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  • Job: University of Hull studentship – innovative educational use of immersive 3-D virtual environments

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    The innovative educational use of immersive 3-D virtual environments To celebrate the University’s research successes, the University of Hull is offering one UK/EU PhD Scholarship, or International Fees Bursaries for candidates with a 1st, 2(i), or equivalent, applying for the following project in Faculty of Education: Closing date 11th January 2013. Studentships will start in September 2013 Supervisors: Dr. Stewart Martin, stewart.martin@hull.ac.uk 01482 465191, Centre for Educational Studies Dr. Kevin Burden, k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk 01482 466731, Centre for Educational Studies The Faculty of Education invites applications for a PhD studentship that will explore the applications of immersive virtual environments (virtual worlds) in…

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  • Four technologies to watch in 2013

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    [From NASDAQ] [Image: Google’s Project Glass and Star Trek’s Geordi LaForge. From Gizmodo] Four Technologies to Watch in 2013 Posted 12/8/2012 by Benzinga Over the past 12 months, tech companies have added touch screens to just about everything. This trend will surely continue in 2013, but what is the next big thing in technology? What can consumers and business professionals look forward to in the next 12 months?…

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  • Call: “Minds, Machines and Morals” – Annual meeting of International Association for Computing and Philosophy

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    The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy “Minds, Machines and Morals” University of Maryland at College Park July 15-17 2013 This generation has borne witness to a veritable explosion in the use of computing technologies in almost every aspect of life. Philosophers, scientists, and technologists/engineers have an important role to play in addressing the foundational questions that arise on the inexorable march toward intelligent machines. This year’s theme is “Minds, Machines and Morals.” Questions regarding the status of machines as moral agents and patients press on us as we envision a future filled with self-driving cars,…

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  • See and feel virtual water with immersive crossmodal perception system from Solidray

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    [From DigInfo TV, where the story includes a 2:44 minute video] See and feel virtual water with this immersive crossmodal perception system from Solidray 7 December 2012 Posted By Don Kennedy and Ryo Osuga Solidray, which is involved in virtual reality production, has released an immersive crossmodal system incorporating visual and tactile feedback, enabling the user to see and feel flowing water in a virtual space.…

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  • Call: ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013

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    ACM CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 2013 17-18 June 2013 University of Technology, Sydney http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com Call for PAPERS, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS Call for GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM Deadlines Approaching: 17th December 2012 for Papers and Posters 1st March 2013 for Demos and Graduate Student Symposium The University of Technology, Sydney will host the International Conference on Creativity and Cognition from the 17th to the 20th of June 2013. The organising committee would like to invite you to join us in Sydney for another conference in this very successful series. For 2013 the conference theme will be ‘Intersections and Interactions’, due to the inter-disciplinarity…

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  • Teledining: Then and now

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    [From Telepresence Options] Teledining: Then and Now December 5, 2012 | David S. Maldow, Esq. There is nothing like the business lunch. We feel an undeniable increased connection with someone after sharing a good meal with them. This can often serve to smooth the wheels of business. A good meal is like a good videoconferencing meeting; it is all about the experience. While we all [had] fun this year at Thanksgiving, passing around iPhones with Facetime sessions to remote family, we can’t really call that teledining. Proper teledining should (as much as possible) attempt to simulate a normal, across the…

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  • Call: 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2013)

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    Thirteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA 2013 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/ August 29-31st Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2013 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modelling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behaviour. In addition to presentations…

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  • Three fundamental ways VR is changing the future of game design

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    [From James Iliff’s blog, where the post includes additional images and the blog features much interesting material] Three Fundamental Ways that Virtual Reality is Changing the Future of Game Design Most games are designed with a computer screen or television in mind – but what happens when the screen is attached to your face?  What happens when your body is being tracked?  There’s a lot of things that go into making virtual reality systems work, and they all fundamentally change how games are experienced and designed. Submitted by jimbo2go on December 2nd, 2012…

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  • Call: 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2013)

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    The 4th Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2013) In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI Stuttgart, Germany, March 7-8, 2013 http://hcilab.org/ah2013/ Proceedings to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series The 4th Augmented Human (AH) International Conference in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 7-8, 2013, focusing on augmenting human capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As in previous years, the conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN. TOPICS Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Bionics, Biomechanics and Exoskeletons…

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  • Robot mirrors our emotions to be more social

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    [From IEEE Spectrum’s Automaton blog; the paper is available here (pdf)] Robot Mirrors Our Emotions To Be More Social Posted by Angelica Lim  /  Wed, November 14, 2012 We all have that friend: The one who understandingly pats us on the back when we feel down, or shares our excitement when we’re brimming with joy. They share our frowns when we’ve been wronged, and say “I’ve been there” when we confess our worries. Psychologists have long known that this kind of empathy is an important social construct for building relationships, and now researchers are testing whether it can bring us closer…

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  • Call: Fourth International Conference on the Image

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    18-19 October 2013: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE, Chicago, USA Deadline (abstracts): December 6, 2012 On behalf of the International Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers and Call for Work for the Fourth International Conference on the Image and the Call for Submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of the Image. The Image Conference will be held 18-19 October 2013 in Chicago, USA. The Image Conference is a forum at which participants will interrogate the nature and functions of image-making and images. The conference has a cross-disciplinary focus, bringing together researchers, teachers and practitioners…

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  • Video conferencing market trends include decline in large room-based systems

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    [From eWeek] Cisco Still Leads Slowing Video Conferencing Market: IDC Revenues in the space fell 4.8 percent in the third quarter, hindered by a weak global economy and a drop in sales of high-end telepresence systems. By Jeffrey Burt  |  Posted 2012-11-30 The worldwide video conferencing market is continuing to struggle in the face of an uncertain global economy and slowing sales of expensive, high-end immersive telepresence systems, according to analysts with market research firm IDC. IDC’s third-quarter numbers, reported Nov. 29, show a trend that has continued throughout the year, as the shift in enterprise video conferencing has been…

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