N1005 IBM Research: 3D printing

Meet Matan Ninio: Researcher, Maker

<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZ7o45rMNeoyLMFPJtpbB0aKI0QoRyuNUbHCWY7FGRVreJluJTcT4uGoVzg2QF5PlV53WVohy_HD9IXVzPG8iL7us3C2uf0qE9aqdDzVBiCUhJol-KSXuPoa_1YYHOSs2bhBpe32GsF8/s1600/IMG_4161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZ7o45rMNeoyLMFPJtpbB0aKI0QoRyuNUbHCWY7FGRVreJluJTcT4uGoVzg2QF5PlV53WVohy_HD9IXVzPG8iL7us3C2uf0qE9aqdDzVBiCUhJol-KSXuPoa_1YYHOSs2bhBpe32GsF8/s200/IMG_4161.JPG" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matan Ninio, IBM Researcher</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matan Ninio, an expert in machine-based anomaly detection at <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/labs/haifa/index.shtml">IBM Research - Haifa</a>, is also a born hacker, a maker, a computational biologist, t-shirt designer, and a devoted family man. Matan believes we are privileged to live during the 3D printing revolution, which is allowing makers to depart from mass manufacturing and enter a new world of customizing solutions for special individual needs. He’s proud to be part of this revolution and to bring new tools to the people who really need them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently spoke with him about his work and his volunteer ‘maker’ contributions to <a href="http://www.tomglobal.org/">TOM</a>, short for Tikun Olam, a Hebrew term that means making the world a better place.</span><br /><a name="more"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where did you grow up?</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matan Ninio: I grew up in Jerusalem, but also lived in the US and England for a while. Having a mother who is an academic and professor of psychology meant frequent travel for sabbaticals. I got my bachelors as part of my service in the Israeli army’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpiot_program">Talpiot</a> program and then continued on to do a masters and PhD in computational biology and machine learning at the Hebrew University.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When did you join IBM, and why? </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MN: I joined IBM five years ago. The machine learning group in Haifa has built a strong reputation as a preferred place for machine learning students, especially at Hebrew U. Many colleagues who left the university came here, so it was a matter of rejoining old friends. I knew there were good people here. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What is your area of expertise?</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MN: For the past few years I’ve been working on a Research project called <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ST&infotype=SA&htmlfid=ZSL03184USEN">zAware</a>, an integrated solution that helps identify unusual system behavior in real time. The technology was recently contributed to the open source community for <a href="http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/IBM-Announcements/IBM-LinuxONE-system/">Linux</a>, which was a nice testimony to its importance for IT systems. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We listen to the data from the mainframe logs and use machine learning to detect when the machine’s behavior changes to something abnormal. On a stable product machine, this is usually an indication that something is going wrong. The power of our approach lies in finding things that are unpredictable and not necessarily actions that are flagged as errors. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How does your Maker community involvement matter?  </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MN: My machine learning group at IBM Research – Haifa has been building a name for itself as a fast response specialist. We’re winning hackathons in different domains, and this is where it started. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgWt-w4j9wgRdg2CQBSfD0TII5atKq0qK5vUCanW4KpEpY2klE9WzDc9gRxwSmfad-LblWiEuvN3wTHZWCnXiraWVKYJdGCJ-jtPKl9xSDwxn7sKmoXZnmKV4nA004GkV2Vj_KqZg-3Mo/s1600/TOM_MakerBot_Makeathon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgWt-w4j9wgRdg2CQBSfD0TII5atKq0qK5vUCanW4KpEpY2klE9WzDc9gRxwSmfad-LblWiEuvN3wTHZWCnXiraWVKYJdGCJ-jtPKl9xSDwxn7sKmoXZnmKV4nA004GkV2Vj_KqZg-3Mo/s320/TOM_MakerBot_Makeathon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matan Ninio (R) and user of the prosthetic hand with sensors <br />(credit: ZOA production and TOM)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One interesting initiative coming out of the Israeli maker community is </span><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;">TOM</span>. The organization brings together the maker community and the special needs community to design and create solutions that require customization, or are produced only in small quantities.<span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;"> </span>The organization gets makers and need-knowers (people who understand the needs) together for three day hackathons, with enough tools and experts to build things that both look good and function well.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the most interesting maker contributions is the design for a prosthetic hand. Several years ago, a carpenter who had lost three fingers, and a special effects expert from Vancouver designed a hand for everyday use. The hand could be printed on a 3D printer with a few wires and springs for about $50 a piece – as an alternative to prosthetics that cost thousands of dollars per finger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We set out to add sensorial abilities to these hands so, for example, the person could lift a paper cup full of water using just the right amount of pressure. There are a lot of projects to build hands that use sensors to activate the fingers for typing, holding a cup, or playing ball. But there’s no way for the person to monitor how much pressure they’re applying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To get an idea of the problem we set out to tackle, imagine trying to adjust a car window to hold a paper cup between the window and the car frame using only the up and down buttons. Getting the pressure and movement right so you don’t crush the cup is almost impossible. Our goal was to give sensory feedback on the amount of force used. We developed a way of feeding the information back to the person using pressure applied to the forearm, in an area where the arm naturally feels the muscle working. To turn this from a working idea into something in the field is not trivial but we are continuing to work on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It was really nice to be awarded a prize for leading the effort to build an intelligent hand prosthesis.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73DOHraGaiv6pMUMqeeK-5csZlCSc4PWodeYiOLCWzsKPKHvJf1YMtWAMZwSfHqyhEFpJ7R_RXzXFxMutvAmoKIODP-4oWFLQydDap0uc1JZWyMrVDKALPfYV8aKrdEs1CQ7rzC61yb4/s1600/matan_ninio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73DOHraGaiv6pMUMqeeK-5csZlCSc4PWodeYiOLCWzsKPKHvJf1YMtWAMZwSfHqyhEFpJ7R_RXzXFxMutvAmoKIODP-4oWFLQydDap0uc1JZWyMrVDKALPfYV8aKrdEs1CQ7rzC61yb4/s400/matan_ninio.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matan (R), with another TOM volunteer, testing the box<br />for hydrotherapy (Collaboration with <a href="http://en.beitissie.org.il/tech/tom-tikkun-olam-makers-meeting-the-challenge/" target="_blank">Beit Issie Shapiro</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In another T<span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;">O</span>M challenge, we enabled eye tracking devices to work in wet areas. We worked with a young girl who suffers from Rett syndrome. <span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;">She</span> has only minimal physical abilities and communicates via eye movement by looking at onscreen buttons which then speak out the button’s word.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hydrotherapy is very helpful for <span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;">the girl's</span> condition, but she and others like her have no way to communicate with their therapist while in the water. In this case, we actually thought inside the box. We built a waterproof box that protects the computer device, but also ensures venting of excess heat so the computer doesn’t overheat. We added a Bluetooth water mouse, speakers, and other tech so the system could be used at the pool.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So far, the responses and feedback are very good. And we are working on sharing the instructions on how to put this together so other people around the world can use it. There is a real need.</span><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What's your advice to someone who wants to be a "maker"? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MN: I feel I’m really making a difference and influencing the lives of people who need help. It’s one of the most encouraging things I do. We are at an intersection in time where technologies like 3D printing are taking the creation of tools and equipment away from the factories and giving makers the ability to build custom solutions to meet the needs of individuals. I’m proud to be part of this revolution and impact the lives of people. And, of course, it’s great fun to create things.</span></div><br />

3D printing IBM Research - Haifa machine learning maker Matan Ninio TOM Meet Matan Ninio: Researcher, Maker

Matan Ninio, IBM Researcher Matan Ninio, an expert in machine-based anomaly detection at IBM Research - Haifa , is also a born hacker, a mak...

Wickets, tweets, and a 3-D printer

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVDyRAp1-vjRWWmZshwdV8nLcZ6VfjNTprUFEva6ZMvfkVI_-J_-XZXExtwrPwylOetGHw_vT5UmEOC7L5ZtRuQSPvonvwj4JIp6aFICU5lgN6Qjw7D3t9zVS8grtXvID1u3wa9cgR2xI/s1600/joshandres2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVDyRAp1-vjRWWmZshwdV8nLcZ6VfjNTprUFEva6ZMvfkVI_-J_-XZXExtwrPwylOetGHw_vT5UmEOC7L5ZtRuQSPvonvwj4JIp6aFICU5lgN6Qjw7D3t9zVS8grtXvID1u3wa9cgR2xI/s1600/joshandres2.jpg" /></a></span></div> <i><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">by <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=au1-josh.andres" target="_blank">Josh Andres</a>, User Experience, Design, Human Computer Interaction, IBM Research-Australia</span></i><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What do 3-D printing, Twitter, and the sport of cricket have in common? Probably not a whole lot to most people.  But IBM intern Rohit Ashok Khot and I have been experimenting with ways to explore the benefits of visualizing personalized sports summaries in a tangible, 3-D form, here in IBM’s research lab in Melbourne. Basing our study on a cricket series between Bangladesh and India – two “heavy hitters” in the cricket world – we combined the power of real-time analytics and social media with the possibilities of 3-D printing.<span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Cricket is rich with data and trackable statistics like overs, runs, and wickets taken, and social media has changed the way people can follow along and contribute to the discussion of a match in real time. So, we worked with cricket fans to determine which key metrics from a match they would be most interested in, and began sketching out various designs of models for a tangible summary of the match in 3-D printed form. In order to investigate social media data and tangible visualizations, we thought of using Twitter for its reach and simplicity, and then explored how we could make visualizations more relevant and personal to users.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgJYEfu-gqyDe3j3g42D88exP1qjtfzNrcBhpwQ_lcj4qb5qEVJZMHPaNhyRerqd9ZJyIwZ27_lnHhDMfbnPf91HwE1163-ptnudK4Fq9ajV1WdqSdpGZHBWO1nTGl1jfBuNL-h6OFTap/s1600/3d_sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgJYEfu-gqyDe3j3g42D88exP1qjtfzNrcBhpwQ_lcj4qb5qEVJZMHPaNhyRerqd9ZJyIwZ27_lnHhDMfbnPf91HwE1163-ptnudK4Fq9ajV1WdqSdpGZHBWO1nTGl1jfBuNL-h6OFTap/s320/3d_sketch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We followed three matches live on Twitter, as a test group of 10 Twitter-using cricket fans incorporated the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23BANvIND&src=typd" target="_blank">#BANvIND</a> into their tweets about the match action, in order to identify the relevant tweets for our experiment. Cricket is big in Australia, and there are large communities of Indians and Bangladeshis here, so we knew there would be a good following. The hashtag is part of the Twitter ecosystem – users would be familiar, and we just tagged along for the ride.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Rohit, who is working on his Ph.D. at RMIT in their Exertion Games Lab, and I were able to extract game data to design and create a 3-D model using OpenJSCAD software. As the two teams batted and bowled, we collected tweets over time to categorize and qualify based on “sentiment” – the emotional state of the user behind the tweet. We followed the scoring in terms of wickets taken and sixes scored as the match ebbed and flowed.<span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The 3-D print-out was where all of our analysis came together. The base of the print, made of plastic, is a data model of the match that provides a chronological summary in terms of runs scored (represented by a large circle in the outer end of the spike) and the wickets taken (a smaller circle in the inner part of the spike). Each bar represents a time period of five “overs,” or set of five deliveries by the bowler (think “pitches” in baseball). The second part of the print, and what makes it personal, is a flower-shaped user excitement model. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The longer peak in the model denotes high excitement levels amongst users, and the thickness of each “excitement spike” denotes the volume of tweets during that over.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/4NwgcYiv6t/?taken-at=413814401" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0lN44F1n1daK4N2Q02Uwy6lxVzT15IePJbI_hK4RY-gKlEIhcQhY06gdrgfVAXsv6wtT8dDIdRAXp9nmAW5X59mP8Js-Q5yfT5-qcW3Obe9YCqMiBk9fJp3ip01s0tulSXLe7zS8iatJU/s1600/insta_3d.jpg" /></a></span></div><br /></div> <span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We took away a number of design themes to apply to future studies featuring tangible models, and we have submitted this study for publication. The participating fans enjoyed seeing their tweets and a match summary in tangible form, and definitely enjoyed having the 3-D print-out as a keepsake of the match. Their engagement was strongly dependent upon on the excitement in the match and their attachment to the two teams.</span><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This was an exciting application of social media analysis for both of us, and for <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=au1-shaila.pervin" target="_blank">Shalia Pervin</a>, an Internet of Things expert and member of the Real Time Analytics group at the lab in Melbourne who participated in the study. During a sporting event, fans broadcast their emotions through their tweets.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "HelvNeue Light for IBM",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">So for us, exploring user sentiment analysis in relation to the cricket match was a great opportunity to create something truly unique for each individual through our 3-D printing technology. We plan to continue investigating social media data and tangible visualizations through other platforms, sports, and user contexts. We’re excited about the possibilities 3-D printing holds, especially as new materials are developed.</span><br />

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by Josh Andres , User Experience, Design, Human Computer Interaction, IBM Research-Australia What do 3-D printing, Twitter, and the sport o...