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  • On the importance of eye contact

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    [From The New York Times] [Image: Tim Lahan] Psst. Look Over Here. By Kate Murphy   May 16, 2014 Look inside your kitchen cabinet and odds are you have a collection of old friends gazing back at you — the Quaker Oats man, the Sun-Maid girl, Aunt Jemima and maybe a Keebler elf or two. The reason they are there may have more do with your subconscious craving for eye contact than the taste of the products. In a study published last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on…

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  • Call: ICEC2014 – International Conference on Entertainment Computing

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    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ICEC2014 – International Conference on Entertainment Computing 1-3 Oct 2014 Sydney, Australia http://icec2014.info/ The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing is the primary forum for disseminating and showcasing research results relating to the creation, development and use of digital entertainment. The conference brings together practitioners, academics, artists and researchers interested in design, practice, implementation, application and theoretical foundations of digital entertainment. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions, as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops. SUBMISSION TYPES AND DEADLINES We invite submissions on design, art, engineering and theory of digital entertainment in several tracks: Full Technical…

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  • Design professor envisions virtual reality lives for farm animals

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    [From the Ames Tribune; the Second Livestock web site is here; a 0:55 minute video is here] ISU design professor envisions virtual reality lives for farm animals By Gavin Aronsen, Staff Writer Posted May 10, 2014 – Updated May 13, 2014 Could chickens raised in close confinement live more humane lives if they experienced them virtually? That’s a question posed by Austin Stewart, an assistant professor in Iowa State University’s College of Design, for his latest project. He calls it Second Livestock — a takeoff on the popular online virtual world Second Life. The idea goes something like this: Chickens,…

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  • Call: 3rd Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments

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    Final Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments AI@IE – http://2014.ai4ie.de (in conjunction with ECAI 2014 in Prague) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:  25. May 2014 (slightly extendable on request) Notification of acceptance:  23. June 2014 Final version deadline:  7. July 2014 Workshop date:  18. August 2014 (during ECAI 2014) CALL FOR PAPERS Researchers in the area of intelligent environments try to embed intelligence into everyday working and living spaces. To reach this goal they investigate options to integrate smart technologies into ordinary objects within the environment or by controlling the available infrastructure in some…

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  • How to make a Star Trek-style Holodeck with an Oculus Rift and 3 Kinect sensors

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    [From BGR] How to make a Star Trek-style Holodeck with an Oculus Rift and 3 Kinect sensors By Brad Reed on May 14, 2014 All proper sci-fi nerds have long dreamed of being able to take a trip in the Holodeck, a virtual reality chamber located on Star Trek’s USS Enterprise where you can simulate any time, place and situation you want to be in. Oliver Kreylos, a computer science professor and researcher at the University of California, Davis, has come the closest we’ve seen yet to creating a working Holodeck and he’s done it using an Oculus Rift virtual…

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  • Call: Re-imagining Commonly Used Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults (Workshop)

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    Re-imagining Commonly Used Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults September 23, 2014, Toronto, Canada http://www.olderadults.mobi workshop@olderadults.mobi Call for Papers Many countries have an increasingly ageing population. In recent years, mobile technologies have had a massive impact on social and working life. As the older adult population rises, many people will want to continue professional, social and lifestyle usage of mobiles into their 70s and beyond. Mobiles support community involvement and personal independence, but the ageing process can interfere considerably with their usage, e.g. through changes in vision, attention, and motor control. This workshop will bring together researchers who are re-imagining mobile…

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  • ‘The Illusion of Life’: Disney’s 12 principles of animation in new cartoon

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    [From Fast Company’s Co.Design, where the post includes animated gifs and the 2:56 minute video (also available on Vimeo] Disney’s 12 Principles Of Animation, In A Cartoon Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the “old men” of Walt Disney, made laws of physics just for cartoons. John Brownlee May 6, 2014 In the real world, the basic laws of physics were first described by Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. In the world of animation, however, we owe the laws of physics to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Working for the Walt Disney Company in its heyday of the 1930s, these…

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  • Call: Research Through Design 2015 conference

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    Research Through Design 2015 conference 21st Century Makers and Materialities 25th-27th March 2015, Cambridge UK. Website: http://researchthroughdesign.org Twitter: @RTD2015 <http://twitter.com/RTD2015> 1st Call for Submissions We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table discussions in ‘Rooms of Interest’. The exhibition will be used as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes and outputs, and for…

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  • To reach 800 million voters, India candidate Modi campaigned as a hologram

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    [From Motherboard, where the story includes a 54:59 minute video] To Reach 800 Million Voters, This Candidate Is Campaigning as a Hologram Written by DJ Pangburn May 7, 2014 Indian prime minister hopeful Narendra Modi is both real and a hologram. Over the course of his campaign, according to The Independent, Modi has appeared in holographic form before audiences at some 900 rallies. When it’s all said and done, Modi will have made over 1,000 holographic appearances before Indian voters. On May 6th, for instance, Modi’s holographic doppelgangers appeared at 100 3D Bharat Vijay rallies, organized by his political party,…

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  • Call: Special issue on AI for HCI – Intelligenza Artificiale

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    Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2014 Paper submission deadline: 1 August 2014 Special Issue Web site: http://aihci.di.unito.it/special_issue.html Journal Web site: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligenza-artificiale/ SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) aims at improving the symbiosis between humans and computers by merging two research fields: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This may involve including intelligent capabilities in the interface in order to improve performance, usability and experience in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface…

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  • PetChatz lets you interact with your pets when you’re away

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    [From KFSN-TV, where the story includes a video news report; more information about this and a similar product is available at the web sites of Pet Chatz and IC Pooch] PetChatz allows you to keep an eye on pets Thursday, May 08, 2014 Christine Park FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Pet parents know keeping tabs on their four-legged family members while they’re away from home is no easy task. We’ve all seen the videos of dogs caught on camera when their owners aren’t home. From stealing cupcakes, to tearing up the couch, and crying all day long. People have been doing…

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  • Call: Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014)

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    The Fifth International Conference on Serious Games Development & Applications (SGDA 2014) Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014 www.sgda-conf.org Submission deadline: 12 May 2014 SGDA 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, 9-10 October 2014, as a satellite conference to European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014). Both conferences are hosted by University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Registered participants will have access to both conferences. The recent re-emergence of serious games since 2002 has put the spotlight on the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games…

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