Month: July 2025
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Call: “Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience” issue of Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)
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Read more: Call: “Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience” issue of Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)Call for Papers: “Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience”For the journal Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)https://ellids.com/announcements/embodied-spaces-digital-reconfigurations-of-experience/ Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2025 Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) (https://ellids.com/), an open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal with a focus on rigorous research which aims in its scope to cover liberal studies in the field of humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, welcomes submissions for the upcoming issue 7.4 on “Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience.” SCOPE AND TOPICS: Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also…
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Why Meta’s 20-40 minute rule is about to revolutionize workplace VR adoption
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Read more: Why Meta’s 20-40 minute rule is about to revolutionize workplace VR adoption[The publisher of XR Today writes forcefully about how Meta research on some still-major limitations in the form characteristics of virtual reality provides not only an explanation for the decades-long delays in widespread adoption of the technology but some straightforward guidelines regarding how to best design educational and entertaining experiences that maximize presence and the sustained adoption of VR in the workplace (and beyond). Of course, as this and related technologies evolve and the limitations are addressed, we’ll need to adjust the guidelines accordingly. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Meta Developer’s blog] Why Meta’s 20-40 Minute Rule Is About to Revolutionize Workplace…
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Call: Contributions for edited volume on Personality in AI
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Read more: Call: Contributions for edited volume on Personality in AICall for Papers: Contributions for edited volume on Personality in AIhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=PHILOS-L;eb4c8270.2507 Deadline for submission of abstracts and CVs: End of September 2025 We invite contributions for a forthcoming edited volume under the working title “Personality in AI.” The book proposal will be submitted to a leading academic publisher, and early responses have been encouraging. The anticipated publication date is 2026. This volume explores the diverse philosophical, scientific, ethical, and cultural dimensions of artificial intelligence systems with personalities—including conversational agents, bots, and robots. We seek a broad range of perspectives, from deeply critical to visionary and speculative (though not purely fictional).…
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VR nature scenes reduce sensitivity to pain – especially for those who feel present during the experience
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Read more: VR nature scenes reduce sensitivity to pain – especially for those who feel present during the experience[A new study by University of Exeter researchers identifies not just distraction but perceived presence as having a key role in reducing perceived long-term (chronic) pain. Follow the link at the end below for the study, and for context see the article “Virtual Reality Interventions and Chronic Pain: Scoping Review” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). –Matthew] VR nature scenes reduce sensitivity to pain – especially for those who feel present during the experience By Louise VennellsJuly 27, 2025 Immersing in virtual reality (VR) nature scenes helped relieve symptoms that are often seen in people living with long-term…
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Call: “I’d Rather Talk to an AI’: Examining the Moral Risks of Outsourcing Belief Revision to ChatGPT” free online talk August 1, 2025
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Read more: Call: “I’d Rather Talk to an AI’: Examining the Moral Risks of Outsourcing Belief Revision to ChatGPT” free online talk August 1, 2025Call for Participation: “‘I’d Rather Talk to an AI’: Examining the Moral Risks of Outsourcing Belief Revision to ChatGPT”2025 Interdisciplinary Speaker Series on the Ethics of ArgumentationArgumentation network of the AMERICASA free online talk Friday August 1, 2025 at 1 PM ET [and via recording later]https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg We are excited to announce the eighth talk in the 2025 Interdisciplinary Speaker Series on the Ethics of Argumentation! The series takes place on the first Friday of every month at 1PM ET. It hosts a variety of distinguished speakers from many areas, including philosophy, political science, communication studies, jurisprudence as well as public…
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Meta’s Seamless Interaction Dataset created to train AI top model natural conversational dynamics
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Read more: Meta’s Seamless Interaction Dataset created to train AI top model natural conversational dynamics[Meta has developed an ambitious project and resource to enhance the potential for medium-as-social-actor presence responses to human avatars, as described in this story from App Developer Magazine. –Matthew] Modeling natural conversational dynamics As Meta researchers push the boundaries of virtual interaction, modeling natural conversational dynamics with seamless interaction emerges to redefine how humans and AI connect through lifelike gestures, expressions, and immersive conversational dynamics. By Austin HarrisJuly 25, 2025 Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has introduced a family of audiovisual behavioral motion models designed to advance human connection technology. These models generate facial expressions and body gestures based…
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Call: “AI, Children and Youth: Transforming Media, Play, and Social Interaction” ECREA-CYM conference
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Read more: Call: “AI, Children and Youth: Transforming Media, Play, and Social Interaction” ECREA-CYM conferenceCall for Papers: AI, Children and Youth: Transforming Media, Play, and Social InteractionMid-Term Conference of the Children, Youth and Media (CYM) Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)Sevilla, SpainNovember 19-21, 2025https://eventos.us.es/138341/detail/ai-children-and-youth-transforming-media-play-and-social-interaction.html Deadline for early bird submissions: September 10, 2025 (inclusive)Deadline for late submissions: October 15, 2025 (inclusive) Artificial intelligence (AI) is (re)defining the way children and teenagers relate to media, play, as well as their social interactions. Through chatbots and voice assistants, applications (storytelling, language learning, emotional recognition, etc.), and virtual/interactive educational games, AI-driven tools are becoming essential companions in their digital experiences.…
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Study: Immersive experiences may influence votes more than facts do
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Read more: Study: Immersive experiences may influence votes more than facts do[This Psychology Today summary of a new study by researchers in Switzerland touches on many of the things about presence and its promise and peril that I find interesting and important. Note the indirect references to several different types or dimensions of presence (e.g., as described in the ISPR definition), and the discussion of the potential of presence-evoking experiential media to both provide compelling entertainment and education but also to ethically or unethically persuade and manipulate, in this case in the increasingly fraught area of politics. –Matthew] [Image: Source: University of Zurich, Department of Geography blog post “#110: I see…
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Call: 19th International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies
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Read more: Call: 19th International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative PedagogiesCall for Papers: Nineteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative PedagogiesSpecial Focus: Human-Centered AI TransformationsApril 16-17, 2026University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece and Onlinehttps://ubi-learn.com/2026-conference/call-for-papers Deadline for Regular Proposals: January 16, 2026Deadline for Late Proposals: March 16, 2026 The e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning and an interest to explore possibilities for innovative pedagogies. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary geographic and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies…
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Into the mystery: How virtual reality is reimagining Catholic evangelization
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Read more: Into the mystery: How virtual reality is reimagining Catholic evangelization[Here’s a story from The Catholic Weekly about a new virtual reality experience created by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia to use spatial and social presence to introduce young people to the life and faith of Carlo Acutis, the “first millennial saint.” See the original version of the story for three more images and a 1:58 minute video (also available on YouTube); more coverage is available from Aleteia. –Matthew] [Image: Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP and Fr Benjamin Saliba trying out the Carlo Acutis VR experience. Credit: Giovanni Portelli Photography] Into the mystery: How virtual reality is reimagining Catholic evangelisation…
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Call: “Nature in Virtual Worlds: Digital Environmental Humanities” issue of [sic]
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Read more: Call: “Nature in Virtual Worlds: Digital Environmental Humanities” issue of [sic]Call for Papers: Nature in Virtual Worlds: Digital Environmental Humanities[sic] Journal – a journal of literature, culture and literary translationhttps://www.sic-journal.org/Journal/CFPNext Editors:Suzana Marjanić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, suzana@ief.hrGoran Đurđević, Ph.D. student, University of Zadar and CEO, Global Education Platypus, goran.djurdjevich@gmail.com Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2025 The field of Digital Environmental Humanities (DEH) is rapidly expanding, exploring the intersections of technology, ecology, and human experience in virtual and digital spaces. As concerns over environmental degradation grow, the role of digital technologies in shaping our understanding of nature has never been more critical. This special issue of SIC Journal…
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More teens say they’re using AI for friendship. Here’s why researchers are concerned
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Read more: More teens say they’re using AI for friendship. Here’s why researchers are concerned[This CBS story uses the results of a new study by the nonprofit group Common Sense Media and several additional interviews to describe important trends in how young people use and are affected by AI companions that evoke medium-as-social-actor presence. See the original version of the story for a 4:11 minute video report, and see the Common Sense website for the organization’s press release and to read and download the report. –Matthew] More teens say they’re using AI for friendship. Here’s why researchers are concerned CBS/APJuly 23, 2025 No question is too small when Kayla Chege, a high school student…
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