Author: Matthew Lombard

Call: Design Culture and Somaesthetics – Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields

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February 5, 2019

Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields Conference Date: 06-08. 05. 2019 Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest Conference Hosted by: Design Culture Studies Doctoral Program at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest & Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics Website: https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic research. Guy Julier, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in…

Digisexuals: Do you take this robot …

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February 5, 2019

[Here is a provocative recent report on a subset of medium-as-social-actor (MASA) presence phenomena; it’s from The New York Times, where the original version includes four more images and a video. –Matthew] [Image: Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (hand)] Do You Take This Robot … Today we fall in love through our phones. Maybe your phone itself could be just as satisfying? By Alex Williams January. 19, 2019 When Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old school administrator in Tokyo, strolled down the aisle in a white tuxedo in November, his mother was not among the 40 well-wishers…

Call: 5th Immersive Learning Research Network Conference – iLRN 2019

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February 4, 2019

Call for Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters, and Demos 5th Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2019 June 23th – June 27th, 2019 London, UK https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2019/ Full papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Short papers submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Posters and Demos submission deadline: February 15th, 2019 (Extended) Join the growing network of immersive learning experts and practitioners from across the disciplines in exciting London for iLRN 2019! The 5th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network will be an innovative hands-on and scholarly meeting for an emerging global network of developers, educators, and research…

‘Hamlet’ in virtual reality casts the viewer in the play

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February 4, 2019

[A new production of Hamlet offered the producers and actors new challenges and provides viewers with new presence experiences, as reported in this story from The New York Times. See the original for four more images. –Matthew] [Image: From left, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Brooke Adams and Jay O. Sanders in “Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit,” a virtual reality film produced by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Google, Graham Sack and Quentin Little. Credi: Sensorium] ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play By Elizabeth A. Harris; Michael Paulson contributed reporting. January. 25, 2019 Hamlet is in a bathtub with water up…

Call: ICAD 2019 – 25th International Conference on Auditory Display

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February 1, 2019

Call for Submission of Papers, Extended Abstracts, Workshops, and Tutorials ICAD 2019 – 25th International Conference on Auditory Display Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 23-27 June, 2019 https://icad2019.icad.org https://twitter.com/ICAD2019 Theme/Special Focus of ICAD 2019 is “Digital Living: Sonification for Everyday Life”. First submission deadline: 15th March 2019 Digital technology and artificial intelligence are becoming embedded in the objects all around us, from consumer products to the built environment. Everyday life happens where People, Technology, and Place intersect. Our activities and movements are increasingly sensed, digitized and tracked. Of course, the data generated by modern life is a hugely important resource not…

Hanson Robotics debuts Little Sophia, a robot companion that teaches kids to code

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February 1, 2019

[The new Little Sophia robot extends the potential positive effects of medium-as-social-actor (MASA) presence, as described in this story from VentureBeat. For more information see the press release via GlobeNewswire, the robot’s Kickstarter page (the funding goal has already been met), a 6:30 minute video segment from NBC’s Today via YouTube, and for a broader review of “carebots, home robots and robo-pets” from CES 2019, coverage in TechRadar. –Matthew] Hanson Robotics debuts Little Sophia, a robot companion that teaches kids to code Kyle Wiggers January 30, 2019 Hanson Robotics is the Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based company behind Sophia, the…

Call: Simulations special issue: The Societal and Ethical Dimensions of Computer Simulations

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January 31, 2019

Call for Papers Simulations Special Issue THE SOCIETAL AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF COMPUTER SIMULATIONS (S18-2) Guest Editors: Juan M. Durán (TU Delft) Jeroen van den Hoven (TU Delft) Submission deadline: June 30, 2019 Computer simulations are a fundamental method for the progress of scientific and engineering research. Jim Gray (2007) called them the third paradigm of research, along with theory, experiment and Big Data (the first, second and fourth paradigm respectively). While the specialised literature has extensively focused on epistemological, ontological and methodological issues of computer simulations (Humphreys, 2004, Winsberg, 2010, Morrison, 2015, Durán, 2018), less has been said on…

New virtual reality experience transforms you into a majestic tree

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January 31, 2019

[This story from Mother Nature Network describes a new VR-generated presence experience that lets users experience the life, and death, of a tree (compare it to the recent installation We Live in an Ocean of Air from another ISPR Presence News post); the story, which includes a second image, a 1:46 minute video, and a link to an extended interview in Vive, ends with information about how you can visit actress Judi Dench’s private forest in Surrey, England via virtual reality. –Matthew] [Image: Scene from the virtual reality experience ‘Tree’ from the MIT Media Lab. Credit: Screenshot from Vimeo/MIT Media Lab.]…

Call: 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2019)

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January 30, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2019) Kyoto, Japan — 6-10, October 2019 http://hai-conference.net/hai2019 Full paper submissions due: 14 May 2019 HAI 2019 is the 7th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. It is a venue with an interdisciplinary nature to discuss and disseminate state-of-the-art research on topics that relate to human interactions with a range of agent systems, including physical robots, virtual agents, socially interactive agents, and artificially intelligent agents. The theme for HAI 2019 is “Human-Agent Interaction, the Heart of Artificial Intelligence.” Due to the rapid progress of deep learning, AI has reached…

Astonishing NASA documentary “Apollo 11” evokes intense, inspiring presence

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January 30, 2019

[Anyone who questions the ability of film to evoke an intense and multi-faceted sense of presence should read this IndieWire review of (and go see) a new NASA documentary called “Apollo 11.” If nothing else read the fifth paragraph (“Honestly, …”) below. I missed seeing “First Man” in an IMAX theater but a group of us here at Temple University saw an extended preview scene that made us viscerally feel like we were there in the capsule during the countdown and take-off. “Apollo 11” uses newly discovered and restored high resolution footage and audio recordings of the event along with…

Call: “Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI” – Workshop at HRI 2019

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January 29, 2019

Call for Papers “Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI” A half-day, hands-on Workshop at HRI 2019, the 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Daegu, Korea 11 March 2019 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Date: 25 February 2019 Notification Date: 28 February 2019 Workshop Date: 11 March 2019 More information: https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-social-good-hri19 Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsg2019 INVITED SPEAKERS Selma Sabanovic, Associate Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) Chi Hyung Jeon, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST (Korea) Ana Paiva, Full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and coordinator of the Intelligent and Social…

Universal files patent to put guests on a virtual reality leash

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January 29, 2019

[This short story from the Orlando Weekly describes (and links to) a new patent application for a combination of form (a tether system) and content (virtual obstructions like gates and fog) to manage the paths of multiple VR and AR users at theme parks. See the original for more images. –Matthew] Universal files patent to put guests on a virtual reality leash By Seth Kubersky January 28, 2019 Virtual reality has taken the location-based gaming industry by storm in recent years, with stand-alone VR attractions popping up all over Orlando. But one fundamental problem has kept the technology out of…

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