Month: January 2023

Call: Posthuman Agency: Nonhuman and Human Actors 2023 Conference

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January 5, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS POSTHUMAN AGENCY: NONHUMAN AND HUMAN ACTORS September 5-7, 2023 Venue: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Purkyne University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic http://kritickyposthumanismus.cz (to be updated soon) Submission deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2023 In our second instalment in the critical posthumanism series we intent to explore the concepts of actor and agency. A posthuman perspective means, among other things, acknowledging that we live in more than human or not only human world. The post-human world is co-inhabited and co-constituted by other than human actors. Although this epoche is characterized as anthropocene, it doesn’t mean that “nature…
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All meetings are not born equal: New research on when and how to meet virtually

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January 5, 2023

[It may seem basic, especially for those familiar with the work of scholars like Short, Williams and Christie (specifically their 1976 book The social psychology of telecommunications), but this story from The Irish Times describes new research and a new framework that demonstrates how to best match the purpose, content and other characteristics of a meeting to the most appropriate level of presence and therefore mode (from audio conference to telepresence to face-to-face). See the original story for an additional picture and read the new article in Business Horizons, “Business meetings in a postpandemic world: When and how to meet…
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Call: IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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January 4, 2023

Call for Papers, Special Sessions and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication August 28-31, 2023 Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea and Online http://www.ro-man2023.org Initial paper submission deadline: March 17, 2023 Special session proposal submission deadline: January 13, 2023 Workshop/tutorial proposal submission deadline: February 3, 2023 Dear Esteemed Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to cordially invite you to take part in 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2023), which will be held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 28 to 31 August 2023. This conference is…
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Neuralink cofounder says new company’s eye implant could be “ultimate” VR tech

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January 4, 2023

[With heavy, uncomfortable headsets and even glasses a major source of interference with presence. there’s long been talk of a contact lens or other eye-based alternative technology. This short story from Futurism’s The Byte and the excerpts from a Futurism interview that follow it don’t provide too many details but they reinforce the hope not only for improving the prospects of restoring vision with prosthetic eyes but eventually creating “the ultimate AR/VR display technology.” –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Getty / Futurism] Neuralink Cofounder Says New Company’s Eye Implant Could Be “Ultimate” VR Tech “We Think We See a Way To Create…
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Call: Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community (HRI 2023 Workshop)

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January 3, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community (DEI HRI 2023) A Workshop at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023) Stockholm, Sweden, as well as virtually on Hopin and Zoom March 13, 2023 HRI 2023: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/dei-hri/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper and Survey Submission: January 15th, 2023 Paper Acceptance Notification: February 1st, 2023 Camera-Ready Paper: March 1st, 2023 Workshop date: March 13th, 2023 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Although being a pressing issue, an understanding of how robotic systems can replicate and amplify inequalities and injustice among underrepresented communities is still…
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Why you should embrace the extended reality continuum

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January 3, 2023

[As some of us have with presence and presence-related terminology, the author of this essay in VentureBeat argues that we need to “tame the jargon” related to mixed and virtual reality and the metaverse. While the essay doesn’t credit the people who developed the “reality-virtuality continuum,” it provides useful insights about design considerations for current and future presence experiences. Here’s the missing citation (you can download the article from ResearchGate): Milgram, P., Takemura, H., Utsumi, A., & Kishino, F. (December 21, 1995). “Augmented reality: A class of displays on the reality-virtuality continuum.” Proceedings of SPIE 2351, Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies.…
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Call: The Interplay between Affect and Cognition in Development: From Humans to Robots and Back

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January 2, 2023

Call for Papers Special Issue in Elsevier Cognitive Systems Research (CSR/CogSys): The Interplay between Affect and Cognition in Development: From Humans to Robots and Back Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 Dear Colleagues, Following up on the show of interest in the ICDL 2022 workshop FEEL-COG: The Role of Affect in the Development of Cognition, we are pleased to announce a special issue in the Elsevier Cognitive Systems Research (CSR/CogSys) journal on related topics. Extended versions of the submitted workshop papers in FEEL-COG 2022, or of the published conference papers from ICDL 2022 are welcome, but they should have at least…
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First-person report: VR meetings with Meta Quest Pro undeniably cool but…

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January 2, 2023

[The author of this story from Business Insider describes her “undeniably cool” spatial and social presence experiences in a demonstration of the high-end Meta Quest Pro headset in the company’s Horizon Worlds Workrooms meeting environments, as well as the significant challenges to making the technology an effective alternative to in-person meetings and standard video conferencing platforms. See the original story for two more pictures. –Matthew] I tried out Meta’s $1,500 virtual reality headset to attend a meeting in the metaverse. The tech was undeniably cool, but after 20 minutes I was relieved to take it off. By Sawdah Bhaimiya December…
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Month: January 2023

Call: Posthuman Agency: Nonhuman and Human Actors 2023 Conference

All meetings are not born equal: New research on when and how to meet virtually

Call: IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Neuralink cofounder says new company’s eye implant could be “ultimate” VR tech

Call: Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community (HRI 2023 Workshop)

Why you should embrace the extended reality continuum

Call: The Interplay between Affect and Cognition in Development: From Humans to Robots and Back

First-person report: VR meetings with Meta Quest Pro undeniably cool but…

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