Realistic digital avatars are becoming increasingly relevant, for example in virtual and augmented reality applications, ...

As a result, the computer was able to distinguish between healthy controls and individuals with dementia with an accuracy of 92%. It was found that dementia could be distinguished with high accuracy ...

The technology behind the cooking rats in Ratatouille and the dancing penguins in Happy Feet could help bridge stubborn academic gaps between deaf and hearing students. Researchers are using ...

Until recently, if you wanted to create an animated full-body computer avatar of a specific person, the process would take several days to complete. Thanks to a new system designed at Germany's ...

(Reuters) - Psychiatrists are developing a system that can help people with schizophrenia control and sometimes silence the tormenting voices in their heads by confronting a computer avatar of them.

Researchers have shown for the first time that the use of a brain-computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ...

Over the course of my career in this life I've collected an assortment of toys that work well atop my computer monitors and I've assembled quite a menagerie.<P>Primary Display: Gumby holding a Chinese ...

A lie-detecting virtual border official nicknamed “Elvis” is the latest high-tech approach to securing borders in the United States. Developed by University of Arizona researchers in collaboration ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - As 20-year-old Hailey Daniswicz flexes muscles in her thigh, electrodes attached to her leg instruct a computer avatar to flex its knee and ankle -- parts of Hailey's leg that have ...

Filmmaker James Cameron made some insightful comments about his Avatar franchise and generative AI in a recent conversation ...

Diagnosis of dementia was made via cognitive function tests such as Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and medical imaging systems at hospitals, a fairly large system for the purpose. As our ...