Computer Science / Engineering posts
- May 20, 2010
- 04:08 PM
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A virtual slap in the face (isn't there an iPhone app for that?)
Researchers from the group who recently reported the illusion of owning a virtual hand have come out with a new study on the sense of body ownership that has garnered media attention.The study, conducted by Mel Slater and colleagues, is summarized as follows at livescience.com:Male volunteers donned virtual reality goggles and took on the view of a virtual teenage girl sitting in a living room. The virtual girl's mother appeared to stroke her shoulder at the same time a real lab assistant stroke........ Read more »
Mel Slater, Bernhard Spanlang, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, & Olaf Blanke. (2010) First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality. PLoS ONE. info:/
Ehrsson HH. (2007) The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5841), 1048. PMID: 17717177
- May 18, 2010
- 12:10 PM
- 1,321 views
Time-Space Compression in the Digital Realm
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
My work on time in the digital realm is coming slowly but surely. At the moment I'm thinking of multiple temporalities and the ways in which we occupy these dimensions while adhering to standardized time. Birth (2007) explores these issues with an article that deals with the conflicts that can arise out of a meeting of biology, clock, sun, and sociality. Birth raises a point in particular that
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Birth, K. (2007) Time and the Biological Consequences of Globalization. Current Anthropology, 48(2), 215-236. DOI: 10.1086/510472
- May 18, 2010
- 09:00 AM
- 1,340 views
SCAN for privacy in e-government
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Of fifty US Senate websites, only about fifty percent have a comprehensive privacy policy. Now, in a week when it is revealed that Facebook’s privacy policy has more words than the US constitution is it any wonder that Americans are not so keen to trust e-government sites?
According to a Senior Lecturer in Computing Joanne Kuzma [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkSCAN for privacy in e-government
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Joanne Kuzma. (2010) An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites. Electronic Government, An International Journal, 7(3), 270-280. info:/
- May 16, 2010
- 10:17 PM
- 518 views
fault-tolerant conversion between sequence alignments
by Leonardo Martins in bioMCMC
Despite I’m very charitable when testing my own programs, I’m not so nice when asked to scrutinize other people’s work. That’s why I was happy to see the announcement about the ALTER web server being published at Nucleic Acids Research (open access!). I am not involved in the project, but I was in the very [...]... Read more »
Glez-Pena, D., Gomez-Blanco, D., Reboiro-Jato, M., Fdez-Riverola, F., & Posada, D. (2010) ALTER: program-oriented conversion of DNA and protein alignments. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq321
- May 9, 2010
- 03:29 PM
- 594 views
The sense of body ownership and 3D virtual reality
A description of a study that demonstrates a 'virtual hand movement' illusion... Read more »
Sanchez-Vives MV, Spanlang B, Frisoli A, Bergamasco M, & Slater M. (2010) Virtual hand illusion induced by visuomotor correlations. PloS one, 5(4). PMID: 20454463
- May 7, 2010
- 06:50 PM
- 844 views
So it turns out that software and living beings are different...
by David Basanta in Cancerevo: Cancer evolution
Mathematical and computational biologists use algorithms to model and understand biological phenomena but as useful as computer systems are to modellers they also represent an example of what biological systems are not: designed. A recent study by researchers in...... Read more »
Yan KK, Fang G, Bhardwaj N, Alexander RP, & Gerstein M. (2010) Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 20439753
- May 4, 2010
- 12:38 AM
- 2,629 views
Personal Genomics, clinical assessment and online resources
The Lancet paper, Clinical assessment incorporating a personal genome, has held my fascination this weekend (yes, I read it at the beach). Mary posted Friday and again Saturday on the paper and related NPR segment. It feels to me to be a seminal paper, though I do agree with Daniel at Genetic Future, there are a lot there we still don’t know. A large portion of the variation is in non-coding regions, and thus predictions and propensities are hard to come by with the available analysis. In ........ Read more »
Ashley, E., Butte, A., Wheeler, M., Chen, R., Klein, T., Dewey, F., Dudley, J., Ormond, K., Pavlovic, A., & Morgan, A. (2010) Clinical assessment incorporating a personal genome. The Lancet, 375(9725), 1525-1535. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60452-7
- May 1, 2010
- 06:33 AM
- 1,915 views
« An Ethnographic Seduction »: our article published on the Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
by ---a in Bodyspacesociety.eu
So here it is, our little « manifesto for qualitative agent-based simulation » is finally out on the now Sage-published Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique. It is just worth stressing the importance of this article in our present research: our effort has been to really provide a comprehensive framework for underdestanding what it means to [...]... Read more »
Tubaro, P., & Casilli, A. A. (2010) ''An Ethnographic Seduction'': How Qualitative Research and Agent-based Models can Benefit Each Other. Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 106(1), 59-74. DOI: 10.1177/0759106309360111
- May 1, 2010
- 05:02 AM
- 807 views
An Ethnographic Seduction
by Paola Tubaro in Paola Tubaro's blog
Tubaro, P., & Casilli, A. A. (2010). ”An Ethnographic Seduction”: How Qualitative Research and Agent-based Models can Benefit Each Other Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 106 (1), 59-74 DOI: 10.1177/0759106309360111 A new article has just come out, co-authored with Antonio Casilli on ‘‘An Ethnographic Seduction’’: How Qualitative Research and Agent-based Models can Benefit Each Other. We [...]... Read more »
Tubaro, P., & Casilli, A. A. (2010) ''An Ethnographic Seduction'': How Qualitative Research and Agent-based Models can Benefit Each Other. Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 106(1), 59-74. DOI: 10.1177/0759106309360111
- April 30, 2010
- 02:12 AM
- 1,089 views
Daniel Cohen on the Social Life of Digital Libraries
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Daniel Cohen is giving a talk in Cambridge today on The Social Life of Digital Libraries, abstract below: The digitization of libraries had a clear initial goal: to permit anyone to read the contents of collections anywhere and anytime. But universal access is only the beginning of what may happen to libraries and researchers in [...]... Read more »
Hull, D., Pettifer, S., & Kell, D. (2008) Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204
- April 28, 2010
- 09:00 AM
- 1,378 views
Peer-to-peer data storage
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Whenever anyone mentions P2P file systems, the first thought that pops into the n00bs head is probably – piracy – and an image of teens downloading free copies of the latest young person’s popular music tracks from teh interwebs using an illicit file sharing system. Of course, Bit Torrent and other related systems can be [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkPeer-to-peer data storage
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Yu-Wei Chan, Tsung-Hsuan Ho, Po-Chi Shih, & Yeh-Ching Chung. (2010) Malugo: A peer-to-peer storage system. Int. J. Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 5(4), 209-218. info:/
- April 28, 2010
- 09:00 AM
- 954 views
Lifelong learning online is about connecting people
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Individuals now have the autonomy to make their own learning choices and in recent years there has been an emphasis on the “self made learner”, especially in adult education and ongoing professional development. As such, online communities and other so-called web 2.0 tools have come to the fore as potentially useful for educators and students [...]Lifelong learning online is about connecting people is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Cristina Costa. (2010) Lifelong learning in Web 2.0 environments. Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, 2(3), 275-284. info:/
- April 27, 2010
- 01:38 PM
- 586 views
Pollutants in our water: where do they come from?
by David Raikow in River Continua
If you don't have the tools to answer a scientific question, invent them.... Read more »
Raikow, D., Atkinson, J., & Croley II, T. (2009) Development of Resource Shed Delineation in Aquatic Ecosystems. Environmental Science , 2147483647. DOI: 10.1021/es900562t
Croley, T., Raikow, D., He, C., & Atkinson, J. (2008) Hydrological Resource Sheds. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 13(9), 873. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:9(873)
- April 23, 2010
- 06:01 AM
- 637 views
Can we ever read articles of the opposite political persuasion? An alternative model
by scritic in Cognitive Science and Human Activity
Sean A. Munson, & Paul Resnick (2010). Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems : http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753543Can we ever be convinced by someone we usually disagree with completely? Can we even manage to read regularly people whose views are antithetical to our own? These are fascinating questions, I think. First, because they are political questions; conversations and deba........ Read more »
Sean A. Munson, & Paul Resnick. (2010) Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. info:/http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753543
- April 22, 2010
- 02:39 AM
- 1,494 views
Cyberbullying in Adolescents
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
Cyberbullying is a new phenomenon defined as aggression based on information and communication technology. It’s forms can be very diverse:
Flaming or online fights, hostile and vulgar emails being sent
Hacking or impersonation by gaining access to someone’s account and sending messages that make the victim lose face and harm the victim’s reputation and friendships
Defamation by sending [...]
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Cyberbullying in the Workplace
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Calvete, E., Orue, I., Estévez, A., Villardón, L., & Padilla, P. (2010) Cyberbullying in adolescents: Modalities and aggressors’ profile. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.017
- April 19, 2010
- 02:27 AM
- 2,334 views
Facebook and Academic Performance
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
Today children are often described as follows
They live in social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Second Life gathering friends; they text more than they talk on the phone; and they Twitter the night away often sleeping with their cell phones vibrating by their sides.
A recent study challenges the believes that children have multitasking skills [...]
Related posts:Are Facebook Users Different?
The Dangers of Facebook or Let’s Be Careful Out There
The Dangers of Facebook
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Paul A. Kirschner, & Aryn C. Karpinski. (2010) Facebook and Academic Performance. Computers in Human Behavior. info:/
- April 17, 2010
- 12:31 AM
- 1,556 views
Using the fact that sometimes scientists look at the pictures first
by Christina Pikas in Christina's LIS Rant
I was happy to see that the authors published this article in PlosOne. I was following their work a while ago, but had lost track (plus, when asked, the last author implied that they had moved on to new projects). So here's the citation and then I'll summarize and comment. Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M., & Hearst, M. (2010). Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search PLoS ONE, 5 (4) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009619 The authors created a prototype information system tha........ Read more »
Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M., & Hearst, M. (2010) Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search. PLoS ONE, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009619
- April 15, 2010
- 02:21 AM
- 1,803 views
Online Trust and it’s Antecedents
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
We’ve discussed the use of online shopping and gender previously. Especially women are skeptical towards online shopping, they tend to fear risks and threats associated with online shopping. The acceptance of online transactions depend on the perceived risks involved, the technology used for the online transactions and the organizations as the other parties in the [...]
Related posts:Women Online Shopping: Shop Until You Drop?
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Beldad, A., de Jong, M., & Steehouder, M. (2010) How shall I trust the faceless and the intangible? A literature review on the antecedents of online trust. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.013
- April 15, 2010
- 01:05 AM
- 651 views
An interview with the creator of BioTorrents
by Morgan Langille in Beta Science
Who better to interview the creator of BioTorrents than the creator himself? :)Interviewer: So Morgan, your article entitled “BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data” was published today in PLoS One. BioTorrents uses the popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, BitTorrent, to allow scientists to rapidly share their results, datasets, and software. Where did this idea come from?Morgan: Well about 6 months ago I was downloading some genome files from NCBI's FTP site and was ........ Read more »
Langille, M., & Eisen, J. (2010) BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data. PLoS ONE, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010071
- April 13, 2010
- 10:37 AM
- 772 views
Five Users Do Not Make a Study
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
It is widely assumed that 5 participants suffice for usability testing. In this study, 60 users were tested and random sets of 5 or more were sampled from the whole, to demonstrate the risks of using only 5 participants and the benefits of using more. Some of the randomly selected sets of 5 participants found 99% of the problems; other sets found only 55%. With 10 users, the lowest percentage of problems re-vealed by any one set was increased to 80%, and with 20 users, to 95%. [Faulkner, 2003]... Read more »
Nielsen, J. (1993) Usability engineering. Book. info:/
Faulkner L. (2003) Beyond the five-user assumption: benefits of increased sample sizes in usability testing. Behavior research methods, instruments, , 35(3), 379-83. PMID: 14587545
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