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Open Content's Higher Ed Calling - 0 views

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  • Alex H on 05 Apr 10
     
    Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.
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The Virtual Autopsy Table - 0 views

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  • Taylor O on 05 Apr 10
     
    Is a medical visualization tool that allows people to look through the human body useing gestures.
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e-books - 0 views

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  • Isaiah Toews on 05 Apr 10
     
    this website has some information about what e-books are
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Aggregating Research on Sustainability « iterating toward openness - 0 views

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  • Honor Moorman on 11 Apr 10
     
    Be sure to follow the links and read the full article described in this blog post
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SpringerLink - Book Chapter - 0 views

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  • Tiffani Johnson on 31 Mar 10
     
    More information about mobiles in the entertainment
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Google Docs Adds Major New Features [PICS] - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 14 Apr 10
     
    Google has announced that it has rebuilt Google Docs from the ground-up. The result is a massive overhaul of Google Docs, including completely redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors, group chat functionality, and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up, much like Google Wave. You can preview the new changes, starting today."
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Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others [1]. Scanning for the Open Content Alliance is administered by the Internet Archive, which also provides permanent storage and access through its website.
  • OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA digitizes copyrighted works only after asking and receiving permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search digitizes copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
  • The OCA is, in part, a response to Google Book Search, which was announced in October 2004.
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  • Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project [2]. However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This wikipedia page talks about the OCA(Open Content Alliance). This website tells how this alliance is contributing to the growth of Open Content and how it is helping the idea of Open Content to become more widely used throughout the world.
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Data visualization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Friedman (2008) the "main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      Visual data analysis is occuring.
  • process of looking at and summarizing data with the intent to extract useful information and develop conclusions.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      This is another definition for visual data analysis.
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Visual Business Intelligence - Microsoft Excel's Idea of Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

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  • No software product is used more than Microsoft Excel for the analysis and presentation of quantitative data.
  • Nevertheless, it is fair to say that you can use Excel to present data effectively, but within severe limits, and only if you’re willing to work around its problems.
  • To say it can be used for visual data analysis, however, is a stretch that exceeds its reach. To date, Excel is at best an infant in the world of visual data analysis, barely able to roll over.
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  • Those of you who are familiar with visual data analysis and what good software does to support it will find Microsoft’s notion of visual data analysis entertaining. I invite you to watch Microsoft’s demo and let me know what you think of it.
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Open Content Online - 0 views

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  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This page helps people add open content to the Internet. This website offers videos about conferences, support center information, as well as broadcasting information.
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iPad Experience Series: Can the iPad replace ebook readers? | The Mobile Gadgeteer | ZD... - 0 views

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  • The major strengths of the iPad are the multiple client support and integrated, controllable backlight while the weaknesses are the lack of eInk, lack of Adobe Digital Editions support (for those free library books), and weight in your hand compared to dedicated ebook devices.
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Sebastian Thrun's Homepage - 0 views

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  • A Gesture Based Interface for Human-Robot Interaction Stefan Waldherr, Roseli Romero, and Sebastian Thrun Service robotics is currently a pivotal research area in robotics, with enormous societal potential
  • Service robotics is currently a pivotal research area in robotics, with enormous societal potential
  • This paper describes a gesture interface for the control of a mobile robot equipped with a manipulator
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  • The interface uses a camera to track a person and recognize gestures involving arm motion
  • Two alternative methods for gesture recognition are compared: a template based approach and a neural network approach. Both are combined with the Viterbi algorithm for the recognition of gestures defined through arm motion (in addition to static arm poses).
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Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Hope B. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • In computing, a pointing device gesture is a way of combining pointing device movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Pointing device gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      Gesture based computing is referred to as pointing device gesturing. In this sentence, numerous ways are provided to show the functions of this technology.
  • The first pointing device gesture, the "drag," was introduced by Apple to replace a dedicated "move" button on mice shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers.
  • Dragging involves holding down a pointing device button while moving the pointing device; the software interprets this as an action distinct from separate clicking and moving behaviors.
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  • Unlike most pointing device gestures, it does not involve the tracing of any particular shape. Although the "drag" behavior has been adopted in a huge variety of software packages, few other gestures have been as successful.
  • A major drawback of current gesture interaction solutions is the lack of support for two necessary user interface design principles, feedback and visibility.
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Sales Impact of Free eBooks Dissertation Published « iterating toward openness - 0 views

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  • Deseret Book placed eight books online for free download. All of these were “backlist” titles. This study tracked what happened as a result of those books being available.
  • The books were placed online September 9, 2009. This study compares sales of these books the ten weeks before they were available for free with the ten weeks after.
  • During the ten weeks of the study the books were downloaded 102,556 times. Collectively, the books sold 68 more copies in the ten weeks they were online for free versus the ten previous weeks. This was an increase in sales of 26%. Over the same period of time in 2008, sales of these same books decreased by 38%.
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  • 2009 26% -16% 2008 -38% -6%
  • Thus the increase in sales of the eight featured books in 2009 seems attributable to their being available for free.
  • Visits to the online product pages of the free books increased 1,085% during the study.
  • if more books had been available and downloaded the number of additional books sold would likely have increased.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This website tells of a survey that was given. Eight books were placed online, and were downloaded many times. The results say that the placing of the books online for free helped more people to be able to buy the books.
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Creative Commons - 0 views

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  • Katelin Rempel on 05 Apr 10
     
    Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. A form of open content.
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Total Immersion to Unveil First Commercial Markerless Tracking on Mobile at I... - 0 views

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  • A major component of Total Immersion’s proprietary AR solution, markerless tracking enables an AR application to use natural targets to trigger the augmented reality experience.
  • “Mobile innovation continues to drive rapid change for business and personal interaction, and this spring’s CTIA educational program will address next generation technologies, new players and emerging opportunities,” said Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA. “We are delighted that Bruno and Total Immersion will be contributing to the discussion.”
  • “Augmented reality is a new human interface, and as such, offers enormous potential to create engaging new experiences – especially using mobile platforms,” Uzzan said.  “AR is already beginning to transform the way people see and interact in the world.  It’s ushering in an age where destinations, data and details will be as close as a smartphone.  AR can turn a simple cell phone into a marketing and information delivery device with seemingly limitless capabilities.”
  • daniel manny on 31 Mar 10
     
    Commercial use
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Doctors Test New Gestural Interface During Brain Surgery - InsideTech.com - 0 views

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  • Nic Ellis on 31 Mar 10
     
    This article talks about some of the good things with gesture-based computing in the medical field
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Google Books Settlement Facing Scrutiny - 0 views

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  • Emily Lord on 16 Apr 10
     
    concerns center on a possible monopoly, invasion of privacy.
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2010 Horizon Report » Two to Three Years: Electronic Books - 0 views

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  • A survey of current projects shows that electronic books are being explored in virtually every discipline
  • Extracurricular Reading.
  • library at Fairleigh Dickinson University offers a selection of electronic readers that students may check out, including Amazon Kindles, Sony Readers, and iPod Touches.
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  • Foreign Language.
  • use an online interactive textbook with a print-on-demand component
  • The online portion includes audio clips of each part of the text and video clips to explore
  • The Humanities E-Book (HEB), offered to institutions on a subscription basis
  • Humanities.
  • is a digital collection of 2,200 humanities texts. Students at subscribing institutions may browse and read the collection online or order printed copies on demand.
  • Physics.
  • produced an electronic book to visually demonstrate the principles of electricity and magnetism
  • krysten j on 31 Mar 10
     
    2010 Horizon Report: The Web Version Two to Three Years: Electronic Books
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