Elizabeth Beck

Check out this video from the New York Times about the latest advancements in robots designed to teach children.

Turn your artwork into sound using this iPhone ap.
“The app is easily graspable and intuitive, allowing someone with no musical or drawing background to lauch it and start exploring. At the same time SWS goes deep and encourages musicians and artists alike to explore new ideas in their craft.”

Recently on Project Runway, one of the challenges was to design your own fabric using an HP tablet PC. What I found most interesting is how many of the contestants used paint brushes to work on their tablet, rather than a stylus.
Check out the clip below. The drawing part comes at approx 5 minutes [...]

Origami with the da Vinci Surgical System (Robot Origami) from the Department of Telesurgery and Geomedicine, Kanazawa University, Japan. Norihiko Ishikawa, MD, PhD. The da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., NASDAQ – ISRG) is a sophisticated robotic platform designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Intuitive Surgical’s mission is to bring [...]

Taken from a favorite blog of mine (for obvious reasons), Hapticity.

Maja Mataric, a professor at USC, has put together a research team to develop robots who can help people in need of physical rehabilitation, for example, after a stroke, as well as social robots.
Read about it in The New Yorker.

Ginger Poole posted this on LinkedIn through the Digital Art Therapy group. If you are in contact with the people involved in the Embodied Learning project, please contact Ginger. She is interested in conducting art therapy research with this technology.

SMALLab @ Arizona State University – 2009 from aisling kelliher on Vimeo.

This is so exciting! It [...]

As Cathy Malchiodi pointed out through her comment on Facebook Fan Pages for Therapists #3, there should be no difference in the use of HIPPA and AATA’s code of ethics when applied to electronic communication versus traditional formats. So…lets take a look at some of the key principals for both, while keeping in mind that [...]

After some thought regarding Cathy Malchiodi’s post on her Psychology Today Blog and comments left on both her page and on my response, I decided to email Peg Dunn Snow Ph.D. ATR-BC, LPAT, LMHC directly. I realized that since her name was not used in Cathy’s original post and in responses to it, even if [...]

Read about the evolution of lying in robots.
Fascinating!