Author: Matthew Lombard

Call: Big Personal Data in Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS special issue)

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June 9, 2015

Call for Submissions Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on BIG PERSONAL DATA IN INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Main submission deadline: July 14th, 2015 http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE Increasingly vast amounts of data about people’s interaction with the social and physical world are generated when people use social media, personal tracking devices, and the internet of things. How can big personal data be collected, analyzed, and exploited so as to provide new or improved forms of interaction with intelligent systems; and what new issues have to be taken into account? The question of how to process big…

Virtual reality rape: Transhumanists highlight ethical issues arising from new technology

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June 9, 2015

[This is a fascinating and important discussion about the darker potential of presence technology; the first story is from International Business Times and the second piece is a post from Anders Sandberg’s blog Andart II (the image is from the Vertigo story). –Matthew] Virtual reality rape: Transhumanists highlight ethical issues arising from new technology By Anthony Cuthbertson June 8, 2015 The convergence of technologies such as virtual reality, haptic feedback and wireless connectivity raises the prospect of virtual sexual assault, two noted futurologists have warned. These new forms of violation could arise by combining emerging devices, such as suits that…

Call: 7th IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (IEEE GEM 2015)

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June 8, 2015

Call for Papers – IEEE GEM 2015 7th IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Games, Entertainment, Media Conference 14 – 16 October 2015, Toronto http://www.ieee-gem.org/ The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is pleased to announce the 2015 IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media (GEM) Conference, the seventh conference in a series of successful IEEE Game Innovation Conferences. The venue will provide an opportunity for the demonstration and study of the ways in which games and game technologies are transforming the educational and cultural landscape. The exhibition area will allow researchers, developers, industry professionals, and artists to demonstrate how they are using these technologies in…

Deceased greats to perform at Hologram Comedy Club

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June 8, 2015

[Replicating the performances of stand-up comedians in a nightclub setting (reminiscent of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode) sounds much more difficult than replicating musical stage performances, but it’ll happen at the Hologram Comedy Club at the (U.S.) National Comedy Center; this post is from the Washington Post Innovations blog, and an article in New Zealand’s Independent quotes the “programme manager” describing the (presence) experience: “You are immersed in the atmosphere. The reality of it being a hologram quickly fades into the background, because of how realistic it is. Your brain just kind of accepts it as a real…

Call: 4th Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games (at AIIDE 2015)

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June 5, 2015

Call For Papers 4th Workshop on Games and NLP Located at AIIDE 2015 in Santa Cruz, California, USA November 14, 2015 http://gamnlp15.soe.ucsc.edu/ DEADLINES Deadline for submissions: July 3, 2015 (Fri) Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2015 (Fri) AIIDE early registration: August 7 Camera-ready versions: August 12, 2015 (Wed) Workshop date: November 14, 2015 (Sat) OVERVIEW This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can…

RYOT’s VR film takes you to the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating quake

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June 5, 2015

[Here are two stories about the activist news agency RYOT’s use of VR to provide people the experience of being in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Nepal and thereby increase their willingness to contribute to relief efforts. The first story, from Mic, provides an overview (and includes more pictures and the interactive video); the second, from RYOT is a poetic analysis of the power of VR and presence in this context and more generally (it also includes the video and more images). For more information, see Re/code’s Q&A with the filmmakers. –Matthew] Using Virtual Reality, You Can Go…

Call: Augmented Reality: From Visual Assistants to Always-on Multimodal Knowledge Access – Special Track at i-Know 2015

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June 4, 2015

Special Track @i-Know on Augmented Reality: From visual assistants to always-on multimodal knowledge access 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business 21-23 October 2015, Graz, Austria http://i-know.tugraz.at/call-for-papers SUBMISSIONS DUE: ABSTRACT June 8, 2015 PAPER June 22, 2015 I-KNOW proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS AIM AND SCOPE Technological innovations continuously transform the way we reach for and use knowledge. With augmented reality (AR), interfaces are associated with physical objects and the physical world turns into a user interface, which results in extended possibilities to naturally interact with complex systems. This workshop concentrates on how novel presentation metaphors…

H&R Block tax preparer service using Oculus VR for market research

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June 4, 2015

[With costs coming down and quality improving, presence-evoking VR is likely to be used more often for market research, as in this story from CNBC (which includes a 2:27 minute video report). –Matthew] H&R Block dons Oculus to test new office looks Jane Wells Tuesday, 2 Jun 2015 Virtual reality is the new drone. That is, VR is potentially another game-changing technology that companies are trying to figure out how to exploit. Could it even make one of your least favorite tasks better? “We’re reinventing the client’s tax experience,” said Laura Scobie, vice president of insights for H&R Block. The…

Call: Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context (Workshop with AmI 2015)

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June 3, 2015

Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context Workshop in conjunction with the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (Aml) 2015 November 11th Athens, Greece Submission Deadline 31st July 2015 http://www.urban-context.eu [email protected] AmI 2015: http://daissy.eap.gr/AmI2015/index.php Call for Papers Mobile technology offers significant potential to connect users to their immediate geographic environment. Yet existing approaches to doing so are largely visual, which can isolate users from that environment, and utilitarian, such as directing a user to a destination or showing nearby coffee shops as a list. The recent rise of geo-social media (images, text updates and check-ins) has offered new ways to support…

Nike Force of Nature and Quantum Space: Abstract media experiences that evoke presence

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June 3, 2015

[Here are two related stories that demonstrate that presence can be evoked even with abstract stimuli. The first, which may be a glimpse of the future of presence and exercise, is from PSFK, where it includes a 0:12 second video and more pictures; for a 1:03 minute video and more, larger images, see the FIELD website.] Nike Treadmill Experience Takes You Through Sensory-Enriched Workout The sports giant has created an installation to show how technologies may heighten the adventure of running Lara Piras 22 may 2015 When it comes to the future of the sportswear industry the focus right now…

Call: 4th IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SEGAH 2016)

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June 2, 2015

Call for Papers – SEGAH 2016 4TH IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health May 11 – May 13, 2016. Center for Emerging Media, Orlando, Florida – USA View this call online at: http://www.ipca.pt/segah2016/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15th, 2015 Dear Colleagues, This year the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health will be held in Orlando, Florida – US, from 11-13 May, 2016. The overall objectives of the conference are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, experiences and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions and technologies on serious games and applications…

QuantVR wants to turn stock market data into immersive virtual reality experiences

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June 2, 2015

[The partners in QuantVR “think there’s a very good and logical argument that by using and exploring stock market data in virtual reality, it’s going to really allow people to make better decisions”; is (spatial) presence a mediating variable? This is from TechRepublic, where the story includes another picture. –Matthew] QuantVR wants to turn stock market data into immersive virtual reality experiences Imagine a navigable city built from stock market data that you could travel through. QuantVR is building VR apps for visualizations to help you better understand the data. By Erin Carson June 1, 2015 Visualizing data is becoming…

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