Augmented and Virtual realities' immense potential in the field of medicine
(surgery) for pedagogical and practicing purposes
AR article in The Economist.
AR on the iphone...maybe better than the PDA+GPS. worth thinking about
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The Centro is Palm's effort to expand the smartphone market by making a small, cheap, and simple smartphone that can appeal to a wider audience.
The Centro phone will cost $99.99 and initially be available exclusively from Sprint Nextel starting in mid-October.
Palm designed the phone to be cheap, small, and simple to use in an effort to expand the smartphone market...
How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
While appropriate as an initial focus, it is time that the educational community move beyond an emphasis on 1:1 computing (each child having his/her own personal computer) to a vision of a handheld-centric classroom, where each child not only has his/her own personal, handheld computer, but also has access to networked PCs, probeware, digital cameras, etc. Such a classroom digital infrastructure, we argue, uniquely supports project-based learning, where children can engage in multi-week, multi-media, multi-subject, collaborative efforts. With the rapid emergence of low-cost handheld devices, the realization of this vision--and its associated educational affordances-- is literally possible tomorrow in our children's classrooms. Thus, it is imperative that the educational community engages in extended conversations, now, about the range of teaching and learning opportunities that the handheld-centric classroom makes possible. Our article is a contribution to that discussion.
( ISSN: 0361-1434 )Based on an interpretive case study in a large petrochemical company, this paper provides evidence for a theoretical framework based on the relationship of abstract and personal trust to the effectiveness of long-term virtual teams. This theory of virtual teams states that, when all other enabling factors for trust and effective virtual team working are conducive...