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Two good news for Positive Technology followers. 1) Our new book on Human Computer Confluence is out ! 2) It can be downloaded for free here Human-computer confluence refers to an invisible, implicit, embodied or even implanted interaction between humans and system components. New classes of user interfaces are emerging that make use of several sensors and are able to adapt their physical properties to the current situational context of users. A key aspect of human-computer confluence is its potential for transforming human experience in the sense of bending, breaking...

Via Medgadget Brain networks in two behaviourally-similar vegetative patients (left and middle), but one of whom imagined playing tennis (middle panel), alongside a healthy adult (right panel). Credit: Srivas Chennu People locked into a vegetative state due to disease or injury are a major mystery for medical science. Some may be fully unconscious, while others remain...

Via Medgadget Bionic Vision Australia, a collaboration between of researchers working on a bionic eye, has announced that its prototype implant has completed a two year trial in patients with...

Via Futuristic news He’s the creator of “Spaun” the world’s largest brain simulation. Can he really make headway into mimicking the human brain? Chris Eliasmith has cognitive...

Via MedGadget From Microsoft : " In this project—which is being shown during the DemoFest portion of Faculty Summit 2013, which brings more than 400 academic researchers to Microsoft...