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| Prangstgrup Library Musical - Reading on a Dream PRANK!! |
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Mike Barry and Anjuli Kolb star in an
absolutely hilarious musical where they start
singing broadway style music in a library
filled with unsuspecting people.
Lyrics (written by Brian Jacobs)
What's this?
What's this on the page?
I can hardly believe my eyes.
Everything that seems a new surprise
and I'm doing it all because I'm readin' on a
dream.
Magical places and faces to see
Poetry, science and technology
Inspiration in my imagination
I'm just a page or two away.
Nobody sings in the library.
Nobody here makes a peep.
But I can't keep it in
Yeah, I just gotta be singin'
and nobody can stop me now.
Because I'm readin' on a dream.
Readin' on a hell of a feeling.
And I wish that I could share
but nobody ever dares.
And I feel so alone.
I'm happy, but I'm on my own.
If only there was someone to s
hare in this experience.
(Anjuli Kolb stands)
Would you give me a chance?
And would you care to dance?
Care!... to dance?
(Together)
Yes, we're readin' on a dream.
We're Readin' on a hell of feeling
and I found someone to share.
Yes, what a wonderful pair.
Readin' on a dream.
We're readin' on a terrific feeling
and I'm thinkin' it out loud.
Yes, I'm thinkin' it out loud.
Readin', readin' on a,
readin', readin' on a,
readin', we're reading on a dream.
Let's do it!
Tags : prangstgrup reading library musical funny prank pranks college comedy punkd candid hidden camera video broadway singing |
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Affichage : 283464
Durée : 180 s |
| Reading Your Mind: Interfaces for Wearable Computing |
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Google Tech Talks
March, 6 2008
ABSTRACT
Today's mobile devices have inherited many of
the characteristics of desktop computing -
including the assumptions that the user's
full attention can be
focused on the interface and that the user
has the manual dexterity to spare for it.
These assumptions result in users who run
into doorways while typing an e-mail on their
mobile phone. When faced with these interface
difficulties in our experiments, users
sometimes exclaim "I want my device to read
my mind!" In this talk, we will demonstrate
several prototypes that exploit pattern
recognition and good interface design to
simulate reading the user's mind by guessing
their intent. In addition, we describe
preliminary work on an actual brain computer
interface. Informed by our own wearable
computer use since 1993, my group
investigates what mobile users claim to do
with their devices, what they actually do
with their
devices, what they want to do, and the mobile
interface challenges that interfere with the
fulfillment of users' desires. We are
currently exploring a successful modern
incarnation of a
wearable computer, the RIM Blackberry
equipped with a Bluetooth earpiece, focusing
on its mini-QWERTY
keyboard. We have developed a technique
called Automatic Whiteout++ that can
eliminate 25% of mini-QWERTY users' "fat
finger" typing errors, without
using a dictionary. We will also discuss Dual
Purpose Speech agents, which "listen in" on
the user's
conversation to help schedule appointments,
remember small "notable" pieces of
information, and communicate
with remote assistants. Finally, we will
describe our preliminary research on
BrainSign, a direct brain interface where the
user communicates through natural language.
Speaker: Thad Starner
Bio:
Thad Starner is an Associate Professor at
Georgia Institute of Technology's School of
Interactive Computing. Thad was perhaps the
first to integrate a
wearable computer into his everyday life as
an intelligent personal assistant. Starner's
work as a PhD student would help found the
field of Wearable
Computing. His group's prototypes and patents
on mobile MP3 players, mobile instant
messaging and e-mail, gesture-based
interfaces, and mobile
context-based search foreshadowed now
commonplace devices and services. Thad has
authored over 100 scientific publications
with over 100 co-authors on
mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI),
pattern discovery, human power generation for
mobile devices, and gesture recognition, and
he is a founder and current co-chair of the
IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable
Information Systems. His work is discussed in
public forums both in the United States and
internationally, such as CNN, NPR, the BBC,
CBS's 60 Minutes, The New York Times, Nikkei
Science, The
London Independent, The Bangkok Post, and The
Wall Street Journal.
Tags : google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Affichage : 5124
Durée : 4849 s |
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