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Month: March 2017

  • Call: Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics (1-day Workshop)

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    Call for Participation Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics by Charles Spence and Yi-Chuan Chen (AHRC, Rethinking the Senses) Monday 27th March 2017, 10:00 – 17:00 Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Oxford Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD, UK Free tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hacking-flavour-perception-design-technology-gastrophysics-tickets-32602544087 While enjoying a meal, our brain is continuously combining information about what is detected by the tongue with what we smell, not to mention the expectations set by what we see, hear, and feel. Traditionally, the sensory cues that are combined in the perception of flavour would all have originated from the food and drink itself.…

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  • “I tried virtual reality breast implants”: Plastic surgeons recommending presence

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    [Here’s another very positive application for presence-evoking technology; the story, which includes extended quotes from our colleague Brenda Wiederhold, is from Tonic, where it includes two additional images. –Matthew] I Tried Virtual Reality Breast Implants Plastic surgeons are recommending this pre-op step. Catherine Chapman March 13 2017 A plastic surgeon’s office is no place for an anxiety-stricken perfectionist like myself, but there I was about to get a consultation for a breast augmentation. I have never thought about changing my breast size, or that much about my breasts at all for that matter, but as a 28-year-old woman, my life…

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  • Call: Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design – IJCAI 2017 Workshop

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    Call for Papers COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN A Workshop at IJCAI 2017 – 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Melbourne, Australia – Aug 19-25 2017 Co-Chairs: Mehul Bhatt \ Antonio Lieto University of Bremen \ University of Turin, and ICAR-CNR http://hcc.uni-bremen.de/codesign2017/workshops/melbourne/ Title and abstracts due April 18 onwards ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design will bring together interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on human-centred design particularly focussing on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Cognitive Systems supported next-generation design technologies. The workshop addresses cognitive technology assisted human-centred design conception, analysis,…

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  • The war on the disturbingly real trolls in virtual reality

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    [It’s sad that an all-female team had to take the initiative and invent the “personal space bubble” feature discussed in this article from MIT Technology Review; note the explicit references to presence and how it, along with human nature and the anonymity of social VR, makes invasions of personal space more likely. The original story includes a video version of the image below and a 26:04 minute video. –Matthew] [Image: Illustration by Veronyka Jelinek] The War on the Disturbingly Real Trolls in Virtual Reality When you feel like you really are inside a virtual body, protecting your personal space is…

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  • Call: Future Technologies Conference 2017

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    FTC 2017 – Future Technologies Conference 2017 29-30 November 2017 Vancouver, BC, Canada Conference Website: http://saiconference.com/FTC2017 Early Bird Submission (Opportunity to save $100): 15 March 2017 Regular Submission: 15 April 2017 Join us for FTC 2017, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Researchers, academics and technologists from…

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  • Senior centers try robotic cats to soothe agitated elders

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    [Reminiscent of the PARO therapeutic robot, this story from The Philadelphia Inquirer describes the increasing use and positive impacts of medium-as-social-actor presence with residents of senior centers; the original story includes more images and a 0:43 minute video. –Matthew] [Image: “Pearl”, one of the robot cats used at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life, lays across the lap of Ina Schecter, 91, a resident of the center, waiting to be petted. Credit: Michael Bryant / Staff Photographer] Senior centers try robotic cats to soothe agitated elders Updated: March 10, 2017 by Stacey Burling, Staff Writer Stanley Ellis, who has dementia,…

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  • Call: mLearn 2017 – 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning

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    Call for papers (long and short papers), posters, workshops mLearn 2017 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 30 October – 1 November Larnaca Cyprus http://iamlearn.org/mlearn The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world’s largest international…

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  • Telepresence robots give distance students their own seat at the table

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    [This column in EdTech highlights the importance of presence, and ways to enhance it, in the distance learning classroom; for more information, see the Michigan State University study “From 2D to Kubi to Doubles: Designs for Student Telepresence in Synchronous Hybrid Classroom” in the International Journal of Designs for Learning. –Matthew] [Image: Source: “Transforming classrooms with telepresence robots. Presented by John Bell, William Cain, and Marcus Rosenthal” (PDF of PowerPoint presentation)] Telepresence Robots Give Distance Students Their Own Seat at the Table Michigan State University helps online students feel represented in a unique way. By John Bell March 8, 2017…

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  • Call: Purposeful 2: VR with Purpose

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    Purposeful 2: VR with Purpose Thursday 30th March at 6pm @ Century Club Soho, London More info and RSVP here: http://preloaded.com/purposeful2/ Spaces are limited, but hope to see as many of you as possible. Last year Preloaded (preloaded.com) launched an event series called Purposeful with the aim of bringing together like-minded creators, content experts and curators (amongst others!) to explore pertinent topics relating to purposeful play. Join us for Purposeful 2 when we will explore the potential for VR to deliver transformational experiences for audiences and organisations through a set of ‘micro talks’ followed by a showcase of emerging technology…

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  • Japanese company’s answer to Amazon Echo: Anime holograms with ‘comforting’ personalities for the lonely

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    [You have to watch the 2:00 minute video in this story from Motherboard to fully understand the nature of Gatebox, a new embodied virtual assistant from Japan’s Vinclu Inc. As coverage in Vocativ notes, “The plot from Spike Jonze’s movie ‘Her,’ about a man who falls in love with an artificially-intelligent operating system companion, just keeps getting closer to reality.” As detailed in Forbes, the company has just been purchased by South Korea’s Naver, which has 700 million registered users for its LINE messaging app and is developing its own “digital assistant powered by machine learning.” For more details about…

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  • Call: Workshop on Serious Moral Games at ISAGA 2017

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    Call for Papers Workshop on Serious Moral Games at the 48th International Simulation and Gaming Association conference (ISAGA 2017) Delft, the Netherlands, 10-14 July 2017 Extended deadline for submission – papers:  20 March 2017 Deadline for submission – game demo:  31 March 2017 Dear All, If you are interested in the use of video games for purposes of ethics training / moral education, we’d like to make you aware of a thematic workshop on Serious Moral Games, which we are organizing at the ISAGA Conference in Delft (10.-14.07.2017). The purpose of this thematic session is to bring together experts from…

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  • Mondly launches virtual reality for learning languages, powered by chatbots

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    [This would seem like an ideal application area for presence; the first story below, from ZDNet, describes the new Mondly language learning VR app, and the second, from The Next Web, provides a first-person user’s evaluation. For more information see the company’s press release via PR Newswire. –Matthew] Mondly launches virtual reality for learning languages, powered by chatbots Practice talking in 28 different languages with virtual characters, which teach language fundamentals and help build confidence, with the Mondly VR app By Eileen Brown February 28, 2017 Romania-based ATi Studios, the creator of the Mondly language learning platform, has released a…

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