CyberSightings
Abstract
COLUMNS CyberSightings C yberSightings is a regular feature in CYBER that covers the news relevant to the cyberpsychology community, including scientiï¬c breakthroughs, latest devices, conferences, book reviews, and general announcements of interest to researchers and clinicians. We welcome input for inclusion in this column, and relevant information and suggestions can be sent andrea.gaggioli@unicatt.it. In the Spotlight Human Computer Conï¬uence (HC-CO) is an ambitious initiative recently launched by the European Commission under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program, which fosters projects that investigate and demonstrate new possibilities ââemerging at the conï¬uence between the human and technological realmsââ (HC-CO Web site, EU Commission). Such projects will examine new modalities for individual and group perception, actions, and experience in augmented, virtual spaces. In particular, such virtual spaces would span the virtual reality continuum, also extending to purely synthetic but believable representation of massive, complex, and dynamic data. HC-CO also fosters interdisciplinary research (such as Presence, neuroscience, psychophysics, prosthetics, machine learning, computer science, and engineering) toward delivering uniï¬ed experiences and inventing radically new forms of perception/action. HC-CO brings together ideas stemming from two series of Presence projects (the complete list is available here: http:/ / cordis.europa.eu/ist/fet/pr-sy.htm/) with a vision of new