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 be enhanced by ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 19, 2011
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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 ...
Social Sciences
May 9, 2011
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Now you really can reach out and touch someone through the Internet, with the help of a wearable robot designed by a husband-and-wife team of scientists based in Japan.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 5, 2010
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(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.
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2010
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(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 ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 22, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a time when ever more aspects of our lives are moving toward the virtual, online world -- stores, newspapers, games and even social interactions -- Hiroshi Ishii seems to be swimming against that current: ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 6, 2009
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The national and local lockdowns put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to re-evaluate the way they lived and worked. Research published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities looks at ...
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2021
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Networks offer a powerful way to visualize and analyze complex systems. However, depending on the size and complexity of the network, many visualizations are limited. Protein interactions in the human body constitute such ...
Biotechnology
Apr 23, 2021
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Valentine's Day was sweet, spring break was fun, then… boom! COVID-19. Stay-at-home orders, workplace shutdowns, school closures and social distancing requirements changed lives almost overnight. Forty-two percent of the ...
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2020
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Garrett Anderson has never known the pleasure of holding hands with both his children at the same time.
General Physics
Nov 21, 2019
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