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Month: December 2014

  • Call: Book chapters for Emerging Human-Machine Technologies

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    Call for Chapters: Emerging Human-Machine Technologies Edited by Steven John Thompson, PhD The realm for a universal forum that discovers, explores, and prepares the way for eventual large-scale cyborg sociocultural integration, which just a few years ago would have been incredulous, is now upon us as partly evidenced through the proximity at which science, technology and the Internet are rapidly arriving at expectant machine sentience. This publication will address critical, foundational elements of study in human-machines and cyborgs, including their creation, governance, policy, and sustainment; rights, privileges, and expectations for participation in digital society; and other imperative aspects of their…

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  • Backed by Google and Mozilla, VR-enabled browsers and gear could soon immerse Web users in 3-D worlds

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    Warm wishes for a very healthy, happy, safe and productive new year to everyone in the ISPR/Presence community – I’m looking forward with you to lots of exciting and thought-provoking (tele)presence developments in 2015! –Matthew Lombard (managing editor, ISPR Presence News) [From Scientific American] , where the story includes a different image]   Virtual Reality Comes to the Web—Maybe for Real This Time Backed by Google and Mozilla, VR-enabled browsers and gear could soon immerse Web users in 3-D worlds December 29, 2014 |By Susan Kuchinskas Get ready to take the stage with Paul McCartney. If that’s not your thing,…

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  • Call: 9th International/Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015)

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    First Call for Papers and Call for Workshop Proposals The 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015) 2-6 November 2015, Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015 The CONTEXT conferences are the world’s prime forum for presentation and exchange of insights and cutting-edge results from the wide range of disciplines concerned with context. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 is “Back to the roots”, focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary cooperations and studies of the phenomenon. Context, context modeling and context comprehension are central topics in linguistics, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, computer science, art, law, organizational…

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  • “Digital immigrants” in other countries could soon guide robots around your house

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    [From New Scientist] [Image: Who are you looking at? (Image: Yves Gellie/Picture Tank)] Will remote-controlled robots clean you out of a job? “Digital immigrants” in other countries could soon guide robots around your house. Some find that creepy – and that could be just the start of the trouble 04 December 2014 Magazine issue 2998 The death of distance. That was the great promise of the internet in its early days: by making cheap, immediate communication possible around the world, it would eliminate geographical constraints on relationships, media and commerce. Twenty-odd years later, much of that promise has come to…

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  • Call: 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications (AIMA’15)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications (AIMA’15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/aima E-mail: aima2015@fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMA – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society – POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia…

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  • VR/AR at Seattle’s Space Needle make for enhanced experience

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    [From the Kitsap Sun, where the story includes a photo gallery] [Image: Visitors to the Space Needle in Seattle walk past a circle on the floor that produces an animated image of the Space Needle when viewed with the new Space Needle app, at left. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)] High-tech additions to Space Needle make for enhanced experience Donna Gordon Blankinship Dec 27, 2014 SEATTLE — Visitors to Seattle’s Space Needle are treated to a gorgeous view of this waterfront city when skies are clear and the sun is shining. But on a recent beautiful day, many in the crowd…

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  • Job: PhD Studentship in Embodied Programming for Primary Pupils, University of Sussex

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    [Follow the project title link for full details.  –Matthew ] The University of Sussex is offering a PhD scholarship jointly funded by the School of Engineering and Informatics, and the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). Title: Embodied programming for primary pupils: supporting the move from concrete to abstract Supervisors: Dr Kate Howland Dr Judith Good Project Summary: Primary school pupils are now expected to develop an understanding of computational concepts such as algorithms, and to be able to engage in simple programming tasks. However, little is presently known about how computational understanding develops in younger children. This PhD…

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  • When white people see themselves with black skin, something interesting happens

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    [From The Huffington Post, where the story includes another image and a 1:02 minute video] When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens The Huffington Post | By Anna Almendrala & Macrina Cooper-White Posted: 12/15/2014 The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are taking the maxim one step further, providing people an opportunity to experience life in someone else’s skin by experimenting with virtual reality as a means of helping people shed racial stereotypes.…

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  • Call: ISWC 2015 – 19th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers

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    Announcement and Call for Papers ISWC 2015 The 19th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan http://www.iswc.net/ ISWC 2015, the 19th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable technology. ISWC invites submissions on everything related to computing on the body: on-body sensing and sensor networks; wearables for professional use, mobile healthcare, or entertainment; wearability and interaction; and “on-the-go” uses of…

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  • Presence Picture #10: “The Cover up” by Erik Johansson

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    Photographer Erik Johansson introduces himself on his web site with this: “I’m a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.” A larger version of this piece, titled “The Cover up,” is available here, and much more mind-bending presence-related work (including video material) is available on his site. By the way, join our ISPR Members Facebook group for more unusual and interesting presence items; details are here. If you have information or comments about this or future Presence Pictures, please share them with our community by using…

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  • Call: CHI PLAY 2015

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2015 The 2nd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play http://chiplay.org Twitter: #chiplay London, England October 5 – 7, 2015 Submission Deadlines: April 2, 2015: Full papers and workshops June 26, 2015: Student competition, courses and tutorials, panels, doctoral consortium, industry case studies and works-in-progress CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in…

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  • Telepresence robot store is staffed only by robots

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    [From IEEE Spectrum, where the story includes another image and a 2:38 minute video] [Image: The salespeople are robots in this downtown Palo Alto store. Credit: Tekla Perry.] Suitable Technologies Opens Store Staffed Only by Robots By Tekla Perry Posted 10 Dec 2014 Most of us have gone into a store or restaurant in which the nametags worn by employees identified their hometowns. It’s a friendly touch. But this week, for the first time, I went into a store in which the members of the sales staff weren’t only identified by their hometowns, they were actually working from their hometowns,…

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