Month: July 2024
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Call: “Atmospheres and Architectonics” Conference
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Read more: Call: “Atmospheres and Architectonics” ConferenceCall for Papers “Atmospheres and Architectonics” ConferenceFebruary 10-12, 2025Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapesthttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2407&L=PHD-DESIGN&P=R7658 Hosted by: Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest & Aetmostudio (MOME) Conference Partners: Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics; University of Naples “L’Orientale”; Somaesthetics and the Arts Center of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and the European Somaesthetics Network. Peer conference: Somaesthetics of Atmosphere at Florida Atlantic University, 7-8 November 2024, https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/uconfern/ Keynotes: Steven Holl, Richard Shusterman, Sarah Robinson, and Vittorio Gallese Conference Submission deadline: October 10, 2024 The Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest warmly invites you to…
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Open-TeleVision: A new immersive, VR-based human-robot teleoperation system
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Read more: Open-TeleVision: A new immersive, VR-based human-robot teleoperation system[I wonder what Marvin Minsky would think of this. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and MIT have developed a new and more “immersive” and “intuitive” teleoperation system that allows an operator to control a robot even when they’re thousands of miles apart. This story is from VentureBeat, where the original includes three different images; see the Open-TeleVision project page on GitHub for much more information and lots of videos (this one on GitHub and YouTube is particularly worth watching to get a sense of how the system works and some of its potential uses). –Matthew] [Image:…
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Call: “Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded History” issue of Digital Culture & Society
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Read more: Call: “Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded History” issue of Digital Culture & SocietyCall for Papers Digital Games through Muddled Pasts and Modded HistorySpecial issue of Digital Culture & Societyhttp://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-digital-games-through-muddled-pasts-and-modded-history/ Edited by: Eduardo Luersen (Zukunftskolleg, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz) and James Wilson (Zukunftskolleg, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz) Submission deadline for expressions of interest/initial abstracts and short bios: August 25, 2024 “My men do not fear death, they welcome it and the rewards it brings” In recent decades, digital games have become an increasingly ubiquitous medium for popular engagement with history. For many players, these digital representations provide a deeper level of engagement with…
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A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics
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Read more: A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics[Another use of deepfake technology in politics with the potential to mislead viewers is in the news; this story from AP provides the details. You can evaluate the video for yourself at X-user Mr Reagon’s original (and labelled) post. An excerpt from coverage by the CBC follows the story below. –Matthew] [Image: Source: CBC] A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics By Ali SwensonJuly 29, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she…
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Call: Symposia proposals for AI and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention 2025
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Read more: Call: Symposia proposals for AI and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention 2025Call for Symposia Proposals Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention 2025January 14-16, 2025University of the West of England UWE, Bristol, UKhttps://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025/ Submission deadlines: August 2, 2024 (priority); August 30, 2024 (regular) The society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) annual convention will be held at UWE Bristol, UK on 14-16 January 2025. The convention will follow the same overall structure as previous conventions, namely a set of co-located, parallel symposia, as well as invited and plenary lectures and sessions. We are currently seeking proposals for these symposia. Typical symposia last…
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I watched the 2024 Olympics in VR on Peacock, here’s what it was like
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Read more: I watched the 2024 Olympics in VR on Peacock, here’s what it was like[Here’s a first-person report from Android Central on what it’s like to use the virtual reality app from the NBC television network’s Peacock streaming channel in a Meta Quest 3 headset to watch the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (an experience I assume is similar in other headsets including the Apple Vision Pro). Here’s a key quote about presence from near the end: “Being able to take the coverage with me around the house is brilliant, and watching that same coverage in a personal movie theater is unforgettable, but if I’m doing this in VR I want to feel like…
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Job: Research Associate, Humanities and Social Sciences in Human-AI Teaming, Alan Turing Institute
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Read more: Job: Research Associate, Humanities and Social Sciences in Human-AI Teaming, Alan Turing InstituteCall for Applications Research Associate, Humanities and Social Sciences in Human-AI TeamingAlan Turing InstituteLondon, UKhttps://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-humanities-and-social-sciences-in-humanai-teaming-43993/en Submission deadline for applications: August 7, 2024 COMPANY DESCRIPTION Named in honour of Alan Turing, the Institute is a place for inspiring, exciting work and we need passionate, sharp, and innovative people who want to use their skills to contribute to our mission to make great leaps in data science and AI research to change the world for the better. Please find more information about us here. POSITION We are recruiting a Research Associate to conduct research of excellent quality on the fundamentals of human–AI…
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The metaverse was supposed to be your new office. You’re still on Zoom
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Read more: The metaverse was supposed to be your new office. You’re still on Zoom[This story from Wired about the slow adoption of virtual reality for remote work in offices includes many of the explanations and predictions voiced by scholars in the presence community. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Wired Staff; Getty Images] The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom Tech founders painted a vision of employees clocking into virtual workplaces. But the adoption of VR at work has been slow. By Amanda HooverJuly 14, 2024 When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a decade. Not long after,…
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Call: Digital Battlefields issue of Journal of Communication Technology
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Read more: Call: Digital Battlefields issue of Journal of Communication Technology[Note: See especially the second-to-last bullet-pointed topic. –Matthew] Call for Papers Digital Battlefields: Communication Technology, Conflict, and the Struggle for Global Attention Journal of Communication Technologyhttps://www.joctec.net/special-issue-calls Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 The Journal of Communication Technology (ISSN 2694-3883), the official journal of the Communication Technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is pleased to announce a Special Call for Papers for an issue on Digital Battlefields. Note: If you submitted a manuscript to the previous special issue call on “The Digital Armed Conflict: The Battle for Ukraine Online,” please submit it again to be considered…
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Virtual reality training for physicians aims to heal disparities in Black maternal health care
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Read more: Virtual reality training for physicians aims to heal disparities in Black maternal health care[As reported in this story from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a diverse team of doctors, professors and graduate students is creating an ambitious three-module training program that uses virtual reality and presence to help medical professionals, initially those involved with maternal care, experience and understand how implicit bias based on race and gender harms patients and increase the cultural competency skills needed to improve patient care. See the original story for two more images and follow one of the links at the end below for the new article about the project in the journal Health Communication. –Matthew] [Image:…
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Call: “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition” free hybrid Workshop
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Read more: Call: “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition” free hybrid WorkshopCall for Abstracts “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition” WorkshopSeptember 26-27, 2024Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris (and online)https://sites.google.com/view/sense-reality-workshop-2024 Submission deadline: August 1, 2024 Dear colleagues, On behalf of the organizers, Lucas Battich (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Francesca Righetti (RUB), and myself (Sofiia Rappe, RUB), I would like to announce a call for papers for the upcoming hybrid workshop “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition.” There is more to perception than mere sensory contents: we typically have the feeling that what we perceive is real and not, for example, merely imagined. We have a sense of reality.…
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The Simulation Argument: Unedited wedding dress photo captures bizarre ‘glitch in the matrix’
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Read more: The Simulation Argument: Unedited wedding dress photo captures bizarre ‘glitch in the matrix’[A new story from Indy100 led me to this earlier one from Comic Sands about a technology-generated illusion that many people interpreted as evidence for the Simulation Argument that we are all living in the ultimate presence-evoking simulation. See the original Comic Sands story for more images and reactions; coverage from UNILAD includes the recap video from the person at the center of the story, Tessa Coates; and user iPhonedo explains and even recreates the illusion in a 10:42 minute YouTube video. –Matthew] Bride-To-Be Horrified After Unedited Wedding Dress Photo Captures Bizarre ‘Glitch In The Matrix’ Instagram user Tessa Coates…
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