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Month: August 2017

  • Call: Multisensory Experiences & Spaces tutorial at ISS’17

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    Call for Participation “Multisensory Experiences & Spaces” Half-day Tutorial 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS’17) October 17 Brighton, UK https://iss2017.acm.org/program/tutorials_workshops/ We would like to invite you to participate in our tutorial on “Multisensory Experiences & Spaces” at the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS’17), on October 17 in Brighton, UK (https://iss2017.acm.org/) Just come and join us! No need for any paper contribution or prior experience in this field, just be open to learn and try something new! This will be a half-day tutorial. TUTORIAL OVERVIEW: Designing multisensory experiences is fascinating academics and…

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  • ‘Computational zoom’ lets photographers adjust image compositions after capture

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    [The tools available to creators allow increasingly sophisticated manipulations of mediated reality; this story from the UC Santa Barbara Current describes an interesting new one; follow the links at the end for more information, examples and a 5:18 minute video, and see coverage in DIY Photography for an explanation of how this new tool compares to others. –Matthew] Picture Perfect UCSB and NVIDIA researchers develop a new technique that enables photographers to adjust image compositions after capture By James Badham Monday, July 31, 2017 When taking a picture, a photographer must typically commit to a composition that cannot be changed…

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  • Call: Models and Simulations 8

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    Call for Papers Models and Simulations 8 15-17 March 2018 University of South Carolina http://www.meetabout.org/ms8/ Deadline for submission: 15 September 2017 The Department of Philosophy in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the USC Nanocenter are hosting the 8th Models and Simulations conference (MS8) at Columbia, South Carolina. This continues a successful series of meetings focusing on the role of modeling, simulation, and computational methods in the natural and social sciences, in engineering and technology. Earlier meetings have taken place in Paris (2006), Tilburg (2007), Virginia (2009), Toronto (2010), Helsinki (2012), Notre Dame (2014), and Barcelona…

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  • Companion robots are here. Just don’t fall in love with them

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    [From Roomba to Kuri to sophisticated and adorable future companion robots that take care of us, we can’t help perceiving machines as independent, sentient social actors – i.e., experiencing media-as-social-actor presence. This interesting story from Wired considers some key design choices and ethical challenges. See the original for a 5:12 minute video. –Matthew] Companion Robots Are Here. Just Don’t Fall In Love With Them Matt Simon August 2, 20.17 “Hey, Kuri,” I say. “I love you.” Pause. I brace for rejection, but then the robot lets out a balooop and shimmies back and forth. This, I am to presume, means…

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  • Call: Technology for Bonding in Human-Animal Interaction – ACI 2017 Workshop

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Technology for Bonding in Human-Animal Interaction Workshop at ACI 2017 conference at Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Workshop date: 21.11.2017 Workshop website: www.turre.fi/tech4bonding Information on ACI 2017 conference: www.aci2017.org Contribution statements through an online questionnaire: September 11th, 2017 WHAT IS THIS WORKSHOP ABOUT? [See detailed Background section below too] Technology offers exciting new opportunities for supporting and expanding human-animal interaction and bonding. What is related to these opportunities and how to design for bonding? We invite you to this 1-day workshop at the ACI 2017 conference to explore and discuss the following questions as well as ideate…

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  • New VR attractions let you walk on girders above or take a slide down 72 floors at London’s The Shard

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    [I always enjoy visiting attractions that provide views from high above (e.g., Philadelphia’s One Liberty Observation Deck) but The Shard in London has taken things further, as reported in this story from the Evening Standard (where it includes several more pictures). For more information, Business Insider has a 1:31 minute summary video and Londonist has a story featuring a 2:30 minute viral video of a woman on the Slide attraction. Details and tickets are available directly from The View From The Shard’s website. Information about an earlier VR experience of the same building is available from Visualise. –Matthew] You can…

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  • Call: Game Studies Area: 2018 PCA/ACA National Conference

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    Call for Papers Game Studies Area: 2018 PCA/ACA National Conference March 28 -31, 2018 Indianapolis, Indiana http://conference.pcaaca.org/ Deadline: October 1, 2017 The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, March 28 through Friday, March 31, 2018 at the J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, Indiana. Below, please find: I. Topics of Interest II. Suggestions for First Time Submitters III. Submission Process IV. Information about the Conference V. Contact Information —–…

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  • Negotiating chatbots fool users, invent language, raise fears of AI

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    [This story from Gizmodo is as interesting for the presence result it reports – “The performance of [Facebook researchers’] best negotiation agent… matched that of human negotiators” – as for what it says about our fears of technology-based social actors. See the original story for an animated graphic and the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research blog post for a detailed explanation of the research (a key quote: “Interestingly, in the FAIR experiments, most people did not realize they were talking to a bot rather than another person”). –Matthew] No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was…

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  • Call: Virtual Medicine: Best Practices in Medical Virtual Reality

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    VIRTUAL MEDICINE Best Practices in Medical Virtual Reality March 29, 2018 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles https://www.virtualmedicine.org/ SPEAKERS Daniel Kraft Chair of Medicine / Singularity University Brennan Spiegel Director of Health Services Research / Cedars-Sinai Arshya Vahabzadeh Chief Medical Officer / Brain Power Skip Rizzo Director for Medical Virtual Reality / USC Institute for Creative Technologies Rafael Grossmann Tedx & Exponential Medicine faculty / Medical Futurist David Rhew Chief Medical Officer / Samsung Electronics America COURSE DESCRIPTION & EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Not so far in the future, doctors might prescribe a virtual beach vacation to calm…

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  • Why co-parenting with telepresence robots could be a fantastic idea

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    [As the author of this intriguing article notes, it’ll be fascinating to see, and we should work to shape, how the uses of in-home telepresence robots evolve. The article is from IEEE Spectrum., where it includes links to related stories. –Matthew] [Image: The Beam remote presence system, from Suitable Technologies, allows you to “beam in” and visit family members from anywhere. Social roboticist Heather Knight argues that such technology could become a valuable co-parenting tool. Credit: Suitable Technologies] Why Co-Parenting With Telepresence Robots Could Be a Fantastic Idea By Heather Knight Posted 31 Jul 2017 There’s always something heart-wrenching when…

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