CFP: ACM SIGCHI New Zealand conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHINZ)...
Here is the Call for Participation at the Please spread the CFP wide and far. Paper submission deadline: **Friday, September 27th 2013** Christchurch is the gateway to some of the most beautiful...
View Articleaugmented reality brochures and posters
What you could do is build a brochure that when held up to the webcam of a laptop etc or even a phone would produce an apparent ’3d’ image. Anyone played with the above for conferences and exhibitions?...
View Article3D sweep-amazing technoogy: 3D model from single photo!
http://gizmodo.com/this-impossible-software-can-make-3d-models-from-a-sing-1277902245?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow OR:...
View Articlefascinating biofeedback equipment-BITalino kit
The low cost (€149/$197 + shipping and taxes) kit of modular blocks includes a swathe of physiological sensors that can be broken out to use individually or linked together and used in whatever...
View ArticleResearchs into interactive maps, multimedia cartography
Recent interactive mapping projects I mentioned http://orbis.stanford.edu/# http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2313590/The-interactive-map-reveals-Britains-popular-surnames.html Migration...
View ArticleCentre for Playware - The MIT Media Lab of Denmark?
Reblogged from Constructing Kids: I invited myself to pay Centre for Playware a visit. This is a department of Technical University of Denmark (DTU), just outside Copenhagen. I was a part of a...
View Articlerecent call for papers (from September 2013)
START *DUE* CONFERENCE THEME LOCATION 13-Apr-16 27-Sep-13 SimAUD Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design Tampa Florida 18-Mar-14 30-Sep-13 dha2014 Perth Australia 5-Dec-13 30-Sep-13...
View ArticleAbstract for talk at ICOMOS imagined pasts…imagined futures
Talk, 2 November 2013, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ICOMOS 2013 conference TITLE: Can the past be shared in Virtual Reality? There is an interesting divide between historians and the public that...
View ArticleEvaluation Criteria in Digital Heritage
Some suggestions I sent to a panel on the above topic. I am sure I missed many key (main) points standardised guidelines to reviewers on how to review, currently the reviewing standard is not standard,...
View ArticleThe future of games in museums: what should we be doing?
Reblogged from martha henson: blog: A confluence of related projects and talks has got me thinking about where games in museums should be going in the future. There have been some notable successes in...
View ArticleOpen Access journal scandal-the replies
The recent Science article on Open Access journals that accepted a scam paper has met with a storm of protest. Please be careful with the article as it did not have a control group (did not compare to...
View ArticleStanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis
Reblogged from Gigaom: Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is...
View Articlebook proposal “Cultural Heritage Creatives Tools and Archives” now being...
Summary of proposal: Our aim is to provide a single point of entry into the world of leading cultural heritage infrastructures and associated tools in Europe. As far as we know there is no easily...
View Articlemodding games for AI related research, bots, and portraying character behaviours
Here is an abridged answer I just gave to an architectural academic who is interested in using games and game modding and AI (bots) in consideration was something like 3DVIDIA/Virtools, Unity or...
View ArticleLeipzig eHumanities Slides, and Visualisation Links
If anyone is interested in my 23/10/2013 Leipzig eHumanities presentation, which is mostly on virtual environments/games (and heritage), I have just uploaded my presentation to...
View ArticleICOMOS talk from 2 November, 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/nzerik/icomos-2013can-the-past-be-shared-in-vr Conference: 2013 Canberra Centenary: ‘Imagined pasts…, imagined futures’ Venue: Museum of Australian Democracy in Old Parliament...
View ArticleWhich hardware and software packages are vital for virtual reality and game...
We have stereo and surround displays being bult here at Curtin with tyouca Unity, AutoDesk and Adobe products. But I feel we are missing a range of peripherals. So I made a quick list (I cannot find...
View ArticleSmithsonian X3D (model browser)
Main site at https://3d.si.edu/ Below model at https://3d.si.edu/explorer?modelid=55Filed under: 3D and game editors, design, virtual heritage
View ArticleISPRS Technical Commission V Symposium, 23 – 25cfp ISPRS June 2014, Riva del...
***** ISPRS Technical Commission V Symposium ***** “Close-range imaging, ranging and applications” ***** 23 – 25 June, 2014 ***** Riva del Garda, Italy ***** http://isprs-commission5.fbk.eu/ The...
View Article“Cultural Heritage in Immersive Displays” talk at the HIVE
On Thursday Dr Jeffrey Jacobson of http://publicVR.org will give a talk at 1PM in the HIVE. A new visualisation facility at John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University, Perth He is one of four visiting...
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