Gerald Gendron

• Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton

The chapter describes a game-based prototype for distance teaching and independent training of medical procedures and generalizes the results for other application domains. In this project, the Microsoft Kinect system is used to observe experts conducting medical procedures. These observations are converted into a master model. Afterwards, students...

Social networks existed long before MySpace and Facebook hit the headlines. Sociologists and researchers have used the term "social networks" for over a century to describe complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all levels. At its core, a social network -- whether face-to-face or web-based -- is a map of relevant ties am...