Month: June 2015
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Call: Augmented Reality: From Visual Assistants to Always-on Multimodal Knowledge Access – Special Track at i-Know 2015
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Read more: Call: Augmented Reality: From Visual Assistants to Always-on Multimodal Knowledge Access – Special Track at i-Know 2015Special Track @i-Know on Augmented Reality: From visual assistants to always-on multimodal knowledge access 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business 21-23 October 2015, Graz, Austria http://i-know.tugraz.at/call-for-papers SUBMISSIONS DUE: ABSTRACT June 8, 2015 PAPER June 22, 2015 I-KNOW proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS AIM AND SCOPE Technological innovations continuously transform the way we reach for and use knowledge. With augmented reality (AR), interfaces are associated with physical objects and the physical world turns into a user interface, which results in extended possibilities to naturally interact with complex systems. This workshop concentrates on how novel presentation metaphors…
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H&R Block tax preparer service using Oculus VR for market research
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Read more: H&R Block tax preparer service using Oculus VR for market research[With costs coming down and quality improving, presence-evoking VR is likely to be used more often for market research, as in this story from CNBC (which includes a 2:27 minute video report). –Matthew] H&R Block dons Oculus to test new office looks Jane Wells Tuesday, 2 Jun 2015 Virtual reality is the new drone. That is, VR is potentially another game-changing technology that companies are trying to figure out how to exploit. Could it even make one of your least favorite tasks better? “We’re reinventing the client’s tax experience,” said Laura Scobie, vice president of insights for H&R Block. The…
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Call: Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context (Workshop with AmI 2015)
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Read more: Call: Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context (Workshop with AmI 2015)Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context Workshop in conjunction with the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (Aml) 2015 November 11th Athens, Greece Submission Deadline 31st July 2015 http://www.urban-context.eu organisers@urban-context.eu AmI 2015: http://daissy.eap.gr/AmI2015/index.php Call for Papers Mobile technology offers significant potential to connect users to their immediate geographic environment. Yet existing approaches to doing so are largely visual, which can isolate users from that environment, and utilitarian, such as directing a user to a destination or showing nearby coffee shops as a list. The recent rise of geo-social media (images, text updates and check-ins) has offered new ways to support…
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Nike Force of Nature and Quantum Space: Abstract media experiences that evoke presence
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Read more: Nike Force of Nature and Quantum Space: Abstract media experiences that evoke presence[Here are two related stories that demonstrate that presence can be evoked even with abstract stimuli. The first, which may be a glimpse of the future of presence and exercise, is from PSFK, where it includes a 0:12 second video and more pictures; for a 1:03 minute video and more, larger images, see the FIELD website.] Nike Treadmill Experience Takes You Through Sensory-Enriched Workout The sports giant has created an installation to show how technologies may heighten the adventure of running Lara Piras 22 may 2015 When it comes to the future of the sportswear industry the focus right now…
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Call: 4th IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SEGAH 2016)
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Read more: Call: 4th IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SEGAH 2016)Call for Papers – SEGAH 2016 4TH IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health May 11 – May 13, 2016. Center for Emerging Media, Orlando, Florida – USA View this call online at: http://www.ipca.pt/segah2016/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15th, 2015 Dear Colleagues, This year the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health will be held in Orlando, Florida – US, from 11-13 May, 2016. The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, experiences and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions and technologies on serious games and applications…
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QuantVR wants to turn stock market data into immersive virtual reality experiences
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Read more: QuantVR wants to turn stock market data into immersive virtual reality experiences[The partners in QuantVR “think there’s a very good and logical argument that by using and exploring stock market data in virtual reality, it’s going to really allow people to make better decisions”; is (spatial) presence a mediating variable? This is from TechRepublic, where the story includes another picture. –Matthew] QuantVR wants to turn stock market data into immersive virtual reality experiences Imagine a navigable city built from stock market data that you could travel through. QuantVR is building VR apps for visualizations to help you better understand the data. By Erin Carson June 1, 2015 Visualizing data is becoming…
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Call: GAMEON’2015, the 16th annual Simulation and AI in Games Conference
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Read more: Call: GAMEON’2015, the 16th annual Simulation and AI in Games ConferenceFIRST CALL FOR PAPERS GAMEON’2015 The 16th annual Simulation and AI in Games Conference University of Amsterdam UvA Amsterdam, The Netherlands December 2-4, 2015 Games Development Methodology Game Theory/Multi-Agent Systems Artificial Intelligence Learning and Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation 3D Scalability Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Cognitive Psychology Affective Computing and Emotional Gaming Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Online Gaming – Security Issues in Online Gaming MMOG’s Serious gaming Wargaming…
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Experience 500 years of NYC history in elevators in new One World Trade Center
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Read more: Experience 500 years of NYC history in elevators in new One World Trade Center[The 0:52 minute video featured with this story from The New York Times presents a first-person view of the journey through NYC history, and the One World Observatory just opened so you can experience it directly (if you do, let us know what you think). A related Fast Company story describes presence-evoking technology in the Observatory itself. –Matthew] [Image: Lower Manhattan in 1779, as portrayed in the elevator video. Reuben Hernandez for The New York Times] On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center’s Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower By David W. Dunlap April 19, 2015 An imposingly realistic vision of…
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