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Board for Presence Announcements
This is a virtual notice board where members of the presence community and other interested parties are invited to post (at no cost):
To post an item, please e-mail your materials to ispr@ispr.info. Include a title, a short (max. 400 word) text description in plain text, MS Word, or html format (not in Acrobat .pdf format), and include any graphics files (standard, web compatible formats only). Posts will remain on the site indefinitely unless you specify a removal date. Posts will also be distributed once via the presence-l listserv unless otherwise requested. For more information please e-mail us at ispr@ispr.info. OTHER (Posted November 28, 2007) Experience Lab (or GameXPlab) at Eindhoven University of Technology At the 35th anniversary of Pong, we are proud to announce the official launch of the Game Experience Lab (or GameXPlab) at Eindhoven University of Technology. The Game Experience Lab is an interdisciplinary group of scholars working together to better understand the captivating player experiences associated with digital games. Our scientific endeavours are enabled through multiple laboratory spaces with state-of-the-art gaming equipment and high-end measurement and observation tools. It is supported by funding from TU/e as well as two European Union FP6 projects, Games@Large (http://www.gamesatlarge.eu/ ) and FUGA (http://project.hkkk.fi/fuga/). More information at: www.gamexplab.nl On behalf of the GameXPlab team, (Posted November 17, 2006) A Virtual Reality Search Engine Project I'm Matteo Cantamesse, a phD student from Milan, Italy. I'm working on social presence and conversation analysis in Collaborative Virtual Environments. During the literature review step, I've created (within the Google Co-op project ) a specialized search engine for virtual reality on-line resources. Google Co-op project allows users to create specialized search engine, powered by the Google engine, crawling selected and annotated websites. Up to now I've collected and tagged 100+ resources (from e-journals to lab sites to newsgroups) strictly related to VR topics, presence, social presence and tech news. Now I decided to publish the search engine, so everyone could use it and collaborate at: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008482043968688804374%3Ao1v9ph46qic If you wish to co-operate or add a website, contact me or visit
the VR Matteo Cantamesse (Posted November 19, 2006) New book: Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Experiencing Aural Architecture During my 5 years of research into auditory spatial awareness, which is discussed in my book Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Experiencing Aural Architecture, I have created the language of aural spatiality. While traditional acoustic architects think in terms of the sound physics of real spaces, I have formulate concepts that also apply to virtual spaces. An experiential language is far different from a physical language. The ability to recreate a spatial experience at a remote location requires that the acoustics be considered in terms of both temporal and spatial spreading, where the former is based on the location of the sound source, the latter is dependent on the reproduction in the listening space. Listeners experience the two aspects of spatiality differently. For those who have a chance to look at the book, I would welcome the opportunity to continue the discussion of the aural architecture of virtual spaces. Because I have only established a foundation, the discussion needs to be expanded and extended. Additional information about the book can be found at the MIT Press web at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947 and I can provide copies of the Introduction and Table of Contents if you send me an email requesting them.
(Posted October 16, 2006) Brazilian Association of Researchers in Cyberculture Dear colleagues, It is with utmost pleasure that I announce the founding of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Cyberculture last September 27, Paulo, as indicated in the Public Note shown below and attached hereto. I would be very pleased and grateful to everyone for kindly publicizing this announcement at your respective institutions and in your mailing and discussion lists. With my warmest regards,Eugenio Trivinho PUBLIC NOTE TO THE BRAZILIAN AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY The signatory researchers of this Public Note, representatives
of various Post-Graduate Programs in different areas of Human Sciences,
Applied Social Sciences and Linguistics, Letters and Arts in Brazil,
who convened at the Pontifical Catholic University of S=E3o Paulo
(PUC-SP) for the 1st National Symposium of Researchers in Communications
and Cyberculture, which was organized by CENCIB - Center for Interdisciplinary
Research on Communications and Cyberculture of the Program of Post-Graduate
Studies on Communication and Semiotics of this University and held
from September 25 to 29, 2006, decided, during the Special Plenary
of September 27 and for all academic effects, to found the Brazilian
Association of Researchers in Cyberculture, with the purpose of
organizing, fostering and consolidating the pertinent The institution will be constituted of an executive body, comprising the positions of Presidency, Vice Presidency and General Secretariat, and a deliberative body, composed of a Consultative Scientific Council. In the coming months, the researchers will define not only the modus operandi between the bodies, but also the Association's institutional goals, its programmatic objectives, the educational level(s) to which it is connected, its statutes, its sequential legal provisions and its relation to pertinent public policies (federal and state), among other relevant requisites. Upon the conclusion of this groundwork, all the institutional bodies of the scientific community (fostering agencies, scientific associations, area representations, Post-Graduate Programs, etc.), as well as the main media outlets and Non-Governmental Organizations dedicated to the issues of the Association, will receive updated information. Sao Paulo, October 7, 2006 (Posted August 15, 2006) Human Productivity Lab Announces New Telepresence Paper Howard S. Lichtman, founder of the Human Productivity Lab, a consultancy specializing in Telepresence & Visual Collaboration, Personal and Organizational Productivity, and Sales Model Optimization, has announced the publication of a on the emerging telepresence industry: Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light. "The paper has been the culmination of over six months of research and ½ a decade of work and interest in effective visual collaboration. The paper seems especially timely with oil hitting an all-time high this week of $78.64 and with commercial aviation having literally ground to halt due to the latest terrorist threats against the airlines. The paper covers both the effect of higher oil prices on the airlines and the reduced convenience of commercial aviation." (Posted October 21, 2005) i2 Media Research Ltd
(Posted October 21, 2005) Presence-Research.org is the official website of the OmniPres project, funded under the EC's IST FET Presence Research Proactive Initiative. The site aims to offer up-to-date and relevant information and resources on (tele-)presence, i.e. the subjective experience of 'being there' in mediated environments such as virtual reality, simulators, cinema, television, etc. (Posted October 21, 2005)
Presence-connect.com is the on line companion to the MIT Press journal PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. The purpose of the site is to provide researchers with the opportunity for submission of short papers, and other material, with an extremely fast turn-round time for publication and feedback (48 hours!). It's also the place for job announcements, posting of resumes by those seeking jobs, information about forthcoming events and discussion forums on any relevant stream of interest. Notice Board: OTHER - ARCHIVES |
