May 2012
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Honor The Fallen →
militaryheroes:
A photo list of service members who gave their lives for our country.
Thank you.
U.S. Dept. of Defense: Report Shows Success of...
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 – A new report shows the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law is being implemented successfully in the military, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said during a news conference today.
The repeal of the law banning gay and lesbian people from open military service took effect Sept. 20, 2011. The secretary said he received the report on repeal implementation yesterday,...
MxR Lab WITH DESIGNS ON CHI 2012 →
The MxR Lab is having a substantial presence at the ongoing 2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. (http://chi2012.acm.org/index.shtml)
Evan Suma and Mark Bolas are taking part in the GESTURES IN 3D SPACE as part of the 3rd Dimension of CHI (3DCHI): Touching and Designing 3D User Interface with the...
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected... →
Exactly what a “like” means played a part in a case in Virginia involving six people who say Sheriff B. J. Roberts of Hampton fired them for supporting an opponent in his 2009 re-election bid.
WatchCara Santa Maria from the Huffington Post’s Talk Nerdy to Me science segments shows off ICT’s virtual humans - and her shooting skills - in Gunslinger, our Wild West virtual human simulation.
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April 2012
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Psychologists Use Social Networking Behavior to... →
The ability to automatically determine personality type could change the way social networks target services to users
WatchCheck out this “Talk Nerdy to Me” video from the Huffington Post’s Cara Santa Maria.
Defense News Features 3-D Virtual Reality Viewer... →
An article in Defense News covers the FOV2GO, the do-it-yourself 3-D viewer developed at ICT’s Mixed Reality Lab, along with collaborators from the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
The article describes the FOV2GO, which can be created from cardboard or foam core and assembled in minutes, as employing a similar technique to that applied by photo interpreters who...
Using Origami To Mock Up Ingenious Gestural... →
Clever idea for designing & testing gestural user interfaces by prototyping origami-style.
Sacred Values and the Development of Nuclear... →
Read this op-ed from our own Morteza Dehghani and his Northwestern collaborator Sonya Sachdeva.
March 2012
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The View From Afghanistan →
Echoes of War
Martin Daughtry, a New York University ethnomusicologist, traveled to Iraq in the waning days of Operation Iraqi Freedom to record sounds of weapons and helicopters. They will be compiled in a forthcoming collection, and used as a part of ICT’s virtual reality program to help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
IEEE VR - ICT's Mixed Reality Lab at the Forefront... →
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Turing at 100: The Year of Intelligence? →
Although the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth isn’t until June, Nature Journal has already published a special on one of the “top scientific minds of all time.” Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23 1912 and is labeled as the father of modern computers and a pioneer of artificial intelligence. In Nature’s special, it’s suggested that the Alan...
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February 2012
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Dead Space's Navigation System is Now a Reality →
MIT’s Media Lab has developed a prototype for a mobile, indoor, projection-based navigation system.
This could bring scavenger hunts to a whole new level.
Found on Kotaku by ICT Production & QA Specialist Ryan French
Training Users vs. Training Soldiers: Experiences... →
How military training methods can be applied to more effectively teach computer users.
via Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 3, Pages 33-35
Shared by ICT Research Fellow, Pete Khooshabeh, Ph.D
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Hollywood Visualisation Challenge - Interactive... →
Just in time for the Academy Awards — the top 12 visualizations of Hollywood data from The Information is Beautiful Awards.
Jill Boberg, PhD| Institute for Creative Technologies | USC, sites her favorite, “Movies and Magnets”, due to its highly dynamic nature.
New Neighbors! →
New media take old Hughes space
(LA Times) YouTube will set up a lab in Playa Vista to nurture video stars. A marketing agency also agrees to a lease.
The former Hughes campus is already home to Raleigh Studios, which operates soundstages in the former hangar where the Spruce Goose was built. Paramount is filming parts of the next “Star Trek” movie there, Ratkovich said.
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January 2012
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