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Month: February 2015

  • Call: Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2015

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    Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2015 “sound across media” Conference will take place between 17 -19th June 2015 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Call for works and papers Deadline: Monday 23rd February 2015 We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2015, a conference for postgraduate and postdoctoral students working in the sonic and media arts. The conference is organised by postgraduate students of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC) at De Montfort University, and it aims to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between postgraduate and postdoctoral students across institutional…

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  • The world’s first real-time mixed reality ski race

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    [From the University of Southampton; a 0:33 minute video is available on YouTube] European project launches the world’s first real-time ‘mixed reality’ ski race February 2, 2015 A professional skier will battle against two online gamers in the world’s first interactive ‘mixed reality’ downhill ski race using technology pioneered by European researchers. Hitting speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour, the top-class skier will hurtle down the world cup ski course in Schladming, Austria, in a bid to reach the finish line before his two competitors – virtual reality gamers based in Thessaloniki, in Greece, and Munich, in Germany.…

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  • Call: The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human Robot Interaction – HRI 2015 Workshop

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    Final Call for Papers: The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human Robot Interaction Mar 2, 2015 • Portland, Oregon • Workshop @ HRI 2015 http://www.openroboethics.org/hri15/ STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Submission deadline: 2 Feb 2015 As robotics technology forays into our daily lives, research, industry, and government professionals in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) in must grapple with significant ethical, legal, and normative questions. Many leaders in the field have suggested that “the time is now” to start drafting ethical and policy guidelines for our community to guide us forward into this new era of robots in human social environments. However,…

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  • In Sweden, remote-control airport is a reality

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    [From NPR, where you can listen to the 3:56 minute audio version of the story] [Image: Mikael Henriksson works at an air traffic control center in the town of Sundsvall, Sweden. But the screens show the airport in the tiny town of Ornskoldsvik, more than 100 miles away. It’s the world’s first facility to use new technology to help passenger planes land far away at an unmanned airport.] In Sweden, Remote-Control Airport Is A Reality Ari Shapiro February 01, 2015 As our plane touches down in Sundsvall, Sweden, the horizon is all snow and ice. A small air traffic control…

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