Design Perceptive

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From Scientific American magazine
5 Future Robotics Expeditions and What They Could Reveal.
This is a slight misnomer.  The only future robot is the Mars Science Laboratory.  The remaining have been already launched.  Yet, they are still on their respective journeys to their destinations.

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This was my Tuesday-morning Ted Talk watching experience this week.  It resonates with my current interests in Computation Creativity.  It’s a brief lecture by Tim Brown running about 28 minutes long.  He talks about play in the form of exploration, building and role-playing and their roles in creativity.  You should take a gander when you have the time.

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We here at Design Perceptive are always interested in the way humans perceive things.  It gives us direction and clues in designing towards artificial perceptive agents.  So, the interest here is to ask how and why do perceptual illusions work?  Consider the illusion in this article – The importance of perceptual illusion research from Cognitive Daily.

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The brain is amazing.   I really think many people (members of the medical/scientific community excepted) misunderstand how amazingly robust the brain really is.  This article in this Neurophilosophy blog shows how the brain can just keep going and going and going.

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I love the Study Hacks blog.  This article address the age old problem of procrastination and analysis paralysis.  I’ve run across this problem.  You most likely have as well.  Almost all of the classes in my major have semester projects, but this Ice-bath method could be applied to individual homework assignments as well.