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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • Call: Ethics, Anthropomorphism, and Robots – June 23 online workshop

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    Call for Participation Workshop: Ethics, Anthropomorphism, and Robots University of Porto – Institute of Philosophy 23 June 2021 at 14h30-18h00 (Porto time: UTC+1 which is 9:30am-1pm EST) Online https://ifilosofia.up.pt/index.php/activities/workshop-ethics-anthropomorphism-and-robots Zoom link available by request: ifilosofia@letras.up.pt Keynote speakers: Sven Nyholm, Utrecht University Katie Evans, Sorbonne Université Organizer and keynote speaker: Luca M. Possati, University of Porto How should human beings and robots interact with each other? Can we consider robots and AIs as ethical agents? Humans create robots and AI (artificial intelligence) to achieve their objectives. Therefore, robots and AI should be adapted to human needs and preferences. However, this view presupposes…

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  • Three big questions about Facebook’s new VR ads

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    [In a blog post this week Facebook announced that it’s beginning a test of advertisements in its virtual reality apps; this story from The Verge focuses on some of the key issue the move raises. As with other media experiences, the number, prominence, repetitiveness, quality, relevance, and other aspects of form and content of ads in VR will have important implications for the consumer’s experience of presence (and breaks in presence). –Matthew] Three big questions about Facebook’s new VR ads Lots of people saw this coming, but what will it look like? By Adi Robertson June 17, 2021 Yesterday, Facebook…

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  • Call: Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) at UbiComp 2021

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    Call for papers Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) Location: Virtual Website: https://wraps-workshop.github.io/ In conjunction with UbiComp (https://www.ubicomp.org) Important dates (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE): Paper submission: extended to 22nd June, 2021 Author notification: 15th July, 2021 Final camera ready due: 23rd July, 2021 Workshop date: 25/26th September, 2021 (exact date/time to be confirmed) This workshop will bring together a range of perspectives into how we can better audit and understand the complex, sociotechnical systems that increasingly pervade our world. From tools for data capture and retrieval, technical/ethical/legal challenges, and early ideas on concepts of relevance – we…

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  • VR and presence helping EMS providers prepare for pediatric emergency assessment

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    [Here’s another positive application of presence, the use of virtual reality to train emergency medical services (EMS) providers to diagnose pediatric health crises, which are relatively rare and intense events for EMS first responders. This story from EMSWorld describes the details (and includes a second picture); a related story from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) reports on a study being conducted on the effectiveness of the VR training and includes a 1:43 minute video (also available on YouTube). –Matthew] Virtual Reality Helps Fla. EMS Providers Prepare for Peds By Carol Brzozowski [see bottom of story for information] June…

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  • Call: Gendering Robots workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2021

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    CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE RO-MAN 2021 GenR WORKSHOP GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics IMPORTANT DATES & INFO Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30th, 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: July 21st, 2021 Camera Ready Paper: July 28th, 2021 Main Conference Date: August 8th-12th, 2021 Workshop Date: August 12th, 2021 Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man21-genr-workshop/home Twitter : @GenR_ROMAN Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021 Full call for papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/GenR2021 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Within the GenR workshop, we aim to provide researchers investigating gender in robotics with a platform to share their work and invite interested scholars to reflect with us on inclusive and ethical practices…

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  • Predictions of how VR and AR will reshape our lives

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    [This story from Forbes looks ahead in the short and medium term to how presence-evoking technologies will evolve and affect our lives (note the link at the end to the author’s new book on the topic). –Matthew] Future Predictions Of How Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality Will Reshape Our Lives By Bernard Marr June 4, 2021 With the extended reality (XR) revolution already underway, it’s easy to envision a future in which the lines between the real world and the virtual world become even more blurred than they are today. In this article, I look at the technological advances coming…

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  • Call: “Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems” June 17 free virtual symposium

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    Call for Participation Human Factors Interventions for Surgical Systems A Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences Virtual Symposium Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 05:00 – 07:30 EDT Free https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-factors-interventions-for-surgical-systems-tickets-155955728783 ABOUT THIS EVENT Novel technologies have the potential to impact the health field, from augmenting education to greater efficacy in medical procedures. Despite this potential, it is important that they provide a positive user experience both for clinicians and patients. This can be achieved through a user-centred design process where user needs are considered every step of the way. To gain more understanding around this important process, our…

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  • Study shows AI-generated fake reports fool experts

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    [There’s a fascinating and depressing history of conferences and journals, particularly in the field of computer science, publishing hoax research articles containing content usually generated by primitive algorithms. Nature reports on the problem and new work by two researchers who are identifying these papers in the May 2021 article, “Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature.” But the story below from The Conversation describes a study demonstrating that AI can be used to generate articles across the critical fields of Cyber Security and Medicine that fool experts (i.e., make them overlook the fact that the stories were…

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  • Call: MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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    Call for Papers MUM 2021, 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia December 5-8, 2021 Leuven, Belgium and online [see Note below] https://www.mum-conf.org/2021/ Submission deadline for long and short papers: August 6, 2021 NOTE: This year, we have all been confronted with significant changes caused by the corona virus outbreak. Based on vaccination data coming from Europe, the USA, and other countries, we are confident that MUM 2021 will be able to be organized physically. However, we plan for it to be a hybrid in-person event with support for remote participation for those who might not be able to…

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  • Coworking company WeWork equipping workspaces for meetings via life-size holograms

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    [A February 2021 ISPR Presence News post described ARHT Media’s holographic technology (the company’s website boasts of “A Sense Of Presence You Need To See”). This Fast Company story from May reports on a new ARHT partnership with coworking company WeWork to implement the technology in many of its “800+” locations around the world (the press release is available via Intrado GlobeNewswire). –Matthew] Your next meeting at WeWork could be with life-size holograms The coworking company is equipping some of its workspaces with holographic gear so that people thousands of miles away can participate in events. By Mark Sullivan May…

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  • Call: “Gender and Human-Machine Communication” issue of HMC

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    Call for Papers “Gender and Human-Machine Communication” Special Issue of Human-Machine Communication https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati (leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it), Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy Autumn Edwards (autumn.edwards@wmich.edu), School of Communication, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America Submission deadline: January 15, 2022 DESCRIPTION: The reproductive sphere, historically the place of domestic appliances and classic media (television and radio), is now populated by various types of machines: from computers to mobile phones to social robots to virtual and voice-based assistants. Domestic work, especially in its immaterial aspects (affection, emotion, sex, information, care and support,…

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  • Meeting space and tech considerations after the pandemic

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    [The pandemic has caused many more of people to think about how to use technology and configure spaces to create a sense of being together, i.e., spatial and social presence. This Fast Company story examines some of the considerations that will be important in the new post-pandemic world of remote and hybrid meetings. See Diginomica for an interview with the author Phil Simon who is quoted here. –Matthew] [Image: Meeting room illustration by Marc_Osborne/iStock] We still need conference rooms. Here’s what they should look like post-pandemic A big table, a bunch of chairs, and a speakerphone are no longer enough.…

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