Binder's study examined whether Twitter is an effective tool for sharing meaningful information after a disaster.“I wanted to see if Twitter was an effective…
“Our goal was to get the highest data rate possible, without compromising the fidelity of the signal,” says Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen, a professor of…
“It is fascinating,” Tobias Friedrich of the Cluster of Excellence on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” says. He points out that so far, it has been…
Minors who were familiar with television alcohol advertisements were more likely to have tried alcoholic beverages and binge drink than those who could not…
“It turns out the free apps aren't really free because they contain the hidden cost of reduced battery life,” said Y. Charlie Hu, a Purdue University professor…
Whether for live events, theme parks or product presentations – Fraunhofer IDMT provides audio modules for any application scenario. The SpatialSound modules…
Many of the communication tools of today rely on the function of light or, more specifically, on applying information to a light wave. Up until now, studies on…
Alda asked that very question as an 11-year-old 65 years ago and the answer he received left him in the dark. He hopes that scientists will be better equipped…
The Heidelberg speech technology company EML European Media Laboratory GmbH participates in the new EU funded research project “TransLectures”. The aim of the…
“Generally, people don't want to admit they've lied,” says Catalina Toma, communication science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “But we don't…
These findings were announced in today's release of the FutureMediaSM Outlook 2012, a multimedia report that offers Georgia Tech's annual viewpoint on the…
Yet a majority of 9-16 year olds say that they have not encountered anything on the Internet that has bothered or upset them in the past year.The Swedish part…
To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association is now supporting the Compact for…
Kouichi Katsurada is an associate professor at Toyohashi Tech’s Graduate School of Engineering with a mission to ‘humanize’ the computer interface. Katsurada’s…
For the first time, the positive effects of computer games on thoughts, emotions and behaviour will be the subject of closer scrutiny by social psychologists. A total of three studies will explore how, to which extent and for how long cooperative gaming behaviour influences the personality of gamers positively. The project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will complete the current state of research on personality effects from computer games, which has previously been dominated by studies of negative consequences. The studies have the potential to offer significant ideas for analysing and reinforcing social skills in all age groups….
The most important sales period for stores has started, and in different stores we encounter apparently good deals involving the purchase of two or more items…
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