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3rd Call for Papers
Special Issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Subliminal/unaware cues and perception of presence in virtual, tele-
presence, and automotive environments
Submissions due: July 31, 2013
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This special issue focuses on the role of a special category of sensory
cues in the sense of 'presence': subliminal and unaware sensory stimuli
in Virtual Environments (VE). The central objective is to provoke an
active debate on the impact, role, and adequacy of using unaware or
below threshold information in VE, teleoperation, or augmented reality.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* The impact of unaware/subliminal cues on user?s feelings, attitudes,
and behavior.
* Subliminal cues and the user?s sense of presence or immersion in VE.
* Subliminal cues and improvement of a user?s performance in VE
although it is generally accepted that such stimuli are weak.
* Systematic approach to taxonomy (i.e., definition and terminology) of
subliminal perception and other interchangeable or contrary terms,
including implicit, supraliminal, priming, conscious, preconscious,
unconscious, subconscious, below awareness, (etc.) in the context of
VE/teleoperation systems or the automotive domain.
* Philosophy or rationale for the use of subliminal interfaces in VE,
teleoperation, or augmented reality.
* Ethical issues of application of subliminal perception in VE,
teleoperation systems or vehicular interfaces.
* Social interaction based on subliminal/unaware cues.
* Socio-technical issues such as social acceptance, preference, privacy
issues, security issues, and attitudes towards technologies that
include cues which the user is unaware of.
* Guidelines of the application of subliminal perception in VE,
teleoperation, or augmented reality.
* Case study of application of subliminal perception/cues/interfaces in
VE, teleoperation, automotive applications, or augmented reality in
general.
* Subliminal cues and interfaces such as head-mounted displays,
vibrotactile transducers, olfactory stimulation, brain-computer
interfaces (BCI).
* Domain-specific approach to subliminal perception (e.g., remote
vehicles, driving simulator, aviation, robotics, or other teleopera-
tion tasks).
* Modalities: visual perception (flashing picture, video, text, etc.),
auditory perception (compressed speech, music, non-speech sounds,
etc.), haptic/tactile perception, olfactory, or fusion of those.
* Evaluation and validation methodologies for the effects of subliminal
information (qualitative, quantitative validations).
* Characteristics of subliminally delivered information (e.g.,
reachable bandwidth, natural bounds, complexity of information, speed
of perception, strength/duration/frequency of subliminal interaction).
* Subliminally delivered information and its relationship with other
constructs - cognitive workload, perceived performance, situation
awareness, emotions, etc.
* Individual differences in threshold of subliminal perception (age,
gender, characteristics, (dis)abilities, cognitive style, cultural/
ethnologic background, etc.).
* Risk assessment of the use of subliminal interfaces and strategies to
reduce its risk.
Submission Guidelines
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Papers will be selected based on scientific rigor, originality,
novelty, and presentation quality. By submitting a paper to this
special issue, the authors guarantee that their papers are not
currently submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts
should conform to the journal submission guidelines available at
<http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/pres>.
- Submissions due: July 31, 2013
- Publication expected for 2014
Guest Editors of the Special Issue
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- Andreas Riener, Dept. of Pervasive Computing, University of Linz,
Austria; Phone: +43 732 2468 ? 4473; Email: <[log in to unmask]>
- Myounghoon Jeon, Department of Cognitive & Learning Sciences, Michigan
Tech, USA; Email: <[log in to unmask]>
- Miriam Reiner, Head of Technion Touch Lab, Gutwirth Building, Haifa,
Israel; Email: <[log in to unmask]>
For detailed information visit: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/pres
or http://www.pervasive.jku.at/MITPresence_Subliminal/
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