Are team players more cooperative when they can relate to their teammates? New research conducted by Drs. David Matsumoto and Hyi Sung Hwang now relates the behavioral ability to cooperatively interact with people to cultural differences between the players. In this study, US born Americans played a modified Prisoner’s Dilemma game in same sex dyads…
Read MoreFace Coverings Banned in France!
Many of you may remember a blog entitled “Controversy with Niqabs in Court” about how some European countries were planning on passing laws that make it illegal to wear full face veils not only in court but in all public places. Here is an update to that blog. The law passed and it is now illegal…
Read MoreFacebook’s Facial Recognition Technology
The popular social networking site, Facebook, is unveiling new facial recognition technology that they are integrating with Facebook Photos. They announced this coincidentally the same day that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. This feature, known as Tag Suggestions, will group faces together when uploading photos, and automatically suggest…
Read MoreVocal Emotion Detector
Two high school juniors from Oregon have won $100,000 in the 2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Disabilityscoop website reported commented on the students’, Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez, computer analysis program that helps distinguish among five emotions from the recording of the human voice. Their project “The Recognition of Emotion in Human Speech”…
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