21st Century Group Dynamics
Online groups certainly seem to have the potential to enhance creativity. But after reading this article I couldn’t help but wonder: Does the dynamic of an online closed (group) still follow Yalom’s stages of group development?
Interesting research topic.
Oooooooh! I WANT ONE!
Check out this usable and intuitive way of creating art on a computer using paintbrushes. Photoshop is taken to the next level! How exiting!
Robot Teachers
Check out this video from the New York Times about the latest advancements in robots designed to teach children.
Sonic Wire Sculptor for iPhone
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.”
Painting with a Tablet PC
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 into the show.
Surgical Origami
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 the benefits of minimally invasive surgery to the broadest possible range of patients.
The Psychology of Living with Robots
Taken from a favorite blog of mine (for obvious reasons), Hapticity.
Robots That Care
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.
Embodied Learning
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 makes me look forward to what is to come in terms of learning, art therapy and technology.
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