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Month: June 2013

  • Call: Designing Interactive Systems 2014

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    Designing Interactive Systems 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada June 14-18, 2014 http://www.dis2014.org The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier, international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice. The theme of the conference is “Crafting Design.” We see the confluence of phenomena that may constitute new approaches and new foci in HCI and interaction design. The re-emergence of hand skills is evident in the development of multi-touch and full body interfaces. DIY and Maker cultures have become a…

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  • How Google is turning maps into virtual reality

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    [From Datamation; reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s ideas on simulation] [Image: From Google I/O, May 2013, San Francisco] How Google is Turning Maps Into Virtual Reality The Waze acquisition could bring more user-generated data to Google Maps. June 12, 2013 By Mike Elgan Why did Google, the company that already has the best maps product and the most users, spend a billion dollars to buy a tiny maps startup called Waze that has a fraction of the users ? Why would mighty Google need Waze’s puny map, app or user base? The short answer is that Google didn’t buy Waze’s ability to…

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  • Call: Old Ideas: Recomputing the History of Information Technology (SIGCIS Workshop 2013)

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    Old Ideas: Recomputing the History of Information Technology SIGCIS Workshop 2013 October 13, 2013, Portland, Maine Deadline: June 30, 2013 The Society for the History of Technology’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS – http://www.sigcis.org) welcomes submissions for a one-day scholarly workshop to be held on Sunday, October 13, 2013 in Portland, Maine. As in previous years, SIGCIS’s annual workshop will occur immediately after the end of the regular SHOT annual meeting program, the details of which are available from http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html. Questions about the workshop should be addressed to Thomas Haigh (School of Information Studies, University of…

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  • Japanese Clone Factory lets you create 3D doll versions of yourself

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    [From TAXI, where the post includes many more images; for even more information and images, see Danny Choo. Are these in Mori’s ‘uncanny valley’? Would viewing a doll of yourself evoke self-presence?] Japanese Cloning Factory Lets You Create 3D Doll Versions Of Yourself By Anthea Quay, 13 Jun 2013 In Akhibara, Japan, a company called “Clone Factory” lets you create 3D-printed doll versions of yourself—and even your pets. To create these mini 3D replicas, Clone Factory uses multiple DSLR cameras to take photos of a person’s or an animal’s face from different angles, computers to stitch the pictures and data…

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  • Call: NextMed/MMVR21 – Medicine Meets Virtual Reality

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    NextMed/MMVR21 Medicine Meets Virtual Reality February 20 – 22, 2014 Manhattan Beach Marriott Manhattan Beach, California Important Dates August 1, 2013:  Submission Deadline September 2013:  Registration Opens October 2013:  Initial Program Call for Presentations The 2014 Call for Presentations is now open! The Organizing Committee welcomes innovative research in: Medical simulation and modeling Data visualization and fusion Imaging devices and methods Robotics Haptics Sensors Wearable and implantable electronics Human-computer interfaces Medical intelligence networks Mobile health applications Virtual and augmented reality Projection systems Learning and technology Simulator design and validation Preoperative planning Surgical registration and navigation Psychotherapy tools Physical rehabilitation tools…

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  • Telemedicine for physical therapy: The Avatar will see you now

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    [From MIT’s Technology Review] The Avatar Will See You Now Medical centers are testing new, friendly ways to reduce the need for office visits by extending their reach into patients’ homes. By Jessica Leber on June 10, 2013 Most patients who enter the gym of the San Mateo Medical Center in California are there to work with physical therapists. But a few who had knee replacements are being coached by a digital avatar instead. The avatar, Molly, interviews them in Spanish or English about the levels of pain they feel as a video guides them through exercises, while the 3-D…

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  • Call: Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2013)

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    Call for Papers Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI 2013 Dublin, Ireland December 3rd-5th 2013 http://www.ami-13.org/ Deadline extended: June, 24th (Final) The AmI-13 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by invisible technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences. Ambient intelligence combines concepts of ubiquitous technology, intelligent systems and advanced user interfaces putting the humans in the center of technological developments.…

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  • One-year mock Mars mission to be most stringent yet

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    [From SPACE.com, where the story includes a photo gallery] Mock Mars Mission Will Test Stresses of Red Planet Living by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Date: 03 June 2013 The question of how people can live and work together well on a mission to Mars may turn out to be one of the biggest challenges of deep-space exploration. To simulate the experience of a crew stuck inside cramped quarters under stressful conditions, a nonprofit is planning a one-year mock Mars mission in the Arctic. The mission, to begin in July 2014, is being planned by the Mars Society, an…

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  • Call: Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI’13)

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    Call for Papers 5th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications http://www.auto-ui.org/13 Submissions due: June 25th 2013 (extended) Based on a multitude of requests from the Automotive UI Community we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions of Full and Short papers to JUNE 25, PST 23:59 There are just two weeks left to submit your paper to AutomotiveUI, the premier forum for UI research in the automotive domain. The conference is in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and held on October 28-30, 2013 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Check out the details at: http://www.auto-ui.org/13 AutomotiveUI brings together…

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  • Jaguar Land Rover partners with EPSRC and four universities to put UK ahead in virtual simulation industry

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    [From Handy Shipping Guide] New Virtual Reality Programme Can Influence Multimodal Freight Designs Jaguar Land Rover Partnerships Aim at Putting UK in the Forefront of Conceptual Vehicle Production 07 June 2013 UK – Jaguar Land Rover and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), along with four of the UK’s leading universities, have announced a £10 million virtual engineering research programme which will aim to improve the quality and capabilities of simulation, using sights, sounds and even smells to make virtual simulation more realistic. Engineering projects such as this could have a major impact on the design of future…

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  • Call: PhD scholarship in user experience and shape-changing interfaces at University of Copenhagen

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    Fully funded PhD Scholarship in User Experience and Shape-changing Interfaces @ Uni Copenhagen Come work with us on the user experience of shape-changing and tangible user interfaces! The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen (DIKU) invites applications for a fully funded PhD Scholarship in user experience and shape-changing interfaces. Deadline for applications is August 1st 2013. The study is part of the GHOST project (generic, highly-organic shape-changing interfaces), a collaboration between University of Copenhagen, University of Bristol, University of Lancaster, and University of Eindhoven. GHOSTs are display surfaces made of malleable materials that can change into and…

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  • With EEG skullcap, a mind-controlled quadcopter flies using imaginary fists

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    [From Gizmag, where the story includes many additional images] Mind-controlled quadcopter flies using imaginary fists By David Szondy June 8, 2013 Researchers at the University of Minnesota have done away with all that tedious joystick work by developing a mind-controlled quadcopter. It may seem like the top item of next year’s Christmas list, but it also serves a very practical purpose. Using a skullcap fitted with a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), the University’s College of Science and Engineering hopes to develop ways for people suffering from paralysis or neurodegenerative diseases to employ thought to control wheelchairs and other devices.…

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