Month: April 2025
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Call: 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT)
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Read more: Call: 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT)Call for Contributions: 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT)November 25-27, 2025St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS)Pölten, Austriahttps://iconcmt.fhstp.ac.at/call-for-contribution Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 The 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT) will take place at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS) from 25 to 27 of November 2025 offering exchange in multiple research areas within the field of media & digital technologies. This year we also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Creative Media Technologies! To foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the IConCMT intentionally puts its…
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Penn State campus ‘sensory room’ adds VR and presence to help students through end of semester stresses
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Read more: Penn State campus ‘sensory room’ adds VR and presence to help students through end of semester stresses[As many of us know well, the end of a semester at a college or university can be a particularly stressful time for students (and others). In addition to counseling and therapy dogs, presence experiences via virtual reality may be a helpful tool in managing the stress. The story below from Penn State University describes a simple but apparently successful example. –Matthew] [Image: First-year student Manan Jain uses a Meta headset to try the Liminal Virtual Reality experience. The virtual reality headset is in the Center for Academic Achievement and is available for use by all Penn State Beaver students.…
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Call: Symposium on Computational Visual Media Research: Methods, Theories, and Reflections
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Read more: Call: Symposium on Computational Visual Media Research: Methods, Theories, and ReflectionsCall for Papers: Symposium on Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR): Methods, Theories, and ReflectionsAugust 5-7 , 2025University of Zurich, Switzerlandhttps://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/computational-social-and-communication-science/CVMR25.html Deadline for submissions of panel presentation proposals and registration: May 8, 2025 As visual communication becomes increasingly central to digital culture, understanding how to analyze and interpret visual media at scale is both a methodological and theoretical challenge. The Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR) symposium brings together scholars working at the intersection of computation, theory, and critique to explore innovative approaches to the study of visual media. This three-day symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and methodological innovation in response…
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VR training to equip first responders for birth emergencies developed in Australia
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Read more: VR training to equip first responders for birth emergencies developed in Australia[A doctoral student in Australia has designed a new program that uses presence-evoking virtual reality to train volunteer ambulance officers and paramedics to manage out-of-hospital births. An excerpt from coverage by MobiHealthNews follows the short news release below from Edith Cowan University (where the original version includes a second image). –Matthew] [Image: PhD candidate Michella Hill has developed a virtual reality training program for volunteer ambulance officers and paramedics to enhance confidence and competency in managing birth emergencies before arriving at hospital] Cutting-edge VR training to equip first responders for birth emergencies A new virtual reality (VR) training program developed…
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Call: “Dancing (with technology)” issue of Intermediality
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Read more: Call: “Dancing (with technology)” issue of IntermedialityCall for Papers: Dancing (with technology)For the Fall 2026 issue of Intermediality. History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologieshttp://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-48-dancing-with-technology-danser-avec-la-technologie/ Guest Editors:Hilary Bergen, The New SchoolPhilippe Bédard, Independent Scholar Important Dates:Deadline to submit proposals: June 7, 2025Announcement of selected proposals: June 30, 2025Submission of completed texts for peer review: December 1st, 2025Publication of accepted texts: Fall 2026 Isadora Duncan⎯fin de siècle pioneer of modern dance—believed that only the movement of the “naked” (unshod, unmediated) human body could be considered natural and therefore hold value. Duncan was fixated on stripping dance to its core instrument—the singular human form (Daly 1994).…
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We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how
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Read more: We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how[This forceful essay in The Conversation by a cognitive neuroscientist captures what to me is most fascinating and potentially dangerous about rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology: its ability to mimic human cognition and social cues that evoke compelling medium-as-social-actor presence illusions. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Kundra/Shutterstock] We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how By Guillaume Thierry, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor UniversityApril 14, 2025 We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what…
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Call: Sixth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR) at ACM UMAP 2025
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Read more: Call: Sixth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR) at ACM UMAP 2025Call for Papers: Sixth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)In conjunction with ACM UMAP 2025June 16-19, 2025New York, NY, USAcEASAR Workshop: https://caesar2025.di.unito.it/UMAP 2025: https://www.um.org/umap2024/ Deadline for submission of papers: April 18, 2025 (Flexible) This Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations. TOPICS Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to): Personalized Human Robot Interaction (HRI) User modeling and user profiling…
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Chinese women finding heartthrobs in 3-D otome games: Is it a worrying trend?
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Read more: Chinese women finding heartthrobs in 3-D otome games: Is it a worrying trend?[This story from SHINE (the digital arm of Shanghai Daily) examines a presence phenomenon in which women in China develop emotional attachments to virtual characters and in some cases even bring the parasocial relationship into real life via cosplayers. See the original version for six more images. –Matthew] Why so many women find heartthrobs in virtual reality. Is it a worrying trend? By Lu FeiranApril 14, 2025 Yunnan Province resident Xiao Cheng, disillusioned with male relationships, has a boyfriend. She spends an hour with him after work every day but never holds his hand. His name is Caleb Xia. He’s…
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Call: Audiovisual Essays for Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
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Read more: Call: Audiovisual Essays for Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts[NOTE: See the website for previous calls that reference topics such as AI and “immersive and interactive technologies.” –Matthew] Call for Audiovisual Essays: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (SCOPUS-indexed)https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/callforpapers Open Call (always open)No payment from the authors will be requiredJSTA aims to create a conceptual discussion around the audiovisual essay, not only as a creative process but also as a pedagogical and academic tool, to generate concepts and criteria for evaluation and scientific consideration. (Please see a version of our first audiovisual essay here). Therefore, JSTA is open to submissions of original audiovisual essays made with films, excerpts…
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Researchers from Japan pioneer a technology that uses real-world doors to connect the real and virtual worlds
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Read more: Researchers from Japan pioneer a technology that uses real-world doors to connect the real and virtual worlds[A team of researchers in Japan are using the combination of real (nonmediated) doors and virtual ones to create more “natural and intuitive” transitions less likely to disrupt presence for users of mixed reality technologies. Some of the details are reported in the news release below from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology via EurekAlert! (it’s also available via Tech Xplore). –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Daiki Hagimori from NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan] Transforming doors into gateways to the virtual world: The future of mixed reality! Researchers from Japan pioneer a technology that uses real-world doors to connect the real and…
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Call: “Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday Life” International Conference
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Read more: Call: “Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday Life” International ConferenceCall for Papers: Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday LifeInternational ConferenceSeptember 25-26, 2025University of Padova, Italyhttps://digitalintimacies.eu/conference Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 27, 2025 The digital space is gradually contributing to shaping the concept of intimacy, transforming what was once considered the exclusive domain of the private sphere into a continuous flow of data, desires, and connections. From social media to dating apps, from digital tools for self-expression to algorithmic imaginaries, intimate relationships are constantly redefined in the digital environment in increasingly complex and multifaceted ways. For young people, digital media has become an essential part of their everyday lives,…
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I tested the AI that calls your elderly parents if you can’t bothered
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Read more: I tested the AI that calls your elderly parents if you can’t bothered[While it may provide important benefits, especially given age-related demographic trends, the prospect of utilizing presence-evoking technologies to supplement or even replace human beings who provide health care to the elderly raises concerns about dystopian outcomes. The author of the important story below from a 404 Media email newsletter reports on his test of a new service that uses audio AI to check in on and converse with elderly family members each day and then provides a report on the interaction to the service subscriber. See the original version of the story for two more images and audio recordings of…
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