News Archive
- 27 September 2005 - Medical College of Georgia: Simulator can help stroke patients drive again
- 22 August 2005 - Wired News: VR Goggles Heal Scars of War
- 18 August 2005 - New Scientist: Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree
- 17 August 2005 - USA Today: Psychologists call for reduction of game violence
- 10 August 2005 - IEEE Spectrum: I See What You're Signing - Gesture interfaces are putting the hearing in touch with the deaf
- 20 July 2005 - IST Results: Added flexibility for plastic displays
- 19 July 2005 - Wired News: Mind May Affect Machines
- 19 July 2005 - Psychological Science: Object Recognition Improves When Other Objects Appear in the Same Orientation
- 18 July 2005 - Wired News: Who Says Robots Can't Bluff?
- 11 July 2005 - IST Results: How technology may help shape the future of education
- 28 June 2005 - IST Results: Adding a new dimension to television
- 23 June 2005 - Chicago Tribune: `Bionic' arm brings back sense of touch
- 23 June 2005 - New Scientist: Do games prime brain for violence?
- 17 June 2005 - IST Results: Taking a virtual view of the world
- 16 June 2005 - IST Results: Taking telepresence to a new level
- 15 June 2005 - Technology Research News: Robot runs like humans
- 13 June 2005 - IST Results: New virtual world order
- 10 June 2005 - Khaleej Times: A matter of Artificial Intelligence
- 10 June 2005 - IST Results: Emotional intelligence for computer-based characters?
- 9 June 2005 - dBusinessNews: Using the Next Generation of Gaming & Computer Graphics To Promote Education & Physical Activity in Children
- 9 June 2005 - TechNewsWorld: Robots Dance, Play at World Robot Expo in Japan
- 7 June 2005 - ZDNet: A large screen is in your future
- 6 June 2005 - BetaNews: IBM Computers to Create Virtual Brain
- 6 June 2005 - BBC News: Pacman comes to life virtually
- 4 June 2005 - New Scientist: See virtual worlds in the round
- 1 June 2005 - BBC News: Imagining homes of the future
- 31 May 2005 - IST Results: Adding a shine to virtual museums
- 31 May 2005 - Wired News: AI Seduces Stanford Students [ full paper available here ]
- 24 May 2005 - USC Viterbi: New Haptics Systems Challenge Stroke Patients to Grasp, Pinch, Squeeze, Throw and, Yeah, Get Pushy
- 24 May 2005 - New Scientist: The 2020 vision of robotic assistants unveiled
- 23 May 2005 - IST News: Storytelling in virtual environments
- 23 May 2005 - ComputerWorld: Coming: Sensors and Pixels Everywhere
- 18 May 2005 - TRNmag.com: Conference system makes shared space [ full paper available here ]
- 17 May 2005 - Wired News: Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting
- 10 May 2005 - IST Results: Your virtual assistant for personal financial advice
- 2 May 2005 - CNN.com Virtual reality heals 9/11 wounds
- 29 April 2005 - FET Newsletter: EU Commissioner Viviane Reding experiences ’Presence’ at CeBIT (pdf)
- 27 April 2005 - Max Planck Society: CyberWalk - Unconstrained Walking in Virtual Worlds
- 27 April 2005 - New Scientist: VR headset spots concussion in minutes
- 27 April 2005 - IST Results: Getting the feel of virtual reality
- 26 April 2005 - IT AsiaOne: Just like the real thing
- 25 April 2005 - InformationWeek: AI's Next Brain Wave
- 25 April 2005 - San Fransisco Examiner: Building robots with people in mind
- 23 April 2005 - New Scientist: Whatever happened to machines that think?
- 22 April 2005 - DesMoines Register: Ames firm immerses itself in 3-D technology
- 21 April 2005 - ScienceDaily: Early Home Environment And Television Watching Influence Bullying Behavior
- 20 April 2005 - CNN.com: Robot walks, balances like a human
- 14 April 2005 - IST Results: In touch with the latest virtual surroundings
- 7 April 2005 - New Scientist: Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix
- 4 April 2005 - EETimes: RoboGames: battling bots, but no killer app
- 4 April 2005 - MyDNA.com: Designing a bionic eye
- 3 April 2005 - ABCNews.com: Computers Obeying Brain Signals
- 29 March 2005 - University of Alberta: New virtual reality chair to explore frontier of telepresence
- 21 March 2005 - IST Results: Remote healthcare monitoring not so distant
- 17 March 2005 - Wordenteractive.com: Five Major Filmmakers Support TI’s Digital 3D Cinema
- 17 March 2005 - New York Times (free registration required): Big Screens to Come In Small Packages
- 11 March 2005 - Washington Post (free registration required): Humanoids With Attitude:
Japan Embraces New Generation of Robots
- 1 March 2005 - IST Results: Showing PRESENCE at the world’s ICT fair
- March 2005 - Cardiff University: Face to face — in realistic 3D
- 3 February 2005 - New Scientist: Augmented-reality machine works in real time
- 3 February 2005 - University of Reading: Towards a truly clever Artificial Intelligence
- 18 January 2005 - BBC News: Dublin hi-tech labs to shut down
- 14 January 2005 - Reuters: EA Mulls 'Sims'-Like Interactive TV Show
- 14 January 2005 - InformIT: Haptics: The Technology of Simulating Human Touch
- 13 December 2004 - IST Results: Life-like surgical simulator, a cut-above the competition!
- 10 December 2004 - BBC News: Robotic pods take on car design
- 9 December 2004 - Seattle Times: Intel Research seeks ways to put computer intelligence into everyday objects
- 8 December 2004 - The Pitt News: Inexpensive 3-D technology starting to look real
- 6 December 2004 - FortWayne.com: Robots making good on futuristic promise
- 6 December 2004 - BBC News: When technology gets personal
- 5 December 2004 - SFGate.com: Quadriplegic fitted with brain sensor ushers in cybernetic age
- 3 December 2004 - IST Results: Thinking about moving? Let brain waves do the walking
- 2 December 2004 - IST Results: An added dimension for virtual museums
- 1 December 2004 - IST Results: Eyeing the future of ubiquitous computing
- 1 December 2004 - ISTweb: 4th IST Call launched under FP6 - Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environments (Presence II)
- 30 November 2004 - University of Warwick: Researchers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers
- 29 November 2004 - ESA: Robots our helpers in space
- 29 November 2004 - Baltimore Sun (requires free registration): Synthesizing human emotions
- 24 November 2004 - BusinessWeek: Toward a More Human Robot
- 31 October 2004 - BBC News: Pompeii gets digital make-over
- 28 October 2004 - TheFeature: The Eyes Have It
- 26 October 2004 - Embedded.com: The challenge of designing in-body communications
- 23 October 2004 - New Scientist: Smart fabrics make for enhanced living
- 21 October 2004 - EurekAlert: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
- 21 October 2004 - MIT Technology Review: Can You See Me Now?
- 14 October 2004 - IST Results: Staying emotionally connected over time and distance
- 21 September 2004 - APA Books: Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders : Advances in Education and Treatment by Brenda and Mark Wiederhold
- 16 September 2004 - New Scientist: Nose-steered mouse could save aching arms
- 16 September 2004 - Wired News: High-Tech Hearing Bypasses Ears
- 19 August 2004 - BBC News: Virtual gaming worlds overtake Namibia
- 18 August 2004 - New Scientist: Smart tiles add reality to virtual worlds
- 18 August 2004 - New Scientist: Weird links with words and colours in the mind
- 16 August 2004 - BBC News: Bluetooth flying bot creates buzz
- 11 August 2004 - Scientific American: Virtual-Reality Therapy
- 5 August 2004 - New Scientist: Robot guard will smoke out villains
- 4 August 2004 - EurekAlert: Study explains spatial orientation differences between sexes
- 3 August 2004 - CentreDaily.com: Considered science fiction neural technology is opening doors
- 27 July 2004 - Wired.com: MP3 Pioneer Debuts Spatial Sound
- 26 July 2004 - ScienceDaily: Interactive Social Robots To Participate In Annual Mobile Robot Challenge
- 22 July 2004 - Reuters: Movies Really Can Put You in the Mood, Study Finds
- 14 July 2004 - New Scientist: Polite computers win users' hearts and minds
- 13 July 2004 - New Scientist: New world computer chess champ crowned
- 6 July 2004 - ScienceDaily: Investigating Digital Images: What's Real And What's Phony?
- 4 July 2004 - Wired.com: Violent Video Games Under Attack
- 28 June 2004 - Medical News Today: Virtual reality significantly reduces pain-related brain activity
- 24 June 2004 - CBS News: Seeing isn't always believing
- 23 June 2004 - PC World: Microsoft Patents Body-As-Network
- 7 June 2004 - American Psychological Society: Vision's Touchy-Feely Side: Tactile input has a greater impact on visual perception than we thought. Download the report (pdf).
- 27 May 2004 - American Psychological Society: National Institute on Media and the Family Study: Children's Exposure to Media Violence Linked to 'Culture of Disrespect'
- 6 May 2004 - EurekAlert: Computer games that can boost self esteem
- April 2004 - IST FET OMNIPRES project produces a comprehensive Compendium of Presence Measures, available from this website. EU deliverable available upon request.
- 20 April 2004 - Innovations Report: Getting real with virtual reality - More info at: http://www.benogo.dk/
- 19 April 2004 - Medical News Today: Simulator could substantially reduce operating room errors
- 12 April 2004 - Useit.com: Why Mobile Phones are Annoying
- 6 April 2004 - Computerworld.com: Camera phones fuel mobile diaries
- 6 April 2004 - ScienceDaily.com: Study Finds Link Between Television Viewing And Attention Problems In Children - original article from Pediatrics
- 1 April 2004 - New Scientist.com: Smell cannon targets virtual reality users
- April 2004 - Gizmo.com: Immersive 3D Videoconferencing concept shown at CEBIT
- 28 March 2004 - Forbes.com: DoCoMo researchers dream big for future phones
- 23 March 2004 - New Scientist.com: 3D ads to put virtual beers on bars
- 23 March 2004 - Wired.com: Robots Invade San Francisco
- 10 February 2004 - Washington University: Researchers pinpoint brain areas that process reality, illusion
- 10 November 2003 - BBC News: Virtual world 'tackles paranoia'
- 6 November 2003 - NIST Tech Beat: Teaching Your Cell Phone Where It Is and How to Act
- 4 November 2003 - ScienceDaily: Brain Maps Perceptions, Not Reality
- November 2003 - Wired.com: Regrow Your Own - Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here
- 17 October 2003 - CNN.com: Video games fight phobias
- 13 October 2003 - ExtremeTech.com: Sharp Introduces Laptop With 3D Display
- 26 September 2003 - E4engineering.com: Reality TV
- 25 September 2003 - Scientific American.com: Electronic Paper Speeds Up for Videos
- 2 September 2003 - New Scientist.com: Brain study links negative emotions and lowered immunity
- 2 September 2003 - Technology Review: VR System Grabs 3D Video
- 27 August 2003 - Wired.com: Machine Thinks, Therefore It Is
- 13 August 2003 - EurekAlert: Study shows babies determine shapes, objects at early age
- 29 July 2003 - Wired.com: Helping Machines Think Different
- 29 July 2003 - Wired.com: AI Depends on Your Point of View
- 27 July 2003 - BBC News: Virtual humans edge closer
- 25 April 2003 - NewScientist.com: Military robots to get swarm intelligence
- 19 April 2003 - NYTimes.com (requires free registration): I Feel, Therefore I Am
- 17 April 2003 - NewScientist.com: Women need widescreen for virtual navigation
- 16 March 2003 - Eurekalert: Visual attention attuned to grabbable objects
- 14 March 2003 - APA Online: Childhood Exposure to Media Violence Predicts Young Adult Aggressive Behavior, According To New 15-Year Study. Full paper available here.
- 11 March 2003 - University of Toronto: Compromise Is Name Of The Game In How Brain Works
- February 2003 - HP Labs: Norm Jouppi: Face-to-face while far away
- January 2003 - New Book on Presence: BEING THERE: CONCEPTS, EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF USER PRESENCE IN SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS, Amsterdam: IOS Press.
- 21 January 2003: NYTimes.com (requires free registration): Babies Pick Up Emotional Clues From TV, Experts Find
- 9 January 2003: NYTimes.com (requires free registration): Now Playing: Reality Without the Downside
- 8 January 2003 - EurekAlert: When self-image takes a blow, many turn to television as a distraction
- 6 December 2002 - Guardian Unlimited: The return of 3D
- 3 December 2002 - MyInky.com: Study finds changes in brain activity of teens who play violent video games
- 25 November 2002 - Univ. of Rochester News: Infants Build Knowledge of Their Visual World on Statistics
- 21 November 2002 - EurekAlert: Brain's method of merging input depends on which senses supply it
- 19 November 2002 - Wired News: This is your computer on brains
- 18 November 2002 - BBC News: Human brains are 'programmed for TV'
- 13 November 2002 - CSIRO Media Release: Virtual surgery across the world
- 1 November 2002 - VNUNet.com: Computer-controlled mannequin helps medical staff practise operations
- November 2002 - MIT Technology Review: Holograms in Motion
- 30 October 2002 - Independent.co.uk: Touching moment 3,000 miles apart becomes a virtual reality
- 21 October 2002 - Wired News: Chess Champ a Little Too Human
- 9-11 October 2002: PRESENCE 2002: The 5th Annual International Workshop on Presence. Have a look at the conference pictures here
- 24 September 2002 - Scientific American: At Robocup 2002, humanoids battle it out in soccer
- 16 September 2002 - NYTimes.com (requires free registration): In That Place Where TV and the Net Almost Meet
- 30 August 2002 - Newsfactor.com: Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
- 25 August 2002 - Philadelphia Inquirer: For real: The synthetic actors are here
- 16 August 2002 - Wired.com: These Machines Feel Your Pain
- 5 August 2002 - Jacob Nielsen's AlertBox: Making the Physical Environment Interactive
- 29 July 2002 - ScienceDaily: Wiring The Fashion Trend Of The Future: NASA Engineers Developing Wearable "Augmented Reality" Computer
- 24 July 2002 - PsycPort.com: Little Couch Potatoes May Be More Switched On Than We Think
- 23 July 2002 - NYTimes.com (requires free registration): Why We're So Nice: We're Wired to Cooperate
- 17 July 2002 - BTexact: BTexact Researchers Create Online Virtual Counsellors
- 17 July 2002 - EurekAlert: Brain imaging studies reveal biological basis for human cooperation
- 12 July 2002 - Optics.org: Consumers demand larger television screen sizes
- 11 July 2002 - Techninformer: 3D Displays Arrive on the Desktop
- 8 July 2002 - Philadelphia Inquirer: Picture worth 1,000 airfares
- 16 June 2002 - APA Online: Violence and Sex Impair Memory for Television Ads. Full paper available here.
- June 2002 - APA Online: The Human Visual System Is "Smart," Drawing On Experience To Interpret Visual Information In The Most Likely Way. Full paper available here (pdf).
- 30 May 2002 - CNN.com: The computer wore a turban and played chess
- 30 May 2002 - NYTimes.com (requires free registration): Restoring the Human Touch to Remote-Controlled Surgery
- 8 May 2002 - Technology Review: Keeping It Real: Virtual reality is still more virtual than real, but new technologies may soon change that
- 25 April 2002 - New Scientist: How to shake hands with someone on the other end of the phone
- 14 April 2002 - NYTimes.com (requires free registration): Nanny-Cam May Leave a Home Exposed
- April 2002 - APA Monitor: Burn patients find relief in a virtual world
- April 2002 - Scientific American: Virtual Voyage Through the Body
- 1 April 2002 - Science Daily: Different Parts Of The Brain Handle Fantasy And Reality
- 29 March 2002 - CNN.com: 'Body brush' paints on virtual canvas. High-art goes high-tech
- 29 March 2002 - Science Daily: Crystalline Materials Could Mean 3-D TV And Ultrafast Computers
- 19 March 2002 - CNN.com: Reality TV recreates horror of war
- 18 March 2002 - WUSTL University News: Study ties mental abilities to interaction of emotion and cognitive skills
- 10 March 2002 - APA Online: Without visual cues, people can use either spatial language (3 o'clock, 6 feet) or 3-D sound to find their way. Full paper available here (pdf).
- February 2002 - Scientific American: Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor
- January 2002 - New Scientist: New artificial intelligence program could be smart enough to learn language the way we do
- 4 December 2001 - IST 2001 Conference - Morning session on "Reality and our Sense of Presence", Dusseldorf, Germany
- 16 November 2001 - European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies (FET): Launch of Presence Research Call
- 31 October 2001 - Wired News: Pentagon Has a 3-D View to a Kill
- 23 October 2001 - US Patent #6307576: Method for automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expression of animated characters
- 23 October 2001 - US Patent #6307564: SONY Patent on Picture display method and apparatus
- 6 October 2001 - Wired News: Virtual Mourners, Cyber Vigils
- 2 October 2001 - Wired News: Gamers Blow bin Laden Away
- 10 July 2001 - Scientific American Explorations: Walking the Dinosaur
- 11 June 2001 - MSNBC.com: No escaping 'presence' technology - Next-generation ‘buddy lists’ could transform phone habits
- 4 June 2001 - MSNBC.com: Get a TotalView of the games - High-tech cameras to debut in NBA Finals
- June 2001 - CNN.com: R2-D2, where are you? The robot's slow evolution
- 31 May 2001 - Philadelphia Inquirer: A world where 'being there' has the effect of being there
- 27 May 2001 - New York Daily News: Virtual Cures: Doctors go high-tech to help patients conquer phobias
- 18 May 2001 - TheRecord.com: New technology helps people face their phobias
- 11 May 2001 - CyberPsychology and Behavior: Special issue on presence. Table of contents here (pdf format)
- 6 May 2001 - NYTimes.com: Perfect Model: Gorgeous, No Complaints, Made of Pixels (site requires free registration)
- 1 May 2001 - ZDNet: Robots: Helpers or replacements?
- April 2001 - Scientific American: Virtually There - Three-dimensional tele-immersion may eventually bring the world to your desk
- 15 April 2001 - Telegraph.co.uk: Virtual reality TV puts viewer in the stadium
- 3 April 2001 - ActivMedia Research: Japan Leads in Mobile Robotics Development
- 24 & 26 April 2001 - Het bos ruikt naar shampoo - TV Programme from Dutch broadcaster VPRO on the synthesis of reality and virtuality
- 15 March 2001 - ZDNet: Virtual Reality Meets Customer Service
- 6 March 2001 - Wired.com: Virtual Snow Melts Away Pain
- 4 March 2001 - ZDNet: World's First Kinetic(TM) Home Theater Product Turns Your Couch Into Virtual Reality Ride
- 28 February 2001 - BBC News: Computer 'can talk like a baby'
- 16 February 2001 - CNN.com: Interactive TV products headline European tech show
- 14 February 2001 - MIT News: MIT team building social robot
- 5 February 2001 - BBC News: Our friends electric
- 5 February 2001 - LA Times.com: A Virtual World Is Taking Shape in Research Labs
- 27 January 2001 - The European Commission: 6th IST call for proposals and IST Workprogramme
- 22 January 2001 - Check out the new section on Measurement Tools, and updates to the Online Papers and Conferences & Workshops sections. Keep your contributions coming in!
- January 2001 - Computer Graphics World: Cyber Therapy
- 28 November 2000 - Washington Post Online: Closeness at a distance
- 20 November 2000 - BBC News: Welcome, I'm your virtual receptionist
- November 2000 - Scientific American feature: Creating convergence
- 15 November 2000 - BBC News: Creating your cyber-self
- 6 November 2000 - BBC News: Meet your virtual double
- 21 October 2000 - New Scientist's article on immersive telepresence: Being There
- 19 September 2000 - Proceedings of the 7th UKVRSIG conference available online.
- Dicovery Health: Thing that go bump. Virtual treatment for real phobias
- 30 August 2000 - C.A.M.P.'s treatment for Social Phobia and Shyness is featured on HealthSurfing.Com.
- 17 August 2000 - Online Proceedings for the 2nd PHANToM Users Research Symposium 2000
- 14 August 2000 - University of Nottingham Press Release: Computer animations will transport coroner's court back to scene of fatal accident
- 13 August 2000 - Washington Post Online: A virtual class act
- 6 July 2000 - GO.Com reviewed Presence-Research.org as a three star (i.e. best!) website in their Virtual Reality category!
- 19 June 2000 - Call for papers on Virtual Environments in Clinical Assessment and Therapy
A special issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
- 5 June 2000 - Call for papers on Virtual Environments and Mobile Robots
A special issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
- 8 March 2000 - BBC Online Tomorrow's World: VR therapy for burns
- 21 May 1999 - CNN Interactive: Hospitals try VR techniques for pain management
- 23 April 1999 - CNN Interactive: New Web site lets you adopt virtual fish
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