Agents of Socialization Keep in Touch with Socio-Virtualization

Keep in Touch

Project Vision In many parts of the world, touch typing has become such a ubiquitous skill that children learn it in their first few years of schooling. Although numerous interactive learning systems for touch typing exist, currently no software exists to provide feedback on whether the correct finger is used to press each key or the force with which the key was pressed. Incorrect finger usage ...

Keep in touch.

The Keep-in-Touch system

We all have a basic need to communicate with family and friends. Message-based communication, based on the written word has been important since earliest civilisations. More recently, email has been a killer application of the internet and SMS the corresponding winner for mobile telephony, precisely because they are message-based and asynchronous. They complement the critical direct communicati...

The ‘Keep In Touch’ Intergenerational Communication System

In this paper, we briefly describe the design and implementation of the “Keep in Touch” (KiT) intergenerational communications system. The KiT system is a communications appliance aimed to support low-overhead, easy to use inter-household messaging and conferencing between family members and close friends. We discuss the original audio-messaging implementation of KiT and extensions to photo mes...

Merkel cells and neurons keep in touch.

The Merkel cell-neurite complex is a unique vertebrate touch receptor comprising two distinct cell types in the skin. Its presence in touch-sensitive skin areas was recognized more than a century ago, but the functions of each cell type in sensory transduction have been unclear. Three recent studies demonstrate that Merkel cells are mechanosensitive cells that function in touch transduction via...