Month: July 2024

Call: ECCE 2024 Workshop in Paris on 3D Sketching Across Cognition, Design, and Art

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July 5, 2024

Call for Papers Workshop in Paris on 3D Sketching Across Cognition, Design, and ArtPart of ECCE 2024, the European Conference on Cognitive ErgonomicsOctober 8, 2024 (ECCE 2024: October 8-11, 2024)Paris, Francehttps://www.ecce2024.telecom-paris.fr/workshop Submission deadline: July 15, 2024 We are inviting contributions to a workshop on recent research advances on sketching using extended reality technologies, and their implications for cognitive ergonomics, environmental psychology, human-computer interaction, and design. The workshop will be held as part of ECCE 2024 conference (October 8-11 2024, Paris, France) and organized as an interactive event, including short talks, group discussions, and hands-on demos. We invite position papers of 2-4 pages…
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University of Canterbury explores virtual reality in early childhood teacher training

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July 5, 2024

[This report from The Sector describes another application of presence in education, in this case via a simulated infant for students in early childhood education training programs who don’t have access to a real-life infant. Here’s a key quote from University of Canterbury Associate Professor Heide Lukosch: “We’re really intrigued by the opportunity and the power of virtual environments to help people in situations that would be otherwise hard to access, or potentially dangerous. In this case, we aim to create a virtual, immersive environment that enables the user to really feel present and accountable for their actions in certain…
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Call: AI and warfare – Investigating the technological and political domains of current conflicts (conference)

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July 3, 2024

Call for papers: AI and warfare – Investigating the technological and political domains of current conflictsAn International ConferenceOctober 16-18, 2024Berlin, Germanyhttps://www.hiig.de/en/call-for-papers-ai-and-warfare/ Submission deadline for abstracts: July 7, 2024 The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Department of Media Studies, University of Bonn invite submissions to an international conference on the topic of artificial intelligence and future warfare in Berlin from 16-18 October, 2024. The deadline for the abstracts is 7 July, 2024. More information is also available at www.hiig.de/events/ai-warfare/ . DESCRIPTION Global conflicts and challenges to international security are among the most pressing issues of…
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Oyster Bay (NY) Railroad Museum debuts “unique and immersive” simulator that puts you at the controls of an M7 train

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July 3, 2024

[As some readers will know, I love trains (officially I’m a railfan or railway enthusiast). So I was particularly interesting in a recent Facebook post by the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum in Long Island, New York, announcing its new, custom simulator that provides users with a presence-evoking experience of operating a train on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR), “the busiest commuter railroad in North America.” The post includes a 1:57 minute video of the simulator in action, and the Museum’s website describes other presence experiences available, notably an augmented reality experience featuring President Theodore Roosevelt: “Theodore Roosevelt is your interactive…
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Call: CONNECT: A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through Technology (at IVA 2024)

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July 2, 2024

Call for Papers CONNECT: A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through TechnologyAt the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA24)September 19, 2024University of Glasgow, ScotlandWorkshop: https://iva.acm.org/2024/connect/IVA 2024: https://iva.acm.org/2024 Submission deadline for short (6 page) papers: July 19, 2024 We are happy to announce the call for our workshop “CONNECT: A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through Technology” that will be part of IVA 2024 in Glasgow). The aim of the workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of people who are interested in exchanging ideas on the subject of…
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Hearing voices is common and can be distressing. Virtual reality might help us meet and ‘treat’ them

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July 2, 2024

[In The Conversation, a group of Australian researchers introduce the phenomenon of auditory hallucinations and the recent development of “avatar therapy” via virtual reality and video conferencing (Zoom) to address it. The therapy “allows a person to create a virtual representation of the voice or voices [they hear]… [and] regain power in the ‘relationship’ as they interact with the voice character, supported by a therapist.” See the original version of this report for two more images, and for much more information follow the links in the “Coping with hearing voices“ and “Gaining recognition” sections, including to the article “AVATAR Therapy…
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Call: EKSIG 2025: Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes

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July 1, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS EKSIG 2025: Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied ProcessesInternational Conference 2025 of the Design Research Society (DRS) Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG)May 11-13, 2025Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), Hungaryhttps://eksig2025.mome.hu/ Submission deadline: November 22, 2024 Over the centuries our understanding of what constitutes data has – and continues today – to shift. In the 18th century, datum, the singular of data, referred to a piece of information through which inferences could be drawn. For the scientific community, the focus shifted from receiving what is given to extracting what is not.…
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AI Turing Test: Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

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July 1, 2024

[In what Futurism calls “a sneaky but clever experiment, researchers at the University of Reading in the UK submitted AI-generated responses to short answer and essay test questions in psychology courses and the (human) graders both failed to detect the use of artificial intelligence technology and gave the AI answers higher grades. The story from The Guardian below provides details; for more information see the University’s story about the project and the study published in PLOS ONE. Although little of the press coverage notes the small sample (BBC News is an exception), or that AI-generated answers received lower grades for…
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Month: July 2024

Call: ECCE 2024 Workshop in Paris on 3D Sketching Across Cognition, Design, and Art

University of Canterbury explores virtual reality in early childhood teacher training

Call: AI and warfare – Investigating the technological and political domains of current conflicts (conference)

Oyster Bay (NY) Railroad Museum debuts “unique and immersive” simulator that puts you at the controls of an M7 train

Call: CONNECT: A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through Technology (at IVA 2024)

Hearing voices is common and can be distressing. Virtual reality might help us meet and ‘treat’ them

Call: EKSIG 2025: Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes

AI Turing Test: Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

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