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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • Innovative technology gifts that help loved ones stay connected over distance

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    [Next Avenue provides a nice summary of innovative technology gifts designed to provide users with a sense of presence with distant loved ones; see the original story for three more images. –Matthew] [Image: Friendship Lamps (left), Pillow Talk (center) and Hug Shirts (right) are high-tech gadgets that keep loved ones connected. Credit: Credit: Filimin | Little Riot | Cute Circuit] Put These Tech Gifts Under the Tree Fun new technology items can bring you closer to your loved ones By Brette Sember December 18, 2019 Staying in touch with the people you love can be challenging if they’re far away.…

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  • Call: COMPSAC 2020 – IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software and Applications

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    CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE COMPSAC 2020 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications Theme: Driving Intelligent Transformation of the Digital World Madrid, Spain July 13-17, 2020 Full CFP: https://Ieeecompsac.computer.org/2020 Papers due: 20 January 2020 COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2020 is “Driving Intelligent Transformation of the Digital World”. Staying relevant in a constantly evolving digital landscape…

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  • Exhibit previews efforts to fuse art and AR for education and social justice

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    [This story from Artnet describes a new Microsoft-sponsored exhibit that demonstrates some of the potential of the company’s presence-evoking technologies for enhancing education, and more important, notes earlier missteps before outlining new promising efforts to expand the use of the technologies to advance social justice. See the original story for four more pictures and the Knight Foundation website for more on that organization’s funding of new projects “to engage audiences through immersive experiences.” –Matthew] [Image: The Hololens 2 at work at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Credit: Microsoft] Museums Have Yet to Embrace Augmented Reality. But Microsoft…

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  • Call: IMX 2020 – ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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    Call for Papers IMX 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences 17 -19 June 2020 Barcelona https://imx.acm.org/2020/ https://imx.acm.org/2020/research-papers/ TVX / IMX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into interactive media experiences. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. KEY FACTS: Submission deadline: 24/01/2020 First Decision Notification: 19/02/2020 Call for mentoring program: 07/01/2020 Rebuttals Submission: 28/02/2020 Final Decision Notification: 13/03/2020 Camera Ready Version (for Industry Talks): 01/04/2020 Online submission: PCS submission system Selection:…

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  • How digital de-aging is changing the face of movies

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    [The technologies that allow for both dramatic and subtle alterations in the physical appearance of actors in films are evolving quickly, becoming more efficient, affordable and effective at creating presence illusions. This story is from  CBC News and includes three more images and three videos. –Matthew] [Image: While exploring the CGI techniques that have brought back younger versions of stars like Will Smith and Martin Scorsese, CBC’s Eli Glasner got put through the ringer himself [see 4:52 minute video in original story]. Credit: Sharon Wu] How digital de-aging is changing the face of movies More movies are using CGI to let…

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  • Call: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2020)

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    Call for Papers ECCE 2020 – European Conference On Cognitive Ergonomics 32nd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 6-9 October 2020 Siena, Italy htpp://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecce2020 Deadline for submissions: 9 March 2020 ECCE 2020 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including Keynote talks, Paper Presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 32nd of ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to Cognitive Ergonomics and its…

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  • VR exhibit will take you behind scenes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech

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    [Even if the project described in this Chicago Tribune story doesn’t live up to the claim of “the most realistic digital rendering of a human ever created” it sounds like it’ll evoke a strong sense of “being there” at a famous, important and inspiring historical event. See the original story for a second picture and a 2:21 minute video, and for more information see Time’s “The March” website and its earlier announcement, and the websites of two related projects, the “I Am A Man” VR Experience and North Carolina State University’s Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project. –Matthew] [Image: Civil…

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  • Call: Workshop on Non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information in Ambient Intelligence (Ni-AFCiA) at ISAMI 2020

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    Call for Papers: Workshop on Non-intrusive acquisition and fusion of context information in Ambient Intelligence (Ni-AFCiA) Part of the 11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAMI) L’Aquila (Italy) 17-19 June, 2020 Ni-AFCia Workshop: https://www.isami-conference.net/workshops/ni-afcia ISAMI 2020: https://www.isami-conference.net/ Submission deadline for full papers:  31 January, 2020 SCOPE Research on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has been growing steadily in the last years, a proof of its interest, applicability and potential. While this growth moves the field forward, it also opens new grounds and possibilities for research. Ambient Intelligence can be briefly described as the application of techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) towards the…

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  • Augmented Reality brings Pink Floyd album art to life

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    [Pink Floyd’s “hallucinogenic” music and surreal album art lend themselves to interesting presence experiences (see (e.g., see Goldmine and Bullet Music for examples). Next Reality reports on the use of web-based augmented reality to create the latest generation of Pink Floyd presence; see the original story for four animated gifs. A 0:49 minute video is available on YouTube. For more on the iconic art work see Medium. –Matthew] 8th Wall’s Web AR Brings Album Art of Pink Floyd to Life By Tommy Palladino December 20, 2019 What better band than Pink Floyd, the pioneers of psychedelic and progressive rock, to…

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  • Call: IEEE VR 2020 Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through VR & AR (KELVAR)

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    Call for Papers 2020 IEEE VR Fourth Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual & Augmented Reality (KELVAR) Organized in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality 2020 Conference March 22-26, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; http://ieeevr.org/2020/ Website: https://sites.google.com/site/vrkelvar/vr2020 Submit link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kelvar2020 Submission Deadline: January 21, 2020 DESCRIPTION K-12+ (K-12 and higher ed) education is currently undergoing a technological revolution creating opportunities for Virtual-, Augmented-, and Mixed-Reality based learning (hereafter referred to as XR [extended reality] technologies. Technology integration will continue to increase as mobile devices penetrate all socioeconomic strata, and as XR technologies become affordable to schools, vocational education providers, universities,…

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  • Presence misstep: CGI Influencer Lil Miquela claims she was sexually assaulted

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    [This informal, frank, first-person story illustrates how those who create presence with perceptually and socially realistic digital characters can inadvertently ‘break’ the experience and create user backlash. It’s from betches, where it includes a different image and embedded tweets; for more details and reactions see Paper and PinkNews. –Matthew] [Image: Source: PinkNews] This CGI Influencer Claimed She Was Sexually Assaulted, And Just No By Dylan Hafer December 17, 2019 Of all the bizarre trends and pop culture moments we’ve been through in 2019, none felt quite as strange as the rise of the CGI influencer. Back in the summer, I…

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  • Call: Designing Interactive Systems 2020

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    Call for Papers ACM DIS 2020 Designing Interactive Systems 2020 6-10 July 2020 Eindhoven, Netherlands http://dis.acm.org/2020 Deadline for Full paper and Pictorials Abstract and Title: January 24, 2020 The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier, international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice. Designing Interactive Systems 2020 (DIS 2020) will take place in Eindhoven, Netherlands from July 6-10, 2020. The Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) will be the organizing institution. The…

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