iACToR Weekly Newsletter #39

[James Cullen]

Opening Statement

Hello iACToR members,

With unique visitors from over 1500 cities and 95 countries, the iACToR website has rapidly grown our important member base of academicians, researchers, policy makers, funders, decision-makers and clinicians. iACToR now boasts 320+ members from over 40 countries worldwide.

We are excited to partner with our members to sustain the continued growth of the organization, which exists to pool collective worldwide knowledge to improve the quality, affordability, and availability of existing healthcare. The eyes of the world are upon the organization. Help us to continue the growth by encouraging your friends and colleagues to become a member of iACToR by visiting the “Invite” page on our website.

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Calls, Conferences and Capital

Call for Proposals - Innovative Policies to Support Healthy, Active and Dignified Ageing and Raise the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Spending on Social, Health and Long-Term Care Services and Benefits
This European Commission call for proposals seeks to promote the sustainability and quality of health and long-term care provision for the elderly through healthy and active ageing. It aims at helping Member States achieve the objectives defined within the open method of coordination applied to social protection and social inclusion (the ‘social OMC’) in the European Union. The objectives of this call for proposals are to provide financial support to projects aimed at designing better policies for healthy, active and dignified ageing in the countries participating in PROGRESS. Projects may focus on different stages of policy development ranging from the identification of potential benefits of healthy and active ageing for sustainable social protection and social cohesion in ageing societies to the design of new policies, their implementation and evaluation. Particular attention should be paid to specifically vulnerable social groups and to parts of the EU where poor health is most prevalent (as assessed by measures such as healthy life expectancy) and where many people are at risk of not receiving appropriate care for a life in dignity. To read more about this Call for Proposals, please visit http://bit.ly/oYxYO6.

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Top CyberPsychology News

Computer Algorithm To Synthesize Fire Sound For Virtual Reality
Crazy Engineers - Whenever you are about to buy a television, the most popular demand is to have the one which can have the most realistic sound effects so that you can enjoy sound along with the superior picture quality. The sounds produced in the 21st century usually depend on the recorded sound during shooting of the video. However if you are playing some computer 3D games or in simple words you are involved in an activity on your PC which makes use of virtual reality, it would be hard to produce exact sound since no body know what would be the next action. To solve this difficulty to a certain extent, associate Prof. Doug James of Cornell University claims to have developed an algorithm which can analyze the sounds “On the fly” which are based on the models of simulated physics. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/pqOYre.

EON Reality Announces the Grand Opening of the Interactive Digital Center in Italy
Marketwatch - EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced newly opened Virtual Reality Center for development of virtual reality at the COMONExT Science and Technology Park in Lomazzo (Como) in Italy. The main purpose of the center is to allow companies to view and interact instantly with something that is not there physically but that appears in three dimensions thanks to Virtual Reality. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/ogiiJY.

Advancing Computer-Aided Design
Boston.com - Al Bunshaft, 52, is managing director of Dassault Systèmes North America, a subsidiary of France’s largest software company, Dassault Systèmes. Founded in the 1980s to provide computer-aided design software to the aviation and automotive industries, the company today is known for a suite of 3-D software products - 3-D digital design, 3-D digital simulation, 3-D digital manufacturing, and 3-D digital collaboration. Later this year, the company will move its Americas headquarters to a new campus in Waltham. Bunshaft recently spoke with Globe reporter D.C. Denison. To read more, please visit http://bo.st/nkLd2G.

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2. Join your local iACToR Chapter! Please visit the Chapter page to request membership to the appropriate iACToR Chapter. This is an excellent way to become acquainted and introduced to colleagues in your area!
   
   
3. Begin the discussion! Please visit the Forum, find the appropriate category, and click Add a Discussion! As this field is rapidly growing, collaboration and discussion is vital to the growth and progress. Some have begun already, and we hope to see you post as well.
   
   
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Create your own reality!

Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA
Secretary General
International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR)