Consumers are less forgiving of brand failures when algorithms are anthropomorphized, use machine learning, or are used for subjective or interactive tasks.
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IMAGE: Manhar Dhanak, Ph.D., principal investigator, chair of FAU s Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, and professor and director of SeaTech, is shown with the mannequin they designed to demonstrate how. view more
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University
With many businesses and schools in the United States now open post COVID-19, employers are faced with new challenges to keep the workplace safe for their employees, customers and students. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University s College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a two-year $698,801 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to test the effectiveness of various types of personal protection measures against airborne viral transmission. Building on their prior research, the project will result in experimentally verified computational strategies for mitigating airborne transmission of aerosolized droplets for a safe workplace environment.
New research from Carnegie Mellon University s Bin He demonstrates that noninvasive neuromodulation via low-intensity ultrasound can have cell-type selectivity in manipulating neurons.
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Reflexes protect our bodies - for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) explain why giving test subjects a slap on the hand could lay the foundations for the robots of the future.
In your paper, published in
Scientific Reports, you describe an experimental setup where people were actually slapped on the hand - to study their reflexes..
Kühn: Yes, you can put it that way. For our study, in cooperation with Imperial College London, the test subjects needed their reflexes to protect them against two different pain sources: first, a slap on the hand. And, while pulling their hand and arm out of harm s way, they also had to avoid an elbow obstacle. We studied the hand retraction and discovered that it is a highly coordinated motion.