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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • Call: ISPR 2012 – UPDATED

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    A personal preface: As president of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) and editor of ISPR Presence News, I see a ton of calls for conference submissions. There are a lot of interesting events in interesting places out there. But the presence conferences (I’ve been at all but the first of the 13 held since 1998) have consistently provided the most useful and enjoyable conference experiences of my career. It’s the only conference I go to where I want to attend every session. If you’re interested in any aspect of  (tele)presence, the combination of single-track format, social events and…

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  • Call: Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI’12)

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    4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI’12) October 17-19, 2012, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA NEW: in-cooperation with ACM SIGCHI approved! Paper submission deadline: June 11, 23:59 PST (extended) Conference website: http://www.auto-ui.org AutomotiveUI, the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, is the premier forum for UI research in the automotive domain. AutomotiveUI brings together researchers and practitioners interested in both the technical and the human aspects of in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. AutomotiveUI’12 will investigate novel in-vehicle services, issues related to driver distraction, approaches to improving driver performance, and the varying needs…

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  • Walmart to offer doctor visits via BCS Global telepresence

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    [From InformationWeek Healthcare; for more see ZDNet’s Health blog] The Doctor Will See You In Walmart Retailer rolls out telemedicine services that give shoppers access to doctors through videoconferencing technology. By Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek June 05, 2012 It’s the weekend and you’ve gotten a nasty cold with a high temperature and need to see a doctor, but you also need to buy milk, eggs, and bread. Walmart’s telemedicine services now give new meaning to the term “one-stop shopping.” A statement outlining the Arkansas retail giant’s use of telehealth technology indicates that Walmart has engaged BCS Global Networks to provide videoconferencing…

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  • Call: Place-non-Place Augmented Reality exhibition at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

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    The Glass Cabinet – Research Gallery Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) Calling artists to propose works for the exhibition Place-non-Place Augmented Reality Exhibition Digital technologies are nowadays changing the ways we conceive space. By means of their instrumental power, they pierce “the woven fabric of reality” on one hand, and construct Virtual Reality, expanding it towards infinity, on the other hand. Virtual Space breaks through Real Space, making it fluid, flexible, collapsible and mobile. It blurs the difference between inside and outside, joins sites distant from each other in space and time and hybridizes a diversity of planes, from formative…

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  • Harry Potter ‘Book of Spells’ will come to life via Sony

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    [From The Christian Science Monitor’s chapter & verse blog; short videos are available here and here] Harry Potter ‘Book of Spells’ will come to life via Sony J.K. Rowling’s ‘Book of Spells’ will allow players to wave wands and cast spells using Wonderbook technology. By Husna Haq / June 5, 2012 It’s being called the reinvention of the storybook. At a Monday announcement at the annual video game conference known as the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Sony Entertainment of America announced J.K. Rowling’s “Wonderbook: Book of Spells,” an interactive spell book that comes alive on PlayStation 3 videogame…

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  • Call: Serious Games and Multi-User Virtual Environments in Professional Development and Healthcare (book chapters)

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    We have the possibility to add some more chapters to our edited book. If you think you can contribute a chapter, or at least an abstract / a rough draft, for quick review by the 13rd of June, please send your proposals to: bredl@phil.uni-augsburg.de, boesche@ph-karlsruhe.de Best wishes Klaus Bredl and Wolfgang Bösche Call for Chapters (quick delivery required): Serious Games and Multi-User Virtual Environments in Professional Development and Healthcare A book edited by Klaus Bredl (Augsburg University) and Wolfgang Bösche (University of Education Karlsruhe) The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) Overview: The…

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  • ‘Diet glasses’ fool wearers into eating less

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    [From Discovery News, where the story includes a 1:40 minute video] [Image: The goggles trick the senses, making a cookie appear bigger, for example] ‘Diet Glasses’ Fool Wearers Into Eating Less Augmented reality goggles trick eaters into feeling more satisfied with their meals. Jun 4, 2012 Content provided by Miwa Suzuki, AFP Goggles that trick the wearer into thinking the plain snack in their hand is a chocolate cookie, or make biscuits appear larger have been unveiled in Japan, offering hope to weak-willed dieters everywhere. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed devices that use computer wizardry and augmented…

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  • Job: Leonardo Scholarship for Art Histories (MA course at Danube University Krems)

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    LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES First International Master of MediaArtHistories (low-residency, English language, international faculty) In affiliation with a driving force leading the field, Leonardo/ISAST, The Center for Image Science is pleased to announce their continued cooperation with a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course in MediaArtHistories, for the start in November 2012. LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist. The…

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  • Instagram is OK, but Photoshop is evil? The truth about digital lies

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    [From Advertising Age’s The Media Guy blog] Instagram Is OK, But Photoshop Is Evil? The Truth About Digital Lies Photoshop Gets Bashed For Digitally Altering Reality. So How Come Instagram Gets a Pass? By: Simon Dumenco Published: May 28, 2012 When Facebook bought Instagram last month, pretty much all the media coverage focused primarily on a single narrative thread: how a tiny startup with just 13 employees and no revenue came to be worth $1 billion. That, of course, is an astonishing business story, but in obsessing about the economics of Instagram, its aesthetics — the real reason why it’s…

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  • Call: Designing and Integrating Independent and Assisted Living Technologies – Workshop at BCS HCI 2012

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    Call for Papers DILT’12 @ BCS HCI 2012 Workshop on Designing and Integrating Independent and Assisted Living Technologies September 2012, Birmingham, UK Submission deadline: 25th June The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, technologists and policy makers to share best practices in the design and integration of independent and assisted living technologies at scale. We will also introduce the ‘dallas’ programme evaluation and the challenges of large complex evaluations of telecare and telehealth. The aim is to share lessons learned and to document steps for continuing to move the independent and assisted living technology from research…

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  • The future of virtual reality

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    [From The Sydney Morning Herald’s Smoke & Mirrors blog] [Image: The walls of Sydney’s Town Hall Station resembled a Woolworth’s supermarket shelf in Australia’s first virtual supermarket. Photo: Getty Images] Virtual reality at a tipping point By George Wright June 4, 2012 Technology is only going to get more immersive and consume a bigger percentage of our attention. Take Ready Player One, a book by Ernest Cline. This work of fiction describes a near future where our over populated and environmentally damaged planet sees society flee their daily struggles to interact in a massively multiplayer world. When the eccentric Jobs/Zuckerberg-esque…

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  • Call: Virulent Experience Exhibition (London)

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    OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Virulent Experience Exhibition – Conway Hall Deadline: 30th of June 2012 Application fee: none FoolishPeople are currently inviting submissions from artists working in all mediums to create artworks and installations for our forthcoming exhibition, Virulent Experience, a unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work to a wide audience in an historic Central London venue throughout August 2012. Virulent Experience explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London…

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