International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation
iACToR Weekly Newsletter #40
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Calls, Conferences and Capital
This year University Lusófona of Humanities and Technologies (ULHT), in Lisbon is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion (ETVCE 2011) on 10th & 11th November, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal. We would like to invite you to join us in sunny Lisbon. The ETVCE 2011 focus on the use of eye tracking as a valuable method in different research fields such as:
- Visual Cognition
- Emotion
- Linguistics
- Affective Computation
- Assistive Software
- Virtual Reality
- HCI
- Usability
- Marketing
- Advertising
- And many other related scientific domains...
Top CyberPsychology News
Stephen Wolfram - The precursors of what we’re trying to do with computable data in Wolfram|Alpha in many ways stretch back to the very dawn of human history—and in fact their development has been fascinatingly tied to the whole progress of civilization. Last year we invited the leaders of today’s great data repositories to our Wolfram Data Summit—and as a conversation piece we assembled a timeline of the historical development of systematic data and computable knowledge. This year, as we approach the Wolfram Data Summit 2011, we’ve taken the comments and suggestions we got, and we’re making available a five-feet-long (1.5 meters) printed poster of the timeline. To view the data civilization timeline and to read more, please visit http://bit.ly/qtvuIW.
Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine
Silicon Filter - Germany has a long tradition of using laws to protect its citizen’s privacy. Home owners, for example, can ask Google to pixelate their houses in Street View (maybe so that their garden gnomes can stay incognito?). Facebook’s facial recognition feature has also come under fire in recent weeks. The latest target of Germany’s privacy advocates is Facebook’s ‘like’ button (“Gefällt mir,” in German). Thilo Weichert, the head of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, argues that Internet sites based in his state that use the ‘like’ button are illegally sending this data to Facebook, which in turn uses it to illegally create a profile of its users web habits. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/r3phOX.
Top 3 Negative Experiences on Social Networking Sites
The Sacramento Bee - Social networking sites are great for maintaining and renewing relationships. But Facebook and other sites can also lead to shattered relationships. According to a new study, the three most-common negative experiences are ignoring or denying "friend" requests, deleting public messages or identification tags and seeing a Top Friends list on which one doesn't appear or is ranked lower than expected. Robert S. Tokunaga of the University of Arizona studied 197 college students concerning their social networking experiences. More than one-quarter of the students said they had been denied or been ignored regarding a "friend" request and just less than 25 percent had someone delete a public message or identification tag. All three of the major negative experiences are ones that can be found only in the world of social networking, he pointed out. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/rbtPxm.
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Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA
Secretary General
International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR)
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