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Mobile Device Percussion Parade

In this paper, we present the “Mobile Device Marching Band” (MDMB) as a new mode of musical performance with mobile computing devices. We define an MDMB to be, at its most general, any ensemble utilizing mobile computation that can travel as it performs, with the performance being independent of its location. We will discuss the affordances and limitations of mobile-based instrument design and ...

Biotechnology on Parade

y the second day of BIO 2001, San Diego’s conference center was buzzing with activity. Inside the barricades were 14,000 registered participants and almost as many police officers; outside was a single raggedy group of seven protestors (two toddlers; five adults), one of whom looked like he had dropped way too much acid in the sixties. This was the biotechnology industry’s showcase, and nothing...

Virtual Yamahoko Parade in Virtual Environment

The authors of this paper focus on Yamahoko parade in the Kyoto Gion Festival, which was inscribed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. We produce a content, combining motion and acoustics of Yamahoko floats, parade spectators and crews within a platform of Virtual Kyoto. Approximately 730 spectators are simulated in this virtual parade to...

The first influenza pandemic in the new millennium: lessons learned hitherto for current control efforts and overall pandemic preparedness

Influenza viruses pose a permanent threat to human populations due to their ability to constantly adapt to impact immunologically susceptible individuals in the forms of epidemic and pandemics through antigenic drifts and antigenic shifts, respectively. Pandemic influenza preparedness is a critical step in responding to future influenza outbreaks. In this regard, responding to the current pande...