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Call: British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 1, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)
2-6 July, 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland
http://hci2018.bcs.org/ twitter: @HCI_2018

Due date for all paper submissions: 31 March, 2018

This is the 32nd Annual Conference of the British Human Computer Interaction Conference in association with the British Computer Society (ACM Proceedings). In 2018, it will be held in the atmospheric city centre of Belfast in Northern Ireland. (“Belfast, one of the top ten World Class conference locations” – Financial Times; See the Belfast video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNDto-iGgXI)

This leading HCI conference is well established and has been running for over 30 years attracting international researchers. This is a call for papers related to any topic in the HCI discipline. HCI is an exciting field, especially with the growth of user experience (UX) design, usable security, natural and intelligent user interfaces, interactive Internet of Things, chatbots, virtual and augmented realities and affective computing to name but a few of the emerging themes.… read more. “Call: British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)”

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New HMD attachment lets you feel wind in virtual reality

By Matthew Lombard | Published: November 1, 2017

[This new product adds the “4D” element of wind to VR to enhance the sense of presence, and the ZephVR website says “Beyond wind, our technology will enable all sorts of peripherals and physical effects—temperature, vibration, rain, or anything else people can think up—so that they work with all VR content, automatically.” The story is from BGR, where it includes an additional image. For more information see the ZephVR website and press kit. –Matthew]

Meet the new accessory that lets you actually feel virtual reality

Andy Meek
October 30th, 2017

The team behind a new accessory for virtual reality headsets that will create wind and synchronize it to VR events, immersing users even deeper into the VR content, came up with the idea for their gadget by happenstance.

Paige Pruitt, the cofounder and CTO of Weasel Labs, hit on the idea for what would become the company’s ZephVR product while playing the Playstation VR game “London Heist.”… read more. “New HMD attachment lets you feel wind in virtual reality”

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