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Aerobic Exercise For The Wheelchair-bound
September 15, 2008 — Simple exercise machine makes it fun for wheelchair users to fight high obesity, diabetes and heart disease ... > full story -
Real-world Behavior And Biases Show Up In Virtual World
September 11, 2008 — Americans are spending increasing amounts of time hanging around virtual worlds in the forms of cartoon-like avatars that change appearances according to users' wills, fly through floating cities in ... > full story -
Driving The Future Of In-vehicle ICT
September 8, 2008 — Information and communications systems in road vehicles are progressing steadily, but the research community behind these developments remains fragmented. Now a European initiative has linked key ... > full story -
Children's Calorie Expenditure, Heart Rate Increase During Active Video Games
September 2, 2008 — Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, ... > full story -
How Much Risk Can You Handle? Making Better Investment Decisions
August 26, 2008 — Many Americans make investment decisions with their retirement funds. But they don't always make informed judgments. A new study introduces a new tool that investors can use to choose investments ... > full story -
Computer-generated Images: Hollywood Hair Will Be Captured At Last
August 22, 2008 — Imagine avatars of your favorite actors wandering through 3-D virtual worlds with hair that looks almost exactly like it does in real life. This level of realism for animated hairstyles is one step ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Gets Real
August 18, 2008 — Up to now virtual reality has proved cumbersome as a design tool, but European researchers are finalizing a system that brings ‘virtuality’ to the wider ... > full story -
Virtual Applications Reach Out To Real World
August 16, 2008 — Researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system ... > full story -
Healthy Diet Study Will Take Place Entirely In Virtual World Of Second Life
August 8, 2008 — The University of Houston department of health and human performance is launching an international effort to recruit 500 participants for a study promoting healthy dietary habits and physical ... > full story -
Next-generation Computer Antivirus System Developed
August 7, 2008 — Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software ... > full story -
Moblie Peer-to-peer Applications: Keeping Up With Your Peers, Securely
July 26, 2008 — Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure ... > full story -
Giving Electronic Learning A Personal Touch
July 26, 2008 — A learning system that adapts to the abilities and needs of students opens the way to a more personalized approach in delivering education ... > full story
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