{"212891":{"#nid":"212891","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Choose Your Own Sociocultural Training Adventure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Riedl (Interactive Computing), with funding through DARPA\u0027s Young Faculty Awards (YFA) program, has developed a computer system that can automatically parse and aggregate people\u2019s stories about a given topic and reconstruct variations of those experiences. The outputs are interactive training simulations similar to role-playing videogames or choose-your-own-adventure books.\u0026nbsp;Source:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/05\/14.aspx\u0022\u003EDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2013-05-14 15:03:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:27","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/05\/14.aspx","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"690","name":"darpa"},{"id":"66271","name":"Entertainment Intelligence Lab"},{"id":"66281","name":"Mark Riedl"},{"id":"66291","name":"Young Faculty Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"140221":{"#nid":"140221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Musical Glove Improves Sensation, Mobility for People with Spinal Cord Injury","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for people with paralyzing spinal cord injury (SCI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gadget was successfully used by individuals with limited feeling or movement in their hands due to tetraplegia. These individuals had sustained their injury more than a year before the study, a time frame when most rehab patients see very little improvement for the remainder of their lives.\u0026nbsp; Remarkably, the device was primarily used while the participants were going about their daily routines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device is called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zi6t89pi17c\u0022\u003EMobile Music Touch\u003C\/a\u003E (MMT). The glove, which looks like a workout glove with a small box on the back, is used with a piano keyboard and vibrates a person\u2019s fingers to indicate which keys to play. While learning to play the instrument, several people with SCI experienced improved sensation in their fingers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and Atlanta\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.shepherd.org\/\u0022\u003EShepherd Center\u003C\/a\u003E recently completed a study focusing on people with weakness and sensory loss due to SCI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfter our preliminary work in 2011, we suspected that the glove would have positive results for people with SCI,\u201d said Ph.D. graduate Tanya Markow, the project\u2019s leader. \u201cBut we were surprised by how much improvement they made in our study. For example, after using the glove, some participants were able to feel the texture of their bed sheets and clothes for the first time since their injury.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarkow worked with individuals with SCI who had limited feeling or movement in their hands. Each suffered a spinal injury more than a year prior to the study. The eight-week project required study participants to practice playing the piano for 30 minutes, three times a week.\u0026nbsp; Half used the MMT glove to practice; half did not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe MMT system works with a computer, MP3 player or smart phone. A song, such as Ode to Joy, is programmed into a device, which is wirelessly linked to the glove. As the musical notes are illuminated on the correct keys on the piano keyboard, the gadget sends vibrations to \u201ctap\u201d the corresponding fingers. The participants play along, gradually memorizing the keys and learning additional songs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, these active learning sessions with MMT were not the primary focus of the study.\u0026nbsp; The participants also wore the glove at home for two hours a day, five days a week, feeling only the vibration (and not playing the piano).\u0026nbsp; Previous studies showed that wearing the MMT system passively in this manner helped participants learn songs faster and retain them better.\u0026nbsp; The researchers hoped that the passive wearing of the device would also have rehabilitative effects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the study, participants performed a variety of common grasping and sensation tests to measure their improvement.\u0026nbsp; Those who used the MMT system performed significantly better than those who just learned the piano normally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome people were able to pick up objects more easily,\u201d said Markow. \u201cAnother said he could immediately feel the heat from a cup of coffee, rather than after a delay.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarkow believes the increased motor abilities could be caused by renewed brain activity that sometimes becomes dormant in persons with SCI. The vibration might be triggering activity in the hand\u2019s sensory cortex, which leads to firing in the brain\u2019s motor cortex. Markow would like to expand the study to include functional MRI results.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe glove has evolved in recent years under the leadership of Georgia Tech\u2019s Thad Starner and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, as well as Deborah Backus, director of multiple sclerosis research at Shepherd Center. The initial concept, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=39815\u0022\u003EPiano Touch\u003C\/a\u003E, developed with the team by then master\u2019s student Kevin Huang, demonstrated that people could easily learn to play the piano by wearing the glove and feeling its vibrations. It didn\u2019t take long for Starner to see the larger health benefits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEquipment used for hand rehabilitation may seem monotonous and boring to some, and doesn\u2019t provide any feedback or incentive,\u201d said Starner, who oversees the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/%7Ethad\/\u0022\u003EContextual Computing Group\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cMobile Music Touch overcomes each of those challenges and provides surprising benefits for people with weakness and sensory loss due to SCI. It\u2019s a great example of how wearable computing can change people\u2019s lives.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarner is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing. 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The initiative is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in the largest grant awarded to Georgia Tech by the organization within the last five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe workshops will be centered on a futuristic textile swatch book that looks and acts similar to traditional swatch books, a staple in fashion and design studios. Georgia Tech\u2019s Clint Zeagler and Thad Starner\u2019s version is connected to a notebook computer via USB, with material swatches that incorporate conductive thread, sensors and controllers. As the swatches are exchanged in the binder, the appropriate interface appears on the computer screen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book functions as a guide book for an inspiration and ideation session in the first part of the workshop, driving the design process and helping participants understand the technology and then dream up ideas,\u201d said Zeagler. \u201cWe\u2019re especially curious to see how scientists, traditional fashion designers and craftspeople can be inspired to apply on-body interactive textiles within their fields.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants get to make prototypes of their designs in the second part of the workshop using the enhanced fabric.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GTArchitecture feature=mhee#p\/c\/B76D0A98ABA07BFA\/12\/7gAvGuRF_cE\u0022\u003EA pilot workshop was held at Parsons the New School for Design this fall\u003C\/a\u003E; subsequent workshops will be held at Georgia Tech and Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZeagler, an instructor in the School of Industrial Design, and Starner, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, have forged new paths in the futuristic wearable computing field. \u0026nbsp;Leveraging Georgia Tech\u2019s strengths in networked products and connectivity, the researchers hope the workshops will advance new ideas in traditional design fields in fashion, interiors and textiles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe swatch book and supporting research presentations have made numerous appearances in exhibitions and international conferences. This April, the team will present the work at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovationintextiles.com\/articles\/1165.php\u0022\u003ESmart Fabrics Conference in Miami.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAward will fund training workshops to expose scientists, engineers and designers to on-body electronic textile interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2012-01-13 19:09:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"78281":{"id":"78281","type":"image","title":"On-Body Textiles Interface Workshop","body":null,"created":"1449178063","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:43","changed":"1475894691","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:51","alt":"On-Body Textiles Interface Workshop","file":{"fid":"193854","name":"prototyping.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prototyping_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prototyping_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":217512,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/prototyping_0.jpg?itok=COqo58Ea"}},"78271":{"id":"78271","type":"image","title":"On-Body Textiles Interface Workshop","body":null,"created":"1449178063","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:43","changed":"1475894691","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:51","alt":"On-Body Textiles Interface Workshop","file":{"fid":"193853","name":"clint_leading_workshop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clint_leading_workshop_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clint_leading_workshop_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":223634,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/clint_leading_workshop_0.jpg?itok=I6pVcZnX"}}},"media_ids":["78281","78271"],"groups":[{"id":"1218","name":"Digital Lounge - Entertainment and Music"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9873","name":"clint zeagler"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"167108","name":"school of industrial design"},{"id":"1944","name":"Thad Starner"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech College of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}