The life-size image of Pinchas Gutter on a video screen, fidgeting, blinking and tapping his foot, seemed present and alive in the way portraits do...
How Technology is Keeping Holocaust Testimony Alive
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The Ultimate Escapism
Is VR addiction really something we need to worry about now? Currently, eye strain, cybersickness, and a lack of sense of touch in VR make it far...
Hologram Technology in Holocaust Museum Exhibit Immortalizes Survivors’ Stories
Illinois Holocaust Museum CEO Susan Abrams said the museum helped advance the project — New Dimensions in Testimony — a collaboration between the...
UX and the Psychology of Storytelling
Stories are effective because they appeal to a hardwired way that the human mind works. It’s our natural impulse to impose order and attach meaning...
Metafocus: Personalized Lifelong Learning
The University of Southern California (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies has developed “virtual humans” that look, move, and speak like real...
U.S. Military Seeking Technology to Better Prepare for War
Voice of America's Elizabeth Lee investigates cutting-edge technologies to better prepare military for war. By attending the USC Center for Body...
Virtual Technology Allows SHARP Academy Students Opportunity to Interview Survivor
United States Army Spc. Jarett Wright was hazed and sexually assaulted while deployed to Iraq in 2010. Students from the Sexual Harassment/Assault...
Found in Translation: USC Scientists Map Brain Responses to Stories in Three Different Languages
New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories is a universal experience that may result in people feeling greater empathy for each...
U.S. Military Looks to Solve Old Problems with New Solutions
“When you combine performance capture that is autonomously driven with a lot of this biodata, it is going to change the way athletes train. It’s...