Sound guiding swimmers aims to boost Olympic performance
German researchers unveil Swimming Sonification at CITEC Bielefeld University to help pro swimmers sense water pressure changes in real time. Gloves with pressure sensors feed data to a laptop and custom software that converts flow information into audible tones for immediate technique adjustment.
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Michael Phelps
Germany
Phelps
Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology
CITEC
Bielefeld University
Thomas Hermann
Hermann
Ambient Intelligence
Bodo Ungerechts
Faculty of
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Sports Science
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Hermann and
Daniel Cesarini
Department of
Information Engineering
University of Pisa
Italy
Background noise hinders toddlers word learning study
A University of Wisconsin Madison study in Child Development shows that background noise in home or school impedes toddlers learning new words. It finds that quieter speech and focused cues aid word mapping despite noisy environments.
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University of Wisconsin- Madison
Child Development
Brianna McMillan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Society For Research In Child Development
Lary
Jenny Saffran
College of Letters & Science
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