Investigating Bodily Responses to Unknown Words: a Focus on Facial Expressions and EEG.

Occurrences of unknown words in a conversation can be challenging and often prevent people from engaging in fluent communication with each other. Even worse, currently very little is known about possible bodily responses when a listener comes across unknown words, especially when context information is not available in the conversation to facilitate understanding. In this work, we look at facial expressions and electroencephalography (EEG) as two potential body signals that may convey whether users are having difficulties understanding the words they hear.

JackIn Head: Immersive Visual Telepresence System with Omnidirectional Wearable Camera.

Sharing one's own immersive experience over the Internet is one of the ultimate goals of telepresence technology. In this paper, we present JackIn Head, a visual telepresence system featuring an omnidirectional wearable camera with image motion stabilization. Spherical omnidirectional video footage taken around the head of a local user is stabilized and then broadcast to others, allowing remote users to explore the immersive visual environment independently of the local user's head direction.

The colloidal metamorphosis: time division multiplexing of the reflectance state.

Specular reflection plays an important role in an image's appearance. However, LCDs don't have sufficient contrast to express specular reflection, and ordinary projector screens only have diffuse-reflection surfaces. A new display system projects ultrasound waves to dynamically change the reflection state of a screen made of a colloidal substance--soap film.

Three-dimensional mid-air acoustic manipulation by ultrasonic phased arrays.

The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound pressure nodes. The acoustic axis of the ultrasound beam in conventional studies was parallel to the gravitational force, and the levitated objects were manipulated along the fixed axis (i.