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Reid Cornwell's Blog – March 2011 Archive (5)

First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality

Abstract

Background

Altering the normal association between touch and its visual correlate can result in the illusory perception of a fake limb as part of our own body. Thus, when touch is seen to be applied to a rubber hand while felt synchronously on the corresponding hidden real hand, an illusion of ownership of the rubber hand usually occurs. The illusion has also been demonstrated using visuomotor correlation between the movements of the hidden real hand and the seen…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on March 29, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

Branded Data: Visualizing the Internet's Future: Dominic Basulto

It all started with the humble infographic - those charming representations of well-designed data that are fast becoming ubiquitous across the Web. Infographics, in fact, have become so popular as a way of telling complex stories very elegantly (and generating massive page views) that they've spawned a whole new generation of increasingly sophisticated data visualization tools that are making it possible to view the data behind…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on March 17, 2011 at 8:29am — No Comments

Wikipedia, Past and Present

Wikipedia, Past and Present

by Ian Jukes on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 6:00pm



OVERVIEW

Wikipedia, the “multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project,” was created in 2001 and…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on March 14, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

What If:: Scott McLeod

Let’s dream for a minute. What if we lived in a world in which students and educators…

  • had access to all of the information in their textbooks – and an incredible wealth of primary documents – for free?
  • had access to free, robust, and often multimedia and interactive learning resources (texts, images, audio, video, games, simulations) to supplement and deepen what was being learned in school?…
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Added by Reid Cornwell on March 14, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

World day against cyber-censorship

Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on 12 March 2011) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all.

The fight for online freedom of expression is more essential than ever. By creating new spaces for exchanging ideas and information, the Internet is a force for freedom. In countries where the traditional media are controlled by…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on March 11, 2011 at 5:49pm — No Comments

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