Welcome to UW-MANIAC!

What is UW-MANIAC? UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation & Collaboration) represents a network of continued collaborative learning and growth. This unique partnership includes a diverse group of UW-Madison departments and academic perspectives, as well as those from the private and non-profit sector. We host several events a year around a wide variety of topics, including the “Innovation and Collaboration Learning Café Series," a creative learning space that teaches creativity tools in an applied manner, a "Breakfast Series" in which members share inspiring ideas and creative approaches to work, and other opportunities to meet and share ideas, both through face-to-face conversation and virtual dialogue. Feel free to utilize this online community to share reflections, ask questions, incubate an idea, and re-connect with those friendly faces from the other events. For additional information, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development, at 608-262-9934 or hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Innovative Twitter Fosters Communication

I'm pretty excited about the new project that Adam Wilson is developing, a brain-directed "Tweet" to his Twitter account. Wilson is a biomedical engineering graduate student at UW-Madison who has figured out how to sync his brainwaves to convey brief messages through his computer. The implications of this discovery are vast, allowing those with communication disorders a vibrant way to communicate. I can also envision gaming applications, taking us to a whole new Wii of play!

Read the article... what do you see as some innovative possibilities that emerge?

-Harry
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