Interdisciplinary Research

News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.

Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.

Nickel nanoparticles may contribute to lung cancer

Technologists often focus on the happier among these newfound capabilities, but new research by an interdisciplinary team of scientists at Brown University…

Disney, CMU researchers build face models that give animators intuitive control of expressions

Flashing a wink and a smirk might be second nature for some people, but computer animators can be hard-pressed to depict such an expression realistically. Now…

Researchers turn motion capture inside out

But by turning the cameras around — mounting almost two dozen, outward-facing cameras on the actors themselves — scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh…

BGU researchers develop webcam tool to improve office worker posture

According to an article in Applied Ergonomics in the forthcoming issue, a group of 60 workers received both office training and an automatic frequent-feedback…

Grant to Investigate Methane Gas from Marcellus Shale Drilling

“We know there are environmental concerns about the Marcellus Shale and there have been some accidents related to the drilling,” said Michel Boufadel,…

Your brain on androids

The phenomenon has been described anecdotally for years, but how and why this happens is still a subject of debate in robotics, computer graphics and…

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