Month: August 2023

Call: “Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience” Aesthetics & Critique VII conference

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August 23, 2023

Call for Abstracts Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience Aesthetics & Critique VII Kunsthalle Friart & University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland December 14-16, 2023 https://projects.unifr.ch/aesthetics-critique/workshop/ Submission deadline: September 30, 2023 Confirmed keynote speakers: Aurora Hoel (NTNU) Oliver Krüger (U. Fribourg) Lars Bang Larsen (Art Hub Copenhagen) Andrea Pinotti (U. Milan) Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucińska (U. Antwerp) The philosophical debate concerning virtuality has so far privileged metaphysical issues, asking whether or not virtual spaces and objects should be considered as real or illusory. With this conference, we suggest bracketing such metaphysical questions for a while and focus instead on the relationship between virtuality…
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BMW’s teleoperated car parking system won’t be putting valets out of work

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August 23, 2023

[BMW new system for parking cars represents a creative application of teleoperation: a valet drives and parks cars remotely via a “setup that closely resembles the high-end racing rigs some gamers use.” This story from SlashGear provides details; see the original for two more pictures. For a first-person report on what it’s like to use the system see coverage in Ars Technica. –Matthew] [Image: A driver at a gaming-like station controlling a blue car outside the window in front of him; the vehicle says “Teleoperated Parking Valet” on the door panel.] BMW’s Remote Parking Cars Won’t Be Putting Valets Out…
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Call: Human-Machine Communication at International Communication Association (ICA) 2024 conference

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August 22, 2023

[Note: Several other ICA divisions and interest groups may be appropriate for presence-related submissions. See their Calls at https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-cfps –Matthew] Call for Papers 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference Gold Coast, Australia June 20-24, 2024 https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24 Human-Machine Communication Interest Group https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFP Jihyun Kim, Vice-Chair & 2024 Planner Nicholson School of Communication and Media University of Central Florida jihyun.kim@ucf.edu Submission deadline: November 1, 2023 at noon EST The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest Group supports and promotes scholarship regarding communication between people and technologies designed to enact the role of communicator. Such technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence…
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Reality TV show “Deep Fake Love” participants watch deepfakes of their partners cheating

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August 22, 2023

[A new reality TV show is based on misperceptions of deepfake videos; “Falso Amor” / “Deep Fake Video” is described and critiqued in this story from Primetimer. The headlines of other coverage provide a good sense of the reactions: “Stream It or Skip It: ‘Deep Fake Love’ on Netflix Brings Shockingly Realistic Face-Swapping Tech to Reality Romance” (Decider) “Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants By Showing Them Deepfakes Of Their Partners Cheating. This Is Awful, Right?” (Futurism) “The Cruellest Show on TV? Deep Fake Love Goes Too Far with AI” (Euronews) For more information see the show’s official website.…
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Call: ACM IUI 2024: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2024 Conference

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August 21, 2023

Call for Papers ACM IUI 2024: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2024 Conference Greenville, South Carolina, USA March 18-21, 2024 https://iui.acm.org/2024/index.html Deadlines: Abstract submission: October 2, 2023 Full Submission: October 9, 2023 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2024 is the 29th annual premiere venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. In addition to traditional IUI themes, we add this year…
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Teleoperation from space: An astronaut aboard the ISS controls a robot team on Earth

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August 21, 2023

[The InceptiveMind story below describes a recent, successful test of teleoperation and human-robot collaboration from space. See the original version for two more pictures, and the linked European Space Agency press statement for larger versions of those and other pictures; it also includes this quote from Thomas Krueger, head of ESA’s Human Robot Interaction Lab, partnering with DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics: “With Surface Avatar we [are] combining [a] direct teleoperation approach with supervised autonomy to control multiple robotic assets to accomplish complex tasks: picture a building site on Earth, where a crane might work alongside a bulldozer or excavator…
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Call: 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2024)

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August 18, 2023

Call for Submissions 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2024) Chicago, Illinois June 24-26, 2024 https://cc.acm.org/2024/ Submission deadlines: See below We invite you to attend and submit content to the annual ACM Creativity & Cognition conference to be held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago June 24-26, 2024. We hope you will join us for an architectural boat tour on the Chicago River, attend the conference reception at the Chicago Architecture Center, and experience an evening of interactive art at the Bridgeport Art Center. Since 1993, the conference series brings together artists, scientists, designers,…
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Video walls and AR, XR that evoke presence are expanding on TV as tech improves, prices fall

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August 18, 2023

[There’s a bit of tech talk and repetition in this story from TVNewsCheck, but the key point is clear: because technologies are improving while prices fall and workflows become simpler, more TV broadcasters are taking advantage of new creative options for using presence to present weather, news and sports stories. See the original story for six more images. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: The Weather Company] Video Walls, AR Arsenal Improves As Prices Fall LED systems and visualization engines are coming ever more into the range of even small broadcasters as the underlying technology and the workflows around them continuously improve. By…
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Call: Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium at Yale University

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August 17, 2023

Call for Participation Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium Where are we? And where are we going? September 19-20, 2023 Yale School of Medicine Orange, Connecticut, USA https://pediatrics23.ivrha.org/ On September 19 and 20 the Yale XR Pediatrics and IVRHA (International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association) are co-sponsoring the inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium. The first evening of the conference features a reception at the brand new Yale XR Pediatrics Lab facility (with an OptiTrack mo-cap system and other goodies). There is a fantastic line-up of leading med-XR voices on the agenda. It will be a great opportunity…
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MIT quantum rods breakthrough could enable ultra high-def virtual reality

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August 17, 2023

[A new technical achievement by a team from MIT has the potential to substantially improve the perceptual realism of television and virtual reality. This story from The Debrief does a good job of translating the details in the MIT press release (via EurekAlert!), which characterizes the improvement as “add[ing] depth and dimensionality to a virtual scene.” I’ve added the reference for the new paper in Science Advances at the bottom below. –Matthew] [Image: MIT engineers have used DNA origami scaffolds to create precisely structured arrays of quantum rods, which could be incorporated into LEDs for televisions or virtual reality devices.…
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Call: “But Is It Media?” issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

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August 16, 2023

Call for Papers Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Special issue: “But Is It Media?” https://github.com/jcmsjournal/editorial/wiki/CFP%3A-But-Is-It-Media%3F Important dates: Abstracts (500 words) due: September 6, 2023 Full article drafts (8,000 – 10,000 words) due: January 15, 2024 Anticipated publication: fall 2025, volume 65, issue 1 To submit, email the JCMS managing editor: editors@jcmsjournal.org With questions, email the JCMS co-editors-in-chief: liz@jcmsjournal.org and bo@jcmsjournal.org About the topic: “But Is it Media?” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) is calling for papers for its inaugural special issue. The topic of the special issue is “But Is It Media?” As the field of…
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TeleAbsence, a project from the MIT Media Lab, probes and imitates the way humans process feelings of belonging, love, and loss

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August 16, 2023

[In the TeleAbsence project, designers in the Tangible Media research group at the MIT Media Lab are creating technology-based experiences that evoke a sense of personal connection with people who are separated from us by death, time and space. The story below from MIT News explains; see the original version for two more images and a 3:56 minute video (also available on YouTube). –Matthew] [Image: “AmbientPhoneBooth” by Daniel Pillis is a TeleAbsence project inside which users can connect with places and homes from their past. Credits: MIT Media Lab] Communicating across time TeleAbsence, a project from the MIT Media Lab,…
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Month: August 2023

Call: “Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience” Aesthetics & Critique VII conference

BMW’s teleoperated car parking system won’t be putting valets out of work

Call: Human-Machine Communication at International Communication Association (ICA) 2024 conference

Reality TV show “Deep Fake Love” participants watch deepfakes of their partners cheating

Call: ACM IUI 2024: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2024 Conference

Teleoperation from space: An astronaut aboard the ISS controls a robot team on Earth

Call: 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2024)

Video walls and AR, XR that evoke presence are expanding on TV as tech improves, prices fall

Call: Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium at Yale University

MIT quantum rods breakthrough could enable ultra high-def virtual reality

Call: “But Is It Media?” issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

TeleAbsence, a project from the MIT Media Lab, probes and imitates the way humans process feelings of belonging, love, and loss

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