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  • Call: 16th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ 2018)

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    Call for Papers CHINZ 2018 16th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 19th November, 2018 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/chinz2018/ Part of the CHINZ Conference series, organised by SIGCHI NZ, the New Zealand Chapter of ACM SIGCHI Co-located with the 20th International Conference On Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 18) Submission deadline: 7 September 2018 The 16th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners involved with Human Computer Interaction in New Zealand and in other parts of the world. It aims to bring together people interested in any aspect of HCI and…

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  • Presence and deepfake video: The dangers ahead

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    [As if the political currents around the world, and specifically in the U.S. as it celebrates Independence Day today, aren’t disturbing enough, presence scholars, policy makers and everyone else should be deeply concerned about how presence-evoking technologies are enabling increasingly dangerous and harmful deceptions. The story below from The Associated Press (AP) describes some of the threats in the realm of politics, and there is much more press coverage on this topic: IEEE Spectrum reports on a wager among experts on whether there will be a successful deepfake video scandal during the upcoming 2018 U.S. midterm elections – even those…

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  • Call: Academic Mindtrek 2018

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    Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations and Workshops Academic Mindtrek 2018 10th to 11th October, 2018 Tampere, Finland https://www.mindtrek.org/2018/events/academic/ In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library. Deadline for full papers, posters, demonstrations and workshops: July 15, 2018 (extended) We are pleased to invite you to the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek conference, 10th to 11th October 2018. Academic Mindtrek is a meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of novel technology, media and digital culture for the society of tomorrow. Academic Mindtrek…

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  • Free virtual reality app drops users in the heart of historic Armenia

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    [Presence can play a key role in preserving cultural heritage, and not just when sites are under threat. This story from Smithsonian.com describes a new free app designed to “bring the value of Armenian cultural heritage out of the abstract and into the lives of millions.” See the original story for more images. –Matthew] [Image: Khachkars are prominently visible in front of the Noravank monastery. Credit: Sossi Madzounian, My Armenia Program.] This Free Virtual Reality App Drops Users in the Heart of Historic Armenia Painstaking imaging of cultural heritage sites worldwide has the potential to usher in a new era…

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  • Call: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2018)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS VRST 2018: The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Tokyo, Japan November 28 – December 1, 2018 https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2018/ Papers submission deadline: August 15, 2018, 23:59 PST Posters and demos submission deadline: September 1, 2018, 23:59 PST The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology. VRST brings together the main international research groups working on XR, along with many of the…

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  • Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?

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    [Recent events have me thinking again about the argument, offered even before the 2016 U.S. elections (see this ISPR Presence News post), that the rise of Donald Trump is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. It’s either a cruel experiment or prank by our digital overlords or some kind of glitch. The column below from The Conversation makes the counterargument to the first possibility by noting that any society that survives long enough to develop the capability to create such a sophisticated simulation would have had to develop a moral code that would prevent such cruelty. Of course…

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  • Call: Critical Robotics – Exploring a New Paradigm (NordiCHI 2018 Workshop)

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    Call for Papers Critical Robotics-Exploring a New Paradigm Workshop 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2018) Oslo, Norway Sunday September 30, 2018 https://critical-robotics.weebly.com Submission deadline: August 10, 2018 Critical Robotics-Exploring a New Paradigm is a workshop held at the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI) in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday September 30, 2018. We invite you to participate and submit a position paper. In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in voices advocating more human-centered and holistic approaches in research on robotic technology. Towards this end, the adoption of broader perspectives and the exploration of critical questions…

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  • Will you watch the next World Cup on your coffee table in 3-D? New tech impresses

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    [This story from King5 TV in Seattle describes a new system that may be a glimpse of how we’ll experience a greater sense of presence in future sports broadcasts. See the original version of the story for a 2:04 minute video report. Coverage in ZDNet includes additional information and this assessment: “While still in an early development stage, the results are compelling enough to suggest there could be a real future in this kind of system for home sports viewing — and it could come sooner rather than later. … Unlike most newfangled 3D entertainment, this is something I can…

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  • Call: WellComp 2018: First International Workshop on Computing for Well-Being

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    Call for Papers WellComp 2018: First International Workshop on Computing for Well-Being in conjunction with ACM UbiComp 2018 Singapore October 8, 2018 http://WellComp.org/ Submission Deadline: July 20, 2018 WORKSHOP THEME AND GOALS In the advancing ubiquitous computing age, computing technology has already spread into many aspects of our daily lives, such as office work, home and house-keeping, health management, transportation, or even cities. We have been experiencing that much of the influence from those technologies are both contributing better quality of life (QoL) of our individual and organizational lives, and causing new types of stress and pain at the same…

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  • VR pilot training now comes with a sense of touch

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    [Virtual reality offers advantages over traditional physical mock-up flight simulators, but until now also the important disadvantage of minimal haptic feedback. This (lightly edited) Wired story explains how that’s being addressed. See the original story for two more images, and for more information see the Go Touch VR website. –Matthew] VR Pilot Training Now Comes With A Sense Of Touch Ric Adams June 26, 2018 Aviation simulators—the most valuable training tool pilots have—have to get things right. The instrument panel. The wind and the rain. The response of the aircraft when you flip a switch or pull on the yoke.…

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  • Call: GOODTECHS 2018 – 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

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    Call for Papers GOODTECHS 2018 – 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good November 28-30, 2018 Bologna, Italy http://goodtechs.eu Paper Submission deadline: 31 July 2018 SCOPE By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches…

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  • Regulating presence and sex: Making laws and claims without evidence

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    [As the story below from Motherboard notes, the evolution of technology raises important ethical and legal questions about how “sex dolls, robots, and artificial intelligence will be regulated in the future, and whether legislators are ready to consider the nuances of sex with humanoids.” For two recent related stories see “We Have No Idea What Having Sex With Robots Might Do to Us” in Futurism and “One of the World’s Most Famous Sex Robots Can Now Revoke Her Consent” in Dazed. All of these stories emphasize the need for more research. Here’s an excerpt from the Futurism article: “Several companies are…

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