Animating People You Know: Building Character Systems with PersonalityNew software products are emerging that use animated, conversational characters in applications ranging from health coaches to tutoring systems. As the computer interface takes on a human appearance, users will apply social judgements to it. The perceived personality of the characters can directly impact the application's effectiveness. In this talk, ...
The O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) nanosatellite is the first science demonstration mission of the NASA Astrobiology Small-Payloads Program. On November 19, 2010, O/OREOS was launched successfully to a high-inclination (72°), 650-km Earth orbit. O/OREOS consists of 3 conjoined cubesat (each 1000 cm3) modules: a control bus; the Space ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Digital Divide or Digital Bridge: Can Information Technology Alleviate Poverty?The past decade has seen great interest in information and communication technologies applied to international development, an endeavor sometimes abbreviated ICTD. Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is wireless technology to a farmer earning ...
Re-staging the Spectacular: Digital Displays Inside and Outside the HomeThis talk addresses the ways in which contemporary digital display technologies, traversing and confounding the social and personal boundaries of work and leisure, domestic and public space, and intimacy and self-display, will frame the experience and meanings of moving images consumed inside and outside the home. Examining the transition from ...
What's the use of a bunch of dead things in cabinets? Are museums just dusty old things of the past? HARDLY! As part of the BNHM, UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is one of the most active vertebrate research museums in the United States. Not only does it have ...
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesFew companies in history have ever been as successful and admired as Google, the startup that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Enduring Voices – All Roads PhotographyConversations at the Herbst: Chris Rainier In Conversation With Mary Ellen HannibalAs a National Geographic explorer and one of the leading documentary photographers working today, Rainier's mission is to record the remaining natural wilderness and the indigenous cultures around the globe by putting these wonders to film and using the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $18 Members
