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- From: vernon@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (vernon)
- Subject: Re: APPS: VR Systems using Intelligence in other Parts of the Body
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.074031.8220@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Jul24.051612.17456@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:59:02 GMT
- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
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- In article <1992Jul24.051612.17456@u.washington.edu> jason@MERCURY.CS.UREGINA.CA
- (Jason Breti) writes:
- >
- >
- >I'm posting this question for a friend...
- >
- >At UNC (University of Northern Carolina) the molecular docking
- >apparatus developed by Fredrick Brooks allows a non-chemist to form
- >new medicines by using his or her "proprioception"... which is the
- >brain's way of knowing where one limb is in relation to another. In
- >other words, the VR apparatus lets you solve a complex problem of
- >physical chemistry by applying the 'intelligence' required when you
- >move your arms, twist your wrists, push and pull against resistant
- >forces, and so on.
- >
- >Are there other areas of VR research that allow people to use
- >non-traditional aspects of our intelligence?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Is this the non-traditional aspect of our intelligence which allows us
- to locomote, communicate verbally, seek out information, run, skip, leap,
- catch, throw, carry....
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- It seems that while the focus of attention in much VR research is on
- visual information many people have not had their eyes opened to the
- multi-modal sophistication of the human perception-action system.
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- --Vernon McDonald
- Department of Kinesiology
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
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