The World Wide Web is accessible 24/7 and more and more people are using the Internet to get information, to connect, to share, to entertain and get entertained and to promote themselves or their business etc. – all over the world.
Recently, Intel published an infographic that gives very interesting insight what happens in just one single minute in the Internet: Continue reading “Do you know what happens in one minute on the Internet?” »
Who of us didn’t often hear that playing computer games isn’t good for us, isn’t good for our kids, isn’t good for anybody …
However, this thinking turns out to be wrong Continue reading “Isn’t Playing Computer Games Bad for You?” »
Voice-recognition and voice controlled gadgets are entering our everyday life since a few years.
Recent technology advances promise us even more.
Controlling our devices and apps will be even easier in the future: with a single thought through Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology.
In a little while, we will be able to interact with our smartphones and tablets just with your brain through the use of head-mounted electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors.
Thought-controlled computing is the eventual goal to control all of our devices. But, it may also help us to understand and react to what is happening inside our head by displaying brain activity. This may benefit biofeedback approaches as it was recently shown that humans more easily control brain activity and stress when they have a picture of what is going on in the their heads. Continue reading “Brain-Controlled Gadgets – Letting Your Mind Control Your Devices” »
Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary research field applying central concepts of engineering, robotics, computer science and artificial intelligence as well as psychology, neuroscience, social science, anthropology and philosophy to develop enhance human-machine interactions.
Robots are increasingly becoming “social” entities that get integrated in our daily lives. Continue reading “Affective Computing – Emotional Machines?” »
I recently stumbled over an interesting article – “I’ll poke you. You’ll poke me!” Self-disclosure, social attraction, predictability and trust as important predictors of Facebook relationships (by Pavica Sheldon, Lousiana State University) – that made me think about how I benefit from my social networks.
I learned that main motives for social networking is relationship maintenance, social contact with people we know in real life, passing time when being bored or to find companionship. I completely agree: I use it to stay in contact, to peak onto the sites of friends and see how they are doing and to do ‘something’ when I am bored.
Recent research revealed that personal relationships can be easily formed and maintained online, despite the fact of user’s uncertainties about one another without providing physical closeness, gestures and physical appearance. Continue reading “Cyberpsychology III: Trust Building Through Self-disclosure and Predictability” »
More and more enterprises use Apache Hadoop for business analytics.
Apache Hadoop provides a platform to process Big Data that are generated on a daily basis. It is an open-source software framework for data-intensive distributed application in the cloud. Prominent users of Hadoop include Google, Facebook, IBM, Akamai, ebay or Amazon.
Hadoop enables to interact with huge amount of date on multiple of computation-independent computers. Continue reading “Hadoop Distributions: Needed Change to Improve Big Scale Business Software” »
Internet users ordinarily have the opportunity to equally voice themselves – irrespective of status, gender, race, age etc.
The anonymity, imaginary world and numerous varieties of online milieus and groups give plenty opportunities for expressing unconscious wants, needs, hopes and emotions.
Each user’s skill in communicating, including writing skills, the diligence, the value of ideas as well as technical competence defines the influence he may have on others in a web community during online ‘conversation’. Continue reading “Cyberpsychology II – Online Anonymity and the Disinhibition Effect” »
The progress in Big Data processing and management, data mining technologies, neural networks and simulation applications allows detailed tracking of past data and analyzing patterns that is used to predict future behaviors, health, traffic or forecasts airfare fees.
Predictive technologies are increasingly entering businesses and marketing, medicine, epidemiology, security etc. Continue reading “Predictive Technologies – How Yesterday Forecasts Tomorrow” »
Many photo-sharing apps like Instagram were very successful in the past. The new generation of media sharing apps is video sharing that recently has been gaining increased popularity.
Video sharing is defined as multimedia services that permit users to view real-time or prerecorded videos during a voice call. In the business world, Continue reading “Video-sharing Apps – The world after Instagram” »
