News tagged with facial
AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...
Angry faces: Research suggests link between facial structure and aggression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at som ...
For gay and straight men, gauging facial attraction appears to operate similarly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
Did India invent the nose job?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 29, 2009 |
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An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.
Intelligent system to help autistic children recognize emotions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region ...
Being a standout has its benefits, study shows
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status.
FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of ...
Researchers identify better laser for treating facial spider veins
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532nm wavelength ...
Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.
Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
Race has little effect on people's ability to spot family resemblances
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the ...
Face off: Misunderstood expressions facilitate adolescent aggression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Juvenile delinquency may be a result of misunderstood social cues. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that male juvenile delinquents frequently misint ...
Plastic surgeons should be part of disaster relief planning, response
Sep 10, 2009 |
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When a terrorist bomb explodes, a tornado rips through a town, a hurricane devastates a region, or wildfires ravage homes and businesses, plastic surgeons are not typically atop the list of emergency responders.
Baby boomers' boon? LED light and green tea cream to smooth facial wrinkles
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Scientists in Germany are reporting a major improvement in their potential new treatment for facial wrinkles that could emerge as an alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery. The non-invasive technique combines ...
Believing is seeing, when it comes to emotions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions.
