Month: August 2025
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Call: CIFMA 2025 – 7th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications
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Read more: Call: CIFMA 2025 – 7th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and ApplicationsCall for Papers: CIFMA 20257th International Workshop onCognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and ApplicationsNovember 11, 2025Toledo, Spainhttps://cifma.github.io/ Co-located withSEFM 2025 – 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal MethodsNovember 10-14, 2025Toledo, Spainhttps://sefm-conference.github.io/2025/ Deadline for submissions: September 3, 2025 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cognition encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, knowledge, memory, judgment, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, comprehension and production of language. Although it originated from the field of psychology, it goes beyond the individual human mind and behaviour, and involves and affects the interaction with the environment in which humans act.…
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(Let’s go!) Hollywood’s biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’
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Read more: (Let’s go!) Hollywood’s biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’[A new version of the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” has been created specifically for the state-of-the-art immersive film and performance venue Sphere (they’ve officially dropped the “The”) using advanced artificial intelligence and other software tools along with 4D physical effects. Learning more about it makes me even more anxious for a “presence field trip” to Las Vegas. The Reuters story below provides lots of details about the project (see the original version for five different images). A commentary at MediaPost notes implications for marketing and advertising. Visit the Sphere website for much more information, including an 8:02…
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Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Digital & New Media at Villanova University
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Read more: Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Digital & New Media at Villanova UniversityCall for Applications: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – Specialization in Digital & New MediaDepartment of CommunicationVillanova UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USAhttps://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/32204 Review of applications will begin September 15, 2025 The Department of Communication at Villanova University seeks applicants for a tenure-track position in Digital and New Media Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin Fall 2026. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Successful applicants will have a terminal degree in Communication (Ph.D., MFA), or allied discipline with unequivocal connection to the field, as demonstrated by professional association, research, and teaching (ABD will be considered with completion by start of appointment); Successful applicants will demonstrate both…
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Virtual reality shows caregivers what it’s like to live with dementia
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Read more: Virtual reality shows caregivers what it’s like to live with dementia[This story from Northern Virginia Magazine describes important work being done by George Mason University assistant professor Li-Mei Chen on the use of presence-evoking virtual reality to help caregivers learn about and empathize with the experiences of people with dementia. Note the links to related efforts and resources near the end of the story. See the original version for a second image. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Li-Mei Chen/George Mason University] Virtual Reality Shows Caregivers What It’s Like to Live with Dementia The technology allows caregivers to see scenarios through the eyes of their patients. By Stephanie KanowitzAugust 19, 2025 It took…
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Call: Cognition and the Media – International Conference in Pescara, Italy
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Read more: Call: Cognition and the Media – International Conference in Pescara, ItalyCall for Papers: Cognition and the MediaInternational ConferenceSponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University – Birmingham) and CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL – UK)October 30-31, 2025Museo delle Genti d’AbruzzoPescara, Italyhttps://www.cognition-themedia.it/ Deadline for submissions of abstracts and bio statements: September 22, 2025 We are pleased to announce the International Conference on Cognition and the Media, a multidisciplinary event bringing together scholars from media studies, cognitive science, translation studies, linguistics, psychology, and related fields. Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars such as Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff, Ronald W.…
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Game on: WTT E-Smash redefines table tennis with PICO and Intel
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Read more: Game on: WTT E-Smash redefines table tennis with PICO and Intel[The promotional message below from World Table Tennis (WTT) describes a global virtual table tennis competition open to the public and scheduled to take place this fall alongside an in-person professional player competition that will be held in China. The virtual competition will use the Eleven Table Tennis platform, known to provide a particularly realistic simulation of play (e.g., see the 11-minute video “Eleven Table Tennis – Realness Test and Beginners Guide” on YouTube). As the message below notes, the platform now offers a mixed reality mode that lets users bring the gameplay directly into their physical space, which should…
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Call: “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” issue of Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
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Read more: Call: “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” issue of Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital SocietyCall for Papers: “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”Special Issue of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS)https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/announcement/view/8 Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 17, 2025 In January 1966, mathematician and programmer Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008) published an article titled “ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine” in Communications of the ACM (Weizenbaum, 1966). Only a few years after he had been appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this article made Weizenbaum internationally renowned as a pioneer…
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Princeton researchers use invisible robots to erase the seams between the virtual and physical worlds
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Read more: Princeton researchers use invisible robots to erase the seams between the virtual and physical worlds[Computer science researchers at Princeton University are developing a system that brings the physical world into the virtual one via ‘invisible’ robots. The story below from the University provides the details; for more information including videos, follow the links within it, particularly the one to the “Reality Promises” website. Coverage in Scienmag – Science Magazine makes the connection with presence clear, without using the term: “What sets this work apart is its focus on dissolving the traditional barriers posed by robotic presence. Usually, robots in physical spaces are intrusive and palpable, often breaking immersion. By rendering the robot ‘invisible’ through…
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Call: The Well-Read Game, a special issue of the journal Well Played
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Read more: Call: The Well-Read Game, a special issue of the journal Well PlayedCall for Abstracts: The Well-Read GameSpecial issue of the journal Well Playedhttps://playstorypress.org/2025/06/16/well-played-journal-cfp-well-read-games/ Curators:Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, authors of the new MIT Press book The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 1, 2025Deadline for final submissions for essays: January 15, 2026 In Tracy Fullerton’s and Matthew Farber’s new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, part of The MIT Press’ Playful Thinking series, they propose a new framework of interpretive play. This framework is a theory of player response, exploring the ephemeral and emotional responses that occur when people are in a state of play.…
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CEO of Microsoft AI: We must build AI for people; not to be a person
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Read more: CEO of Microsoft AI: We must build AI for people; not to be a person[In this long but extremely interesting essay from his blog, the CEO of Microsoft AI (and a cofounder of now-Google’s DeepMind), Mustafa Suleyman outlines what he considers the substantial psychological and sociological perils of “Seemingly Conscious AI” and the medium-as-social-actor presence experiences it evokes (though he doesn’t use that terminology). Note his advice in the section near the end titled “The next steps.” –Matthew] We must build AI for people; not to be a person Seemingly Conscious AI is Coming By Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AIAugust2025 [snip – see original version for introduction] AI progress has been phenomenal.…
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Call: 2025 International Workshop on LLM and Agentic AI for Personalized Learning (LAAPL 2025)
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Read more: Call: 2025 International Workshop on LLM and Agentic AI for Personalized Learning (LAAPL 2025)Call for Papers: 2025 International Workshop on LLM and Agentic AI for Personalized Learning (LAAPL 2025)November 30, 2025The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong, Chinahttps://aidhwp.github.io/laapl2025 In conjunction with the Joint Conference ofThe 24th International Conference on Web-Based LearningandThe 10th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education(ICWL-SETE 2025)November 30 to December 3, 2025 Deadline for submission of papers: September 21, 2025 INTRODUCTION LAAPL 2025 workshop focuses on the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems in revolutionizing personalized learning. It aims to delve into how these advanced AI technologies can be leveraged to create adaptive, interactive, and highly personalized…
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The Audio-touch project: What if we could hear a caress?
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Read more: The Audio-touch project: What if we could hear a caress?[Researchers in France are exploring how sounds can be used as a substitute for tactile stimuli, with obvious implications for evoking social presence. The Audio-touch project is described in the post below, which combines text from coverage at Techno-Science.net and a news release from Sorbonne University. For more information, see the project’s webpage and read the group’s recent publication: Alexandra de Lagarde, Catherine Pelachaud, Louise P Kirsch, Malika Auvray. Paving the way for social touch at a distance: Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025, 122…
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