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  • Call: “Haptic Services in Vehicles” at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)

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    I would like to inform you that IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) announced a new topic, “Haptic Services in Vehicles”. You are invited to submit your papers to “Mobile Applications and Services” track by September 30. Potential haptics related topics are solicited in, but are not limited to the following categories: In-vehicle haptic data communication networks Wireless haptic data communication in vehicular networks In-vehicle multimedia systems In-car haptic user interfaces Haptic-enabled mobile robots Haptic-enabled unmanned vehicles: UGV, UAV, etc. Haptic-enabled driving simulators Haptic-enabled virtual vehicle design and assembly In-vehicle human factors: human haptic perception & performance Active safety through haptic…

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  • Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D

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    [From BLDGBLOG] Augmented Metropolis Posted August 23, 2010  Keiichi Matsuda, a recent graduate—with distinction—from the Bartlett School of Architecture, whose film Domestic Robocop was featured on BLDGBLOG several months ago, has a new project out: Augmented City. And it’s in 3D. The [2:46 minute] film “focuses on the deprogramming of architecture and the spontaneous creation of customised, aggregated spaces,” Matsuda writes. We see its central protagonist surrounded by pop-up menus and projected touchscreens, able to switch urban backgrounds—graffiti to gardens—in an instant. …

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  • Call: Interactive Stories for Health Interventions at ICIDS 2010

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    Interactive Stories for Health Interventions October 31st, 2010, Edinburgh UK Half-day Workshop (9:30am -12:30pm) at ICIDS 2010 (the third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) November 1st – 3rd 2010 Organizers: Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, Lynn Miller Call for Participation Increasingly interactive stories are used as tools in developing health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Interactive stories provide unique power to teach and change people’s behaviors as they allow the user to experience and learn in context. Further, the story, and intervention messages, can be tailored based on user profiles and the user’s patterns of interaction within the intervention. Research…

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  • Brazil’s KAIAK introduces world’s first scented online banner

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    [From BizBash Hive] World’s First Scented Online Banner – Smell This! by Community on August 17, 2010 Ever heard of smell-o-vision? Back in 1960 one film was made, ironically called “Scent of Mystery,” that brought-to-life a very cool idea – pumping smells into the theatre that corresponded with scenes happening in the movie.  So when the characters on screen were eating at a restaurant the audience would smell the food. Fast forward 50 years later to Brazil and the world of KAIAK – a top selling men’s fragrance that is sold exclusively door-to-door.  The company wanted to let people know…

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  • Call: ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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    First Call for Papers ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems http://www.eics2011.org/ Pisa, Italy | June 13-16, 2011 EICS 2011 is the third international conference devoted to the engineering of interactive computing systems. EICS focuses on methods, techniques, and the tools that support them, for designing and developing interactive systems. It brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities. Systems of interest include traditional as well as non-traditional interactive systems, development processes (e.g. agile software development), design tools (e.g.…

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  • HP’s wide, wide, wide high-definition screen

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    [From VentureBeat] HP’s Phil McKinney shows off a wide, wide, wide high-definition screen August 20, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Hewlett Packard is working on a display with a really wide screen. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer at the Personal Systems Group at HP, showed off the concept for the screen at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference this week in San Jose, Calif. The screen is so wide that you can see an entire pro basketball court at the same time. McKinney referred to the screen as a “triple wide high-definition” screen that is created by stitching together images from lots of…

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  • Call: 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2011)

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    CAADRIA 2011 Call for Papers – Abstract Due September 7, 2010 Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending The 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Dates: April 27-29, 2011 Host: School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia Submission guidelines and other information: http://www.caadria2011.org/ Contemporary advances in design are shaped by computational design methods, strategies and technologies, regardless of whether these advances are manifested in the design and construction of a building, in related theory and analysis, or in the ways in which future designers and scholars are educated. Architectural computation in the…

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  • SQUSE’s creepily realistic robot hand

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    [From CrunchGear] Video: Creepily Realistic Robot Hand by Serkan Toto on August 11, 2010 Kyoto-based Squse has developed the so-called Robot Hand H-Type [JP], a creepily realistic (but very cool) robotic hand. The hand’s “bones” are made of polycarbonate, while the skin is silicon rubber. It weighs 340g and can lift up and move objects weighing up to 1.5kg. The secret lies in its 16 joints and 22 actuators. Needless to say, the Robot Hand H-Type will be used mainly for industrial applications (for “pick and place” actions). Squse says that two auto makers and another two companies from the…

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  • Call: The 3D Experience – 3D Entertainment and Technology Festival

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    The 3D Experience 3D Entertainment and Technology Festival September 24-26, 2010 Times Square, New York http://the3dexperience.org/ Experience 3D Digital Cinema, Home Entertainment & More… At the Center of the Most Exciting City on the Planet! Our Annual Event: For 3 days, top innovators, industry leaders and filmmakers will gather in Times Square to showcase the latest advances in 3D for 2010 and beyond. From Hollywood blockbuster 3D screenings to in-home entertainment, professionals, 3D fans and the general public will be brought into the 3rd dimension like they’ve never been before.…

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  • High school project Smell-O-Vision adds scents to VR

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    [From CANOE] [Image: Ashley Brown works on her science project Tuesday at the University of Alberta. (Perry Mah, QMI Agency)] Computer program makes scents By LINDA HOANG, QMI Agency EDMONTON – Ashley Brown is hoping to change the world — one smell at a time. Born and raised in Elnora, a village about 70 km southeast of Red Deer, Brown, 17, never thought she’d be part of a team working on a project that could help improve rehabilitation, education, research and even gaming. It’s called Smell-O-Vision, and it’s a virtual reality computer program — which Brown built herself — that…

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  • Call: Environment 2.0 theme for Leonardo

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    Call for Papers ENVIRONMENT 2.0 Leonardo – Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Guest Editor: Drew Hemment Leonardo calls for papers documenting cross-disciplinary thinking on participatory observation and mapping of the environment, climate and biodiversity; environmental data systems and services; and environmental sustainability in a networked society. Leonardo is soliciting texts that document the works of artists, researchers and scholars involved in the exploration of citizens as environmental data gatherers, and new approaches to environmental data systems and environmental sustainability. There is no deadline for this call – submissions may be made at any time. Themes…

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  • The future of mobile: Invisible, connected devices with infinite screens

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    [From The Radioactive Yak, a technology blog by Reto Meier, an Android Developer Advocate for Google in London and author of Professional Android 2 Application Development; an evaluation of some of these predictions can be found here] [Image: From “Introducing the “iThink” by Paul Mic on his The Monkey Buddha blog] The Future of Mobile: Invisible, connected devices with infinite screens Monday, August 09, 2010 by Reto Meier The history of smartphones looks something like this: At the end of 2008 the very first Android handset was available on T-Mobile in the US. The iPhone has existed for 3 years.…

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