Month: June 2022

Call: “Impossible experiences in extended reality” NordiCHI 2022 Workshop

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June 14, 2022

Call for Papers “Impossible experiences in extended reality” Workshop NordiCHI 2022 workshop October 8th OR 9th, 2022 Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Workshop: https://impossibleexperiences.wordpress.com/ NordiCHI 2022: https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022 Submission deadline: July 20, 2022 Previous research has suggested a typology of VR research that involves the dimensions of realism-fantasy and immersion, which are instrumental to flow (e.g., Velasco, Barbosa Escobar, Petit, & Wang, 2021). However, the term “impossible”, as defined “incapable of being or of occurring”. In that sense, the first part refers to real-fantasy objects, and the second to laws governing the objects. In our view, then, a more encompassing “Impossible experiences”…
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Google suspends engineer who claims the company’s experimental AI has become sentient

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June 14, 2022

[My friend Roy Yamanaka posted a story about this in the ISPR Presence Community Facebook group and it merits a post here too. After extended interactions with the natural language generator LaMDA, Google engineer Blake Lemoine has claimed that it is sentient. Futurism provides the summary below. Technologist Shelley Palmer noted the relevance to medium-as-social-actor presence in his Think About This email newsletter for June 13, 2022 when he wrote, “If Google created a conscious machine, that’s awesome. If they created a model that can fake us into thinking it’s sentient, that’s awesome too.” Coverage in The Verge provides more…
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Call: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2022)

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June 13, 2022

Call for Papers/Posters/Demos VRST 2022 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Tsukuba, Japan and online November 29 – December 1, 2022 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2022/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: July 18, 2022 Papers: July 22, 2022 Posters and demos: August 22, 2022 The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is a premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers on augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology. VRST brings together the main international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading…
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Sci-fi becoming reality: Researchers develop early version of human skin for robots

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June 13, 2022

[Researchers in Japan have taken another step toward making fictional human-like robots and cyborgs that blur the line between us and machines possible in reality. I’d add the examples of The Bionic Woman, Humans and Westworld, among many others, to the ones in this story from Smithsonian magazine, which describes the new development of human-like skin for robots and places it in the larger context of medium-as-social-actor presence, its causes and implications. See the original story for a 25 second video and see Euronews (or YouTube) for a 1:40 minute report. –Matthew] [Image: A robotic finger coated with living human…
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Call: Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) at RO-MAN 2022

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June 10, 2022

Call for Papers Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) In conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) Naples, Italy and Online September 2, 2022 (Half day morning session) Workshop: https://www.asedc.org/RO-MAN2022_SSA_workshop RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/ Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2022 1. Statement of objectives Although COVID-19 pandemic caused many problems in the society, new technologies emerged to overcome the difficulties. One aspect is communication. Using a telepresence robot, people can exist in a distant physical space and meet other people there. In a metaverse environment, the user…
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Is reality an illusion? New research explores how perception influences physical responses

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June 10, 2022

[A new optical illusion provides another vivid illustration that human perception is subjective and is raising familiar philosophical questions about the nature of reality, as described in this story from The Debrief (where the original includes three more images). Other coverage makes the point in different ways. Here’s an excerpt from The New York Times story: “Illusions like the expanding hole feed into the debate over whether all perception is, fundamentally, an illusion. ‘Everything we perceive is inconsistent with the physical reality of the world,’ Dr. Dale Purves [a neurobiologist and professor emeritus who studies visual perception at Duke University]…
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Call: 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling

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June 9, 2022

Call for Proposals 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary 10-12 November, 2022 https://zip-scene.mome.hu/ Deadline for submitting proposals: June 30, 2022 Dear All, This year we again organize the 4th Zip-Scene Conference of Immersive Storytelling (in-person). Yuhuu! I’m sending below the information about the #cfp (call for proposals): Details (short): The 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling (10-12 November, 2022) will be organized in Budapest, at the Innovation Center of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in partnership with ARDIN & INDCOR COST Action. This year – beside the general…
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VR (and presence) helps train medical and nursing students to manage agitated patients with empathy

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June 9, 2022

[As if their work wasn’t challenging enough, health care workers too often have to manage agitated, disoriented and even aggressive patients. This press release from the National University of Singapore (NUS) describes a new programme that uses virtual reality and presence to train students to manage these situations effectively and with empathy and compassion. For more details see a story in The Straits Times; the version of the press release at Medical Xpress has two screenshots from the VR scenarios; and there’s a three-minute video produced by NUS on YouTube. –Matthew] [Image: Source: The Straits Times. Credit: Lianhe Zaobao] Keep…
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Call: Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction at RO-MAN 2022

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June 8, 2022

Call for Submissions Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction At 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) Naples, Italy and Online [NOTE: This is for RO-MAN 2022; the Workshop website doesn’t specify location –Matthew] August 29, 2022 Workshop: https://romanpd.notion.site/romanpd/workshop-on-participatory-design-in-human-robot-interaction-0599c39e0c9248518349c7509d203483 RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: August 14th, 2022 Camera-ready Deadline: August 20th, 2022 Workshop Date: August 29th, 2022 As robots are engaging with more users in a variety of contexts, it is critical to ask who are robots being designed for, who are designing these systems, and…
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With money from Meta (Facebook), 10 colleges turn their campuses into ‘metaversities’

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June 8, 2022

[This story from EdSurge discusses the potential benefits – including presence and learning – as well as several concerns about a new program in which Meta is paying for the creation of digital versions of ten university campuses and providing Quest VR headsets for students. As the headline asks, “Is education moving to a ‘tri-brid’ model that flows between in-person, online and simulated environments?” The original version of the story includes two videos. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: naratrip / Shutterstock] With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’ Is education moving to a “tri-brid” model that flows between…
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Call: Games and the Metaverse Workshop at Foundations of Digital Games 2022 conference

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June 7, 2022

Call for Submissions Workshop: Games and the Metaverse At Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2022 conference Athens, Greece and AoE Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/fdg-metaverse-workshop/ FDG 2022: http://fdg2022.org/ Submission deadline: June 17th, 2022 Join us for our (hybrid) workshop on games and the metaverse at the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) conference from Sept 5 – 8, 2022. We have 2 submission tracks, to make attendance available to a broader games audience from both industry and academic perspectives. One is a “talk” track; submission for this is a short abstract/outline of a talk you would like to give surrounding games and the metaverse.…
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Queen Elizabeth’s virtual carriage ride: Technology and reactions

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June 7, 2022

[Gizmodo describes the technology likely used to create the illusion that a waving younger version of the Queen was riding in a Gold State Coach during the Platinum Jubilee in London on Sunday (see the original story for a video and additional images). Reactions varied: Journalist Barry Malone tweeted “So a hologram of the queen drove through London in a golden carriage today. And people waved at it. They waved at a hologram,” which generated thousands of comments. Metro UK’s video is titled “Prince Charles stands as hologram of the Queen passes by in golden carriage”; the video shows other…
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Month: June 2022

Call: “Impossible experiences in extended reality” NordiCHI 2022 Workshop

Google suspends engineer who claims the company’s experimental AI has become sentient

Call: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2022)

Sci-fi becoming reality: Researchers develop early version of human skin for robots

Call: Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) at RO-MAN 2022

Is reality an illusion? New research explores how perception influences physical responses

Call: 4th Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive Storytelling

VR (and presence) helps train medical and nursing students to manage agitated patients with empathy

Call: Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction at RO-MAN 2022

With money from Meta (Facebook), 10 colleges turn their campuses into ‘metaversities’

Call: Games and the Metaverse Workshop at Foundations of Digital Games 2022 conference

Queen Elizabeth’s virtual carriage ride: Technology and reactions

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