News tagged with pointing gestures


3-year-olds get the point

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Dogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and her team. Looking at how ...





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Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 8

Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...


The  Next Level in Robots: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Create

The Next Level in Robots: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Create

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 29, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The next level of robot is currently in the research and development stage in Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. The next level of robot untethered by human omnipresence ...


Ein, Zwei, Molson Dry? Researcher says hand gesturing to count in foreign countries can be tricky

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

If you are planning to do some Oktoberfesting in Germany, you may want to pay attention to how you order your beverages. The server is not giving you a three-for-the-price-of-two beer special; you're holding up the wrong ...


Bird can 'read' human gaze

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that jackdaws—birds related to cro ...


Gesture-driven computers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It isn’t always easy to communicate with a computer. Two Fraunhofer Institutes will be presenting new possibilities of man-machine interaction at CeBIT in Hanover (Germany) on March 4 through 9. They will demonstrate how ...


Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do ...


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Microsoft Researchers Developing Muscle-Based PC Interface (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft researches have teamed up with the University of Washington and the University of Toronto to develop a muscle-controlled interface that allows for hands-free, gesture-driven interaction ...


Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...


"Walky" Project (Keio University in Tokyo)

iPhone Software That Controls Robot Movements (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the graduate school of media design at Keio University in Tokyo, a project called "Walky" is under developed. Researchers have developed specifically designed software for the iPhone that ...


Expressing comparisons is possible even without language, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making comparisons between objects, like comparing a tiger to a cat, is elemental in the development of a child’s ability to grasp the concept of categories.



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