Good discussion about the use of graphics and charts in presentations, thanks Extreme Presentation. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Finally, what took them so long? Now you can play games in the palm of your hand. We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface. In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always-available, naturally-portable, and on-body interactive surface. To illustrate the potential of our approach, we developed several proof-of-concept applications on .....read more »

Who retires gracefully, who adjusts to retirement easily and who doesn't. Which personality traits play a part in successful retirement? The five factor model of personality or the Big Five can be used to see how personality traits are linked to how people adjust to retirement. It has been done in the past for other life transitions. The researchers not only used the Big Five but also the Satisfaction with Life Scale and questionnaires devised to measure reasons for retirement and the quality of experiences in retirement. These questionnaires were all part of an online survey on which 365 individuals responded, of .....read more »

Personally I like online shopping mainly because it's easy, fast and convenient, you can shop when you want to anywhere you want to. There's a gender gap in online shopping. More men than women engage in online shopping and make online purchases while in the offline world women love to shop. Until recent very few studies were done on gender differences in online shopping and gender differences in online shopping attitude. From recent research we learn that online shopping is not as attractive or appealing to women as it is towards men. Women have more positive attitude towards conventional shopping .....read more »

Business cards are still around, I get them often, they're nice and they do have advantages as can be read on geek!daily: they're customizable, trivial to distribute, and cards are static. Digital alternatives like Poken and My Name is E don't seem to have enough success, only nerds and geeks not your average academic or business man has any of them. There are alsoother ways to use the internet to create, share and use your business card, but again not in much use by doctors, scientists and academics. I often ask myself how to get a grip on these .....read more »

PresentationZen Design the new book about principles and techniques for presentations by Garr Reynolds is a follow up from Presentation Zen reviewed in a previous post on this blog. This book is more practical, not a step by step instructions but it has many good examples and offers good advice. For instance which fonts to use, between all those fonts on your computer about 6-8 will do the trick. It boils down to 6-8 fonts and your all set. Instructions how to use Kuler for generating a color theme. How to communicate with color but also how to acquire good .....read more »

Did you know there is a sense of humor questionnaire? It's called the Humor Styles Questionnaire and distinguishes between four styles of humor. Affiliative, use of humor to amuse others and facilitate relationships Self enhancing, use of humor to cope with stress and maintain a humorous outlook during times of difficulty Aggressive, use of sarcastic, manipulative, put-down, or disparaging humor Self-defeating, use of humor for excessive self-disparagement, ingratiation, or defensive denial The first two positive styles are negatively correlated with anxiety and depression and positively correlated with self-esteem, extraversion, openness and agreeableness. The last two are negatively correlated with agreeableness and conscientiousness and positively correlated .....read more »

Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine." No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

If you have to present a conference room presentation but people expect a slideshow or you just don't want to loose the beamer and the feel of presenting, you can use Prezi. Conference room presentation is a presentation for small groups like presenting a study design, case presentation, results from a study but also if you want to persuade, sell to, or change behavior of a smaller group you will need a conference room style presentation. Usually in a conference room presentation printed slides with lots of .....read more »

an amazing, highly personal talk from magician David Blaine describing what he went through in order to break the world breath-holding record. It will change your concept of what a human body is capable of Video from TEDMED 2009, TED's medicine-themed conference, are finally starting to be released on the Web. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »