Wearable Robots Are No Longer Science Fiction
Exoskeletons will address military, medical, commercial applications.
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Why has there been so much negative sentiment about Google Glass in the press regarding privacy? This article looks at privacy from two different perspectives, and looks at what lessons can be drawn.
Gene Golovchinsky, senior research scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, passed away last week at the age of 48.
Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers
A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.
A New Approach to Information Storage
Disk drives and solid-state drives have long served as the foundation for computer storage, but breakthroughs in molecular and DNA science could revolutionize the field.
Software Aims to Ensure Fairness in Crowdsourcing Projects
The debate rages on about whether crowdsourcing is a win-win for workers, as well as for employers.
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Lifelogging attempts to capture, interpret, and supplement memories.
Reaching For Engelbart’s Vision of the Future
A meditation on Douglas Engelbart's impact on interactive computing.
Study: Women Just as Satisfied in It Jobs as Elsewhere
A new study suggests that preconceptions about women's dissatisfaction with IT industry jobs are unjustified.
So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?
And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...
Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
A major debate has erupted among economists regarding the impact of robots and automation on jobs and the possibility of technological unemployment.
Information Distance Between What I Said and What It Heard
The RSVP voice-recognition search engine improves speech recognition and translation accuracy in question answering.
Future Tense: Where the Cross-Platform Bends
Visits home brought mixed feelings. Greta loved her parents, but she always came away tense and exhausted from the duplicity of self-censorship, guarding her parents from the aspects of her true self she knew they didn't, couldn't, would never, approve of.
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.
Therapists and researchers are experimenting with robots to interact with children with autism; the technology, and the technique, could revolutionize the field.
Opening the Doors of Deception
IT managers may incorporate a variety of deceptive tactics into their protective strategies to fend off hackers.
How Can Computing Become More Accessible?
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.
Incentives and Rewarding in Social Computing
Praise, pay, and promote crowd-member workers to elicit desired behavioral responses and performance levels.
Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
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