XRDS, Volume 22

Volume 22, Number 1, Fall 2015

Virtual Reality
Letter from the editors

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  Sean Follmer:
  Deep dreams are made of these. 5-6

INIT

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  Pedro Lopes:
  Our virtual reality revolution: this time it's for real. 9-10

Advice

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  Marius Tudor Benea:
  Writing your dissertation. 11

Updates

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  Claudia Schulz:
  Excellence around the world. 12-13

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Virtual reality device developments. 13

Careers

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  Natalie Gordon:
  In praise of side projects. 14-15

Blogs

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  Olivia Simpson:
  From novice to expert: the art of science of pedagogy. 16-17

Features

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  Diego Martínez Plasencia:
  One step beyond virtual reality: connecting past and future developments. 18-23
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  Adalberto Lafcadio Simeone, Eduardo Velloso:
  Substitutional reality: bringing virtual reality home. 24-29
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  Pedro Lopes, Alexandra Ion, Robert Kovacs:
  Using your own muscles: realistic physical experiences in VR. 30-35
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  Ken Perlin:
  Eccescopy: to look, is to see. 36-39
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  Daniel Boland, Mark McGill:
  Lost in the rift: engaging with mixed reality. 40-45
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  Lisa Rebenitsch:
  Managing cybersickness in virtual reality. 46-51
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  Robert Konrad:
  What is the vergence-accommodation conflict and how do we fix it? 52-55
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  Alain Boulay:
  VR to the rescue: avoiding danger with mine disaster simulations. 56-59
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Susumu Tachi: the scientist who invented telexistence. 61-62

Labz

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  Andrea Stevenson Won:
  The virtual human interaction lab: Stanford, California. 64-65

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  VR head-mounted displays. 65

Hello world

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  Lara Zupan, Marinka Zitnik:
  Sorry kids, Iron Man's superpowers aren't unique. 66-67

Volume 22, Number 2, Winter 2015

Letter from the editors

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  Sean Follmer:
  Back to the future - : building a great grad research lab. 5-6

Inbox

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  Exploring innovation. 8

INIT

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  Laurynas Riliskis:
  A new revolution is underway. 9-10

Advice

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  Marius Tudor Benea:
  Addressing academic publishing. 11

Updates

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  Vassilis Kalantzis:
  Fortifying computing in student societies: A focus on outreach initiatives. 12-13

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  The timeline of things. 13

Accolades

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  Kayalvizhi Jayavel:
  Women who paved the way for IoT: A teacher finds her voice. 14-15

Careers

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  Madison Capps:
  Energy and IOT: An engineer's perspective. 16-17

Blogs

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  Nur Al-huda Hamdan:
  Why "celebrate women in computing"? 18-19
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  Patrik Jonell, Pedro Lopes:
  Affordance++: the tale of animating IoT objects. 20-21

Features

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  George F. Hurlburt:
  The internet of things... of all things. 22-26
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  Vinton G. Cerf:
  Prospects for the internet of things. 28-31
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  Jonathan Caras:
  The genie in the machines. 32-35
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  Alyssa B. Apsel, Enkhbayasgalan Gantsog:
  Global synchronization and the challenges of building network awareness. 36-39
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  Michael Andersen:
  Trends in internet of things platforms. 40-43
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  Daniel de Leng:
  Querying flying robots and other things: ontology-supported stream reasoning. 44-47
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  Hossein Shafagh:
  Toward computing over encrypted data in IoT systems. 48-52
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  Luigi De Russis:
  The ambient intelligence course at Politecnico di Torino. 54-57
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  Bryant Eastham:
  Panasonic and the OpenDOF project: open-source vision in a large company. 58-61
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  Florian Michahelles, Simon Mayer:
  Toward a web of systems. 62-67

Profile

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  Adrian Scoica:
  Matthew Pryor: using tech to manage droughts, from Australia to California. 68-69

Labz

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  Teodoro Montanaro:
  SWARM joint open lab Politecnico Di Torino, Italy. 70-71

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  IP addresses. 71

Hello world

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  Lara Zupan, Marinka Zitnik:
  According to sensor 22, Benny is preparing dinner. 72-74

Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 2016

Digital Fabrication
Letter from the editors

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  Jennifer Jacobs:
  Supporting creativity, expressiveness and complexity through personal fabrication. 5-7

Inbox

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  XRDS staff updates. 8

INIT

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  Stefanie Mueller, Nadya Peek:
  Digital fabrication: a human-machine interface for advanced manufacturing. 9-10

Advice

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  Andrew J. Hunsucker:
  How to deal with negative critique. 11

Updates

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  David Byrd:
  RIT SIGCHI: Democratizing digitization, campus outreach, and more. 12-13

Careers

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  Jack Minardi:
  How to get hired at a startup as a software developer. 14-15

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Additive manufacturing. 15

Blogs

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  Andrew J. Hunsucker:
  Exploring virtual reality-are we there yet? 16-20

Features

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  Amit Zoran:
  A manifest for digital imperfection. 22-27
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  Ilan E. Moyer:
  Personal fabrication: from automated machines to augmented tools. 28-31
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  Stelian Coros:
  Creating animated characters for the physical world. 32-37
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  Andrew Spielberg, Alanson P. Sample, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, James McCann:
  Building a toolkit for fabricating interactive objects. 38-43
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  Valkyrie Savage:
  3-D printing interactive objects. 44-48
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  Huaishu Peng, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, James McCann:
  Soft printing with fabric. 50-53
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  James Coleman, Craig Long, Andrew Manto, Trygve Wastvedt:
  Lots of parts, lots of formats, lots of headache. 54-57
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  Jesse Louis-Rosenberg:
  Drowning in triangle soup: the quest for a better 3-D printing file format. 58-62
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  Daniel Cellucci, Kenneth C. Cheung:
  Island three revisited: O'Neill cylinders and digital materials. 64-67
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  David Rejeski:
  3-D printing: green or not? 68-69
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  Erin Buehler:
  Fabrication lends a hand: creating custom assistive technology. 70-75
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Dennis Bormann: The man who introduced Antarctica's Davis Station to 3-D printing. 76-77

Labz

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  Feras Alsaggaf, Javier Villarroel, Billy Wong:
  Design Informatics Lab: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 78-79

Back

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  Asmaa Rabie:
  The emergence of 3-D printing. 79

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  The Brownian wanderlust of things. 81-89

Volume 22, Number 4, Summer 2016

Cultures of Computing
Letter from the editors

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  Okke Schrijvers:
  Impractical, impossible, and interdisciplinary: pushing the boundaries of computer science. 5-6

INIT

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  Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala:
  The center and the periphery: beyond Eurocentrism. 7-8

Advice

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  Andrew J. Hunsucker:
  Why you need Allies as a Ph.D. 9

Updates

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  David Byrd:
  ACM TEC GDA addresses Mexico's social needs one app at a time. 10-11

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Technology worldwide. 11

Careers

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  Harry Lachenmayer:
  What's in the job of making music? 12-13

Blogs

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  Abdelrahman Hosny:
  Is your research reproducible? 14-15

Features

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  Syed Mustafa Ali:
  A brief introduction to decolonial computing. 16-21
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  Nicola J. Bidwell:
  Decolonising HCI and interaction design discourse: some considerations in planning AfriCHI. 22-27
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  Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins, Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira:
  Breaking the cycle of Macondo: design and decolonial futures. 28-32
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  Rahul Bhatia:
  A tale of two cities, real and imagined. 33-35
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  Jennifer Jacobs:
  Negotiating science, technology, culture, and religion: the art and ideas of Laleh Mehran. 36-41
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  Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala:
  Jian Guan on design and innovation in China. 42-45
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  Frederick M. C. van Amstel, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto:
  Design Livre: designing locally, cannibalizing globally. 46-50

Profile

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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Sanny Gaddafi : Living at the forefront of Indonesia's tech emancipation. 52-53

Labz

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  Johanna Schacht:
  Meeting point: the computer lab. 54-55

Back

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  Asmaa Rabie:
  India's reforms leave a lasting mark. 55

Hello world

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  Abhineet Saxena:
  Convolutional neural networks: an illustration in TensorFlow. 56-58