreation, scientific research, and social exchange. SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction design, content strategy, information architecture, user experience, and technical communication. Ideas for topics The theme of the SIGDOC 2013 conference…
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New 3-D display could let phones and tablets produce holograms
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Read more: New 3-D display could let phones and tablets produce holograms[From MIT’s Technology Review, where the story includes a 2:36 minute video] New 3-D Display Could Let Phones and Tablets Produce Holograms Optical trickery lets a modified LCD produce hologram-like still images and videos. By Katherine Bourzac on March 20, 2013 A new kind of three-dimensional display developed at HP Labs plays hologram-like videos without the need for any moving parts or glasses. Videos displayed on the HP system hover above the screen, and viewers can walk around them and experience an image or video from as many 200 different viewpoints—like walking around a real object. The screen is made…
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