Month: July 2022

Call: Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) 2023 Conference

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July 29, 2022

Call for Papers Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2023 Conference May 31-June 3, 2023 Wilmington, North Carolina, USA Hosted by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington http://scsmi-online.org/conference Deadline for proposals: Midnight (EST) December 12, 2022 The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) invites proposals for presentations at its annual conference to be held May 31-June 3, 2023, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the United States. SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to the analysis…
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New zoo virtual reality experience puts you nose to nose with gorillas

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July 29, 2022

[The new Gorilla Trek Virtual Reality Experience from Immotion is designed to use presence to engage, entertain, inform, build empathy and encourage conservation. The story below from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provides details and describes audience member responses. Coverage from OnMilwaukee (with the headline of this post) adds this indirect reference to presence from Immotion Group Commercial Director Rod Findley: “People come out of Gorilla Trek and they really feel they have been transported to a different world.” The attraction is now also available at the Pittsburgh Zoo (follow the link for a description and a vivid 30 second trailer…
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Call: FDG 2023: The 18th Foundations of Digital Games

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July 28, 2022

Call for Papers FDG 2023: The 18th Foundations of Digital Games Lisbon, Portugal April 11-14, 2023 http://fdg2023.org Submission deadline: November 4, 2022 The 18th Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) held in Lisbon, Portugal, invites all research contributions in the form of papers, posters, demos, doctoral consortium applications, as well as panels, competitions and workshop proposals. We invite contributions from within and across any discipline committed to advancing knowledge on the foundations of games: computer science, engineering, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, arts and design. Topics include [full descriptions here: http://fdg2023.org/tracks/]: Technical Game Development, Novel Controllers Game Design, Studio Practices,…
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Researchers use VR and presence to test effects of urban design choices on wellbeing

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July 28, 2022

[This story from Frontiers Science News describes new research that uses virtual reality and presence to test the effects of simple urban design choices on wellbeing; see the original open-access journal article for full details. For interesting, related developments, see the example-filled DesignTAXI story “Artist Uses DALL-E To Make Real Streets Much More User-Friendly,” about how an artist is using “the popular DALL-E 2 art-generating AI as a landscape-planning tool, envisioning public spaces to finally be returned to the public.” –Matthew] [Image: Colorful virtual reality cityscape. Credit: A. Batistatou, F. Vandeville, and Y.N. Delevoye-Turrell] Colorful urban environments, even if just…
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Call: Workshop on Digital Citizenship at Radboud University

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July 27, 2022

[Note: The focus of this workshop isn’t explicitly presence-related but there are obvious connections. –Matthew] CALL FOR REGISTRATION/PAPERS Workshop on Digital Citizenship September 1-2, 2022 Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2207&L=PHILOS-L&P=336426 We hereby would like to announce a workshop to be hosted on digital citizenship. There are also still a few slots open for presentations. If you’re interested in giving a talk that fits the workshop theme, please get in touch with the organization (details below). WORKSHOP INFO The idea of citizenship holds an important position in western political thought and different conceptions of citizenship have been proposed and challenged.…
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Medical telepresence: New tech allows doctors to travel inside of your body

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July 27, 2022

[As this story from VentureBeat notes, the vision of a company called Endiatx in which patients receive a small robotic ‘pill’ in the mail, swallow it during a telemedicine appointment, and a doctor controls the device remotely with a tablet or phone to explore the patient’s body via teleoperation, is the stuff of science fiction. But apparently this vision is well on its way to becoming reality. See the original version of the story for three more images. And see a May 2022 ISPR Presence News post for more on author Louis Rosenberg’s early experiences with augmented reality and haptics.…
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Call: “Enhancing Quality of Life and Health with ICT” – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)

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July 26, 2022

Call for Papers “Enhancing Quality of Life and Health with ICT” Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Health_ICT Deadline for manuscript submissions: July 31, 2022 NOTE from the guest editors: IJERPH normally requires a publication fee, but we are waiving this fee for up to 10 authors of the special issue. You are invited to submit contributions, ten of which will be free of all publishing costs if accepted by the journal after peer reviews. We hope that you can make use of this opportunity to publish in this prestigious journal. Prof. Dr.…
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‘It Follows’ director explains how he created the immersive, presence-evoking horror film

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July 26, 2022

[This post isn’t a news item, but after watching and appreciating the unusual, well-regarded 2014 horror film It Follows recently and reading up on interpretations of the many ambiguous and subtle aspects of the film, I found the explanation from Yahoo! Entertainment below by the film’s director of how the film was designed to be immersive and evoke spatial (and I’d argue social) presence. Though it’s not mentioned here, I also noticed several examples in which relatable sensory experiences are emphasized to evoke presence as perceptual realism, for example dabbling one’s toes in water, applying lipstick, holding hands, walking on…
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Call: Web3D 2022 – 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology

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July 25, 2022

Call for Papers Web3D 2022 – The 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology November 2-4, 2022 In a hybrid format (in-person and online) Telecom SudParis, in Evry-Courcouronnes, Paris, France https://web3d.siggraph.org/cfp/ Submission deadline: July 30, 2022 (extended) Search engines trends show that the world, at large, discovered the concept of metaverse in October 2021. Since then, more and more people and organizations use the term as a buzzword, connecting it with various types of innovative products and services. Still, what is commonly agreed in many of these communications is the reference to 3D representation of content and to the online…
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Using VR simulations from caregiver perspective to build empathy and train for end-of-life situations

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July 25, 2022

[Presence via virtual reality has been used to increase the empathy of health care professionals for patients who are at the end of their lives by simulating the patient’s experience (e.g., see a 2018 WBUR story that includes a 3:31 minute video of a simulation by Embodied Labs). But a collaborative teaching project at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia is providing students with the caregiver’s perspective to help them develop empathy and learn how to navigate these difficult experiences by practicing, and then discussing and refining, their interactions with these patients. The story below from the University’s Jagwire describes the…
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Call: 7th ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia’ International Interdisciplinary Conference

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July 22, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS: 7th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference December 8-9, 2022 Gdańsk, Poland In person/ Online https://www.inmindsupport.com/nostalgia-conference Organizer: InMind Support Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Deadlines for abstracts and bios: onsite presenters – by 18 September 2022 online presenters – by 30 September 2022 The 7th edition of the “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on December 8, 2022, in-person at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Gdańsk (Poland) and on December 9, 2022, online (via Zoom…
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Presence collaborations: How virtual reality helps shape and respond to artistic impulses

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July 22, 2022

[With interesting details about the evolution of CAVEs and Google’s Tilt Brush, and using the language if not the terminology of presence, this article from PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) describes how collaborations “among artists, coders, and computer scientists” have made and are continuing to make “the barrier between the real and virtual world vanish” to benefit both art and science. See the original version of the article for high resolution versions of the image below and a second image, of Alison Goodyear’s Topsy Turvy. –Matthew] [Image: Computer scientist and artist Daniel Keefe has been combining virtual…
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Month: July 2022

Call: Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) 2023 Conference

New zoo virtual reality experience puts you nose to nose with gorillas

Call: FDG 2023: The 18th Foundations of Digital Games

Researchers use VR and presence to test effects of urban design choices on wellbeing

Call: Workshop on Digital Citizenship at Radboud University

Medical telepresence: New tech allows doctors to travel inside of your body

Call: “Enhancing Quality of Life and Health with ICT” – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)

‘It Follows’ director explains how he created the immersive, presence-evoking horror film

Call: Web3D 2022 – 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology

Using VR simulations from caregiver perspective to build empathy and train for end-of-life situations

Call: 7th ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia’ International Interdisciplinary Conference

Presence collaborations: How virtual reality helps shape and respond to artistic impulses

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