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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • You can ban a person, but what about their hologram?

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    [Presence via holograms and augmented reality raises a lot of interesting and important practical and legal questions; this story is from Singularity Hub, where it includes a 1:32 minute video. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Ukraine Today/YouTube] You Can Ban a Person, But What About Their Hologram? By Aaron Frank Mar 17, 2017 If you think augmented reality is only fun and games, consider that we’ve already witnessed the first known police action taken against hologram technology. During the summer of 2015, a performance by controversial gangster-rapper, Keith Cozart, was shut down when local police discovered the musician was broadcast as a hologram…

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  • Call: Virtual Futures panel discussion on VR March 21, with free 360 livestream

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    Call for Participation Altered Minds | Virtual Futures Salon Tuesday 21 March 2017 18:30 – 21:00 GMT The Hospital Club, London (UK) This event is almost SOLD OUT, but you can join us on YouTube for our livestream in 360 degree video. We will be taking questions from the online audience and would love if you could help us spread the message through Thunderclap. FINAL FEW TICKETS WATCH THE 360 DEGREE LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION Virtual Futures presents a panel discussion on virtual reality with an artist who will live a simulated life in VR for 28 days, an academic…

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  • Hello, Westworld: Sex doll brothel opens in Barcelona

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    [There are few applications of presence-evoking technology more interesting and fraught with ethical issues than sexuality. This story is from The Huffington Post, where it includes two videos; more information is available from Forbes. –Matthew] [Image: “Kati,” the Lumi sex doll now at a Barcelona brothel] Hello, Westworld: Sex Doll Brothel Opens In Barcelona Industry edges closer to “realistic, robotic” sex partners. By Mary Papenfuss March 2, 2017 In the first known brothel of its kind, a Barcelona establishment is offering erotic sessions with sex dolls only. Clients of the “agency” will have to pony up $127 an hour for…

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  • Call: 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: [email protected] Papers due May 10, 2017 (strict deadline) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMaViG’17 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE…

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  • New effects tech lets media creators and consumers change experience seamlessly in real-time

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    [Advances in technology are permitting both producers and consumers to effortlessly and instantly modify mediated experiences, making presence more common and determining what is ‘real’ increasingly difficult. This story is from Fast Company’s Co.Design, where it includes many images; the 1:33 minute The Human Race video (also available on YouTube); and a second, 1:49 minute video about the project. A short behind the scenes video is available on YouTube and Sam Russell, general director of global Chevrolet marketing, talks about the project in another YouTube video. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Ad Week] This Crazy New Technology Transforms Movies Into Video Games…

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  • Call: Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics (1-day Workshop)

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    Call for Participation Hacking Flavour Perception: Design, Technology & Gastrophysics by Charles Spence and Yi-Chuan Chen (AHRC, Rethinking the Senses) Monday 27th March 2017, 10:00 – 17:00 Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College, Oxford Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD, UK Free tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hacking-flavour-perception-design-technology-gastrophysics-tickets-32602544087 While enjoying a meal, our brain is continuously combining information about what is detected by the tongue with what we smell, not to mention the expectations set by what we see, hear, and feel. Traditionally, the sensory cues that are combined in the perception of flavour would all have originated from the food and drink itself.…

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  • “I tried virtual reality breast implants”: Plastic surgeons recommending presence

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    [Here’s another very positive application for presence-evoking technology; the story, which includes extended quotes from our colleague Brenda Wiederhold, is from Tonic, where it includes two additional images. –Matthew] I Tried Virtual Reality Breast Implants Plastic surgeons are recommending this pre-op step. Catherine Chapman March 13 2017 A plastic surgeon’s office is no place for an anxiety-stricken perfectionist like myself, but there I was about to get a consultation for a breast augmentation. I have never thought about changing my breast size, or that much about my breasts at all for that matter, but as a 28-year-old woman, my life…

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  • Call: Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design – IJCAI 2017 Workshop

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    Call for Papers COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN A Workshop at IJCAI 2017 – 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Melbourne, Australia – Aug 19-25 2017 Co-Chairs: Mehul Bhatt \ Antonio Lieto University of Bremen \ University of Turin, and ICAR-CNR http://hcc.uni-bremen.de/codesign2017/workshops/melbourne/ Title and abstracts due April 18 onwards ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design will bring together interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on human-centred design particularly focussing on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Cognitive Systems supported next-generation design technologies. The workshop addresses cognitive technology assisted human-centred design conception, analysis,…

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  • The war on the disturbingly real trolls in virtual reality

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    [It’s sad that an all-female team had to take the initiative and invent the “personal space bubble” feature discussed in this article from MIT Technology Review; note the explicit references to presence and how it, along with human nature and the anonymity of social VR, makes invasions of personal space more likely. The original story includes a video version of the image below and a 26:04 minute video. –Matthew] [Image: Illustration by Veronyka Jelinek] The War on the Disturbingly Real Trolls in Virtual Reality When you feel like you really are inside a virtual body, protecting your personal space is…

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  • Call: Future Technologies Conference 2017

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    FTC 2017 – Future Technologies Conference 2017 29-30 November 2017 Vancouver, BC, Canada Conference Website: http://saiconference.com/FTC2017 Early Bird Submission (Opportunity to save $100): 15 March 2017 Regular Submission: 15 April 2017 Join us for FTC 2017, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications. The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers. Researchers, academics and technologists from…

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  • Senior centers try robotic cats to soothe agitated elders

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    [Reminiscent of the PARO therapeutic robot, this story from The Philadelphia Inquirer describes the increasing use and positive impacts of medium-as-social-actor presence with residents of senior centers; the original story includes more images and a 0:43 minute video. –Matthew] [Image: “Pearl”, one of the robot cats used at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life, lays across the lap of Ina Schecter, 91, a resident of the center, waiting to be petted. Credit: Michael Bryant / Staff Photographer] Senior centers try robotic cats to soothe agitated elders Updated: March 10, 2017 by Stacey Burling, Staff Writer Stanley Ellis, who has dementia,…

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  • Call: mLearn 2017 – 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning

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    Call for papers (long and short papers), posters, workshops mLearn 2017 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 30 October – 1 November Larnaca Cyprus http://iamlearn.org/mlearn The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world’s largest international…

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