MIT Media Lab creates new UI iPad app to make group work more intuitive

Source: Designbuzz

Back in the good old days, having a team collaborate on a group project translated into people huddling over a bunch of papers on the meeting desk where people would be free to provide inputs via doodles and gestures or silly drawings that served ...
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What's In A Smile? Turns Out Computers Best Humans At Parsing What's Genuine

Source: NPR

Did you know most people smile when they are frustrated? Look at this picture: A study participant smiles for different reasons. A study participant smiles for different reasons. The one on the right came from frustration; t ...
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MIT students make Minority Report-style iPad control system

Source: Electronista

iPad and glove combination used to control virtual objects Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a Minority Report-style glove and iPad input system for three-dimensional virtual object manipulation called T(ether) . The system lets the ...
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MIT Software Identifies Hidden Frustration Much More Accurately Than Humans

Source: MaximumPC

Via webcam, the test subjects were asked to smile and act frustrated, but canned responses are obviously of limited use, so they also performed tasks designed to evoke true happiness or irritation. The researchers evoked feelings of de ...
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Stephen Catanzarite named Baden Academy CEO

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

This was printed from Pittsburgh Business Times Paul J. Gough is the web producer at the Pittsburgh Business Times. Contact him at pgough@bizjournals.com or (412) 208-3827. You can also follow him on Twitter. Catanzarite has been managing director of ...
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Baden Academy Charter School appoints Catanzarite to serve as first CEO

Source: PR Newswire

BEAVER, Pa., May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees of the Baden Academy Charter School today appointed Stephen Catanzarite as Chief Executive Officer. He previously ...
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Innovation in arts and culture #4: Punchdrunk – Sleep No More

Source: Guardian Unlimited

I have just come to the end of two of the most exciting (and longest) weeks of my career. I am writing this in the production office of our New York show Sleep No More. Running for a little over a year, the prod ...
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Review and a build: Makey Makey, a banana piano, and Mario

Source: hack a day

We’ve been getting a lot of emails on the Hackaday tip line about the Makey Makey. This business-card sized circuit board turns everything – bananas, Play-Doh, water, and people – into a touch interface. There have been a ton of blogs that ha ...
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ZeroN: A Levitating Orb Gestural Interface Straight Out Of Sci-Fi

Source: The Creators Project

Levitation, it’s one of those superhero abilities that shamans and Yogic masters like to show off about, but the skeptical among us must shake our head and say “Impossible!”. But sometimes it pays to be skeptical about you ...
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