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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • Call: “Theory of Mind for social HRI” and other special sessions at RO-MAN 2022

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    [Note: See the conference website for information about these other special sessions: Hand-Object Interaction: from Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation Short- and Long-Term Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI Safe Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots –Matthew] CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION Theory of Mind for social HRI 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th – September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy and Online [See NOTE below] http://ro-man2022.org Important dates for Regular…

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  • Scent-based immersion could be coming soon. Will the public have a nose for it?

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    [This story from Built In provides an entertaining, link-filled history and update on efforts to bring olfactory illusions to presence experiences. See the original story for three more images, and for more information see ISPR Presence News posts from June 2020 (an interview with OVR Technology’s CEO) and September 2020 (regarding the Virtual Mayflower project). –Matthew] The Metaverse, in Glorious Smell-O-Vision! Scent-based immersion could be coming soon. Will the public have a nose for it? Stephen Gossett, a staff reporter covering UX, design and product management. He is the former digital editor at the design magazine Sixtysix. February 8, 2022;…

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  • Call: Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022)

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    Call for Papers Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022 Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 Submission deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on “ICT for Societal Challenges”. It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation…

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  • Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet)

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    [Despite recent improvements in virtual reality technology, users’ avatars still don’t have legs due to the difficulty of realistic tracking of full body movements. This CNN report describes the challenges and prospects for progress; note the explicit use of the term presence without the need for a definition, and the references to the uncanny valley at the end. The original version of the story includes a video and more images. –Matthew] [Image: Avatar bodies in Meta’s Horizon Worlds VR app are limited to floating torsos with head, hands, and arms.] Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet) By…

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  • Call: ISMAR 2022 – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

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    [Note: See conference website for other Calls. –ML] CALLS FOR JOURNAL PAPERS ISMAR 2022: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality October 17-21, 2022 Singapore https://ismar2022.org/call-for-journal-papers/ OVERVIEW The IEEE ISMAR is the leading international academic conference in the fields of Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. The symposium is organized and supported by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE VGTC and ACM SIGGRAPH. The first ISMAR conference was held in 2002 in Darmstadt, Germany. The creation of the conference emerged from the fusion of two former academic events dedicated to this research field: the International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR) and…

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  • The Green Planet AR Experience: BBC series-inspired immersive event takes visitors to six Earth biomes

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    [A new and popular presence experience has opened for a short run in London, as described below in an abridged version of a Broadcast story followed by more details from XR Today. More images and a 38-second trailer are available in both stories (the trailer is also on YouTube). See also the BBC Studios press release. For a story about a related presence experience on a digital billboard in Piccadilly Circle see coverage in The Evening Standard. –Matthew] Behind the scenes at The Green Planet AR Experience Broadcast takes a tour of the AR-driven spin-off of the BBC NHU series…

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  • Call: Hybrid Workshop: “What is Proprioceptive Art?”

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    Call for Registration Hybrid-Workshop: “What is Proprioceptive Art?” 9-11 March 2022 University of Duesseldorf https://proprioceptive.art What is Proprioceptive Art? Many works of art are predominantly visual or auditory in nature (visual arts such as drawing, painting, photography or performing arts like music). Only some art works (happenings, fluxus, performance) might also crucially involve the audience’s own physicality and thereby intentionally provoke the recipients’ perception of their own body, i.e. their proprioceptions. In the context of the workshop, we want to debate a radical question: Could there be works of art that are either primarily or predominantly proprioceptive in nature: i.e.,…

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  • Charting a future of autonomous, lifelike digital humans

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    [This TechCrunch story provides an update on the work of digital humans startup Soul Machines. Particularly notable is a description of the company’s “Levels of Autonomous Animation Framework to Improve Human and Machine Collaboration” (from a free online whitepaper) and its vision of a future in which we all can create realistic digital twins of ourselves to interact with the world in our place. See the original story for four more images. –Matthew] Are lifelike digital humans the future of customer experience? By Rebecca Bellan February 14, 2022 Soul Machines, a New Zealand-based company that uses CGI, AI and natural…

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  • Call: 2nd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2022)

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    Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2022) Technical co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Approval is Pending) 4-7 October 2022 Limassol (main conference) and Nicosia (exhibition), Cyprus https://imet.cyens.org.cy/ Submission deadlines: Paper: 8th March 2022 Short Paper, Poster: 16th April 2022 Demo: 16th May 2022 Workshop proposal: 15th April 2022 IMET is the flagship conference of CYENS Centre of Excellence (http://www.cyens.org.cy). CYENS constitutes a centre of excellence and a joint venture between the three public universities of Cyprus (University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology and Open University of Cyprus), the Municipality of…

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  • Many prefer VR to in-person therapy, new research shows

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    [This story from The Debrief expands on a press release from Edith Cowan University about a new study demonstrating advantages of interacting with an avatar rather than a nonmediated therapist; note the proposed explanations for the key finding in the indented paragraph before the “OUTLOOK…” heading. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Edith Cowan University] MANY PREFER VR TO IN-PERSON THERAPY, NEW RESEARCH SHOWS By Raquel Santos February 15, 2022 Is the idea of openly speaking in front of a therapist too intimidating for you? New research says that you’re not alone in this… and that many people feel more comfortable speaking to…

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  • Call: EC-TEL 2022: 17th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

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    CALL FOR PAPERS EC-TEL 2022: Seventeenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning Theme: Educating for a new future: Making sense of technology-enhanced learning adoption Toulouse, France 12-16 September 2022 https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2022/cfp Submission deadlines: Research papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: 24 March 2022 – Mandatory submission of an abstract Workshops: 4 May 2022 – Submission of workshop proposal Doctoral Consortium: To be announced The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. EC-TEL 2022 will take place on 12-16 September 2022 in Toulouse, France with…

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  • Promise and peril: Education meets the metaverse

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    [The Brookings Institution is a Washington, D.C. “nonprofit public policy organization” whose mission is “to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.” Below is the first part of an extensive new Brookings policy brief on the promise and peril of the application of presence-evoking technologies of the ‘metaverse’ in education. See the original, unabridged version on the Brookings website and/or download it in pdf format. –Matthew] A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer M. Zosh, Helen Shwe Hadani, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kevin Clark,…

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