Don't You Remember Love? Ballad

You Must Remember This

With great interest, I have been observing the developments in continuous lifelong capture, which has been gaining momentum over the last few years. By lifelong capture, I refer to someone digitally logging every moment and element of their lives, a usually permanent recording of an activity by a participant in the activity. This process often results in the unanticipated capture of valuable mo...

Love What You Do and Do What You Love

From the first day of medical school, the faculty preached an ideal concept of “balance.” It was delivered with the sympathetic belief that it would prepare my classmates and me for a field where a large amount of time would be spent working and studying. More importantly, preparing us for a field where suicide rates have been reported to be higher than the general population (1). It was during...

Flea, Do You Remember Me?

The ability to detect and recognize individuals is essential for an autonomous robot interacting with humans even if computational resources are usually rather limited. In general a small user group can be assumed for interaction. The robot has to distinguish between multiple users and further on between known and unknown persons. For solving this problem we propose an approach which integrates...

All you need is love?

Now You See It, Now You Dont: how social cues and questions misdirect our attention

Magic tricks offer powerful tools to manipulate people’s attention and conscious experience. Using realworld eyetracking we can investigate how different misdirection cues drive people’s eye movements. Moreover, by measuring people’s susceptibility to the trick, we can evaluate how these cues influence people’s conscious experience. We used a magic trick to explore the way in which spoken quest...