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07-10-17

Tags:Computing Education Watch List StarLogo TNG released Beta 1 today. It’s multi-agent, 3D logo with graphic syntax. Hard to describe, but it’s supposed to be intuitive to children.

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07-10-15

Tags:Research Watch List I am on ASL’s email list and got this today. Don’t think I will be watching, but maybe you will.
Dear Gary:Sharing eye tracking research, even if it’s not in your specific discipline, can always be interesting.
That’s why we’d like you to be aware that ASL’s Mobile Eye takes to the football field […]

">Eye-tracking next week on FoxSports Sport Science
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07-10-11

Tags:OddsnEnds Watch List
AppleInsider cites holiday wishlists based on a survey by Solutions Research Group. Chek your list and see how far out of touch you are with Mainstream America.
But if you look carefully, you might notice that the survey unearths a hidden gender: Neither men nor women have the "Blu-ray/HDDVD" on their top-10 list, […]

">Hot Toys and the 3rd Gender
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07-09-30

Tags:Education eye movement google Profiles psychology Teaching Watch List
Tried "eye movements" subject:"Reading, Psychology of" - Google Book Search today and I was impressed with what Google offers. They do not offer PDF downloads, but google’s fulltext search is better than Acrobat.

">Google Books, full text, albeit older
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07-09-23

Tags:Computing Watch List
SENSEable city lab at MIT puts real time GPS, cell phone, and other data together to track the Notte Bianca event at Rome on Sept 8. The result can be seen here.
 
Its interface — the integration between 2D maps and the time dimension — typifies the by-now conventional view of […]

">SENSEable city lab | wikicity rome
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07-09-08

Tags:Computing Research Watch List zotero This is as cool as it gets when you play with bibliographic information.

Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool » Blog Archive » Visualize Your Zotero Collections in Timelines
 
The other day I had a scarry experience — now that most of my references are on Zotero, it […]

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07-09-08

Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google’s new toy, one that can be really useful: Calendar Gadgets
 
It comes with a wizard to add existing gadgets to your calendar — provided that the gadget actually updates its content everyday, I guess.
I tried to add the iGoogle "to-do" gadget to my calendar. It shows up on Today, […]

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07-08-13

Tags:Computing fun Watch List Google my name "Gary Feng" today, and you will find this as the #16 hit:

Complaint letter about Prof. Gary Feng
It is not likely that I shall say anything new here. If I do, it will be of only minor significance. Nevertheless, it has been a long-standing observation of mine that […]

">Complaint letter about Prof. Gary Feng

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07-08-13

Tags:Computing Watch List Scrybe is open for business. The biggest question is how well it syncs with google calendar and dominant PIM products. The video shows it "syncs with paper" — you can have nice printouts — but that’s almost self-defeating if this is the only noteworthy sync option.

Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer […]

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07-08-02

Tags:Computing Watch List
Richard Sproat , whom I have never met but have great respect of, worked on a project called WordsEye — it generates images based on text descriptions.

Voyage at Dawn

by Tim Mahrt

Generated from text: It is morning.The sky is tan. The ground is water. A very large boat is in the […]

">WordsEye

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07-07-19

Tags:Teaching Watch List Wellcome Library opens an image bank of historical and contemporary images for free access (Creative Commons licenses). It’s wired mixture of medical, realistic, and artistic images, such as this one, published in the 15th century:

ImageIndex+ Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290
 

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07-06-21

Tags:Computing Research Watch List Tobii offers 120Hz eye trackers, up from 60Hz. The trade off is smaller head movement tollerance, from 44cm to 30cm at 120Hz. You can downsample to 60Hz and get larger range.

Tobii X120 Eye Tracker
 

Tobii x120 Eye Tracker

Accuracy
0.5 degree

Drift
<0.3 degree

Data rate
60Hz
120Hz

Freedom of movement
44×22×30cm
30×22×30cm

Binocular tracking
Yes

Eye […]

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07-06-18

Tags:Computing Watch List
 
IMified has been around for a few months. It’s an instant messaging-based service that provides access to other web-based functionalities via custom-made modules. Sounds too abstract? Simply add one of their IM accounts to your contact list and say "hi".
Here’s the beginning of my first encounter with IMinied:
 
1:32 PM me: hi
 imified: Your […]

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07-06-01

Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List
I am listening to Historical Jesus by Thomas Sheehan on iTunes U
 
It’s wonderful. Even though I don’t have an iPod, I can imagine myself walking to and from my parking lot or working out in the Y, while listening or even watching great lectures and talks that […]

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07-05-31

Tags:Computing Research Watch List
Citation Style Language is what Zotera uses.
CSL is based on a notion of citation class, around which all validation is structured. If one […]

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07-05-31

Tags:Computing Watch List zotero Zotero has released these two critical extensions.
Integration with Microsoft Word and other word processors
 
Integration with WordPress and other blogging software
 
What I am waiting for is a google doc plugin  
 
[Update June 1: Added CoinS to this blog. Now you can grab post info to Zotero. But […]

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07-05-31

Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google Gears makes sense on paper, but I need to see how well it actually works with non-static pages. This is exactly the idea I toyed around a little about a year ago. I think I emailed google to request an offline feature for gmail, by which I meant an […]

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07-05-29

Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google Experimental Search shows results in timeline and map views. It’s done by automatically extracting dates and addresses (zip code?) and is limited to the top n results.
 
Interesting, but not useful unless it incorporates some way to improve the organization of information, e.g., by user input.

">Google search in Timeline and Map views
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07-04-13

Tags:Computing eye movement Research Watch List Smart Eye - if you want reality
 

SMART EYE PRO 4.0 RELEASED! Smart Eye Pro 4.0 is, basically, the improvement of two dimensions of eye tracking. We have combined the accuracy of corneal reflection with the head box of image processing. By using up to six cameras […]

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06-10-13

Tags:CiteULike Computing Research Watch List Firefox Scholar is finally here. But what do I do with CiteULike?

Zotero (hmm… tastes like some sort of anti-depression drug ) Beta is released a few days back. It’s touted to be the open source alternative to EndNote and CiteULike. From what I can read about its […]

">Zotero, AKA Firefox Scholar, AKA smartFox

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