Month: September 2023
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Hologram runway wows crowds at Amsterdam Fashion Week
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Read more: Hologram runway wows crowds at Amsterdam Fashion Week[The story below from Decrypt reports that over a thousand people recently attended a runway fashion show that featured only holographic figures, and “numerous audience members” were moved to tears “despite the fact that nothing they had seen, technically speaking, physically existed.” See the original story for four more pictures and two videos, and for more information see the event’s press release via FashionUnited. –Matthew] Hologram Runway Wows Crowds at Amsterdam Fashion Week Future Front Row seeks to chart an immersion-first path forward for the digital fashion industry after packing the house in Amsterdam. By Sander Lutz September 11, 2023…
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Call: Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2024 Special Call: AI
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Read more: Call: Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2024 Special Call: AICall for Papers Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2024 Media-Related Research, Creative Work, Panels & Workshops April 13-16, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada USA https://www.beaweb.org/conv/ Submission deadline: December 1, 2023 The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is the premiere international academic media organization driving insights, excellence in media production and career advancement for educators, students and professionals. BEA’s annual convention traditionally produces over 250 sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship and the Festival of Media Arts. Co-located with NAB Show, where the broadcast, media and entertainment industry converged to experience innovation in action and harness…
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Cars As Social Actors: A driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter
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Read more: Cars As Social Actors: A driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter[The self-driving car company Wayve is using conversational large language model-based artificial intelligence to “talk” to its cars and ask them questions about what they see and how they make decisions as they drive. The company also is training the AI by having expert human drivers explain their perceptions and decisions as they drive. While this article from MIT Technology Review focuses on the important practical benefits of the approach, which has already been used with robots but not cars, the experience of conversing with embodied AI in both cases seems very likely to evoke an increasingly compelling form of…
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Call: “Rethinking human-technology relations” for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection
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Read more: Call: “Rethinking human-technology relations” for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications CollectionCall for Papers “Rethinking human-technology relations” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection https://www.nature.com/collections/fabejegiac Guest Editors: Orsolya Friedrich (FernUniversität in Hagen) Sebastian Schleidgen (FernUniversität in Hagen) Johanna Seifert (FernUniversität in Hagen) Submission deadline: November 13, 2023 Human-technology relations (HTR) are of crucial interest in the humanities and social sciences. In sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and psychology, the implications, effects, and dynamics of human-technology relations are controversially debated and analysed. This Article Collection aims to address these debates and provide a systematic overview of different disciplinary approaches to the topic of human-technology relations by shifting the focus from human-machine interactions…
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Despite companies’ return-to-office mandates, the shift to remote work is here to stay
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Read more: Despite companies’ return-to-office mandates, the shift to remote work is here to stay[Another incisive column from technology writer Mike Elgan in Computerworld predicts that despite some companies’ mandates that their employees return to full-time office work, the shift to flexible work-from-home schedules established during the pandemic will continue: “Remote work is the future of work” (which means that presence-evoking technologies will be increasingly vital). –Matthew] [Image: A reception desk at Amazon offices in downtown Seattle, Washington. Credit: Glen Chapman/AFP/Getty Images. Source: CNBC] Amazon’s return-to-office mandate won’t work out No matter how many companies demand that their employees return to the office, the shift to remote work that occurred during the pandemic isn’t…
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Call: Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies Workshop
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Read more: Call: Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies WorkshopCALL FOR ABSTRACTS Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies November 8–9, 2023 NOVA University Lisbon Portugal https://ifilnova.pt/en/cognitive-ecologies-values-and-disruptive-technologies/ Submission deadline: September 23, 2023 Confirmed speakers to include: David Spurrett (University of Kwazulu-Natal) Gloria Andrada (NOVA University Lisbon) Jesus Vega-Encabo (Universidad Autónoma da Madrid) John Sutton (University of Stirling & Macquarie University) Lucy Osler (Cardiff University) Robert W Clowes (NOVA University Lisbon) The Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Group, in collaboration with the GENAI Project, is excited to announce the workshop on Cognitive Ecologies, Values, and Disruptive Technologies. This intellectually stimulating event will take place on the 8th and 9th of November…
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Chat2024: AI-powered avatars of US presidential candidates answer user questions and debate
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Read more: Chat2024: AI-powered avatars of US presidential candidates answer user questions and debate[This story from Politico describes the fast-evolving use of artificial intelligence trained on internet sources including political candidates’ video appearances and writings to simulate the candidates’ responses to questions from voters and debates with each other, with results increasingly likely to evoke presence and be at turns entertaining (as in the TrumpOrBiden2024 parody) and educational. Is this the future of political campaigns? –Matthew] [Image: Screenshot of AI avatars of Joe Biden and Donald Trump “debating” on TrumpOrBiden2024 on Twitch] Prepare yourself. A Donald Trump chatbot is about to be unleashed. A project called Chat2024 will officially unveil the AI-powered avatars…
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Call: The 2024 Digital Worlds Workshop
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Read more: Call: The 2024 Digital Worlds WorkshopCall for Proposals The Digital Worlds Workshop Online April 19-21, 2024 https://digitalworldsworkshop.wordpress.com/ Extended abstracts submission deadline: January 15, 2024 The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 19-21 2024. We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other devices. This workshop aims to interrogate…
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Presence after death: I used TikTok and Snapchat to see my deceased parents again
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Read more: Presence after death: I used TikTok and Snapchat to see my deceased parents again[This very personal essay from Slate describes the author’s complex reactions to using presence-evoking technologies to see new images of her deceased parents and process her grief over their loss. For more on this topic see “Bringing the Past into the Present: Memorial Art as a Family Heirloom” in Foreign Policy, and “Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living” in Wired. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Illustration by Slate; photos by Getty Images Plus] I Used TikTok and Snapchat to See My Deceased Parents Again It felt weird, but it helped me process my grief.…
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Call: Teaching Beyond the Curriculum – A virtual conference on Teaching and Learning
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Read more: Call: Teaching Beyond the Curriculum – A virtual conference on Teaching and LearningCall for Papers Teaching Beyond the Curriculum A virtual conference on Teaching and Learning – International Perspectives Focus on Pedagogy 2023 An AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) event Virtual: UK, USA, China November 15-17, 2023 https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching-2023/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 5, 2023 The number of ways we have thought about education over time is vast. From Socrates to John Dewey, and Jean Piaget to Paulo Freire, our understanding of learning has evolved and morphed. The concepts and theories we manage range from learning for learning’s sake to vocational training; from a liberal arts education to on-the-job training; and…
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Japanese schools installing telepresence robots for students who want to stay home
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Read more: Japanese schools installing telepresence robots for students who want to stay home[For many years local news programs have featured heartwarming stories about individual school children using a telepresence robot to attend class remotely because they have conditions or illnesses that prevent them from attending in person. Now, a story from Japan, relayed in the Futurism report below, describes a new use of the robots: to ease student anxiety and increase attendance levels. See also a related story from Business Insider about the use of robots for school security, including to distract and confront intruders. –Matthew] [Image: A classroom of humanoid robots. Credit: Donald Iain Smith / Getty Images] Japanese Schools Installing…
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Call: Student Design Challenge at ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction 2024 Conference
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Read more: Call: Student Design Challenge at ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction 2024 ConferenceCall for Submissions Student Design Challenge (SDC) 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) Boulder, Colorado March 11-14, 2024 Student Design Challenge: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/student-design-challenge/ HRI 2024: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/ Deadline for initial submission (draft paper + video): December 8, 2023 Calling all robotics students, designers and educators! We are excited to share details of this year’s Student Design Challenge (SDC) associated with the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) to be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 11-14 2024. The SDC is designed to provide university student teams (of any level/discipline) with an opportunity to design and develop a…
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