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 ArtDesign/Education A unique surgical gown, which goes on international display in the USA today, should significantly improve understanding of where operation incisions are made, and what they mean to the patient Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: operation gown named Incisions
Design/Imaging The study suggests that the imaging method known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) ultrasound might offer a new tool for screening patients at increased risk for liver cancers. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse
Design/Imaging UNC Asheville is excited to be working with the Forest Service on a project that provides an innovative and dynamic way for people to access information on forest threats. The forest threats summary viewer provides images, threat distribution maps, additional forestry contact information, and brief descriptions about forest threats throughout the eastern U.S. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Forest Threats Summary Viewer
Design/Imaging A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, high resolution images
Design/Search Think about the semantics used in searching as a sort of lens through which you see matching resources. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: semantic search
Design/Search MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: The Lecture Server from MIT
Design/Usability "What new methods can be envisioned to help designers navigate value tensions among system features in a principled way?" Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Value Sensitive Design, value dams and flows
Design/Usability/Blogs "In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: research on blog readers
Design/Visualization Information graphics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: infographics
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Key Phrase: blogging and the future
Communication/Perception Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: making sense of what we see
Emotions/Computers The Humaine project . . . has brought together specialists and scholars from very different disciplines to create the building blocks or tools needed to give machines so-called ‘soft’ skills. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: human-machine interface, the Humaine project
Emotions/Empathy The findings shed new light on empathy and its importance for animals which live in groups. It also reveals that empathy of positive emotions or contagious laughter evolved before humans. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: animals and empathy
Emotion/Robots It seems unlikely that a toddler would pass up a teddy bear for a hunk of metal. But in a new study, toddlers developed strong social bonds with robots, largely ignoring their traditional toys. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: robot and toddler interaction
Society/Cooperation “What we found, however, was that people working as individuals were at least as effective and possibly more so than those brainstorming in a group over the web when trying to solve ‘wicked,’ tangled problems, both in terms of quality and quantity.” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: problem solving
Society/Culture An important new study appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research finds that it is rarely the case that highly influential individuals are responsible for bringing about shifts in public opinion. Link *abstract from Journal of Consumer Research Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: influence and public opinion
Society/Social Networking The online survey which forms the main part of their ongoing research has revealed that face-to-face encounters are, perhaps unsurprisingly, still the most important factor in close friendships. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: social networking and friendship
ScienceAccessibility /Education/Children “Welcome to the home of Skid software, which is designed to help kids communicate and learn. Children who cannot speak properly, including many with cerebral palsy and autism, are denied access to a regular school, even though they could communicate in other ways, for instance using a computer. It is such other ways, that Skid explores.” Link to site A video of a child with cerebral palsy using Skid Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: accessible software, software for children with disabilities
Accessibility /Education “Distance learning allows the learner to overcome traditional barriers to learning such as location, disabilities, time constraints and familial obligations,” Strickland said. “However, not every learner will be successful in a distance learning environment.” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: distance learning
Health & Safety /Data Sharing Scientists in Indiana and Michigan have developed a better way of mining a vast computerized database for chemical nuggets that could become tomorrow’s cancer medications. The new “data mining” method pinpoints chemical structures with drug-like activity. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: data mining for potential cancer drugs
Health & Safety/Emergencies/Life Saving A new project is exploring a range of applications where wearable technology could significantly improve productivity and even help save lives. . . The efficiency and safety of firemen can be considerably improved by a number of light, easy-to-use and resistant devices, such as biosensors monitoring their physiological condition and improved localisation of hazards, personnel and retreat paths. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: WearIT@work
Health & Safety/Emergencies/Life Saving Police, firefighters and other emergency workers responding to natural or manmade disasters may someday save more lives with the help of “Gizmo,” an advanced mobile wireless communications device. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Gizmo, wireless communication
Health & Safety/Hospitals Johns Hopkins undergraduates have designed and built a device to enable critically ill intensive care unit patients to leave their beds and walk while remaining tethered to essential life-support equipment. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: mobility and rehabilitation in ICU
Health & Safety/Hospitals This blog is about patient safety, medical malpractice, staying healthy, and preventing future errors. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: patient advocacy, medical errors, hospital safety
Health & Safety/Hospitals There are many potential safeguards that are being pursued to improve medication safety, Stevenson said. However, the primary safeguard for intravenous drugs compounded in hospital pharmacies today remains a visual check by the pharmacist. Using a technology like this helps prevent mistakes Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Valimed testing
Health & Safety/Hospitals Deploying the hospital’s “rapid response teams” proactively at the first inkling of trouble in hospitalized children, rather than taking the standard course of cautiously watching and waiting, can significantly reduce death rates Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: children and rapid response teams
Health & Safety/Hospitals/Medication Safety Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: medication safety and children
Health & Safety/Mobile Phones Individuals may use mobile phones to call for help or report various emergencies, but they may also go places that they would not normally go without the phone. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: safety and cell phones
Health & Safety/Prosthetics So he (Dean Karmen) set out to reinvent the prosthesis that has been pretty much the same since the U.S. Civil War. Until now, a state-of-the-art prosthetic arm has meant having up to three powered joints. However, since this type of arm is frustrating to control and doesn’t provide that much functionality, most users still opt for the hook-and-cable device which has been around for over a century. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: revolutionary prosthetic arm
Health & Safety/Prosthetics The technology that makes a cell phone vibrate is the same technology that provides more natural movements to prosthetic limbs. A University of Houston research team is working on recreating and enhancing this technological effect, which, if successful, could result in better prosthetic movements and also provide instant electrical power for soldiers and others through the simple act of walking. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: improved prosthetic movement
Health & Safety/Technology A revolutionary new technology developed by engineers at the University of Leicester after over 12 years research promises to make safety a sure thing in equipment as diverse as cars, aircraft and medical equipment. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: RapidiTTy
Research/Global An instructor at MIT's Edgerton Center, Smith co-founded the International Development Initiative, which provides MIT students with hands-on experience in community and development projects. She and her students work in poor nations to find design solutions that are inexpensive, use local materials and are culturally sensitive and relevant. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: appropriate technology
Research/Medical/Malaria "For decades, our knowledge of the parasite has been driven solely by studies in cultured cells, not in humans," said Wirth. "Our work underscores the importance of studying the malaria parasite in its natural environment and will hopefully spark novel approaches to malaria drug discovery." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: malaria parasite behavior in humans
Research/Medical/Malaria "Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Coventry have developed the first new technique for diagnosing malaria able to challenge the rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) currently used in the field. Early results, now published in the Biophysical Journal, suggest that the technique could be as effective as RDTs but far faster and cheaper, making it a potentially viable alternative." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: diagnosing malaria
Research/Usability It is almost impossible to say what new types of interface design will emerge from the vibrant and active research community created by SIMILAR, but it will almost certainly result in advances in almost every area of interface design. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: SIMILAR
Research/Usability By making the technology visible when it needs to be and comprehensible all the time, palpable computing reduces the complications of using the technology, while opening the door to developers creating new applications more easily. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: palpable computing
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