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Cell phones dangerous for child pedestrians, study finds
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets are at a higher risk for injuries or death in a pedestrian accident, said psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in a new study that will appear ...
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'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updated
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Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.
Virtual reality games could help bullying victims
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.
Breathing second life into language teaching
Oct 09, 2008 |
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An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment ...
Virtual reality: Keyhole surgeons training could help meet European working time directives
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Trainee surgeons who add virtual reality (VR) training to standard 'apprenticeship' training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no VR training, and perform ...
'V-frog' virtual-reality frog dissection software offers first true physical simulation
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Feb 09, 2008 |
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V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed and is being marketed by ...
Crushing cigarettes in a virtual reality environment reduces tobacco addiction
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers ...
Violent computer games have role in fire safety
Feb 04, 2009 |
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The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found.
Virtual applications reach out to real world
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Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system ...
Sevenfold Accuracy Improvement for 3-D 'Virtual Reality' Labs
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed software that improves the accuracy of the tracking devices in its immersive, or virtual, research environment ...
Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body
Nov 11, 2009 |
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James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart.
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