27 Jun 2012

Seoul Digital Forum, Mixed Reality: Beyond the Real-Virtual Dichotomy

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Seoul Digital Forum, Mixed Reality: Beyond the Real-Virtual Dichotomy.

Mixed Reality: Beyond the Real-Virtual Dichotomy, Expanding Human Potentials 2012-05-23

Visionary : Adrian D. CHEOK [Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University / Director, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore], Howard CHARNEY [Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco], Genevieve BELL [Director, Interactions and Experience Research, Intel Labs, INTEL]

Symposiarch : WOO Woontack [Professor, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST]

The scope and reach of human influence is being extended. The new generation of mixed reality technologies is merging the real and the virtual, making possible simultaneous interactions between the two worlds. With its limitations in interface design and accessibility being mitigated, mixed reality is making tangible contributions to expanding the human potential in an increasing number of practical fields including healthcare, education, training and media by lowering spatiotemporal barriers. With the real and the virtual coming to coexist and be increasingly interfused, what kinds of benefits and obstacles lie in store for us?

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22 Jun 2012

COLORS Magazine – Theme on Happiness

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I avidly used to read (and subscribe) to this magazine as a teenager, it was a magazine started by the people at Benneton in Italy. I was pleased to see it is still going. Now it is published in Chinese and English, showing the growing cultural influence of Asia. Please read this interesting issue.

Open publication – Free publishing – More 83

21 Jun 2012

Crazy but True Inventions: Pigeon guided missile by Skinner

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An excellent early example of human-animal cybernetic systems.

This experimental device was developed during World War II by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who experimented with harnessing pigeons’ pecking movements to steer missiles. Skinner divided this nose cone into three compartments, and proposed strapping a pigeon in each one. As a bomb headed towards earth, each pigeon would see the target on its screen. By pecking at the image, the birds would activate a guidance system that would keep the bomb on the right path until impact. Skinner’s idea received initial support, but the U.S. military finally dismissed it as impractical.

20 Jun 2012

BRILLIANT ADVICE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE

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BRILLIANT ADVICE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE

Read this essay for brilliant advice for a creative life.

01. Keep good company

02. Notice the ordinary
03. Preserve the ephemeral
04. Design not for the elite but for the masses
05. Explain it to a child
06. Get lost in the content
07. Get to the heart of the matter
08. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
09. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
10. Zoom out
11. Switch
12. Prototype it
13. Pun
14. Make design your life… and life, your design.
15. Leave something behind.

http://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/06/the-15-things-charles-and-ray-eames-teach-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20Swissmiss%20(swissmiss)

20 Jun 2012

GIL 2012. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Speaker: Adrain David Cheok, Professor in Keio University

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On June 26th I will be giving a talk at the GIL event on Growth, Innovation and Leadership which is organized by Frost & Sullivan for leaders in industry. I hope to see you there.

Frost & Sullivan’s global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership is focused on engaging, sharing, and inspiring a continuous flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives leveraging innovation as a resource to address global challenges.

Year after year our CEOs and members of their growth team, invest the time to experience a GIL event, renewing their passion, fueling their creativity and gaining inspiration through interactive networking, bench marking of proven growth strategies, sharing of best practices by industry and career, exposure to best-in-class growth solution providers and access to some very insightful “BIG Picture” 360 Degree Visionary Perspectives.

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