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Mar 31, 2005

Biofeedback - improve health using signals from your own body

Biofeedback is a treatment technique in which people are trained to improve their health by using signals from their own bodies. Physical therapists use biofeedback to help stroke victims regain movement in paralyzed muscles. Psychologists use it to help tense and anxious clients learn to relax. Specialists in many different fields use biofeedback to help their patients cope with pain. Research has demonstrated that biofeedback can help in the treatment of many diseases and painful conditions. It has shown that we have more control over so-called involuntary bodily function than we...

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Mar 29, 2005

Captology: The science of Persuasive Technology

Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab , founded by BJ Fogg, an experimental psychologist, is trying to answer these questions. The lab creates insight into how computing products -- from websites to mobile phone software -- can be designed to...

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Mar 24, 2005

Animator Makes Waves as Artist

From WIRED by Rachel Metz NEW YORK -- If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, oversized heads, alarmingly cherry-red lips, blotchy skin and sharp scroll-like claws are en vogue, at...

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Mar 23, 2005

Wearable kinesthetic system for capturing upper limb movements

Mar 23, 2005

Considerate computing

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