March 2009
Imperial College London (UCL) scientists say that a humanoid robot called iCub will help advance research into human cognition, perception, reasoning, and judgment. The researchers are investigating how humans use cognition to interact with the world.IMPAD: an inexpensive multi-touchpressure acquisition device
Submitted by Greg on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 12:00am
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2009. IMPAD: an inexpensive multi-touchpressure acquisition device. CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. :3217–3222.
Augmented reality under water
Submitted by Greg on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 12:00am
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2009. Augmented reality under water. SIGGRAPH '09: SIGGRAPH '09: Posters. :1–1.
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