Month: December 2023

Call: Safety Research special issue: The Use of Extended Reality Technologies in Safety Research

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December 29, 2023

Call for Papers Special issue of Safety Research: The Use of Extended Reality Technologies in Safety Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/safety-science/about/call-for-papers Guest editors: Dr. Daniel Paes, Massey University Dr. Zhenan Feng, Massey University A/Prof. Nan Li, Tsinghua University A/Prof. Ruggiero Lovreglio, Massey University Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 Many contemporary human activities carry inherent risks to people’s safety, and there is growing recognition of the need to improve safety records and reduce injury and fatality rates across various sectors worldwide. As a result, industry practitioners and academics are exploring the use of Extended Reality technology solutions to enhance safety. As technology advances and…
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Two engaging end-of-year presence stories presented as graphical essays

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December 29, 2023

[Just as there’s irony in our travelling to conferences to discuss technology-based illusions of being there together, and publishing our manuscripts about vivid presence experiences with few or no images (or videos, etc.), I wish there were more news stories about presence that went beyond text and photos. Here are links to two recent examples that do. In the first, “Empathy 101,“ a “comic journalist“ explains how medical schools are using a variety of technologies including virtual reality to increase students’ understanding of and respect for the experiences of their patients. A short description of the piece from The Journalist’s…
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Call: In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual Conference

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December 28, 2023

Call for Papers In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual Confernce June 10 & 11, 2024 University of Lucerne, Switzerland https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/institutes-academies-research-centres/institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-lucernaiuris/events/in-the-thick-of-images-law-history-and-the-visual/#tab=c156596 Submission deadline: January 19, 2024 “Suppose that whatever we’ve done, felt, and thought has always happened in the thick of images.” (Anand Pandian, Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation) The ‘visual turn’ has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law (see Douzinas & Nead 1999). In the past twenty-five years, a growing body of scholarship has evolved that emphasises law’s “constitutive imbrication” (Crawley 2020) with an array of visual forms, and elaborates on…
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Future presence: Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text

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December 28, 2023

[A new system developed by researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) combines non-invasive EEG measurement and artificial intelligence to translate a person’s silent thoughts into text, offering the prospect of practical, accessible, and seamless presence experiences that help those unable to speak because of illness or injury, and revolutionize the way we interact with technologies including prosthetics, robots and many others. See the original version of this story or follow the link to YouTube below for the 4:29 minute demonstration video. A pre-publication version of the NeurIPS conference paper is available on ArXiv. Coverage from Singularity Hub provides additional…
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Call: “Generative AI Age in Journalism: Unveiling Potential and Challenges in the News Industry Worldwide” issue of Journalism Practice

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December 27, 2023

Call for Papers Journalism Practice Special Issue on Generative AI Age in Journalism: Unveiling Artificial Intelligence’s Potential and Challenges in the News Industry Worldwide https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/jp-generative-ai-age-journalism-unveiling-artificial-intelligences-potential-challenges-news-industry-worldwide/ Guest Editors: Allen Munoriyarwa Department of Media Studies, University of Botswana Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO), Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) Deadlines: Abstract Submission: January 5, 2024 Paper Submission: June 30, 2024 Expected Publication Date: Q4 2024 – Q1/2025 In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in journalism and media production has sparked a…
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To protect democracy in the deepfake era, we need to bring in the voices of those defending it at the frontlines

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December 27, 2023

[This essay from the Council on Foreign Relations blog considers the critically important implications of increasingly effective and common presence illusions. See the Deepfakes, Synthetic Media and Generative AI page of the WITNESS website for much more information. –Matthew] [Image: Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, waits to give his speech against the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access oil pipeline during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on September 20, 2016. Credit: Denis Balibouse/Reuters] To Protect Democracy in the Deepfake Era, We Need to Bring in the Voices of Those Defending…
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Job: Tenure-track professor in art and technology at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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December 26, 2023

Call for Applications TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY Department of Art and Technology / Sound Practices (AT/SP) School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Chicago, IL, USA https://www.saic.edu/sites/default/files/2023-08/Tenure-Track%20Assistant%20Professor%20Position%20in%20Art%20and%20Technology.pdf Deadline for priority consideration: January 8, 2024 The Department of Art and Technology / Sound Practices (AT/SP) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position, beginning in August of 2024. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship, academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing. The department is seeking…
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You can now make little portable hologram friends and talk to them too

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December 26, 2023

[This Design TAXI story about a new funded Kickstarter product from holographic display company Looking Glass describes what sounds like a step forward in the creation of accessible, multifaceted presence experiences. See the original story for more images, animated gifs and the company’s 2:31 minute promotional video (also available on YouTube). See the product’s Kickstarter page for more information, and for a more objective take see coverage in The Verge. –Matthew] You Can Now Make Little Portable Hologram Friends And Talk To Them Too By Mikelle Leo December 6, 2023 If only you had a friend to talk to at…
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Call: Robophilosophy Conference 2024: Social Robots with AI

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December 22, 2023

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Robophilosophy Conference 2024 SOCIAL ROBOTS WITH AI: PROSPECTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBLE METHODS August 20-23, 2024 Aarhus University, Denmark [and online; see below] https://cas.au.dk/en/robophilosophy/conferences/rpc2024 Submission deadline for proposals for workshops and panels: January 31, 2024 Submission deadline for short research papers and posters: February 15, 2024 The recent technological leap in AI capacities can be expected to engender a transformative paradigm shift in social robotics. Multimodal AI’s will soon allow social robots to respond to human verbal commands with autonomously generated simulations of human actions. In fact, social robots can be expected to act in…
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Christmas presence: Virtual reality keeps UK’s Birmingham Power Signal Box alive

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December 22, 2023

[Especially for rail enthusiasts like me, this press release from the UK’s Network Rail provides a vivid example of the value of presence-evoking technologies. It reports on the opening of a (free) virtual version of an iconic piece of railroad technology, the Birmingham New Street Station’s Power Signal Box, which was used to direct trains from 1965 until Christmas Eve of 2022. See the original press release for instructions on how to navigate the virtual tour, along with nine more images and two videos. For more on what it was like to work at the Power Signal Box, watch a…
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Call: Spatial Cognition 2024

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December 21, 2023

Call for Papers Spatial Cognition 2024 Technological University Dublin, Ireland June 25-28, 2024 https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/ Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 The 2024 Spatial Cognition Conference will take place in TU Dublin, June 25-28, and is organised in partnership with SellSTEM – Spatially Enhanced Learning Linked to STEM – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network investigating the role of spatial ability in and for STEM learning. Workshops, symposia, posters, abstracts and papers on various aspects of spatial cognition are all welcome. The conference will be in-person only. Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects…
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The Holodeck is here – new AI can generate an entire virtual world with a single prompt

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December 21, 2023

[We don’t have Star Trek’s holodeck technology yet, but a new tool developed at the University of Pennsylvania expands the abilities of artificial intelligence in ways that take us closer. With it, we can generate not just text, sounds, images, and video but 3D environments. Some of the details and implications are described in this story from Tom’s Guide, where the original includes an embedded 15 second video and a second image. See the project’s website for more information. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: University of Pennsylvania] The Holodeck is here – new AI can generate an entire virtual world with a…
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Month: December 2023

Call: Safety Research special issue: The Use of Extended Reality Technologies in Safety Research

Two engaging end-of-year presence stories presented as graphical essays

Call: In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual Conference

Future presence: Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text

Call: “Generative AI Age in Journalism: Unveiling Potential and Challenges in the News Industry Worldwide” issue of Journalism Practice

To protect democracy in the deepfake era, we need to bring in the voices of those defending it at the frontlines

Job: Tenure-track professor in art and technology at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

You can now make little portable hologram friends and talk to them too

Call: Robophilosophy Conference 2024: Social Robots with AI

Christmas presence: Virtual reality keeps UK’s Birmingham Power Signal Box alive

Call: Spatial Cognition 2024

The Holodeck is here – new AI can generate an entire virtual world with a single prompt

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