Show Me, Tell Me, Encourage Me: The Effect of Different Forms of Feedback on Resistance Training Performance

Show Me or Tell Me: Designing Avatars for Feedback

Avatars can be employed as a motivational tool, for example, allowing non-verbal communication that can be close to human communication. We describe two lab studies where we presented participants with avatars that communicated verbally via text and visually via expressions. In the first study, participants rated five different categories of captions and corresponding avatars. Results showed th...

Show me the data

The integrity of data, and transparency about their acquisition, are vital to science. The impact factor data that are gathered and sold by Thomson Scientifi c (formerly the Institute of Scientifi c Information, or ISI) have a strong infl uence on the scientifi c community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire (1), the success of grant applications (2), and even sala...

Show me the money.

Tell Me a Story

‘‘Daddy, tell me a story. A good one.’’ An engineer pauses at the request. We know how to measure and build many things. But imagining, crafting, and telling a story? That is hard. If you are building or researching any aspect of multimedia, however, then you should be thinking about how your work helps both you and the user experience a story. Telling stories is an important part of how we com...

Biotechs: Show Me the Money

Money makes the biotech world go around. However, quicker circulation of that cash is driving both trends in new investment in start-ups and the approach of investors to exits. Increasingly, to get funded, new companies need to demonstrate a fast track approach that will allow the company to hit key milestone events swiftly, and those milestones may well be revenue generation events or even pro...