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  • PBS hatcam brings new viewing perspective to political conventions

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    [From The PBS NewsHour] [Image: PBS NewsHour uses a helmet camera during the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. (Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune / August 29, 2012)] Hatcam Goes to the Conventions By: Katelyn Polantz September 4, 2012 What’s that curious helmet covered in stickers and wires? Why, it’s the PBS NewsHour hatcam, an emerging sensation at the national political conventions. Our documentary tool is a red plastic hard hat outfitted with a Go Pro HD camera, shotgun microphone and LiveShell broadcast transmitter that beams out onto our UStream channel live. And it…

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  • Call: Physicality 2012

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    Call for Participation: Physicality 2012 4th International Workshop on Physicality co-located with British HCI 2012 conference 11 September 2012, University of Birmingham, UK Physicality 2012 is the 4th International Workshop aimed at exploring design challenges, theories and experiences in developing new forms of interactions that exploit human physical interaction with digital technology. Physicality-based interactions extend feedback beyond the visual, thus emulating the experiences gained through our interaction with the world via our non-visual senses and control capabilities such as gesture, speech, touch and haptic. Also, the body parts used for interaction stretch out from the finger to the palm, arm…

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  • Nanoclusters that diffuse laser beams or create 3D telepresence

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    [From KurzweilAI via Telepresence Options] [Image: Atomic clusters of metals are an emerging class of extremely interesting materials occupying the intermediate size regime between atoms and nanoparticles. (credit: Reji Philip et al./Nano Letters)] Nanoclusters that diffuse laser beams or create 3D telepresence August 31, 2012 by Amara D. Angelica Think of the possibilities. University of Central Florida assistant professor Jayan Thomas, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Rongchao Jin, has developed a new material based on gold nanoparticles smaller than 2 nanometers, in a regime between atoms and nanoparticles called nanoclusters. Thomas and his team found that nanoclusters…

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  • Call: IEEE Virtual Reality 2013

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    Call for Participation IEEE Virtual Reality 2013 March 16th-20th, 2013 Orlando, FL. USA http://ieeevr.org/2013/ We invite you to participate in the IEEE Virtual Reality 2013 conference, the premier international conference and exhibition on Virtual Reality. At the conference you will find the brightest minds, the most innovative research, the leading companies and the most stimulating discussions in the fields of virtual environments, augmented reality, 3D user interfaces, all gathered in Orlando, Florida. We invite you to submit your work, show your products and join us for a fascinating week of presentations, exhibits, workshops, tutorials and special events. For its second…

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  • Ford expands uses of virtual reality

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    [From IT Wire] Ford Australia creates the Holodeck Ford Australia engineers and designers are living in a virtual world, and loving it.  The company has unveiled its new Virtual Reality Centre, a high tech digital evaluation and design environment 31 August 2012 By Mike Bantick Years before a Ford vehicle shines on stage at a car show or arrives in dealer showrooms, Ford researchers are hard at work behind the scenes, building virtual vehicles that allow the company to design, analyse and enhance the driver experience before a physical vehicle ever exists. Known as the Powerwall (Trekers would have preferred…

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  • Call: International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence – ICAART 2013

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    CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence – ICAART 2013 Website: http://www.icaart.org/ February 15 – 18, 2013 Barcelona, Spain Important Deadlines: Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2012 (extended) Authors Notification (regular papers): October 24, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 14, 2012 Sponsored by: INSTICC- Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: fiPa- Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition OMG- Object Management Group In Cooperation with: AAAI- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Agents and…

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  • Minnesota school district uses telepresence to offer low-demand subjects

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    [From TwinCities.com] [Image: Anoka-Hennepin school district technical support staffers interact from Andover High School with teachers at Blaine High School on the large wall monitors in a telepresence technology presentation Aug. 23, 2012. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)] Anoka-Hennepin ‘telepresence’ allows low-demand subjects to be offered By Sarah Horner horner@pioneerpress.com 8/26/2012 A handful of classrooms in Anoka-Hennepin high schools might appear equipped for surveillance rather than teaching to students returning from summer vacation next week. Six giant flat-screens span the space where a podium might otherwise be, and long, semi-circular tables outfitted with built-in microphones stand in place of traditional desks.…

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  • Call: Workshop on “The Social Car” (socially-inspired C2X interaction)

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    WORKSHOP “The Social Car” (socially-inspired C2X interaction) Portsmouth, NH, USA; October 17th 2012 colocated with AutomotiveUI 2012 (http://www.auto-ui.org/12) Workshop website: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar/| Submission deadline extended to: September 3rd, 2012 (firm) WORKSHOP SUMMARY This workshop aims at discussing the potential of cars’ socializing one with the other (similar to how humans are exchanging information), and not just translating the Internet of things (IoT) paradigm into the car domain. With the introduction of the concept of “social cars” we attempt to make a blueprint of next generation in-vehicle technologies. This is different from what the Internet of things (IoT) community is talking about…

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  • Virtual reality lets amputees train with a prosthesis

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    [From New Scientist’s One Per Cent blog; more information, including additional images and a longer video, is available from The Vienna University of Technology] Virtual reality lets amputees train with a prosthesis 24 August 2012 Douglas Heaven, reporter Even Oscar Pistorius had to learn to walk before he could run. But learning to live with a prosthetic limb can be a difficult and frustrating experience. To help amputees get to grips with a new prosthetic arm, the prosthesis manufacturer Otto Bock has teamed up with researchers from the Interactive Media Systems Group at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria…

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  • Call: Communication Theory at 2013 Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Conference

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    COMMUNICATION THEORY INTEREST GROUP Call for Submissions 2013 Central States Communication Association Conference Kansas City Marriott Downtown Kansas City, Missouri Communicating the Possible April 2 – April 7, 2013 The Communication Theory Interest Group welcomes submissions of competitive papers and panel proposals for the 2013 CSCA Conference. Any topic related to communication theory is welcome. We encourage submissions that not only focuses on the convention theme, “Communicating the Possible, but also on scholarship that highlights key intersections uniting communication scholars from varying areas of study and intellectual traditions. The Communication Theory Interest Group is especially interested in submissions that: Extend…

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  • More apps hope to turn smartphones into personal assistants

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    [From MIT’s Technology Review] [Image: The first step in the “Choose Your Robots” process on the Happiness Engines web site] Getting Your Phone to Give You a Hand A growing number of apps hope to turn smartphones into personal assistants. Rachel Metz Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Ever since last fall, when Apple introduced its genial voice-controlled personal assistant, Siri, on the iPhone 4S, there’s been a flurry of activity as other apps attempt to go beyond its limitations. Challengers include Evi (see “New Virtual Helper Challenges Siri“), which mimics some of Siri’s abilities for smartphones running Google’s Android software; Cue, an…

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  • Call: Robot Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Voting

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    Robot Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Voting The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics. The Robot Hall of Fame was created by Carnegie Mellon University in April 2003 to call attention to the increasing contributions of robots to society. The time has come to select the Robots that will take their place in the Robot Hall of Fame. The finalists have been selected under four categories but we need your help to determine which robot will be inducted into the…

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