The title is not an obvious one, but the perfect description of the double jet-lag effect after a 5 day trip to New York: i woke up in Italy on tuesday and i felt like i just had a very lucid and long dream!
The experience at CVPR has been smooth, some contacts, some interesting works (but mainly technical ones) and a cunning keynote talk by Alex Pentland on a new model of "social signaling".
This MIT guy talks about "really social software" that can monitor your body language (in his case he used speech) without looking into mean-making, but rather gathering social-signals that can be used to predict the outcome of any kind of negotiation (jobs, life, dating..).
The idea of people "mirroring" each other gesture, and learning from them, is not new to me and is appealing how this science breaks in, and is supported, by new technology.
The rest of New York has been a very interesting experience about being cheated by cab drivers, living park life, going downtown and bathing in memory at Ground Zero, Guggenheim museum and Zaha Hadid, MoMa and DaDa, dancing in Brooklyn at Max diner…
I had fun, and also felt like this journey gave me a real view from another world.
Back in the NIRC the work is developing fast, new prototypes are coming along, and Espresso (italian weekly magazine) wrote about us. Stay tuned!