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  • Presence Picture #10: “The Cover up” by Erik Johansson

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    Photographer Erik Johansson introduces himself on his web site with this: “I’m a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.” A larger version of this piece, titled “The Cover up,” is available here, and much more mind-bending presence-related work (including video material) is available on his site. By the way, join our ISPR Members Facebook group for more unusual and interesting presence items; details are here. If you have information or comments about this or future Presence Pictures, please share them with our community by using…

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  • Call: CHI PLAY 2015

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI PLAY 2015 The 2nd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play http://chiplay.org Twitter: #chiplay London, England October 5 – 7, 2015 Submission Deadlines: April 2, 2015: Full papers and workshops June 26, 2015: Student competition, courses and tutorials, panels, doctoral consortium, industry case studies and works-in-progress CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in…

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  • Telepresence robot store is staffed only by robots

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    [From IEEE Spectrum, where the story includes another image and a 2:38 minute video] [Image: The salespeople are robots in this downtown Palo Alto store. Credit: Tekla Perry.] Suitable Technologies Opens Store Staffed Only by Robots By Tekla Perry Posted 10 Dec 2014 Most of us have gone into a store or restaurant in which the nametags worn by employees identified their hometowns. It’s a friendly touch. But this week, for the first time, I went into a store in which the members of the sales staff weren’t only identified by their hometowns, they were actually working from their hometowns,…

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  • Job: 2015 Summer internships at Institute for Creative Technologies (Los Angeles)

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    The Institute for Creative Technologies is proud to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2015 Summer Intern Program. Every summer the ICT offers select interdisciplinary internships for creative and technical students wishing to pursue careers in simulation, interactive media and virtual reality fields. The ICT’s mission is to create compelling immersive systems for effective learning for military, entertainment and educational purposes. For over 10 years, the ICT has had the privilege of hosting an internship program composed of local, national and international fellows that make the journey to southern California to take part in a meaningful co-op…

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  • Yule Log and many variations return for 2014

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    [From Deadline; for lots of related material online see: a detailed list of places to find the Yule Log and variations at the Channel Guide Magazine blog information about the new Outlander themed Yule Log (which features two dogs) at AV Club a compilation and mini-reviews of a large variety of Yule Log videos at Mental Floss and an interesting first person account of spending 45 minutes watching the Yule Log in “14 Profound Truths You Learn While Watching the Yule Log, As Told In GIFs” at Bustle] Virtual Menorah Debuts Next Week, Joining Yule Log by The Deadline Team…

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  • Call: CHI 2015 Workshop on Ethical Encounters in HCI: Research in Sensitive Settings

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    Call for Participation: CHI 2015 Workshop on Ethical Encounters in HCI: Research in Sensitive Settings Seoul, Republic of South Korea 18th April 2015 This one-day workshop will be held as part of the CHI 2015 annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Seoul, Korea between 18 and 23 April 2015. Important Dates: Submission by: 5th January 2015 Notification of acceptance: 6th February 2015 Workshop day: 18th or 19th April 2015 Workshop website: http://ethicalencountershci.wordpress.com/ Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is moving into increasingly sensitive and challenging settings. New technologies are now being designed and evaluated with…

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  • I experienced Michael Brown’s death in VR and it was incredibly unsettling

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    [From Bustle, where the story includes more pictures and a 2:34 minute video] I Experienced Michael Brown’s Death in Virtual Reality, and It Was Incredibly Unsettling Alicia Lu December 18, 2014 Though the precise events of August 9 in Ferguson will never be known, we’ve all formed an idea through numerous testimonies and eyewitness accounts. Each account can differ quite drastically, however, depending on who’s relaying it. Trying to offer an interactive account of what happened that day, graphic journalist Dan Archer created for Fusion a virtual reality experience of the Michael Brown shooting from every perspective. Yes, really. Through…

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  • Call: “Behavior Coordination between Animals, Humans and Robots” Workshop at HRI 2015

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    Call for Abstracts/Short Papers Workshop on “Behavior Coordination between Animals, Humans and Robots” http://www.icub.org/other/HRI2015-workshop.html part of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction March 2nd, 2015 Portland, Oregon, USA Deadline: 15.01.2015 ORGANIZERS: Hagen Lehmann, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, iCub Facility, Genoa, Italy Luisa Damiano, Research Centre on Complex Systems / Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy Lorenzo Natale, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, iCub Facility, Genoa, Italy OBJECTIVES: This workshop intends to bring together researchers investigating one or more aspects of behavior coordination in three different research domains: human-human interaction, human-animal interaction, human-robot interaction.…

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  • Zero-G simulator lets you float through an Oculus Rift space station

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    [From The Creators Project, where the post includes several animated gifs and a 4:24 minute video] Zero-G Simulator Lets You Float Through an Oculus Rift Space Station By Beckett Mufson — Dec 16 2014 Even as space tourism becomes a reality, escaping Earth’s atmosphere is still well outside the average person’s price range. Virtual reality designer Martin Schubert has what might be a viable substitute in Weightless, a space station simulator that lets you nudge floating objects around with your hands. The current demo version is a submission to the Leap Motion 3D Jam game design competition, taking full advantage…

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  • Call: ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015)

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    Announcement and Call for Papers UBICOMP 2015 The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan http://www.ubicomp.org The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015) invites submission of full papers and notes describing original research. UbiComp is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts…

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  • Illusion makes people speak with voice of their avatar

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    [From Disvcover’s Inkfish blog] Illusion Makes People Speak with the Voice of Their Avatar By Elizabeth Preston | November 26, 2014 Think you’re in control of your own body? A simple virtual-reality session could not only make you feel like an avatar’s body is your own, but make you speak more like the digital character.…

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  • Call: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2015)

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    Call for Papers: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2015) Zurich, May 4, 2015 Co-located with the 36th annual conference of the European Association of Computer Graphics http://wiced2015.inria.fr Deadline for submission: February 28, 2015. The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and editing (montage) within 3D synthetic environment shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of games and virtual worlds. Cinematics produced in virtual worlds play a role not just for entertainment, but also for training, education, health-care communication, simulation, visualization and many other contexts. The automatic creation…

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