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  • Investigating the bystander effect using virtual reality

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    [From ScienceDaily] [Image: Animated environment for the simulation. (Credit: Image courtesy of Bournemouth University)] Investigating the Bystander Effect Using Virtual Reality Jan. 11, 2013 — The bystander effect is well-known in behavioural psychology and suggests that the more people who witnessing a violent emergency the less likely it is that someone will intervene. It was first identified in the 1960s, but conducting research on the phenomenon has been difficult. Most experiments rely upon staging fake emergencies or violent encounters using actors, but it is tricky to gauge how genuine a response is. Dr Southern and his colleagues have turned to…

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  • Call: EuroITV 2013 Demonstrations

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    Call for Papers: EuroITV 2013 Demonstrations EuroITV is the leading international conference for media and interaction related to video and television. EuroITV 2013 will be held in Como, Italy, from June 24 – 26, 2013. EuroITV demonstrations provide an opportunity for you to demonstrate your latest prototypes and cutting edge research to attendees at the conference. Having people interact directly with a new interface or design is often the best way to communicate what you have created to your audience. It is also the perfect way to get feedback on your work from experts within the field, and build beneficial…

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  • 3D graffiti art by Jimmy Cochran

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    [From Lost At E Minor, where the post includes additional images; more information and images are on the artist’s web site] Remarkable 3D graffiti by Jimmy Cochran December 11, 2012 | by  Kiron Heriot-Darragh Australian-born graffiti artist Jimmy Cochran has painted walls from the Bronx to Berlin and is recognized equally in fine art galleries as graffiti street tours in London. Last month, Cochran unveiled his latest project, pushing the boundaries of his pointillist-inspired art style with 3D graffiti techniques. Living in London, Cochran has been working on developing 3D graffiti for years now. He explains: ‘This is something that…

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  • Call: Second International Workshop on Ambient Information Technologies (AMBIT 2013)

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    Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Ambient Information Technologies (AMBIT 2013) http://www-human.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/ambit2013/ in conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2013 (IEEE VR 2013) http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2013/ March 16 (Sat), 2013 Orlando, FL, USA AIM AND SCOPE In [a] VR environment, users are surrounded with various kinds of devises such as sensors, displays, actuators, etc. The integration with these devises and analyzing [the] acquired data lead [to] new techniques and technologies that could offer users various comfortable computer-supported environments. As one of such environments, ambient information technologies have attempted to offer users to unconsciously access useful information with various kinds of displays…

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  • Microsoft’s IllumiRoom projects images beyond your TV

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    [From Gameranx] IllumiRoom Projects Images Past Your TV, Looks Stunning Microsoft’s research labs have just released a trailer for IllumiRoom, which projects images beyond your TV! You need to watch it to believe it. by Alex Co on 9th Jan, 2013 During Samsung’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote, Microsoft demonstrated one of the projects they’re working on and this one has a gaming slant to it. Microsoft’s Research lab calls it “IllumiRoom,” and it projects images outside of your TV while you’re playing games. According to the official site, IllumiRoom ” is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the…

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  • Call: Artist talk at University of Salford – Igloo on “Kinosphir” method for immersive experiences

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    Artist Talk As Yet Impossible Presents: Igloo Kinosphir – she’s lost control Tuesday 15 January, 18:00 – 20:00 University of Salford MediaCityUK Salford Quays M50 2HE FREE – Registration Required The University is pleased to welcome Igloo to MediaCityUK to talk about their past/current & future projects – which deal primarily with figure & landscape. Special attention is given to experience – a kinosphir – a new methodology of giving audiences immersive experiences using a variety of techniques including game engine visualisations, motion capture, haptic interfaces & stereo projections to convey imagery derived from & relating to the Skinner Releasing…

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  • Greg Kumparak’s augmented reality TARDIS (from Doctor Who)

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    [From Greg Kumparak’s GK blog, where the post includes additional images] My Lil’ TARDIS: It’s Bigger On The Inside. No, Really. By Greg Kumparak December 21, 2012 As I used roughly a zillion words to explain yesterday, I’ve spent the last few months tinkering with all sorts of little projects in an effort to learn to build awesome things. Most of the projects were intended to be scrapped from the get-go, meant primarily to help me wrap my head around some concept – brain fodder, if you will. With others, I was testing the water with ideas I might want…

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  • Call: Invitation to online/offline performances of ‘Start Operation Systems (S.O.S.)’

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    INVITATION to Start Operation Systems Performers in London and around the world on the web guide their audiences in a playful exploration of a technologically cutting-edge and emotionally magical journey. Do you know the legend of the full moon? There will be ships, stars, the sea, the full moon, and you! What is real? What is the space around us made of? Where are we now? Who are we? Can we share a body? We invite you to come and Start Operating the System. The work in progress performances will take place on: Thursday 10th of January Friday 11th of…

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  • Altered photo of U.S. House women draws criticism

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    [From iMediaEthics; a 1:02 minute video of Rep. Pelosi defending the altered photo is available on YouTube] [Image: See the original group of politicians (left) compared with the doctored version released by Pelosi’s office. In red circle, see the added politicians. (Credit: WizbangBlog, Nancy Pelosi’s Flickr, screenshots)] NPPA, White House Photographers Criticize Doctored Photo by Nancy Pelosi’s office By: Sydney Smith January 07, 2013 Nancy Pelosi’s office doctored a photograph picturing the Democratic women in Congress but argues it’s OK because it shows all of the women, even if they weren’t all there for the photo. A comparison of Pelosi’s…

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  • Call: Global Issues and Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement Technologies (book chapters)

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    FIRST CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013 Global Issues and Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement Technologies A book edited by Dr. Steven John Thompson (Johns Hopkins University, USA, and University of Maryland University College, USA) To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com Introduction Society is struggling with issues regarding rapid advancements in Human Enhancement Technologies (HET), especially in terms of definition, effects, participation, regulation, and control. These are global matters that legislators must sufficiently address at some point, as was evidenced partly by debate within the 2008 European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA), among…

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  • How fast does ‘virtual reality’ have to be to look like ‘actual reality’?

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    [From Ars Technica] How fast does “virtual reality” have to be to look like “actual reality”? Low latency is important to an effective VR display but might not be everything. by Kyle Orland – Jan 3 2013 For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it. Generating a convincing 3D world that precisely and instantly matches the head-tracked position of a player’s gaze was well beyond the headsets that proliferated in research centers and on the market up through the ’90s. It has only been recently that products like…

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  • Call: Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction at CHI 2013

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    Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interaction – CALL FOR PAPERS April 27-28, 2013 (at CHI 2013) Paris, France http://geohci2013.grouplens.org @geohci Position Statements Due: January 11, 2013 Thanks to rapid developments in mobile and spatial technologies, researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction (HCI), a large sub-field of computer science, are quickly becoming interested in geographic research questions and application areas. Similarly, geographers are exploring the impact of software and computing on space, and members of the Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Cartography communities are exploring how lessons from HCI can be integrated into their work. However, despite this rapid topical convergence, there…

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