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A lot can be said in 140 characters but, according to new research, conducted by Kurt Luther (Interactive Computing) a quarter of people aren't paying attention to most of it. Source: Fox Business
While some of your tweets might be of utmost importance to you, most people could not care less, according to a study from Kurt Luther (Interactive Computing) and researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Source: PC Magazine
Account holders admit only a third of the tweets they receive are of any interest, the rest are either actively disliked or forgotten almost immediately. They particular hate too many hashtags, being told where someone is every time they go out and lots of moaning and complaining, the study, by Kurt Luther (Interactive Computing) and other researchers, found. Source: The Telegraph
Kurt Luther (Interactive Computing), in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie Mellon and MIT, conducted a data-driven study that examined 43,000 responses to Tweets in order to find precisely what people like - and loathe - about microblog posts. Source: The Atlantic
After years of existing only in fiction, robots are now beginning to find a place in real-world. Andrea Thomaz (Interactive Computing), along with two other robotics pioneers, discusses how her findings are shaping the future of robotics. Source: The Kavli Foundation
Ron Arkin (Interactive Computing) believes robot soldiers could be programmed to behave more ethically than soldiers in live combat, but a far easier task would be designing drones that behave themselves better than celebrity-chasing photographers. Source: The Guardian
If robots one day are to relieve us of such household chores as laundry or doing the dishes, they must be engineered to be as safe and reliable as refrigerators, says Ron Arkin (Interactive Computing). Source: Economic Times
Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Interactive Computing) says advanced eye-tracking technology could provide new ways to communicate for people with diseases or disabilities that severely hamper their ability to speak or write, like scientist Stephen Hawking. Source: TechNewsWorld
A project directed by James Rehg (Interactive Computing) on automating insect behavior calls for tagging individual members of an ant colony. Ph.D. student Andy Quitmeyer put together an entertaining video on how best to accomplish this delicate task. Source: io9.com
For all their software smarts, robots remain clumsy at manipulating real-world objects. By making robots not only strategize chess moves but actually move the pieces, says competition organizer Mike Stilman (Interactive Computing), new perspective could be gained on the machines' physical limitations. Source: New Scientist
