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Call: CONVERSATIONS 2022 – 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design
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Read more: Call: CONVERSATIONS 2022 – 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and DesignCall For Papers: Conversations 2022 – 6th International Workshop On Chatbot Research, Applications and Design University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands November 22-23, 2022 https://2022.conversations.ws/ Submission deadline: September 10, 2022 Welcome to CONVERSATIONS 2022, a two-day workshop on chatbot research, applications, and design. This is the sixth CONVERSATIONS workshop, and we aim to make it a great place for researchers and practitioners to share and collaborate. In previous CONVERSATIONS workshops, we have had enjoyable experiences both on-site and online. This year we will get the best of both worlds by having two online sessions as part of the full on-site program. …
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New Meta essay explains the key role of presence in its vision for the metaverse
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Read more: New Meta essay explains the key role of presence in its vision for the metaverse[Presence plays a key role in a new 8,000-word essay in Medium by Meta President of Global Affairs (and former UK Deputy Prime Minister) Nick Clegg that attempts to outline the company’s vision for the metaverse. Much of the coverage includes this quote: “We’ve gone from desktop to web to mobile; from text to photos to video. In this progression, the metaverse is a logical evolution. It’s the next generation of the internet — a more immersive, 3D experience. Its defining quality will be a feeling of presence, like you are right there with another person or in another place.”…
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Call: “Digitalization of Work” at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023
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Read more: Call: “Digitalization of Work” at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023Call for Papers “Digitalization of Work“ Minitrack 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 Maui, Hawaii January 3-6, 2023 Minitrack: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack HICSS 2023: https://hicss.hawaii.edu Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2022 Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit your work to the Minitrack on the “Digitalization of Work“ at the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 (https://hicss.hawaii.edu), planned to take place at the beautiful island of Maui in January 2023! Here you can find the detailed call for papers: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#digitalization-of-work-minitrack We anticipate submissions including (but not limited to) the following topics: Employee Relations Motivating the future digital…
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Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic – and the trend is sticking around
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Read more: Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic – and the trend is sticking around[The global pandemic has brought many changes in the demand for and evolution of technologies that evoke presence. This NPR story uses personal stories, statistics and interviews with technology creators to describe some of the changes in physical exercise. See the original story for seven more pictures and a 44 second video. –Matthew] [Image: Linda Munson’s youngest grandson, Daniel Gomez, 2, tries on an Oculus headset in her yard in Berlin, Conn. Playing different virtual reality games has become her family’s regular Sunday activity, Munson said. Credit: Yehyun Kim for NPR] Virtual workouts spiked during the pandemic — and the…
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Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in HCI at Durham University
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Read more: Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in HCI at Durham UniversityCall for Applications Postdoctoral Research Associate (Job Number: 21001319) Department of Computer Science Durham University Durham, UK https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001319&lang=en Grade 7: – £34,304 to £40,927 per annum Fixed Term – Full Time (this role is full time but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares) Contract Duration: 30 months Contracted Hours per Week: 35 Closing Date: 3rd June 2022, 11:59:00 PM DURHAM UNIVERSITY Durham University is one of the world’s top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. We are home to some of the most talented scholars and researchers from…
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Design firm videos explore what a brain-controlled computer might feel like
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Read more: Design firm videos explore what a brain-controlled computer might feel like[Based on definitions of presence that involve an illusion of nonmediation or at least partial overlooking of the role of technology in an experience – a seemingly direct connection to mediated places, people and events, brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has great potential to evoke presence experiences. But how would it work? This story from Fast Company describes a series of videos by design firm Card79 that explores this question. The original story includes four more images and a 3:45 minute video from the series; the other videos are available on Card79’s website. –Matthew] What a brain-controlled computer might feel like…
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Call: 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022)
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Read more: Call: 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022)Call For Papers The 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022) December 5-8, 2022 Christchurch, New Zealand [but see “Covid Response” below] https://hai-conference.net/hai2022/ Submission deadlines: Full paper submissions: June 21, 2022 Poster submissions: August 2, 2022 Workshop submissions: July 15, 2022 The Tenth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. HAI will gather researchers from fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and sociology, and will cover diverse topics, including:…
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Google Maps’ Immersive View makes it “feel like you’re right there” before you go
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Read more: Google Maps’ Immersive View makes it “feel like you’re right there” before you go[Google recently announced a new Immersive View mode for Google Maps, as reported in the story below by The Verge. Ars Technica includes some interesting details in its coverage: “For most uses, Google Maps is a flat, 2D app, and if your device can handle more graphics and a bit more data, you can fire up the Google Earth 3D data set and get 3D buildings. At Google I/O Google has announced a new level that turns the graphics slider way, way up on Google Maps: Immersive View. When exploring an area in Google Maps, the company says Immersive View…
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Call: ACM SAP 2022: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
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Read more: Call: ACM SAP 2022: ACM Symposium on Applied PerceptionCall for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Perception September 22-23, 2022 Online http://sap.acm.org/2022/ Deadline for abstract submission: May 30, 2022 Deadline for paper submission: June 3, 2022 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side. The interdisciplinary focus of this conference acknowledges that the various scientific disciplines in perception research…
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The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it
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Read more: The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it[The new immersive art experience described in this Fast Company story highlights the idea that presence experiences occur in the mind, don’t have to correspond to our experiences of the external world and can be strongly influenced by individual differences. See the original story for five more images and visit the Dreammachine website for more information and several reviews. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: David Levene/courtesy Dreamachine] The year’s most exciting immersive art experience has just opened. But no one will see it Yes, visual art can exist without explicitly being seen. Just check out ‘Dreamachine,’ a trippy new immersive installation in…
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Call: Social and Biometric Data for Applications in Human Machine Interactions: Models and Algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) at CyberSciTech 2022
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Read more: Call: Social and Biometric Data for Applications in Human Machine Interactions: Models and Algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) at CyberSciTech 2022Call for Papers Special Session: Social and Biometric data for Applications in human machine interactions: Models and algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) In Conjunction with the 7th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2022) September 12-15, 2022 Calabria, Italy http://cyber-science.org/2022/dasc/acceptworkshops/ http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/ws-ss/cst/SOBIOAPPS2022_CFP.pdf CyberSciTech 2022: http://cyber-science.org/2022/cyberscitech/ Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society EMPATHIC: http://www.empathic-project.eu/ MENHIR: http://menhir-project.eu/ SIROBOTICS: https://www.exprivia.it/en/show-info-event-full.php?id_event=7907 ANDROIDS: https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2022 The aim of this SPECIAL SESSION is to provide an overview of ideas and methods for developing autonomous systems capable to act as socially and emotionally believable assistive interfaces. To this aim, data gathered from behavioural…
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MASA presence: Twitter users respond to delivery robot “lost in the woods”
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Read more: MASA presence: Twitter users respond to delivery robot “lost in the woods”[This story from Buzzfeed reports on and amusingly captures the variety of medium-as-social-actor presence responses to a Twitter post featuring a picture of a delivery robot on a walking trail in the woods near Northampton, England last Sunday morning. See the original story (and the full Twitter conversation) for more responses. Coverage in Futurism provides context, describing the incident as “a rather adorable reminder of the helplessness of increasingly ubiquitous autonomous machines” and noting that “This poor little bot is far from the first to run into trouble. Some of been getting stuck on curbs, while another met a fiery demise…
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