International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation
iACToR Weekly Newsletter #35
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Opening Statement
One of our recently elected iACToR managing board members, Professor Dr. Andrea Gaggioli of the Catholic University of Milan, was featured in a recent New York Times Science article examining how modern day scientists are turning to “crowds on the web to finance their projects.”
Gaggioli, the 2011 – 2012 website director of iACToR, believes “that ‘crowdfunding’ is not just a recent trend, but represents a powerful channel with engaged communities capable to generate a critical mass of economic resources with the scope to source science projects.” Thus, he created the Open Genius Project designed to “make qualitative research projects available to the public and facilitate the funding through a global and highly motivated community.”
The article highlighted his work as a “peer review process to ‘separate garbage from good science.” Said Gaggioli, “I think people will invest in projects that are carried out by young people who have no other possibilities to put forward their ideas.”
For more information on how to support Prof. Gaggioli’s important venture, please visit the Open Genius Project at http://www.opengenius.org/. To contact Prof. Gaggioli, please visit his iACToR member profile at http://iactor.ning.com/profile/AndreaGaggioli.
To read “Scientists Turn to Crowds on the Web to Finance Their Projects, ” please visit http://nyti.ms/pMsUoF.
Top CyberPsychology News
The International Conference on Arts and IT (ArtsIT2011) will be held in Esbjerg, Denmark, December 7th-9th, 2011. This conference is planned to be a place where people in arts, with a keen interest in modern IT technologies, meet with people in IT, having strong ties to arts in their works. The aim is to bring art to all people while offering the artists a creative tool to extend the grammar of the traditional arts. With the evolution of intelligent devices, sensors and ambient intelligent/ubiquitous systems, it is not surprising to see many researches and arts projects starting to explore the design of intelligent artistic artefacts. Ambient intelligence supports the vision that technology will become invisible, embedded in our natural surroundings, present whenever we need it, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users and context and autonomously acting. High quality arts or information should be potentially available to any user, anywhere, at any time, with any device. The information environments will be the major drivers of culture which will eventually lead to the future space (intelligent, interactive, invisible and informative) - Utopia kind of life. We cordially invite prospective authors to submit papers in the following areas towards the applications of arts in any forms, such as performing arts, images, animations, visualization, music, sculptures, and so forth. For more information on the conference and to submit an abstract, please visit http://artsit.org/.
'Virtual Reality' May Help in Parkinson's Therapy
U.S. News and World Report - People with Parkinson's disease are unable to make quick movements, but virtual reality- and physical reality-based therapies may provide the stimulus needed to help them move faster, new research suggests. In conducting the study, scheduled for publication in the August issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, researchers assigned tasks to two groups of men and women -- one group of Parkinson's patients and another group of age-matched participants without the disease. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/qd6WN9.
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Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA
Secretary General
International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR)
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