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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...

Predictive Technologies: Can Smart Tools Augment the Brain's Predictive Abilities?   Pezzullo, G., D'Ausilio, A., Gaggioli, A.  Frontiers in Neuroscience 10(186) · May 2016    Abstract.  The ability of “looking into the future”—namely, the capacity of anticipating future states of the environment or of the body—represents a fundamental function of human (and animal) brains....

Scanning ultrasound treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in mouse model (credit: Gerhard Leinenga and Jürgen Götz/Science Translational Medicine) University of Queensland researchers have...

Kathy Beitz, 29, is legally blind - she lost her vision as a child and, for a long time, adapted to living in a world she couldn't see (Kathy has Stargardt disease, a condition that causes macular...

Neuroprosthetics is a relatively new discipline at the boundaries of neuroscience and biomedical engineering, which aims at developing implantable devices to restore neural function. The most...