Mindsee Project

12/05/2016

In his two Intel blog articles (links provided below) the author, Bob Duffy, (2015, 2016) focuses on the shift from implicit to explicit computing that is happening in both the general computing area and in technology companies. This brief blog post emphasizes the growing interest for implicit syste...

21/09/2015

38th International ACM SIGIR Conference

MindSee related work was presented this August (9th - 13th) at the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference in Santiago, Chile. SIGIR 2015 is a perfect theatre for Mindsee as it is a major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and te…

11/09/2015

A Visual History of Human Knowledge

In this TED talk, infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the history of information visualisation. Since the beginning of times humans had the urge to rank, create an order and visualise information. Originally people used the metaphor of a tree to map family relationships, animal species or the r…

29/07/2015

When We Read, We Recognize Words as Pictures and Hear Them Spoken Aloud

As your eyes scan these words, your brain seems to derive their meaning
instantaneously. How are we able to recognize and interpret marks on a page
so rapidly? A small new study confirms that a specialized brain area
recognizes printed words as pictures rather than by their meaning.

Researchers led by neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber of Georgetown
University Medical Center scanned the brains of 12 subjects with functional
MRI. They focused on a tiny area of the brain known to be involved in
recognizing words, the visual word form area (VWFA), found on the surface
of the brain, behind the left ear. The VWFA's right hemisphere analogue is
the fusiform face area, which allows us to recognize faces. In young
children and people who are illiterate, the VWFA region and the fusiform
face area both respond to faces. As people learn to read, the VWFA region
is co-opted for word recognition.

12/06/2015

The past, present and future of consumer BCI

A recent article by I. Genuth (The Institution of Engineering and
Technology ) reports quite an interesting summary of
how electroencephalography (EEG) has developed through the years, and of
how it is now advancing rapidly into the consumer market. There seems to
be an agreement among experts that in the near future the industry will not
only grow in size, but will also see a huge expansion in the capabilities
and uses of the technology.

"Since its development in the first half of the 20th century, EEG greatly
contributed to the advancement of neuroscience as well as to everyday
neurological practice. It is used to: diagnose epilepsy for seizure
prediction; develop biomarkers for a spectrum of brain disorders including
Alzheimer's and depression; and diagnose sleep disorders, coma and even
brain death. Now this unique and powerful technology is on its way to the
consumer market.

There are several manufacturers of consumer EEG, and they have different

11/06/2015

101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication - the Changing Research Workflow

Jeroe Bosnam and Bianca Kramer from Utrecht University Library have recently presented a poster  with the intention to address the questions of what drives innovation in scholarly communication and how these innovations change research workflows and may contribute to more open, efficient and good sc…

29/05/2015

Attention decay in science

A recent article (March 2015) entitled 'Attention decay in science ' concludes that "the exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work". "Consequently," the say, "the attention that c…

13/04/2015

influencing people's moral choices by tracking their gaze

We report here an extract from an article by the BPS (British
Psychological Society) discussing some interesting findings from a recent
study (by Pärnamets P. et al.) which showed that the process of arriving at
a moral decision is not only reflected in a participant’s eye gaze but can
also be determined by it .

Where we look betrays what we're thinking. For instance, given a choice
between two snacks, people spend longer looking at the alternative that
they ultimately choose. A new study digs deeper into this process and asks:
is gaze direction also related to moral choices, and does it actually
influence those choices?

01/04/2015

Paper on Peripheral Physiology as a Predictor of Perceived Relevance presented today! http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2678025.2701389

Today April 1st 2015, partners in the MindSee project from the University of Helsinki are in Atlanta at iUI 2015 presenting a paper titled "Exploring Peripheral Physiology as a Predictor of Perceived Relevance in Information Retrieval".  iUI 2015 is the 20th annual meeting of the intelligent interfa…

24/03/2015

HIT FEATURED TALKS
March 5th, 2015 - Aula Magna of Psychology, University of Padua
Understanding Symbiotic Interaction
David Kirsh
Dept of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
http://hit.psy.unipd.it/activities-0/hit-featured-talks

19/02/2015

4th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction - call for contributions http://www.mindsee.eu/home/2015/2/19/4th-international-workshop-on-symbiotic-interaction-call-for-contributions

The 4th Symbiotic Workshop will be held in Berlin, Germany on the 7th and
8th of October 2015, hosted by Technische Universität Berlin.

Following 3 successful events (Padova, Italy 2012, London, UK 2013,
Helsinki, Finland 2014 - see proceedings here ) the workshop has managed to
create and bring together an emergent and growing community investigating
Symbiotic Interaction as a future paradigm.

The workshop presents an overview of the symbiotic relationships between
humans and computers as well as novel advancements therein.

18/02/2015

MindSee at PhyCS 2015

Representatives from the MindSee projects were in Angers, France last week  attending and representing the project at the 2nd International Conference on Physiological Computing. MindSee was one of the projects presented as part of the European Project Space Session, on Day 1 of the conference. This…