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  • Virtual reality helps stroke patients learn to...

    Sept. 27 issue of Neurology reports results of a study, which has investigated the effect of simulator-based training on driving after stroke. The research has involved 83 subacute stroke patients randomly assigned to either simulator-based training or control group. Then, all patients were ... Read more ...

    Published on 09/29/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • The singularity is near

    The central thesis of Ray Kurzweil's new book titled The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is that human evolution will soon be irreversibly transformed by information technology. Here is a quote from a New Scientist article that sums up Kurzweil's projections: "Ultimately... Read more ...

    Published on 09/28/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Open-Source Context-Aware Experience Sampling...

    Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems can be viewed as environments in which people will increasingly live their lives. Ubiquitous AmI technologies and systems like personal digital assistants, wearable sensors, mobile phones challenge traditional usability evaluation methods, because use context c... Read more ...

    Published on 09/24/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Scientific American Mind

    The new edition of Scientific American Mind   Smarter on Drugs By Michael S. Gazzaniga We recoil at the idea of people taking drugs to enhance their intelligence. But why? The Movie in Your Head By Christof Koch Is consciousness a seamless experience or a string of fle... Read more ...

    Published on 09/23/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Media Fabrics

    Interactive Cinema - Media Fabrics is a research initiative at MIT that focuses on a new paradigm: the "media fabric" - a semi-intelligent organism where lines of communication, threads of meaning, chains of causality, and streams of consciousness converge and intertwine to form a rich tapestry... Read more ...

    Published on 09/23/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • The Virtusphere

    Via Engadget VirtuSphere is a 360-degree VR environment that allows for moving in any direction . The device consists of a large hollow sphere, placed on a special platform that allows the sphere to rotate in any direction as the user moves within it. Sensors under the sphere provide su... Read more ...

    Published on 09/23/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Neuroprotection in Neurological Diseases...

    Neuroprotection in Neurological Diseases - A Promising Therapeutic Strategy or Chimera? 24-26 November 2005 Giardini Naxos (Taormina), Sicily   Achieving proven Neuroprotection remains an unattained goal; however strategies exist which may delay disease progression in chronic cond... Read more ...

    Published on 09/22/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Brainmirror

    Via dataisnature BrainMirror is an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head movement as an interface to explore volumetric visuals of the human brain. How it works? a motion tracker computer watches the audien... Read more ...

    Published on 09/21/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Between the physical and the virtual

    via Pasta & Vinegar The International Journal of Design Computing has a special Issue on the Space Between the Physical and the Virtual : This special issue contains research which navigates the territory between the real and virtual world through metaphor, cognitive model... Read more ...

    Published on 09/19/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

  • The added value of eHealth

    The International EHTEL conference titled Improving Care for Chronic Conditions - the added value of eHealth will take place in Rome, 10-11 October 2005, jointly organised by EHTEL, the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Biomedical Technology in co-operation with ESQH and NIZW. ... Read more ...

    Published on 09/19/2005 in Positive Technology Journal

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