Month: May 2025
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Call: 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)
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Read more: Call: 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)Call for Papers: The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)December 15-21, 2025Modena, Italyhttps://conferences-website.github.io/prima2025 Important Dates:Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 July (AoE, UTC-12)Paper Submission Deadline: 22 July (AoE, UTC-12)Paper Notification: 29 September 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)Camera Ready Submission: 13 October 2025 (AoE, UTC-12) We invite you to submit your best work on agents and multi-agent systems to PRIMA 2025, the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, to be held in Modena (Italy) in December 2025. Papers will be submitted through CMT at the link:https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRIMA2025/Submission/Index AWARDS To recognize outstanding contributions, PRIMA 2025 will have…
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Making VR and presence more accessible: Tool helps people with limited mobility play VR games
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Read more: Making VR and presence more accessible: Tool helps people with limited mobility play VR games[An important project at the University of Waterloo has demonstrated a way to make more presence-evoking virtual reality experiences available to those with mobility limitations. This news release via EurekAlert! provides details; follow the link at the end for more information and a 2:26 video (also available on YouTube). –Matthew] [Image: A person in a wheelchair wearing VR googles holding a controller leaning to avoid hazards in the VR game, Beat Saber. Credit: University of Waterloo.] Making virtual reality more accessible New tool helps people with limited mobility play VR games like Beat Saber University of WaterlooMay 5, 2025 A…
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Call: Knowing Place Through Film and Audiovisual Media (conference)
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Read more: Call: Knowing Place Through Film and Audiovisual Media (conference)Call for Abstracts: Knowing Place Through Film and Audiovisual Media (academic conference)February 9-11, 2026The Arctic University of NorwayAlta, Norwayhttps://folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-knowing-place-through-film-and-audiovisual-media Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2025 Places, cultures, and ways of knowing the world create one another. This academic conference concerns the ways in which films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve not only to represent place and home but also to imagine it, understand it, and produce it for the future. All cultural productions are created out from particular positions, perspectives, and geographical bases. This is true for everything from blockbuster movies that aim for global audiences, to…
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Barnard College uses mixed reality to stage a play about humanity in a digital age
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Read more: Barnard College uses mixed reality to stage a play about humanity in a digital age[Barnard College recently used mixed reality technologies to present a stage play that examines “some of the most pressing questions and issues around our technology-driven society.” See the original story for six different pictures and find more information and images on Artist-in-Residence Hope Hutman’s website. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Barnard College] Class of 1970’s Ntozake Shange’s Novel ‘Liliane’ Meets Mixed Reality Artist-in-Residence Hope Hutman stages humanity in a digital age inside Barnard’s Movement Lab. April 28, 2025 On a Friday in April, inside Barnard’s Movement Lab, several people wearing mixed-reality headsets sat on cushions, taking notes on scripts or laptops as…
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Call: Planetary Screens Conference
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Read more: Call: Planetary Screens ConferenceCall for Papers: Planetary Screens ConferenceEnvironmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds, & Sustainability in Film & Screen MediaSeptember 4-5, 2025Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Irelandhttps://planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com/ Keynote Speaker: Dr Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 In today’s global environment, ecological destruction, biodiversity loss and climate change, as the consequence of accelerated industrialisation are no longer speculation (Beck 2008). Whether understood through the frameworks of the Anthropocene or the Capitalocene, these are now planetary threats, affecting not only a particular geographical region, but the whole world, endangering both human…
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ACCIONA’s NEXT IN Summit 2025 brings Prado’s paintings to life with virtual reality tour
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Read more: ACCIONA’s NEXT IN Summit 2025 brings Prado’s paintings to life with virtual reality tour[A new presence-evoking virtual art exhibition was unveiled at the recent NEXT IN Summit event in Madrid, to illustrate and generate discussions about how museums and other institutions can better help audiences connect with art and cultural heritage. The story is from designboom, where the original includes six more images. For a related story, see a November 2023 post in ISPR Presence News post featuring an essay by then-Middle East Director of ACCIONA Cultura. –Matthew] ACCIONA’s NEXT IN Summit 2025 brings Prado’s paintings to life with virtual reality tour By Lisa KostyraMay 9, 2025 Shaping the Future of Cultural Spaces…
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Call: “AI in Communication” issue of Review of Communication
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Read more: Call: “AI in Communication” issue of Review of CommunicationCall for Papers: AI in CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/ai-in-communication/ Special Issue Editor:Jihyun Kim, University of Central Florida, jihyun.kim@ucf.edu Deadline for manuscript submissions: May 31, 2025 The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we interact, collaborate, and communicate. From AI as a tool, AI-mediated communication, and AI serving as a conversational partner, these advancements have reshaped communication landscapes across various levels and multiple contexts. This themed issue of Review of Communication seeks to explore the multifaceted roles, uses, and implications of AI in communication. We invite studies that examine AI as a tool, mediator, or…
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A TV meteorologist builds an AI avatar of herself that creates and presents its own forecasts
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Read more: A TV meteorologist builds an AI avatar of herself that creates and presents its own forecasts[Here’s a long but interesting story from TV News Check about how one veteran television meteorologist has “built and deployed avatars of herself that can analyze and present the weather” in local forecasts across the US and even “interact one-on-one with users for more personalized weather queries on her website.” As she notes at the end of the story, the presence-evoking technology is available and affordable, and using it can be empowering: “A meteorologist is not replaced by an avatar, … A meteorologist enhances the avatar.” See the original version of the story for a second image and a 4:00…
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Call: Uppsala-Vienna AI Colloquium – Julian Hauser: “AI am I: Personal Assistants and the Self”
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Read more: Call: Uppsala-Vienna AI Colloquium – Julian Hauser: “AI am I: Personal Assistants and the Self”Call for Participation: Uppsala-Vienna AI Colloquium — Julian Hauser: “AI am I: Personal Assistants and the Self”May 30, 2025Online via Zoomhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2505&L=PHILOS-L&P=R44718 The Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium is a series of online colloquium-style talks focused on philosophical issues surrounding AI technology. Each talk will address a specific issue of relevance to AI systems (e.g., intelligence, agency, responsibility, etc.) and will be delivered by an expert with a research background on the topic. The intended audience of the talks are philosophically informed individuals with an interest in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. More details about the Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium are available at: https://uv-colloquium.com/…
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Surrealist Salvador Dalí gets a phone number you can dial to wish him happy birthday or simply chat
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Read more: Surrealist Salvador Dalí gets a phone number you can dial to wish him happy birthday or simply chat[The Dali Museum in Florida has again used presence-evoking technologies to explore the work and life Salvador Dali, this time making it possible (for a short time at least) for anyone to call a telephone number and have a conversation with an AI chatbot trained to replicate the Spanish surrealist who died in 1989. The short story below from DesignTAXI provides details and the original version includes a 32-second video (also on YouTube). For more on the mentioned AI trailer for the never-made film Giraffes on Horseback Salad, see coverage in Artsy and a (negative) review in ArtNet.…
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Call: Chapters for “Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon”
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Read more: Call: Chapters for “Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon”Call for Chapters: “Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon”To be tentatively published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2026Full CFP (PDF): https://piotrsiuda.com/wp-content/uploads/CFP_Pokemon.pdf Editors: Samuli Laato, Elina Koskinen, Piotr Siuda Deadline for submission of initial proposals (Extended Abstracts): June 30, 2025 [NOTE: This volume proposal is to be submitted for review to Bloomsbury as the editors received initial positive feedback from the commissioning editors. Subject to their final decision, this book will go ahead as tentatively scheduled below.] Today, the Pokémon franchise is considered the world’s most valuable media franchise of all time (Statista, 2021; The editors of TIME, 2024).…
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On the same wavelength: Neural “fingerprints” indicate deep focus flow states in teams
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Read more: On the same wavelength: Neural “fingerprints” indicate deep focus flow states in teams[Interesting new research from Caltech and Toyohashi University of Technology suggests that distinct combinations of neurological traits and states can be linked to the experience of “flow” both within and across individuals. Because flow is a phenomenon often discussed with and related to the experience of presence, the research suggests at least the potential for new ways to measure and assess the distinct and overlapping causes and consequences of both phenomena together, by replicating the new research while adding standard self-report or other presence measures or even identifying neural signatures of both flow and presence simultaneously. See Neuroscience News and…
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