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PhD vacancies in Intermedia in Norway!!

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http://www.intermedia.uio.no/display/Im2/Vacancies

Vacancies

Vacant PhD position within communication design in museums and cultural heritage institutions

Are you interested in research on the development and impact of digital technologies in museums and cultural heritage institutions?

A PhD position is available within the interdisciplinary research project CONTACT: Communicating Organizations in Networks of Art and Cultural Heritage Technologies. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council and runs from 2009 to 2013.

Deadline for applications: 24 August 2009

Interested applicants may contact:
Professor Sten Ludvigsen
Postdoc Palmyre Pierroux (+47 454 32 464)
Researcher Dagny Stuedahl (+47 997 28 156)

Formal announcement of the position will be made August 3.

CFP for Presence 2009

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Please note these important dates:

Submissions deadline (on-line): July 1, 2009
Early registration (on-line): July 1 – October 1

OVERVIEW

Academics and practitioners with an interest in the concept of (tele)presence are
invited to PRESENCE 2009, the 12th Annual International Workshop on Presence, to be held in Los Angeles, California on November 11-13, 2009. Often described as a sense of “being there” in a mediated environment, telepresence is broadly defined as a psychological state or subjective perception in which a person fails to accurately and completely acknowledge the role of technology in an experience. It is a rich, fascinating subject of scientific investigation, artistic exploration and diverse application, with increasingly important implications for the ways in which people work, play and live, and technologies are developed.

The PRESENCE conferences provide a relaxed and enjoyable forum for presentation of presence scholarship and applications and (especially in the planned format this year), discussion sessions that allow attendees to join together in synthesizing and expanding our collective knowledge and visions for the future regarding this compelling topic.

PRESENCE 2009 is co-organized by the International Society for Presence Research
(ISPR; http://ispr.info) and The University of Southern California Institute for
Creative Technologies (ICT; http://ict.usc.edu).

VENUE

The conference will be hosted by The The University of Southern California Institute for
Creative Technologies (ICT) in Los Angeles, California. The conference events will
take place at The Marina del Rey Hotel (http://www.marinadelreyhotel.com) in the beautiful Marina del Rey area. Only 4 miles from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and easily accessible from all major Southern California freeways, the Marina del Rey/Venice Beach area offers waterfront beauty with shopping, dining, great recreation and miles of beautiful beaches.

IMPORTANT DATES

July 1, 2009 – Submissions due; early registration opens

August 15, 2009 – Acceptance/Rejection notifications

September 15, 2009 – Finished, camera-ready papers due (electronic submission)

October 1, 2009 – Early registration closes

November 11-13, 2009 – Conference (onsite registration)

game editors

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I have been writing for awhile on how role playing games can be adapted to teach history and heritage but there are some issues that keep getting in the way:

-if one has other people in the environment it makes it more lively but potentially less historical

-people do not typically inhabit the space

-these RPS and Massive Multiplayer RPGs  don’t usually feature extensive editors.

Some possible alternatives are:

I have not tested the above yet though!

Another thought would be if some game company gave assets to an outdated or defunct RPG game to organizations behind open source technology like Panda 3D, Blender3D, or cobalt.

warped maps

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like the article and comments say, if this could be done in realtime..

At first I thought this was just a gimmick, but after looking at it more closely and thinking about it, I realize it’s kinda brilliant. If they could make a virtual map like this that scaled in real time and say, put it on your iPhone or a car’s GPS, I’d use it continuously. To blend simple nearby perspective with an overhead view of where you’d like to go gives a sense of distance and travel you simply can’t get with a regular map. Here’s to hoping this becomes a cartographic trend.

may conference calls

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1-May-09DAC09 Digital Aesthetics and CultureCalifornia USA13-Dec-09
12-May-09siggraph asia 2009 Yokoham a Japan16-Dec-09
1-Jun-09Canadian Museums Association Evolving Boundaries: Linking People, Place & MeaningNewfoundland Canada10-May-10
12-Jun-09OZCHI 2009Melbourne Australia25-Nov-09
20-Jun-09ICIDS 2009 Interactive Digital StorytellingGuimarães, Portugal12-Dec-09
16-Jun-09Writing IntersectionsArt.Media.Design | Writing Intersections ConferenceMelbourne Australia18-Nov-09

MiT 6: in Transition paper (exclusive!)

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I did not get the paper for my abstract published at the main site next to my abstract — too late or quality control 🙂 — so I have uploaded the paper on future interactive uses of biofeedback here. Please don’t cite as I may change and submit for publication…

UPDATE: CURRENT PAPER VERSION AT MIT 6 CONFERENCE WEBSITE. Click on the hyperlinked title of the abstract to view the 5mb PDF.

Stanford Critical Digital

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Over 16-19 april was a Critical Digital conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Luckily I did not relay the story of the leak by the original architect John Andrews (Australian, Canada based) but for me the conference did not go smoothly, not sure why, some interesting people there. It is highly possible I have been away from architecture so long I just don’t understand the way they operate any more.
The brick parametric wall created by a robot was interesting as was the studio layout. And they do have 30 applicants for every graduate place which is impressive.

CFPs for April

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1-Apr-09    DAC09    Digital Aesthetics and Culture    California USA    13-Dec-09
2-Apr-09    Cumulus 2009    Hemispheric shifts across learning teaching and research    Melbourne Australia    12-Nov-09
3-Apr-09    AUC    Australian Apple University Consortium: you can take IT with you    Canberra Australia    27-Sep-09
6-Apr-09    ECGBL    European Game-based learning    Graz Austria    12-Oct-09
7-Apr-09    vsmm 2009    Vision or Reality? Computer Technology and Science    Vienna Austria    9-Sep-09
10-Apr-09    DMAMH 2009    Digital Media and its Application in Museum & Heritage    Qingdao China    25-Jul-09
10-Apr-09    ACM MULTIMEDIA         Beijing China    19-Oct-09
13-Apr-09    CHINZ    NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction    Auckland New Zealand    6-Jul-09
14-Apr-09    vast2009    Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage    Malta    22-Sep-09
15-Apr-09    Cyberworlds    CYBERWORLDS    Bradford UK    7-Sep-09
15-Apr-09    Pacific Island Archaeology    Relevance and Engagement    Koror, Palu    1-Jul-09
15-Apr-09    DiGRA 2009    Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory    London UK    1-Sep-09
24-Apr-09    Del    Designs on E-learning    London UK    2-Sep-09

CFPS for March

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1-Mar-09ISAGALearn to Game Game to LearnSingapore29-Jun-09
2-Mar-09GLS 2009 5.0Games Learning and Society 2009Wisconsin Madison10-Jun-09
2-Mar-09ICEC 2009Entertainment ComputingParis France3-Sep-09
5-Mar-09HCI2009BCS conference on Human Computer InteractionCambridge UK1-Sep-09
6-Mar-09ECSWEuropean CSCWVienna Austria7-Sep-09
6-Mar-09isea 200915th International Symposium on Electronic ArtUlster Ireland23-Aug-09
12-Mar-09Cumulus 38 S 2009Hemispheric shifts across learning teaching and researchMelbourne Australia12-Nov-09
22-Mar-09web 3d3D Web TechnologyDarmstadt Germany16-Jun-09
23-Mar-09ECGBLEuropean Game-based learningGraz Austria12-Oct-09
31-Mar-09DelDesigns on E-learningLondon UK2-Sep-09