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Social puppet to train soldiers
Via Smart Mobs 'Social Puppet,' is a 3D simulation program created to help soldiers learn unfamiliar languages by interacting with animated characters. For this project, financed by DARPA, the researchers have given on-screen characters human non-verbal communication behaviors. ... Read more ...
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Presence 14:6 Now Available
Special Section: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues Associated with Virtual Environments and Computer Mediated Reality Articles Sousveillance and Cyborglogs: A 30-Year Empirical Voyage through Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues Steve Mann Buddy Bots: How Turing's Fast Friends are... Read more ...
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Presence 2006
From the conference's website Academics and practitioners with an interest in the concept of (tele)presence are invited to submit their work for presentation at PRESENCE 2006 at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, August 24-26, 2006. The ninth in a series of highly successful... Read more ...
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A Science of the Divine?
Via Smart mobs Prompted by Edge , Cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Kosslyn offers a set of hypotheses concerning a scientific theory of God Here's an idea that many academics may find unsettling and dangerous: God exists. And here's another idea that ... Read more ...
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Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron...
Mirella Dapretto, Mari S Davies, Jennifer H Pfeifer, Ashley A Scott, Marian Sigman, Susan Y Bookheimer, Marco Iacoboni Nature , Published online: 4 December 2005 To examine mirror neuron abnormalities in autism, high-functioning children with autism and matched controls underwe... Read more ...
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Nature Insight: Sleep
Until the mid of 20th century, most people thought of sleep as a passive part of our daily lives. Now the body of evidence suggests that the brain is very active during sleep. Moreover, neuroscience is beginning to understand the importance of sleep on our daily function and health. The cu... Read more ...
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Neurobiology of the self on Scientific American
Via Brain Blog The November 2005 issue of Scientific American publishes an article by Carl Zimmer entitled "The Neurobiology of the Self". This is the abstract: The most obvious thing about yourself is your self. "You look down at your body and know it's yours," says Todd Heathert... Read more ...
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Exploring the frontier of telepresence
By Geoff McMaster, ExpressNews Staff - The closest many of us have come to imagining virtual reality is the holodeck, a fantasy playground featured on the television series Star Trek. Such flights of fancy are no longer the stuff of science fiction, however. Computer scientists at the U of A h... Read more ...
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New article about Presence published on Nature!
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives and Mel Slater have published a review article entitled "From Presence to Consciousness through Virtual Reality" on the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience (ASI impact factor 2003: 27.007). In this article, the authors argue that presence - the sense of "being the... Read more ...
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Charles Tart: Virtual Reality & Altered States...
The link between VR and altered states of consciousness is an interesting one. One of the first researchers that have discussed this relationship is Charles Tart . According to Tart, VR can be considered a new technological model of consciousness. In particular, he suggests that "stable patter... Read more ...