FW: [CAS] More wonderful resources from CS4FN
Neil Collins
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From: computing...@googlegroups.com [mailto:computing...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of RogerDavies
Sent: 13 July 2011 14:24
To: Computing at School
Subject: [CAS] More wonderful resources from CS4FN
Just forwarding the mail Jonathan Black sent out to the cs4fn mailing
list - he was in a rush to sort everything before his holiday. As
ever, some more wonderful resources for teachers....... thanks to
everyone involved, they are great. The latest issue of cs4fn, focused
on the faces theme, should be in schools in the next few days. You can
get a pdf copy from their website if you don't yet order copies.
Dear colleague
The Computer Science For Fun project (cs4fn) was recently featured in
the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, in an exhibit about how
the human brain processes faces, and whether robots can do the same.
We made a YouTube mini-documentary on the same subject for the
exhibit, and we hope you'll find it interesting and useful as a
resource.
The video itself is about 14 minutes long, and covers issues in
robotics like interpreting faces, giving robots social skills and what
robots could be capable of in the future. It also deals with how our
own brains recognise faces, and what life is like for someone without
that ability.
How do you cope if you don't recognise your loved ones' faces? We also
hear from a world-class portrait painter about how he sees faces.
Here's a link to the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row6GSzg_m4
We also produced PDF cut-out experiments that you might be interested
in using with your students. They can program a robot face with some
basic emotional expressions, or see an illusion in which our brain is
tricked into seeing a hollow face point outwards.
http://www.cs4fn.org/faces/emotionmachine.pdf
http://www.cs4fn.org/faces/robotdogillusion.pdf
You can explore more of the science of faces in our upcoming issue of
cs4fn, or you can get a preview of it by going to the faces portal on
our website:
http://www.cs4fn.org/faces/
We hope you enjoy the resources!
Best wishes
The cs4fn team
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