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Month: November 2024

  • Call: UMAP 2025 – 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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    Preliminary Call for Full and Short Papers UMAP 2025 – The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationJune 16-20, 2025New York City, NYhttps://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2025Deadline for submission of papers: January 30, 2025 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code…

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  • VR is changing war and sex; why are we still acting like it is just a game?

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    [The author of this thoughtful editorial essay in UploadVR highlights important ‘perils’ of presence-evoking virtual reality technology, which he describes as a “delivery mechanism for a paradigm shift in human behavior like the one which followed the printing press.” See the original version for a second image. –Matthew] VR Is Changing War & Sex, Why Are We Still Acting Like It Is Just A Game? By Ian HamiltonNovember 1, 2024 I’m tired of corporations contributing to the misunderstanding of virtual reality as they deploy branding tactics in place of genuine education. Apple and Meta employ marketing departments and vast legal…

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  • Call: Media, Trust and Technology – ICA 2025 Pre-conference

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    Call for Papers International Communication Association (ICA) 2025Pre-conference: Media, Trust & TechnologyJune 11, 2025, 9:00am-4:00pmUniversity of Colorado (CU) Boulderhttps://www.icahdq.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 The question of trust in media is one of the major questions of our times. The Edelman Trust Barometer has surveyed trust in media for over 20 years, and Gallup has surveyed trust in news since the 1970s. Debates about political polarization, hyper-partisanship, mis- and dis-information and propaganda all point to questions about trust in media in general, and in the news media in particular. With traditional media business models in a period of…

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  • Study: Can voters be tricked by deepfake content generated with AI?

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    [Participants in a study by student researchers at Utah Valley University (UVU) couldn’t distinguish real and deepfake video of political actors, as reported in this story from The Salt Lake Tribune. More details about the study are provided in an excerpt from coverage in Deseret News that follows below, including the fact that the deepfake video “was perceived as more knowledgeable, as more trustworthy, as more persuasive, and of better content quality.” For much more information including images and videos, see the UVU website. –Matthew] [Image: Hope Fager speaks as Utah Valley University students present a deepfake study, in Orem…

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