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Mashable - Blog - 10 Awesome Uses of Augmented Reality Marketing - 2 views

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  • Honor Moorman on 02 Apr 10
     
    Visuals are an important part of advertising, so it's not surprising that so many companies have jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon, offering tools that visualize their products in a magical and memorable way. Here we take a look at some pretty amazing promotional uses of this new tech that work with common webcams, giving everyone a chance to experience augmented reality - a trend that will be big in 2010.
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Augmented Reality - Explained by Common Craft - 5 views

commoncraft.com/augmented-reality-video augmentedreality Common Craft Flat Classroom Project smartphone computer technology
shared by Alix R on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • An introduction to a new technology that adds a layer of useful information to computer and smartphone camera screens
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Gesture-Based Computing - 5 views

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shared by Tanya Peters on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Devices that can accept multiple simultaneous inputs (like using two fingers on the Apple iPhone or the Microsoft Surface to zoom in or out) and gesture-based inputs like those used on the Nintendo Wii have begun to change the way we interact with computers.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      The sentence expresses numerous examples of today's technology that incorporate gesture based computing.
  • Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in virtual activities with motion and movement similar to what they would use in the real world.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      The sentence briefly describes the definition of gesture based computing.
  • A number of mobile applications use gestures. Mover lets users flick files from one phone to another; Shut Up, an app from Nokia, silences the phone when the user turns it upside down; nAlertme, an antitheft app, sounds an alarm if the phone isn't shaken in a specific, preset way:
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      The sentence describes various computer applications that are involved with gesture based computing.
  • Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This article describes a basic definition of gesture based computing and provides its readers with technology and applications that are equipped with this feature.
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GM's Awesome Augmented Reality Windshield [VIDEO] - 4 views

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shared by Alix R on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • an ordinary windshield into an augmented reality information dashboard.
  • improve safety
  • advance knowledge behind the wheel
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  • visually identifying important objects in physical space like road signs and the edges of the road you’re on in conditions of poor visibility
  • GPS functions right into the dashboard by outlining the exact building you’re going to
  • The HUD windshield uses night vision, navigation and camera-based sensors to gather data relevant to your surroundings as you drive, and ultraviolet lasers project corresponding images onto the windshield surface.
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Mobile Computing - 4 views

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  • Krysta M on 24 Mar 10
     
    AtBentley, there's network access across campus and in the residence halls; utilizing wireless when on the go, and plugging in when you are in need of the high speed wired access. (Mobile computing benefiting education, colleges even handout technology for student use)
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Parkinson's Patients Go to Wii-hab | LiveScience - 3 views

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  • Ben C on 24 Mar 10
     
    Using the Wii's technology can help improve the condition of patients with Parkinson's.
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Bill MacKenty - Educational Technology - 3 views

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  • Josh Davis on 12 Apr 10
     
    Video games in education
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Visual Data Analysis - 3 views

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shared by Sydnee S on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      This is the basic definintion of visual data analysis
  • Some of these tools, such as Visokio Omniscope, are powerful hybrid desktop/web visualisation clients that can replace spreadsheets, presentation packages like PowerPoint, and create portable, reusable data files anyone can access, navigate and filter using a free viewer.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      These are some ways that visual data analysis is changing our world.
  • enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions.
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  • primarily focuses on visual presentation of tabular views ready for human consumption.
  • has proven to be a time saving means of communicating important metrics to executive management through the use of software.
  • Edward M on 11 Mar 10
     
    Visual data analysis facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption. Visual data analysis enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions. Visual data analysis may build upon prior logical processing via mathematical formulas, artificial intelligence or other automated mechanisms for analysis and improving data quality. Strictly speaking, visual data analysis primarily focuses on visual presentation of tabular views ready for human consumption.
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100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips - Online Colleges - 3 views

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shared by Honor Moorman on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Honor Moorman on 03 Apr 10
     
    Just like physicians, the best educators stay informed with the latest developments in their field. Luckily, it doesn't take anything more than time to have access to quality journals for educators. The following open access journals provide top-notch scholarly information available at no cost.
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Apple's iPad: The Future of Mobile Computing in Education? -- Campus Technology - 3 views

campustechnology.com/...le-Computing-in-Education.aspx ipad mobile education future innovation
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  • Maik G on 24 Mar 10
     
    ipad as new revolution in mobile computing
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Virtual eye Dissection: The Anatomy of an Eye - 3 views

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shared by Nicole Henderson on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nicole Henderson on 31 Mar 10
     
    Free way to use Augmented Reality in school
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The future, it is all a Gesture - Bruce On Games - 3 views

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shared by Daniel M on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • technology continues to roll on and mankind has used it’s ingenuity to come up with a whole new sort of man/machine interface. It is called Gesture. And it is not an acronym, it really does mean interfacing by human gesture. And it is one of the hottest areas of technology just now.
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Wikibooks - 3 views

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  • Honor Moorman on 03 Apr 10
     
    Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
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The State of the Electronic Book on Vimeo - 2 views

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  • Brittany H L on 22 Mar 10
     
    A great video about electronic books and what's happening in this area ! It discusses devices and how they've change and how they will change and much much more
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TED Blog: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense on TED.com - 2 views

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shared by Daniel M on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This demo, from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT (and spearheaded by her student Pranav Mistry), was the buzz of TED2009. Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. (Recorded in February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 08:42.)
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Textbooks Are Finished - 2 views

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  • Lisette Casey on 20 Mar 10
     
    Includes additional articles by Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway that may be relevant to other teams.
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