Month: July 2023

Call: “Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience” issue of Philosophy and Cinema Magazine

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July 31, 2023

Call for Abstracts “Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience” PHILM – Philosophy and Cinema Magazine – Issue 3 Research Center of Philosophy and Cinema, University of Verona and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan 31a0ae_77553477974a435781628703bfbd921c.pdf (univr.it) (Call pdf) https://www.philm.univr.it/rivista (PHILM Magazine) Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 1, 2023 Throughout the twentieth century, montage proved to be a exceptional expressive resource, both in terms of the spatio-temporal organisation of the image and at the level of the viewer’s perceptual and interpretive responses. From an initially purely technical stage, the processes of articulation and recomposition of audiovisual…
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Photoshop’s “Generative Expand” feature uses AI to easily and convincingly expand images, combining real and imagined elements

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July 31, 2023

[One of the new features in Adobe’s Photoshop image editing software lets users easily expand the contents of an image beyond the original size and shape, making it that much easier to combine actual and artificial elements in a photo and that much harder for viewers to distinguish between them. The short story below from XDA provides the basic information about “Generative Expand” and Adobe provides details in its blog post and a 3:38 minute video available on YouTube. ZDNet has a detailed, example-filled description of the feature along with Content Aware Fill and Generative Fill; the story also notes…
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Call: HRI 2024, 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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July 28, 2023

Call for Papers HRI 2024: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction March 11-14, 2024 Boulder, Colorado, USA [and online – see below] https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/ Deadline for full paper submissions: September 29, 2023 We are excited to announce the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI 2024 is the 19th annual conference for basic and applied HRI research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. The conference theme for HRI 2024 is “HRI in the…
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Journey to the Serengeti or Walk with Dinosaurs at the World’s First “Hologram Zoo”

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July 28, 2023

[An Australia-based company has opened a “Hologram Zoo” in Brisbane and plans to open others around the world. A story from The Debrief and excerpts from coverage in New Atlas provide details (the original versions include more pictures and the New Atlas story includes a video). For a related April 2023 story, see “Researchers Have Developed an Incredible New Method of Producing Realistic Holograms” in The Debrief. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Axiom Holographics] Journey to the Serengeti or Walk with Dinosaurs at the World’s First “Hologram Zoo” By Tim Mcmillan July 26, 2023 In a futuristic innovation blending technology and wildlife,…
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Call: 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23) at RecSys 2023

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July 27, 2023

Call for Papers 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23) Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) September 18-22, 2023 Singapore IntRS’23: https://intrs2023.wordpress.com/ RecSys 2023: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/ Important dates: Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2023 Author notification: August 27th, 2023 Camera-ready version deadline: September 10th, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intrs23 OVERVIEW Recommender systems are a popular kind of information access systems that provides personalized recommendations to users based on their preferences (i.e., current and past), behaviors, and feedback. These systems are widely used in e-commerce, social networking, and content sharing platforms,…
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Startup plans to create an AI-generated news channel personalized for each viewer

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July 27, 2023

[Imagine a news program, or a whole channel, that features AI-generated anchors and reporters that look and sound exactly like real people, presenting current news stories about topics, events and people you specifically care about, from your political perspective. The stories are written by AI systems that draw on reputable sources and are accompanied by illustrations, charts and graphs, and convincing recreations of events, also all generated by AI. The story from The Hollywood Reporter below describes a startup company’s efforts to create such a channel. It’s certainly an ambitious and interesting project, but would such personalized presence experiences really…
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Call: Harnessing Immersive Technologies to Communicate the Complexity of Human Experiences – Media and Communication theme issue

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July 26, 2023

[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I add an explicit note near the top of the post noting the fee requirement. For more information about the specific fees follow the link near the end of the Call, and for general information about publication fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers…
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Microsoft Teams now lets you apply AI-based virtual Maybelline makeup

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July 26, 2023

[Before the pandemic, most users of remote conferencing software had only the choice to turn their video camera on or not, but since then the major platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams have added a series of increasingly more subtle, realistic and reliable ways for users to alter their appearance, thus increasing the prospects of presence illusions. The latest is described in this story from The Verge (dee the original version for a second image). –Matthew] [Image: It’s not clear if any of these users in Microsoft’s press imagery are “wearing” one of the Maybelline makeup filters, but you can…
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Call: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality (mixed media anthology)

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July 25, 2023

Call for Contributions: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality A mixed media anthology English: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call Plain English (via GPT-3): https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Plain Deutsch: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-DE Einfache Sprache: https://virtual-architects.org/Open-Call-Einfach Editors: Katharina Haverich (Performance and media artist) Lucas Kuster (Design researcher and experimental artist) Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 4, 2023 TIMING August 4, 2023. Deadline: Abstract / Preliminary project information (max. 1,500 characters) August 30, 2023. Decision on contributions October 15, 2023. Deadline: Submission of contribution consisting of Total contribution (max. 15,000 characters for text) Short bio (max. 400 characters) FORM OF PUBLICATION Mixed-media anthology (Free PDF and printed edition…
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Interns and college students are using VR to learn office skills without ‘repercussions’

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July 25, 2023

[CNBC reports on how and why employers, recruiters and universities are using virtual reality (and presence) to help students experience and learn about office-based careers. See the original story for a second image and for more information visit the Cappfinity website and read the description of the University College Dublin course “Virtual Reality for Future Skills.” –Matthew] [Image: Laura Bedalov, a customer success manager at Cappfinity, sets up the virtual reality workplace environment that colleges and internship programs are using to train young people. Credit: Rebecca Picciotto] Interns and college students are using virtual reality to learn office skills without…
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Call: Survey on the Teaching of Extended Reality Technologies and Synthetic Media in Screen Media Programmes

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July 24, 2023

Call for Participation: Survey on the Teaching of Extended Reality Technologies and Synthetic Media in Screen Media Programmes [From Jennifer O’Meara (omearaja@tcd.ie): ] Dear Colleagues, Please consider taking part in a new survey investigating the teaching of extended reality and deceptive technologies in Higher Education screen media programmes. You can access the survey and the participant information leaflet here: https://forms.office.com/e/mPcDEjYkyM You are invited to participate in this study if you work in the Higher Education sector and teach on screen media programmes (such as those related to Film Studies / Media Studies / Digital Media Studies). Participation is invited from…
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Thousands chatted with this AI ‘virtual girlfriend.’ Then things got even weirder

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July 24, 2023

[Aspects of the thought-provoking fictional events in the 2014 film Her are becoming reality, as reported in this story from the Los Angeles Times; see the original version for more pictures and a 6:53 minute video report featuring an interview with the reporter. For more coverage of this phenomenon, see “Uncharted territory: Do AI girlfriend apps promote unhealthy expectations for human relationships?” in The Guardian. –Matthew] [Image: Social media influencer Caryn Marjorie. Credit: Ishan Goel] Thousands chatted with this AI ‘virtual girlfriend.’ Then things got even weirder By Brian Contreras, Staff Writer June 27, 2023 Last month, Caryn Marjorie went…
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Month: July 2023

Call: “Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience” issue of Philosophy and Cinema Magazine

Photoshop’s “Generative Expand” feature uses AI to easily and convincingly expand images, combining real and imagined elements

Call: HRI 2024, 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Journey to the Serengeti or Walk with Dinosaurs at the World’s First “Hologram Zoo”

Call: 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23) at RecSys 2023

Startup plans to create an AI-generated news channel personalized for each viewer

Call: Harnessing Immersive Technologies to Communicate the Complexity of Human Experiences – Media and Communication theme issue

Microsoft Teams now lets you apply AI-based virtual Maybelline makeup

Call: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR … Diversity, Culture, Virtual Reality (mixed media anthology)

Interns and college students are using VR to learn office skills without ‘repercussions’

Call: Survey on the Teaching of Extended Reality Technologies and Synthetic Media in Screen Media Programmes

Thousands chatted with this AI ‘virtual girlfriend.’ Then things got even weirder

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