Author: Matthew Lombard
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Trump and presence: Transmedia story-telling that lets supporters participate in alternative reality
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Read more: Trump and presence: Transmedia story-telling that lets supporters participate in alternative reality[Brian Stelter, senior media correspondent and host of CNN’s weekly “Reliable Sources” program, has written what I think is an excellent analysis of how Donald Trump continues to upend politics (I would argue dangerously). Note the allusions to elements of presence phenomena in these quotes from his story below: “Trump’s stories are often more fiction than fact. But the thing about a story, like a novel or a drama, is that it’s not really meant to be fact-checked. The narrative is meant to make you feel.” “The pro-Trump media act as his co-producers. In Hollywood terms, it’s as if Trump…
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Call: “Bodies of Design: Somaesthetics Perspectives on Technology” Conference
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Read more: Call: “Bodies of Design: Somaesthetics Perspectives on Technology” ConferenceCall for Papers “Bodies of Design: Somaesthetics Perspectives on Technology” January 24-25, 2019 Boca Raton, Florida Abstract submission deadline: October 31, 2018 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invites paper proposals for a conference on “Bodies of Design: Somaesthetics Perspectives on Technology” that will be held January 24-25, 2019 at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The conference’s call for papers is as follows: BODIES OF DESIGN: SOMAESTHETIC PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY Recent developments in technology have significantly transformed our forms of communication, behavior, and experience. Such transformations can even extend to the experience of our own bodies.…
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Apple patent would add augmented reality to car windshields
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Read more: Apple patent would add augmented reality to car windshields[Many of the features of a newly revealed Apple patent filing use augmented reality in interesting ways to evoke presence in vehicles. This story is from WTOC, followed below by excerpts from coverage by Mashable and The Drive. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Patently Apple] Apple patent raises possibility of a future with iWindshields August 8th 2018 By Jonathan Raymond (RNN) – Could the next great Apple innovation be the iWindshield? The World Intellectual Property Organization, a patent agency for the United Nations, published an application last week that was submitted by Apple in 2016 for an “augmented reality display system” for…
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Call: The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE)
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Read more: Call: The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE)Call for Papers The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE) Heraklion, Crete – Greece May 2-4, 2019 http://www.ict4ageingwell.org ICT4AWE is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Paper Submission: December 10, 2018 SCOPE The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health aims to be a meeting point for those that study age- and health-related quality of life and apply information and communication technologies for helping people stay healthier, more independent and active at work or in their community. ICT4AWE facilitates the…
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Lufthansa tests “VR Moving Map” experience on the way to Dubai
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Read more: Lufthansa tests “VR Moving Map” experience on the way to Dubai[A glass-bottom plane might provide too intense an experience for many, but the “VR Moving Map” feature described in this story from #GNTECH (where the original includes a 2:14 minute video) might be a viable substitute. For much more information see a 2017 report in ClickZ (or VRrOOm), which includes another image and two more videos. –Matthew] Lufthansa passengers experience VR on the way to Dubai By Daanesh Kalyaniwalla August 5, 2018 Lufthansa passengers flying from Frankfurt to Dubai on flight LH630 were in for a surprise on their way here. They were the first to experience the airline’s new…
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Call: Inaugural issue of Journal of Games, Self, and Society
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Read more: Call: Inaugural issue of Journal of Games, Self, and SocietyCall for Papers Inaugural issue of Journal of Games, Self, and Society Submission deadline August 31, 2018 iThrive Games, in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press, has released a call for submissions to the inaugural issue of iThrive’s peer-reviewed Journal of Games, Self, and Society. Our team of highly respected game scholars, education experts, and mental health specialists recruited from around the United States will review papers submitted to kelli.dunlap@ithrivegames.org by Aug. 31, 2018. Journal of Games, Self, and Society aims to encourage and advance interdisciplinary scholarship on games, players, and how their interactions impact society. Of particular interest is…
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Japanese students produce virtual reality experience of Hiroshima
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Read more: Japanese students produce virtual reality experience of Hiroshima[This widely published AP story is important for many reasons, including its illustration of how both the creation and experience of presence can be valuable. This copy is from The Independent, where it includes a 1:18 minute video; the image is one of eight available from AP. –Matthew] Japanese students produce virtual reality experience of Hiroshima By transporting users back in time to moment when city was turned into wasteland, group hopes to ensure something similar never happens again Haruka Nuga August 6, 2018 FUKUYAMA, Japan (AP) — It’s a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.…
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Call: ICIDM 2018 – 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media
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Read more: Call: ICIDM 2018 – 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital MediaCall for Papers ICIDM 2018 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media 11 – 12 December 2018 Liverpool, UK http://magicx.my/icidm18/ Due date for paper submission: 12 August 2018 Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) are pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media (ICIDM 2018) to be held on 11 – 12 December 2018 at Redmond Building, LJMU, Liverpool, United Kingdom. ICIDM 2018 brings an opportunity to invite new innovative inventions on Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Animal Computer Interaction, Animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Web and Mobile…
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Can you be present in two places at once? Microsoft adds Mixed Reality Flashlight to VR
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Read more: Can you be present in two places at once? Microsoft adds Mixed Reality Flashlight to VR[Microsoft has a new way for VR users to see their nonmediated environment without leaving the virtual world one they’re in, raising the long discussed question of whether we can be present in two places at once (see point 6 in “Presence defined”). This story is from Road to VR, where it includes the 1:09 video demonstration of the new feature (the video is also available via YouTube). –Matthew] Microsoft is Adding Pass-through Video to Windows VR Headsets By Ben Lang July 27, 2018 A beta version of Windows 10 now includes support for a pass-through video mode for Windows…
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Call: Interactive Storytelling with Multimodal Interfaces – Special issue of MTI
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Read more: Call: Interactive Storytelling with Multimodal Interfaces – Special issue of MTICall for Papers: INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING WITH MULTIMODAL INTERFACES a special issue of the journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Manuscript submission deadline: 1 November 2018 Interactive digital storytelling aims at using digital media to create narrative experiences that can be influenced by the user. It is an interdisciplinary field that combines research in artificial intelligence, computer science, narrative, drama, and interactive technologies. The expressive media that have been most commonly used in interactive digital storytelling include text and various forms of virtual reality, but recent advances in multimodal technologies have opened up the potential for creating narrative experiences that also address…
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Psychology professor Paul MacNeilage developing underwater VR and measure for VR sickness sensitivity
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Read more: Psychology professor Paul MacNeilage developing underwater VR and measure for VR sickness sensitivity[Professor Paul MacNeilage is doing interesting work for NASA on underwater VR and Facebook on VR sickness sensitivity. This story from the University of Nevada, Reno provides an overview (and the original includes more images and a 0:36 minute video). See the website of the UNR Self-motion Lab for more information. If you know of or find profiles of people (including you!) doing presence-related research, please let me know (at lombard@temple.edu). –Matthew] [Image: Paul MacNeilage, assistant professor of psychology tests the first version of the underwater VR mask in a pool. Virtual reality will soon be able to go underwater…
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Call: Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press)
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Read more: Call: Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press)Call for BOOK PROPOSALS, EDITED BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, and HANDBOOKS …to be published in the new…. Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Press SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30th September 2018 for the first batch of proposals, however, we also accept book proposals on a continuous basis SERIES WEBSITE http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com CONTACT INFORMATION artur.lugmayr@artur-lugmayr.com?subject=CRC%20Book%20Proposals We are especially searching for brave new ideas in media technology, emerging media, visualization, user-experience computation and interaction design! The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research, case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The series…
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