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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • Too-realistic Halloween tableau frightens neighbors, prompts 911 call

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    [From the Washington Post via AP] Halloween display depicting fatalities at Oklahoma home frightens neighbors, prompts 911 call By KRISTI EATON Associated Press Oct 17, 2013 MUSTANG, Okla. (AP) — One man lies on his stomach on the driveway. Blood is splattered along the garage door that smashed his head and presumably killed him. Another man lies a few feet away, run over by a truck. The scene in a middle-class Oklahoma neighborhood made of single-story homes and well-manicured lawns seems out of a horror story because, well, it is. The two accident victims are in fact dummies, created as…

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  • Call: 3rd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays 2014

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    The 3rd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays 2014 In cooperation with ACM / SIGCHI 5-6 June, 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.pervasivedisplays.org/ info@pervasivedisplays.org PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 February 2014 Building on the success of the 2012 and 2013 events, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 3rd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. This event will take place in Copenhagen in 2014 and will include a keynote address. In addition to research papers we are also soliciting submissions for posters and demonstrations – see http://www.pervasivedisplays.org/ for more details of the submission process for these. CALL FOR PAPERS As digital…

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  • Artist Kurt Hentschlager creates immersive experiences of ‘being there’

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    [From Pittsburgh City Paper] [Image: Like a wormhole in time: Kurt Hentschlager’s POL] In Hive, the choreography of the figures is mesmerizing and almost mystical by David S. Berger At its best, art will refashion one’s way of seeing. This is true of the latest exhibits by Kurt Hentschlager, an Austrian-born artist who now teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibits, at Wood Street Galleries and Space, are the U.S. premieres of three works: Hive, Model 5 and POL. From 1993 to 2003, Hentschlager teamed with Ulf Langeinrich in a group called Granular Synthesis, and…

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  • Call: ‘Playgrounds’ – Special issue of Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space

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    Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space Issue 8: Playgrounds Submission Deadline: Dec. 1, 2013 http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/ This issue of Media Fields investigates the connections between media, space, power, and various approaches to “play” across culture and society. In this issue we seek conversations that embrace play in all its polysemy. We invite papers that investigate how mediated play spaces can become spaces to negotiate labor, power, resistance, agency, or subjectivity. To that end, what is a mediated play space? What is the history of mediated play spaces? How are non-play spaces subverted to become play spaces, and what…

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  • Presence Picture #6: ‘Invisible’ by Laura Williams

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    A self portrait by photographer Laura Williams. More information is available in the blog post here. Thanks to our colleague Alexander Voiskounsky for finding this. If you have information or comments about this or future Presence Pictures, please share them with our community by using the appropriate ‘comments’ link (note: WordPress spam filters are said to be overly aggressive, so if you don’t receive confirmation of receipt after you post, please notify us at ispr@ispr.info). –Matthew Lombard…

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  • Call: 2014 IEEE Haptics Symposium – Tutorials and workshops

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    The 2014 IEEE Haptics Symposium (http://2014.hapticssymposium.org/) solicits proposals for tutorials and workshops, to be held on February 23, 2014 preceding the full conference. Tutorials should disseminate knowledge of established research areas that are relevant to the haptics community. Workshops are forums where specific research topics are presented and discussed aimed at extending the normal disciplinary boundaries of haptics. In all cases we strongly encourage interested organizers to contact the HS14 Workshops and Tutorials Chair as soon as possible to discuss suitability of the proposed topic (send e-mail directly to Antonio Frisoli (ma.frisoli@sssup.it) or to mworkshops@hapticssymposium.org.…

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  • ‘Imaginary reality gaming’: A new version of sports

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    [From Fast Company’s Co.Exist blog, where the post includes more pictures and a 7:36 minute video] Power-Ups, Virtual Balls, And Quantum Engines: Watch The Future Of Sports Check out the first iteration of this new virtual reality version of sports, where the ball is generated by a computer and you can earn special powers, just like a video game. Jessica Leber October 11, 2013 Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? This is what human-computer interaction researchers in Germany were wondering…

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  • Call: Experience Design for Behaviour Change (at HCI International 2014)

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    Experience Design for Behaviour Change Parallel Session at HCI International 2014 http://designforbehaviorchange.wordpress.com Following the popularity at HCI International 2013 where our parallel session was one of the largest of the conference, we invite you to HCII 2014 Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2014. This Parallel Session aims to bring together a multidisciplinary set of researchers and industry professionals interested in designing behavior change interventions. The session is part of the conference’s thematic area Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU). For more information please visit the Conference Website at http://hcii2014.org/duxu.php. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite contributions that explore how experiences can be…

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  • Using VR to combat bullying

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    [From CBS DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth), where you can watch the 2:53 minute video version of the story] UTD Combats Bullying With Virtual Reality Project October 10, 2013 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Inside a dark room at The University of Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth Evan Harris gets to play a video game. It’s a virtual video game starring him. Evan has an Avatar which mimics his facial expressions. “He astoundingly looks a lot like me,” says Harris from Grand Prairie with a slight smile. There is a camera on the computer screen which captures Evan’s emotions. While he’s in one room, clinician…

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  • Call: TVX 2014 – Online video and TV interaction and user experience

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    [Note: Papers and several other types of submissions are also sought – see http://tvx2014.com for details   –Matthew ] TVX 2014 – Call for Workshop Proposals TVX is the leading international conference for research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. TVX 2014 will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on the 24-27th June 2014.…

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  • ‘Remote control tourists’ roam Melbourne as your proxies

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    [From International Business Times, where the story includes a another image and a 1:01 video] The Remote Control Tourists Who Check Out The City Before You Book Your Trip By Mark Johanson on October 10 2013 Ever wish you could truly see a city through someone else’s eyes, explore its streets, and check out its sights and senses before you visited? That’s the aim of Melbourne’s new “Remote Control Tourists,” who will roam Australia’s capital of culture between Oct. 9 and Oct. 13 as slaves to your Facebook and Twitter demands (hashtag #MelbourneRCT). You tell the proxies what to eat,…

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  • Job: Tenure-track faculty position in HCI at Virginia Tech

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    Tenure-track Faculty Position in Human-Computer Interaction Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech The Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (www.cs.vt.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor, from candidates with expertise in human-computer interaction (HCI). The department is especially interested in sub-areas of HCI involving human interaction with big data or advanced technologies, such as large-scale data visualization and human-robot interaction, but candidates from all areas of HCI are encouraged to apply. Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline at the time of appointment; a strong record of scholarship…

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