Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner of Persuasive Games, theorizes that a shaky global economy has forced some companies to take a pause from investing in serious games.
Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is tackling a new kind of power suit made from fabric that uses nanotechnology to generate energy as the body moves around.
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently conducted a longitudinal study of follow predictors on Twitter and found that those who were positive and provided informational content gained more followers than those who were negative and shared content about themselves.
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Ford and its business associates worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates the electricity usage of a typical single family in their home for one year and the associated savings with moving to an energy-efficient lifestyle.
Daniel Immergluck, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology who has extensively researched foreclosures, shares some of this skepticism.
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Companies shouldn't cater to the whims of wealthier employees just to keep them on board, says Ruth Kanfer, a psychology professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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"Any mechanical motion, such as the movement of arms or the fingers of a robot, could be translated to control signals, " said Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
As Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, observes, attacks on climate scientists, sometimes paid for by carbon-emitting industries when global warming first became a public issue, have made many researchers in the field nervous and defensive.
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But one team from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new technique that uses bodily movement, such as footfalls, to generate static electricity that can then be harnessed in quantities that could viably charge larger devices.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, this has led to the development of a smart T-shirt that contains a web of wiring that is capable of monitoring a number of vital signs at once.
The effort is called MyEnergi Lifestyle, and according to a model cooked up by the Georgia Institute of Technology, its energy-saving tricks could reduce the energy costs of an average single family home by as much as 60-percent.
Details on the promotion haven't been announced yet, but winners would presumably be outfit with enough technology to recreate the Georgia Institute of Technology's model on a real power bill.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have jointly devised a patent-pending method to build organic solar cells using plant-derived substrates.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia have developed a few robots that deceive each other.
Another group, led by William Ditto at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Francis Witkowski at the University of Alberta, is using a dye that lights up in response to voltage changes to map the heart's response.
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