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Miller S.

Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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opencontent

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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.
Sydnee S

Data visualization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Data_visualization

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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.
Hope B.

Microsoft Surface - surface and gesture based computing lands -- Engadget - 1 views

www.engadget.com/...-gesture-based-computing-lands

gesturebased

shared by Hope B. on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Over the years we've seen plenty of surface and gestural interface computing systems and prototypes, but nothing mass-market -- nothing consumable, if you will.
  • Microsoft aims to change all that with Surface, its first foray into surface / gestural interfaces; arriving in the form of a 30-inch table-like display, Microsoft envisions its eventual uses as pervasive as imaginable, like ordering beverages from your restaurant table and silently scanning your wine bottle's RFID tag to automagically present information on the vineyard and vintage.
  • Jace Vaninger on 29 Mar 10
     
    surface and gesture based computing
Tanner B

Visual Business Intelligence - Microsoft Excel's Idea of Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

www.perceptualedge.com/blog

visual data analysis

shared by Tanner B on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Miller S.

Open Content Online - 0 views

aisantos.wordpress.com

opencontent

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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.
Hope B.

Sebastian Thrun's Homepage - 0 views

robots.stanford.edu/...waldherr.gestures-journal.html

gesturebased

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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).
Hope B.

Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Pointing_device_gesture

gesturebased

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.
Miller S.

Submit open content to the Sunlight Foundation's "Design for America" contest - Creativ... - 1 views

creativecommons.org/...21361

opencontent ebooks

shared by Miller S. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The Design for America contest is the Sunlight Foundation’s latest effort to modernize the United State’s information architecture and presentation. Their goal is “to make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American public” by encouraging designers, artists, and programmers to reimagine government websites and to visualize government data and processes.
  • Provided you meet eligibility requirements, you can submit work to categories in Data Visualization, Process Transparency, and Redesigning the Government.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This blog is an advertisement to people for a Design for America contest. The goal of this contest is to obtain information architecture that will help make information more accessible.
Tyler R

Total Immersion : Augmented reality software solutions with D'Fusion - 0 views

www.t-immersion.com

augmentedreality

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  • Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience where virtual components are dynamically merged into a live video stream in real time.
  • Tyler R on 30 Mar 10
     
    Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience where virtual components are dynamically merged into a live video stream in real time
Sydnee S

Challenges in Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

portal.acm.org/citation.cfm

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  • data is produced at unprecedented rates.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      Data is constantly produced around the worlrd.
  • ability to analyze these data volumes increases at much lower pace.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      Since there is so much data to analyze, it is beginning to take much longer to analyze things.
  • leads to new challenges in the analysis process, since analysts, decision makers, engineers, or emergency response teams depend on information "concealed" in the data.
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  • field of visual analytics focuses on handling massive, heterogenous, and dynamic volumes of information through integration of human judgement by means of visual representations and interaction techniques
  • combination of related research areas including visualization, data mining, and statistics that turns visual analytics into a promising field of research.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      The more this visual data analysis is worked on, the faster it will get.
Hope B.

Gesture Based Computing Moving Along with Oblong | GottaBeMobile.com - 1 views

www.gottabemobile.com/...uting-moving-along-with-oblong

gesturebased

shared by Hope B. on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • On that spin-off, they’ve picked up with gesture based Minority Report-like computing in ways that I’m sure make police departments everywhere shake their heads at budget time.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This sentence describes how gesture based computing is helping the police force on a tv show.
  • We continue to see this kind of thing getting closer and closer to consumers, and Microsoft’s Project Natal looks like it will be a big step forward this year.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This sentence recommends a new technology that will prosper greatly and become beneficial.
  • Roxanne G on 24 Mar 10
     
    This video is so awesome! How crazy is this technology, who even knows this is possible? Our future is in the fate of things like moving objects on a screen with your hands!
  • Kunjan P on 30 Mar 10
     
    This has a great video and great information about the Microsoft's Project Natal.
Miller S.

Sales Impact of Free eBooks Dissertation Published « iterating toward openness - 0 views

opencontent.org/...1313

opencontent ebooks

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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.
Tyler R

BMW Augmented Reality Glasses Help Average Joes Make Repairs | Popular Science - 0 views

www.popsci.com/...gmented-reality-help-mechanics

augmentedreality

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  • Tyler R on 30 Mar 10
     
    BMW have developed a concept for AR glasses that can assist their own mechanics in performing maintenance on the company's high-performance cars. The glasses read the field of view, point out the part that needs replacing, the screw that needs turning, or the cap that needs tightening (and even tells users which way to turn it).
Austin M

Georgia H1N1 Cases Spike; Low Vaccination Rates Blamed - ABC News - 0 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

open content

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  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    Georgia thinks they wont have enough H1N1 vaccine.
Pate C.

nook, eBook reader, eReader - Barnes & Noble - 0 views

www.barnesandnoble.com/...index.asp

ebooks

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  • Pate C. on 30 Mar 10
     
    Barnes and Nobles nook description.
Hope B.

Gesture recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Gesture_recognition

gesturebased

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  • Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      Gesture based computing can also be referred to as gesture recognition. This sentence briefly describes the defintion of this feature.
  • Gesture recognition can be seen as a way for computers to begin to understand human body language, thus building a richer bridge between machines and humans than primitive text user interfaces or even GUIs (graphical user interfaces), which still limit the majority of input to keyboard and mouse.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This sentence provides numerous ways in which gesture based computing can be beneficial to the environment.
  • Gesture recognition enables humans to interface with the machine (HMI) and interact naturally without any mechanical devices. Using the concept of gesture recognition, it is possible to point a finger at the computer screen so that the cursor will move accordingly. This could potentially make conventional input devices such as mouse, keyboards and even touch-screens redundant. Gesture recognition can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing.
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  • Gesture recognition is useful for processing information from humans which is not conveyed through speech or type. As well, there are various types of gestures which can be identified by computers.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This paragraph describes a few different options about how gesture based computing can be observed and used.
  • Sign language recognition.
  • For socially assistive robotics.
  • Alternative computer interfaces.
  • Control through facial gestures
  • Directional indication through pointing.
  • Immersive game technology.
  • Virtual controllers.
  • Affective computing
  • Remote control.
Tyler R

Augmented Reality and mobile means there's no such thing as "normal" barcodes any more - 0 views

www.gomonews.com/ng-as-normal-barcodes-any-more

augmentedreality

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  • Tyler R on 30 Mar 10
     
    One of the most common uses for them is on mobile devices. 2d barcodes like QR Code or Datamatrix can activate phone functions - they can create an SMS for you to send, or send your mobile browser to a particular website. The entire URL can be stored in a 2d code thanks to it's greater data storage.
Tanner B

Visual Data Analysis, Scientific Computing - 0 views

www.scientificcomputing.com/visual-data-analysis.aspx

visual data analysis

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  • Visual Data Analysis (VDA) tool packages are powerful software tools that allow the development of complex solutions to visualize and analyze data.
  • The imaging features of a VDA package are often the most tangible aspect of the tool, but the overall effectiveness of a package is really based on its data manipulation and analysis capabilities.
  • A robust and flexible VDA tool should contain a broad range of mathematical, statistical and data manipulation capabilities, which are seamlessly tied to the visualization components through a high-level array-based scripting language.
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  • Support for popular formats (XML, CDF, HDF, binary, ASCII, TIF) should be included in the base product, and services for customized data handlers should be available through the provider.
  • There are several factors that determine or impact performance, including use of pre-built data manipulation functions, limitations on data set size, parallelization, supported data types, and performance of the package's algorithms.
  • In general, the best performers will be the packages that support a broad range of data types, thus minimizing impact on memory requirements; support parallelization technology such as OpenMP; and have kernels optimized for visual data analysis.
  • Various techniques, solutions, and products are available on the market to visually analyze data, but few offer a full spectrum of visualization capabilities coupled with sufficient complementary analytical functionality.
  • In conclusion, a careful evaluation of key VDA tool characteristics, with the end solution in mind, should factor into the selection process to include the combined functionality, reliability, scalability, performance and portability of a VDA tool.
Austin M

Google Says Glitch Blocks China Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...31google.html

open content

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  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    China is blaming Google for there technical difficulties.
Sydnee S

Detecting Flaws and Intruders with Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

www.computer.org/...MCG.2004.26

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  • Most of the analysis methods in use today are highly automated due to the enormous size of the collected data.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      The methods for data analysis must change because of the large amounts of data that have been collected over the years.
  • presents interactive visualization as an alternative and effective data exploration method for understanding the complex behaviors of computer network systems.
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