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Researchers Study Influence of Cultural Factors on Gesture Design

Dec. 1, 2020 — Freehand gesture-based interfaces in interactive systems are becoming more common, but what if your preferred way to gesture a command - say, changing the TV to channel 10 - significantly differed ...

Virtual Reality Helps Measure Vulnerability to Stress

Nov. 19, 2020 — Behavioral scientists have developed a virtual reality test that assesses a person's vulnerability to stress while exploring immersive environments. The resulting model offers the field of stress ...

Stretchable 'Skin' Sensor Gives Robots Human Sensation

Nov. 12, 2020 — Cornell University researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable ''skin'' that detects deformations such as pressure, bending and ...

Sensor for Smart Textiles Survives Washing Machine, Cars and Hammers

Nov. 11, 2020 — If the smart textiles of the future are going to survive all that we throw at them, their components are going to need to be resilient. Now, researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive, seriously ...

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New Machine Learning Tool Tracks Urban Traffic Congestion

Dec. 2, 2020 — Using public data from the entire 1,500-square-mile Los Angeles metropolitan area, researchers reduced the time needed to create a traffic congestion model by an order of magnitude, from hours to ...

Headset Over Earphone: Cancelling out Unnecessary and Unwanted Noise

Nov. 30, 2020 — Researchers are exploring technology for those wanting a quieter ...

Virtual Reality Forests Could Help Understanding of Climate Change

Nov. 11, 2020 — The effects of climate change are sometimes difficult to grasp, but now a virtual reality forest, created by geographers, can let people walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various ...

Two Motivational Artificial Beings Are Better Than One for Enhancing Learning

Nov. 5, 2020 — Researchers have found that offline consolidation of a motor task was enhanced by praise delivered by robots, whether they were presented on a screen ...

3D Hand Pose Estimation Using a Wrist-Worn Camera

Oct. 21, 2020 — Researchers have developed a wrist-worn device for 3D hand pose estimation. The system consists of a camera that captures images of the back of the hand, and is supported by a neural network called ...

Virtual Reality Health Appointments Can Help Patients Address Eating Disorders

Oct. 21, 2020 — Research has revealed that Virtual Reality (VR) technology can have significant impact on the validity of remote health appointments for those with ...

New Virtual Reality Software Allows Scientists to 'Walk' Inside Cells

Oct. 12, 2020 — Virtual reality software which allows researchers to 'walk' inside and analyze individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new treatments for ...

'Universal Law of Touch' Will Enable New Advances in Virtual Reality

Oct. 9, 2020 — Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law ...

Tool Helps Clear Biases from Computer Vision

Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers have developed a tool that flags potential biases in sets of images used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The work is part of a larger effort to remedy and prevent the ...

Engineers Pre-Train AI Computers to Make Them Even More Powerful

Sep. 22, 2020 — Engineers have developed a new machine-learning method that paves the way for artificial intelligence to be used in applications that until now have been deemed too sensitive. The method, which has ...