News tagged with virtual humans

Iowa State's METaL lab develops multiple ways to experience virtual reality

Iowa State University doctoral students Leif Berg and Ryan Pavlik handed over a Wii Remote and a pair of 3-D glasses.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TapSense touchscreen technology distinguishes taps by parts of finger (w/ video)

Smartphone and tablet computer owners have become adept at using finger taps, flicks and drags to control their touchscreens. But Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that this interaction can ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Regaining trust after a transgression

the disgraced politician, chastened business leader or shamed celebrity standing before a podium offering up their apologies as the news cameras flash. "Sorry" may be the hardest word to say, but does simply owning up to ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Virtual possessions have powerful hold on teenagers, researchers say

Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Virtual humans appear to influence ethical decisions in gender-specific ways

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual humans are increasingly taking on roles that were once reserved for real humans. A study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue ...

Technology / Other

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Augmented reality windshield from GM to show drivers potential hazards (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- General Motors and scientists from the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon University are developing a windshield display that will highlight obstacles or objects on the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Can avatars change the way we think and act? (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researcher finds that experiences with avatars, including personalized images of ourselves, can change our view of reality and the way we act in the real world.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

iPhone the body electric: New 'apps' visualize human anatomy

University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Beating the bullies -- changing real-world behaviour through virtual experience (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social problems like bullying and stereotyping involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New research shows that when students play active roles in virtual dramas their attitudes and behaviour ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists create hybrid system of human-machine interaction

In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Florida Atlantic University have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners).

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it's just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 6 feature

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds

IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings.

Technology / Software

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0