Phones and wearables combine to assess worker performance
Using smartphones, fitness bracelets and a custom app, researchers have created a mobile-sensing system that judges employee performance.
Jun 24, 2019
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Engineering
Using smartphones, fitness bracelets and a custom app, researchers have created a mobile-sensing system that judges employee performance.
Jun 24, 2019
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Robotics
A key challenge for robotics researchers is developing systems that can interact with humans and their surrounding environment in situations that involve varying degrees of uncertainty. In fact, while humans can continuously ...
Engineering
The quest for a better understanding among scientists of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) goes on.
Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers at MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable platform that provides real-time, personalized, and context-aware health and cognition support. Their system, called personalized active learner (PAL), was presented ...
Machine learning & AI
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have exploded onto the scene in recent years, offering the hope of greater business efficiency. At the same time, researchers have found virtually no empirical evidence supporting ...
May 15, 2019
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Engineering
We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing what our bodies are doing, be it walking, driving or sleeping. But what about our hands? It turns out that smartwatches, with a few tweaks, can detect a ...
May 6, 2019
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Engineering
Frying pans, pill bottles, yoga mats, coffee cups and countless other nonelectronic objects could be turned into a network of Internet of Things sensors with a new RFID-based technology from the University of Michigan.
Apr 9, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
The human brain continuously changes over time, forming new synaptic connections based on experiences and information learned over a lifetime. Over the past few years, artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers have been trying ...
Engineering
Devising the best treatment for a patient with cancer requires doctors to know something about the traits of the cancer from which the patient is suffering. But one of the greatest difficulties in treating cancer is that ...
Apr 2, 2019
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Engineering
In a scientific first, Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech. By monitoring someone's brain activity, the technology can reconstruct the words a person ...
Jan 29, 2019
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