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Aug 06, 2006

iPointer

Via Textually.org 

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iPointer is a location-based application developed by Intelligent Spatial Technologies, which allows delivering on-demand information about the user location and surroundings.

From the company website:

 "When users wish to identify a landmark, they point the hand-held device and press a button. The iPointer™ device receives coordinate signals from GPS satellites and orientation information from the digital magnetic compass to identify the user's location and device's pointing angle. These coordinates are then sent over the wireless network to the database. iST's geospatial database's selection algorithms identify the selected landmark and sends information back over the wireless network to be displayed in text, visuals and audio on the user's device"

20:28 Posted in Pervasive computing, Wearable & mobile | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: pervasive computing

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

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The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is an organization that fosters "the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities"

From the Institute website:

Futurists have been examining the potential impacts of emerging technologies for decades, creating scenarios that inform anticipatory democratic debate and prospective social policy-making. In the program on the Consequences and Ethics of Emerging Technologies the IEET seeks to catalog the emerging technologies we believe will extend human capacities and to create a database of their projected consequences. This database will then be the basis for proposed policies to ensure the fullest realization of human potential.

 

The IEET portal has interesting stuff, including full-text articles, podcasts and reports covering a range of different topics (i.e. health, life, emerging technologies).

There is also a blog (RSS) 

12:00 Posted in Research institutions & funding opportunities | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: research organizations

The ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness

The Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness (ASSC) is a society that promotes understanding of the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.
 
The ASSC currently has two official journals:
 
CONSCIOUSNESS & COGNITION "provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self" 
 
PSYCHE "is a free electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain"
 
Each year, the ASSC awards the "ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness" for "an outstanding published contribution to the empirical or philosophical study of consciousness by a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar/researcher within 5 years of receiving a PhD or other advanced degree"
 
The 2005 ASSC award was assigned to the article "Attention to Intention" by Hakwan Lau and colleagues (Science, 2004, 303, 1208-1210). The article "describes research showing that attending to the intention to initiate a movement (as contrasted with attending to the movement itself) leads to an enhancement of activity in the pre-supplementary motor area. This finding suggests that activity in the pre-SMA reflects the representation of intention and that attention to intention may be one way in which effective conscious control of action is possible" (from the ASSC prize website)
 
 

11:15 Posted in Research institutions & funding opportunities | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: funding opportunities and awards