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Call: “Digitalization of Work” at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 23, 2022

Call for Papers

“Digitalization of Work“ Minitrack
55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023
Maui, Hawaii
January 3-6, 2023
Minitrack: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack
HICSS 2023: https://hicss.hawaii.edu

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2022

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit your work to the Minitrack on the “Digitalization of Work“ at the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 (https://hicss.hawaii.edu), planned to take place at the beautiful island of Maui in January 2023!

Here you can find the detailed call for papers: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack

We anticipate submissions including (but not limited to) the following topics:

Employee Relations

  • Motivating the future digital workforce
  • Work-life-balance, work-life separation, and work-life-blending
  • Dealing with mental health issues in digitized work
  • Dealing with social isolation in digitized work
  • Dealing with the digital divide from a temporal and spatial perspective
  • Temporary groups (pick-up groups) transforming into long-term team
  • Intercultural communication and intercultural challenges

Human Resource Management

  • Distant leadership and management of the digitalized workforce
  • The implications of AI and algorithmic leadership
  • Leadership for cloud-worker, click-worker, crowd-worker, and digital nomads
  • Gamification of performance measurements in digital work
  • Balancing self-leadership and intrinsic motivation with self-exploitation
  • Empowerment and motivation of the employees digitally
  • Skill development, learning, and talent identification in the digital environment
  • The design of virtual recruiting (e.g.,
… read more. “Call: “Digitalization of Work” at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023”
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Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic – and the trend is sticking around

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 23, 2022

[The global pandemic has brought many changes in the demand for and evolution of technologies that evoke presence. This NPR story uses personal stories, statistics and interviews with technology creators to describe some of the changes in physical exercise. See the original story for seven more pictures and a 44 second video. –Matthew]

[Image: Linda Munson’s youngest grandson, Daniel Gomez, 2, tries on an Oculus headset in her yard in Berlin, Conn. Playing different virtual reality games has become her family’s regular Sunday activity, Munson said. Credit: Yehyun Kim for NPR]

Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic — and the trend is sticking around

By April Fulton
May 22, 2022

At the height of the pandemic, when going to the gym wasn’t an option, millions of people began exploring virtual workouts from home for the first time. And many of them now say they won’t go back.… read more. “Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic – and the trend is sticking around”

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Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in HCI at Durham University

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 20, 2022

Call for Applications

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Job Number: 21001319)
Department of Computer Science
Durham University
Durham, UK
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001319&lang=en

Grade 7: – £34,304 to £40,927 per annum
Fixed Term – Full Time (this role is full time but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares)
Contract Duration: 30 months
Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 3rd June 2022, 11:59:00 PM

DURHAM UNIVERSITY

Durham University is one of the world’s top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. We are home to some of the most talented scholars and researchers from around the world who are tackling global issues and making a difference to people’s lives.

The University sits in a beautiful historic city where it shares ownership of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral, the greatest Romanesque building in Western Europe.… read more. “Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in HCI at Durham University”

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Design firm videos explore what a brain-controlled computer might feel like

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 20, 2022

[Based on definitions of presence that involve an illusion of nonmediation or at least partial overlooking of the role of technology in an experience – a seemingly direct connection to mediated places, people and events, brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has great potential to evoke presence experiences. But how would it work? This story from Fast Company describes a series of videos by design firm Card79 that explores this question. The original story includes four more images and a 3:45 minute video from the series; the other videos are available on Card79’s website. –Matthew]

What a brain-controlled computer might feel like

A series of videos demonstrates an imperfect but optimistic future where we control everything with our brains.

By Mark Wilson
May 19, 2022

Imagine if you could control your iPhone with your mind. How would that actually work? Would sad emotions automatically pull up cute animal YouTube clips?… read more. “Design firm videos explore what a brain-controlled computer might feel like”

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Call: 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022)

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 19, 2022

Call For Papers

The 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022)
December 5-8, 2022
Christchurch, New Zealand [but see “Covid Response” below]
https://hai-conference.net/hai2022/

Submission deadlines:

  • Full paper submissions:  June 21, 2022
  • Poster submissions:  August 2, 2022
  • Workshop submissions:  July 15, 2022

The Tenth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. HAI will gather researchers from fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and sociology, and will cover diverse topics, including: human-robot interaction, affective computing, computer-supported collaborative work, gaming and serious games, artificial intelligence, and more.

The theme for the HAI2022 conference will be “Real-Virtuality: Merging the Physical and Digital worlds”. Indeed, during the past two years a lot of the interactions moved online; this year, hybrid interactions are becoming possible.… read more. “Call: 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022)”

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Google Maps’ Immersive View makes it “feel like you’re right there” before you go

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 19, 2022

[Google recently announced a new Immersive View mode for Google Maps, as reported in the story below by The Verge. Ars Technica includes some interesting details in its coverage:

“For most uses, Google Maps is a flat, 2D app, and if your device can handle more graphics and a bit more data, you can fire up the Google Earth 3D data set and get 3D buildings. At Google I/O Google has announced a new level that turns the graphics slider way, way up on Google Maps: Immersive View. When exploring an area in Google Maps, the company says Immersive View will make it ’feel like you’re right there before you ever set foot inside.’

The video for this feature is wild. It basically turns Google Maps into a 3D version of SimCity with AAA video game graphics. There are simulated cars that drive through the roads, and birds fly through the sky.… read more. “Google Maps’ Immersive View makes it “feel like you’re right there” before you go”

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Call: ACM SAP 2022: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 18, 2022

Call for Papers

ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
September 22-23, 2022
Online
http://sap.acm.org/2022/

Deadline for abstract submission: May 30, 2022
Deadline for paper submission: June 3, 2022

The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side.

The interdisciplinary focus of this conference acknowledges that the various scientific disciplines in perception research and computer science research use different but complementary methods to address fundamentally similar questions. As such, combinations of knowledge, methods, and/or insights from the different fields can help to advance all of the applied perception fields.

ACM SAP 2022 will be held online September 22-23, 2022.… read more. “Call: ACM SAP 2022: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception”

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The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 18, 2022

[The new immersive art experience described in this Fast Company story highlights the idea that presence experiences occur in the mind, don’t have to correspond to our experiences of the external world and can be strongly influenced by individual differences. See the original story for five more images and visit the Dreammachine website for more information and several reviews. –Matthew]

[Image: Credit: David Levene/courtesy Dreamachine]

The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it

Yes, visual art can exist without explicitly being seen. Just check out ‘Dreamachine,’ a trippy new immersive installation in London.

By Nate Berg
May 11, 2022

A wild new room-scaled artwork has just opened in London, but no one will see it.

Or at least not with their eyes open. Called Dreamachine, this immersive art piece is a carefully orchestrated light show intended to be experienced with closed eyes.… read more. “The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it”

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Call: Social and Biometric Data for Applications in Human Machine Interactions: Models and Algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) at CyberSciTech 2022

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 17, 2022

Call for Papers

Special Session: Social and Biometric data for Applications in human machine interactions: Models and algorithms (SOBIOAPPS)
In Conjunction with the 7th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2022)
September 12-15, 2022
Calabria, Italy
http://cyber-science.org/2022/dasc/acceptworkshops/
http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/ws-ss/cst/SOBIOAPPS2022_CFP.pdf
CyberSciTech 2022: http://cyber-science.org/2022/cyberscitech/

Sponsored by
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
EMPATHIC: http://www.empathic-project.eu/
MENHIR: http://menhir-project.eu/
SIROBOTICS: https://www.exprivia.it/en/show-info-event-full.php?id_event=7907
ANDROIDS: https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project

Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2022

The aim of this SPECIAL SESSION is to provide an overview of ideas and methods for developing autonomous systems capable to act as socially and emotionally believable assistive interfaces. To this aim, data gathered from behavioural and social experiments, biometrics measurements, and models of social and individual behaviours are considered as signals to be processed and interpreted through new proposed algorithms and theoretical frameworks. These interdisciplinary facets found relevant applications in ICT interfaces for monitoring the health and affective states of their users, gather their psychological feelings and behavioural patterns, and support them through suitably designed interventions.… read more. “Call: Social and Biometric Data for Applications in Human Machine Interactions: Models and Algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) at CyberSciTech 2022”

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MASA presence: Twitter users respond to delivery robot “lost in the woods”

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 17, 2022

[This story from Buzzfeed reports on and amusingly captures the variety of medium-as-social-actor presence responses to a Twitter post featuring a picture of a delivery robot on a walking trail in the woods near Northampton, England last Sunday morning. See the original story (and the full Twitter conversation) for more responses. Coverage in Futurism provides context, describing the incident as “a rather adorable reminder of the helplessness of increasingly ubiquitous autonomous machines” and noting that

“This poor little bot is far from the first to run into trouble. Some of been getting stuck on curbs, while another met a fiery demise underneath freight trains. In another domain, robot vacuums have also run astray. One infamous vacuum narrowly escaped a Travelodge hotel in Cambridge, UK, back in January. Another one got so lost that its owner distributed ‘missing’ posters.… read more. “MASA presence: Twitter users respond to delivery robot “lost in the woods””

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