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Robotic Therapy May Reduce Stroke Physical Disability Years Later
February 18, 2009 — Robotic therapy improved physical disability caused by stroke, even years after the stroke. All patients experienced improvement. The greater the disability when therapy began, the less improvement ... > full story -
Virtual Games Players Stick Close To Home
February 14, 2009 — Researchers have analyzed a "gold mine" of networking data from EverQuest II, a fantasy massive multiplayer online role-playing game, along with a survey of 7,000 players. Their findings include that ... > full story -
Tracking The Digital Traces Of Social Networks
February 13, 2009 — Researchers have studied the massive online virtual world Second Life to test whether or not certain social theories are true. Having access to huge amounts of data gave them a way to answer how ... > full story -
Educational Video Games Effective In Classroom If Certain Criteria Are Met
February 10, 2009 — Playing and studying are not incompatible activities. A team of researchers looked into integrating virtual graphic adventures into online education platforms and analyzes the educational and ... > full story -
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Security: Keeping An Eye On The Inauguration
February 4, 2009 — One of the toughest technological challenges for law enforcement is to simultaneously monitor live feeds from the wireless cameras scattered across their jurisdictions. A nearly impossible task under ... > full story -
Engineering Graduate Student Narrows Gap Between High-Resolution Video And Virtual Reality
February 4, 2009 — A graduate student has found a way to optimize virtual reality environments for high resolution ... > full story -
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Violent Computer Games Have Role In Fire Safety
February 3, 2009 — The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found. Commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2 can be used to build ... > full story -
Effects Of Brain Exercise Depend On Opponent
February 3, 2009 — Playing games against a computer activates different brain areas from those activated when playing against a human opponent. New research has shown that the belief that one is playing against a ... > full story -
Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'
February 3, 2009 — New research reveals nut-cracking abilities in our 2.5-million-year-old relatives that enabled them to alter their diet to adapt to changes in food sources in their environment. Computer simulation ... > full story -
Testbeds To Breed Next-Generation Systems
January 28, 2009 — The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. European research has now made those key steps far ... > full story
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