Professor Albert Angehrn works at CALT, in Paris, where he develops interactive technology for management training.
It was 2009, the year before Apple released the iPad and a time when multitouch screens were still in the vanguard of interactive technology.
But for its target audience - a generation well used to the internet and the interactive technology that offers, it may well prove to be a smart move.
In the future, we'll be able to surf and shop on the web on television--but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or the set itself?
In the future, we'll all be able to surf and shop on the Web via television-but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or in the TV set itself?
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Now he is leading a new charge -- interactive, student focused technology education.
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They are looking to use gesture-recognition technology in things like interactive advertisements or in medical and health applications.
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Cloud-based technology has facilitated dynamic interactive collaboration between location- dispersed teams.
Twelve NFL teams plan to use FanVision this fall, an interactive handheld wireless device, the technology of which is owned by Miami Dolphins chairman Stephen Ross.
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In the next two years the most common place to see eye-control technology will be in interactive public displays, tablets, laptops and smart phones, and perhaps in video games, believes Hung.
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Jonathan Epstein, president of Omek Interactive, talks about what this technology will mean to Chinese gamers as well as the impact this middleware technology will have on gaming in the U.S. in this exclusive interview.
Some people are working to turn that image on its head, however, with four new apps harnessing technology to make travel more interactive.
The partners will pilot the service next week in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, a weeklong conference for technology start-ups.
The cable companies' superior technology allows them to offer interactive content and video-on-demand as well as a regular phone service and high-speed internet access.
Leeds-based interactive company Poulternet has helped develop the technology for the show, which will be able to receive messages in an instantly broadcastable format from all mobile phone networks.
Apps must be approved by Apple before they appear in its App Store, and the minimum time frame for Apple to review and approve an app is about 10 days, said videogame designer and theorist Ian Bogost, professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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"The vision technology allows that surface to become interactive, so that while the computer is projecting the information on to, say, your table top, the worker can interact with that the thing which is basically just light by using light, " Lai said.
Renee Klosterman, acting multimedia services manager at Washington's DIS, said her state's commitment to video technology is proven by a special Interactive Technologies Division within DIS, a mature videoconferencing system and a satellite TV studio that has all the cameras, production equipment and personnel needed to produce broadcast-quality video.
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Nina combines Nuance speech recognition, Text-to-Speech (TTS), voice biometrics, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology hosted in the cloud to deliver an interactive user experience that not only understands what is said, but also can identify who is saying it.
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He sees a pent-up demand for technology news that's visual, fun and interactive.
All this technology creates plenty of opportunities for new sorts of interactive-service provider.
Jiawen Chen and David Kim, both of the Interactive 3D technologies team, showed off, respectively, KinEtre technology for animating scanned objects, and a wrist device for gesture control.
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"We're very bullish on this technology, " says Kenneth Bronfin, president of Hearst Interactive Media.
Also new to the franchise is an interactive dog, which the developers created with the latest performance-capture technology.
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