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Via Pink Tentacle SGI Japan has developed a system that can control the electronics, appliances and hardware in a room based on the spoken commands and emotions of the room’s occupants. RoomRender relies on AmiVoice voice recognition technology (developed by Advanced Media) to recognize and analyze spoken commands, enabling the room to close the blinds, turn on the heater, etc. as instructed. Read the full story on Pink Tentacle  

Re-blogged from information aesthetic SCACS is a "Social Context-Aware Communication System" that collects information on social networks (i.e. academic co-author relationships networks) & visualizes them on wearable interfaces to facilitate face-to-face communications among people in physical environments. RFID sensors sense the identity of specific people (i.e. authors) nearby,...

Re-blogged from  Networked Performance     Artists, architects, designers, and other practitioners are constantly fashioning new forms and challenging disciplinary boundaries as...

New Scientist has an interview with sociologist and MIT professor  Sherry Turkle  about how "always-on" communication devices - i.e. instant messaging, Wi-Fi and cellphones - are changing the way...