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The GT Accessible Aquarium Project

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-04-07) Walker, Bruce N.

Zoos and aquaria are in the business of educating and entertaining the visiting public. However, as the number of people with disabilities living in the community has grown, and as public environments have become more accessible to them, such informal learning environments (ILEs) are faced with accommodating an increasingly diverse visitor population with varying physical and sensory needs. This is even more challenging for ILEs with dynamic exhibits, where the movements, changes, and interactions are extremely difficult to describe to individuals who lack vision. The GT Accessible Aquarium Project is an interdisciplinary team effort to make dynamic exhibits such as those at museums, science centers, zoos and aquaria more engaging and accessible for visitors with vision impairments by providing real-time interpretations of the exhibits using innovative tracking, music, narrations, and adaptive sonification.
Music, Science, and Technology

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03-03) Hunt, William D. ; Valk, Henry

Music and its performance have been part of our inheritance since primitive times. But what is music? How do we produce and hear it? How are popular instruments that we use to perform it, such as the guitar and piano, evolving? These and related questions will be discussed from the standpoint of current science and technology.
Dwelling Studies

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-10-07) Crawford, T. Hugh ; Broglio, Ron

Dwelling studies examines how we engage with the earth so as to fashion a world and worldview. As a methodology, dwelling studies uses phenomenology to examine a variety of ecologies and economies of human comportment in order to further living well.
Older Adult Expertise in Emotion Regulation: Gains and Costs

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09-16) Blanchard-Fields, Fredda

Despite research that shows cognitive decline as we grow older, changes in emotion show a positive developmental trajectory. This talk will address two questions. What are the skills older adults possess and use when regulating their emotions? Under what conditions are older adults more effective and least effective at regulating their emotions?
Are Cities Warming Faster than the Planet as a Whole?

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-04-01) Stone, Brian

How rapidly are large U.S. cities like Atlanta warming and what steps can be taken to manage climate change in urban areas? This talk will explore the methods employed to measure urban and global temperature trends and document the rate of temperature change with 50 of the most populous U.S. metropolitan areas between 1950 and 2000. The distinction between the urban and global mechanisms of warming will be considered as part of a more general discussion of climate change management in cities.
Composer, Performer, Listener

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03-04) Freeman, Jason

Even as social networking, multi-player gaming, and collaborative content creation become increasingly important in our lives, concert musical performance continues to follow a model in which the audience remains passive, with little connection to the composer, to the performers, or to each other. Freeman, an assistant professor in the Music Department, will explore how technology can transform the concert experience by inviting the audience to shape the music as it is performed or by engaging audiences in personalized musical experiences online.
Making Computer Science 101: Fun with Robots

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-11-06) Balch, Tucker

We're trying an experiment here at Georgia Tech: We're teaching freshman Computer Science 101 (CS 1301 to be exact) with personal robots. Every student has her own robot to take home and work with. All the fundamentals of CS are taught in the context of programming a mobile robot with sensors, motors, a camera and a speaker. During this talk I will report on our success with this approach.
Meet your neighbor! An introduction to social insects in Atlanta

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-10-02) Goodisman, Michael

Social insects, including ants, bees, wasps, and termites, are "among the greatest achievements of evolution". They dominate terrestrial environments and make up a substantial part of the animal biomass. The tremendous success of social insects stems from their ability to effectively manage ecological problems through their complex social systems. In fact, the formation of the remarkable societies displayed by social insects represents one of the major transition points in evolutionary history. This talk provides an overview of the biology of social insects and the development and importance of social insect societies. Includes as discussion of the natural history of important social insects found locally, including fire ants and yellowjackets.
Privacy Please! Part II: Who's Listening Now?

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09-20) Keller, Larry
Self-organizing logistics systems

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09-04) Bartholdi, John J., III

The social insects, such as bees or ants, operate complex logistics systems that are efficient even though no agent is in charge. Instead of a centralized control, each agent follows a simple local rule and an efficient global organization emerges spontaneously. This idea has been successfully adapted to coordinate order-pickers in a warehouse. Under a protocol called "bucket brigades", each worker follows a simple rule; and without conscious intention or even awareness of the workers, the flow of work is smoothed and bottlenecks are removed. Furthermore, this happens without the advice on engineers, consultants, or management. The bucket brigade protocol has increased pick rates by 20-50% at some major distribution centers. (This is joint work with Don Eisenstein of the University of Chicago.)