'Losing Yourself' In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life - Ohio State Research and Innovation Communications COLUMBUS, Ohio - When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests. Researchers at Ohio State University examined what happened to people who, while reading a fictional story, found themselves feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if they were their own - a phenomenon the researchers call “experience-taking.” They found that, in the right situations, experience-taking may lead to real changes, if only temporary, in the lives of readers. In one experiment, for example, the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in a real election several days later. There are many ways experience-taking can affect readers. Experience-taking doesn’t happen all the time.
Lincoln Laboratory: Spin-offs One measure of the Laboratory's contribution to the nation's economy is its success in transferring technology to spin-off companies. The partial list that follows indicates the range of industrial activities that have been generated and supported by ideas and techniques developed at the Laboratory. Air Traffic Software Architecture, Inc. Pebble Rock™ Flooring - Rock Aggregate and Epoxy Flooring Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture group, Cambridge MA, USA Keynote Addresses Invited Presentations Panels Symposium on Computational Photography and Video at MIT, What Will a Camera Look Like in 20 Years ? May 2005 (Organizer) Siggraph 2005, The Ultimate Display: What Will It Be?, August 2005 Professional Activities Papers Committee: Siggraph 2007, Siggraph 2008, Siggraph Asia 2009, Siggraph Asia 2010, Siggraph 2011 Papers Committee: Eurographics ( EG) 2005, Eurographics 2008, Eurographics 2009 Area Chair: CVPR 2009, ACCV 2008, ECCV 2010 Judging panel member for Global Indus Technovator Awards at MIT, 2004 Reviewer: SIGGRAPH(1999-2004-), Eurographics(2001-2003), EGRW/EGRS, I3D(2001,2003), IEEE Visualization(1999,2000,2002,2003), ISMAR (Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2003,2004), ACM Multimedia, NPAR (2002,2004), UIST(2001,2002), ACM TOG, IEEE CG&A, IEEE TVCG Awards and Honors Art/Tech Shows
Nokia's new PureView ad is amazing, too bad it's faked The new PureView camera might be amazing, but a bizarre easter egg has revealed that the company's advertisements don't give an honest view of its technology. Amid Nokia's flurry of press today — if you haven't heard, it released a new flagship phone along with some other gear — one video advertisement in particular caught our eye. In the ad, Nokia shows off the PureView's image stabilization technology. As you can see in the video above, there's a curious reflection in the window of the trailer in the background. You should really see the PureView before you believe it Despite the slip-up, it's completely possible that Nokia's PureView system does exactly, or at least some, of what the company claims it does — after all, optical stabilization is a proven technology that produces great results on all sorts of traditional cameras. Update: We spoke with a Nokia spokesperson who agrees that the PureView ad is misleading.
Redefining Reality: Psychology, Science and Solipsism The Zen teacher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wondered, "Am I a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I really a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?" The fundamental question regarding the nature of reality is partly philosophical, partly spiritual, part psychological, and partly scientific in nature. But it is not merely academic. This discussion started explicitly with my piece on "Truth, Lies, and Self-Deception," stimulated by the psychologically complex Casey Anthony case. As with the difficult task of defining reality in any relationship, Freud's interpretation of what went wrong between he and Carl Jung and why was radically different than Jung's own perception. For me, reality is something both subjective and objective. In our culture, when this boundary between interior and exterior reality becomes blurred or lost completely, we typically tend to view it as severe psychopathology.
Social Media Monitoring Tools | Brandwatch Memoto Lifelogging Camera by Memoto Thank you all backers! Thanks to you, the Memoto Lifelogging Camera was successfully funded! This Kickstarter page will be frozen on November 30, 2012. To follow our journey ahead, follow us on Twitter (@memototeam) and on Facebook (fb.com/Memotocompany). Orders are now available through Memoto.com. Have you thought about how much of life that goes missing from your memories? We at Memoto wanted to find a way to relive more of our lives in the future - and enjoy the present as it happens. Hardware devices consists of mechanics, electronics and firmware. The electronics has taken even longer to develop. What does the functional prototype do? The prototype does everything the final camera will do, taking photos and registering GPS position. Miniaturizing the electronics Not only has miniaturized circuit board been designed by one of Sweden's foremost digital camera engineers who are working on our team, but it is also undergoing careful review and approval from these outside sources: Camera
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii As of June 2008, Nintendo has sold nearly 30 million Wii game consoles. This significantly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024x768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. Any software on this page is primarily meant for developers and may not run without proper the development tools installed. NOTE: For most of these projects, you don't need the Nintendo Wii console. Coming Later: 3D tracking, and more.... Unfortunately, time constraints in the next couple of months have significantly reduced my ability to work on more projects.
Experimental Error: Most Likely to Secede I don't mean to brag, but in sixth grade I won the Science Award for Mrs. Lukoff's class. Lest you think the prize frivolous, I should stress that this honor -- accompanied, of course, by a certificate printed using the ultramodern Brøderbund Print Shop -- brought me legitimate notoriety among my classmates. They all paid close attention at the awards ceremony because, according to time-honored tradition, the recipient of the Science Award gets beaten up. Someday, I thought while being stuffed into a trash can, I'll be a big, bad scientist. I'll stand at a podium to receive my Nobel Prize. "Yes, O Wise Scientist!" That's when I'll smile. Growing up, we were the smart ones. We thought we were the only ones taking this education thing seriously. We thought we would rule the world. I realized recently that if I examine it in a day-to-day sense, I have one job in science. That's it? Most of us can't boast about the accomplishments for which we dreamed of being revered.
Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked; TechStars and Y Combinator Top The Rankings UPDATE: Check out the 2012 Startup Accelerators and Incubator Rankings released on August 22, 2012. There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a single idea. Through the accelerator or incubator they receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small stake in the company. As a part of his field work for the Kauffman Fellows Program (not to be confused with Kauffman Foundation), Aziz Gilani from DFJ Mercury, working in partnership with Tech Cocktail and the Kellogg School of Management, set out to determine the best startup accelerator programs in America and rank them. High-level Methodology First, a list of startup accelerator programs across the country was compiled. 2011 U.S.A.
Home | Science On a Sphere Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is a room sized, global display system that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six foot diameter sphere, analogous to a giant animated globe. Researchers at NOAA developed Science On a Sphere® as an educational tool to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages. Animated images of atmospheric storms, climate change, and ocean temperature can be shown on the sphere, which is used to explain what are sometimes complex environmental processes, in a way that is simultaneously intuitive and captivating. Science On a Sphere® extends NOAA's educational program goals, which are designed to increase public understanding of the environment. Using NOAA's collective experience and knowledge of the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere, NOAA uses Science On a Sphere® as an instrument to enhance informal educational programs in science centers, universities, and museums across the country.
Marea negra La renovación supuso unas nuevas mecánicas de reestructuración social y económica alrededor del nuevo Dios que permitía una nueva pujanza entre las competencias de un mundo que ha girado siempre sobre lo que reconoce como motor principal de sus recursos, aunque aún no los termine de entender, y siempre concluya suplantándolos por otros. El tiempo después de la renovación fue largo junto al ritmo de las ambiciones, y esa carrera alrededor del elemento sustancial y simbólico de la también simbólica riqueza, ha llegado, otra vez, al punto de donde solo puede retrocederse con la violenta marea en las narices. La Primavera Árabe condujo a una disminución en la producción de crudo, y fue la primera piedra en el pozo que causó la ola del caos. El drama actual radica en que esa producción ha retornado a sus niveles conocidos, pero ha frenado su demanda. La marea negra regresa de los tiempos de su esplendor, y se traga de nuevo al mundo entre sus hoyos.
The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date TEDTalks The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far) Today, on the fifth birthday of TEDTalks video, we’re releasing a new list of the 20 most-watched TEDTalks over the past five years — as watched on all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more … What a great, mixed-up group this is! Talks about education and creativity, sex […] Playlist The 20 most popular TED Talks, as of December 2013 UPDATED: To see all these talks at one click, check out our updated Playlist: The 20 Most Popular Talks of All Time.