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  • Sensics Smart Goggles put your head in the game

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    [From The Verge, where the story includes additional images and 0:58 minute video; more information on the Smart Goggles is here] Sensics Smart Goggles put your head in the game (hands-on pictures and video) By David Pierce on January 9, 2012 Pepcom’s the perfect place to find things you might not hear about otherwise — like Sensics’ Smart Goggles, which we got a chance to play with tonight. The Smart Goggles are basically an insanely heavy helmet containing a heads-up display that runs Android (Android 4.0, to be exact, though we’re not sure if that really matters) — it’s kind of…

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  • Call: Journeys Across Media 2012: Time Tells

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    Journeys Across Media University of Reading (UK) Thursday 19th April 2012 Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research. Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an…

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  • New military IED trainer prepares soldiers for the reality of the battlefield

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    [A press release from The United States Army] [Image: IED Trainer. Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa, currently training to deploy to Afghanistan at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., was the first PRT to train on a new virtual reality combat simulator designed specifically to help Soldiers.] Atterbury opens new IED simulator December 28, 2011 By Staff Sgt. Matt Scotten, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public Affairs EDINBURGH, Ind. (Army News Service, Dec. 28, 2011) — Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa, who is currently training at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan, was the first PRT to train on…

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  • Call: Social Implications of Embedded Systems – Special issue of Interacting with Computers

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    Call for Papers: Interacting with Computers Special Issue on the Social Implications of Embedded Systems http://www.journals.elsevier.com/interacting-with-computers/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-the-social-implications-of-embedded-systems/ Special Issue Editors Dr Stuart Moran, Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Tekniker IK4, Avenida Otaola, 20, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain Research on Embedded Systems or Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and its associated sensory and mobile technologies, is shifting focus from studies in controlled research laboratories, to emerging prototype implementations in real world everyday applications. The future application of PerCom is envisaged to cover almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. The benefits of PerCom are numerous…

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  • Banning photoshop in cosmetics ads

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    [From Business Insider] US Moves Toward Banning Photoshop In Cosmetics Ads Jim Edwards | December 16, 2011| Procter & Gamble has agreed to never again run an ad for its CoverGirl mascara because it used “enhanced post-production” and “photoshopping” to make eyelashes look thicker than they were in real life. P&G agreed to the ban even though it disclosed in the ad that the image was enhanced. The move is the latest in a series of baby steps that U.S. and international advertising regulators have taken to ban the use of Photoshop in advertising when it is misleading to consumers.…

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  • Call: CHI 2012 Interactivity Explorations

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    CHI 2012 Interactivity Explorations : Call for projects : artists, designers and makers CHI2012, the world’s largest conference on human-computer-interaction, is opening its doors to artists, designers and makers whose focus is on cultural applications and explorations of future technologies, to acknowledge and support their influence on future technology thinking and development. If your work asks questions and inspires reflection on the role of technology in people’s lives, their dreams and imaginations, and if your mode of presentation can take us way beyond a traditional conference mindset, we want to hear from you. For the newly created Interactivity Explorations track…

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  • Cisco kills Umi: Home telepresence is an open field

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    [From Telepresence Options] Cisco Kills Umi: Home Telepresence is an Open Field January 4, 2012 | David Maldow Cisco’s Umi home telepresence solution was first introduced in October 2010. The industry was excited to see a major push for consumer videoconferencing from the tech giant, but concerned about aspects of Umi’s implementation. HPL’s Howard Lichtman provided a thorough description of the solution with his thoughts and analysis in our initial coverage of Umi. Howard immediately noted two significant issues with Cisco’s vision for this product; the cost, and lack of interoperability. In fact, Cisco’s Umi confused many industry analysts from…

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  • Call: Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC ’12)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND WORKSHOPS FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC’12 OR DCC12) Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research 7-9 June 2012 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA preceded by Workshops 5-6 June 2012 http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc12/index.html Paper Abstracts (optional) 1 December 2011 Papers (full – 20 pages) 6 January 2012 Posters (abstracts) 3 February 2012 Workshop proposals 3 February 2012 This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in…

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  • Apple’s Siri curses at boy, tells him to shut up; generates variety of user responses

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    [From The Huffington Post; see also Filmmaker Casey Neistat’s iPhone’s Siri vs. My Human Assistant and Conan O’Brien’s comedy feature Apple’s New Siri Commercial Cuts To The Chase] Apple’s Siri Curses At Boy, Tells Him To Shut Up The Huffington Post  Ramona Emerson Posted: 12/31/11 When it comes to the iPhone 4S’s voice-controlled personal assistant Siri, you’d better be careful what you ask for. According to the Sun, Charlie Le Quesne, 12, learned that lesson the hard way this week when he picked up a display model of the iPhone 4S at a store and asked, “How many people are…

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  • Call: SMC 2012 – 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference

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    SMC 2012 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference 12-14th July 2012, Aalborg University Copenhagen http://smc2012.smcnetwork.org/ The SMC Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing. SMC 2012 is organized by the Medialogy section, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen. The general theme for the SMC 2012 conference is “Illusions”. We welcome scientific contributions, demonstrations, installations and performances which are connected to the idea of sonic or multisensorial illusions. SMC 2012 will feature lectures, posters/demos, musical/sonic works, tutorials and other types of events. The SMC Summer School will…

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  • “The Sims” designer creating new game for real life

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    [From Reuters] “The Sims” designer creating new game for real life By John Gaudiosi RALEIGH, North Carolina | Mon Jan 2, 2012 (Reuters) – Will Wright, the designer behind successful video game simulations including “SimCity”, “The Sims” and “Spore”, is at it again. Only this time, rather than controlling virtual people or creating space creatures, the protagonist of “HiveMind” is the actual player. “HiveMind,” a group of cross-platform, cross-media online applications, is designed to turn a gamer’s everyday life into part of the interactive experience by building upon Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and tapping into streams of personal information on…

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  • Call: GameDays 2012 in conjunction with Edutainment 2012

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    Call for Papers: GameDays 2012 in conjunction with Edutainment 2012 GameDays 2012, 3rd International Conference and 8th Science meets Business Workshop on Serious Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports Edutainment 2012, 7th International Conference on E-Learning and Games September 18-20, 2012, Darmstadt, Germany http://www.gamedays2012.de, http://www.edutainment2012.de Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2012 The Conference Proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (EI). Further, selected papers will be recommended to submit their extended full version for possible publication in Transactions on Edutainment, the International Journal of Game-based Learning (IJGBL) or the International Journal for…

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