June 2012
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Anne is primarily concerned with questioning the role of haptics in the reading...
– Masters of Media » Anne Mangen on the Technologies and Haptics of Reading
Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They...
– Layer 8: Apple of my eye? US fancies a huge metaphor repository
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It is not only our material environment that is transformed by our machinery. We...
– Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl
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The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and...
– MIT SENSEable City Lab
Urban Remix is another ‘soundmap’ project like we have seen before. There is...
– Urban Remix - Everyday Listening - Sound Art, Sound Installations, Sonic Inspiration
Computer networks that can’t forget fast enough can show symptoms of of...
– Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia - Slashdot
Interestingly enough, Sutton-Smith (1997), citing Kenneth Burke and Gregory...
– ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Of Nips: Play and Realism
Up, not North - Automatypewriter →
The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself:
It can also detect what’s being typed on it. It can be used to send text to and/or receive text from a computer via USB. It was designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction games
If we want robots to be successful in healthcare, we’re going to need to think...
– How Do People Respond to Being Touched by a Robot? | ScienceBlog.com
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Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. Step 2: We bring her into existence....
– Cloud Girlfriend, the stalking has just begun - Infocult: Uncanny Informatics
Really, social networking is just another salient venue where problematic...
– ‘Facebook depression’ claim is research-challenged | NetFamilyNews.org
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there is a mental condition to accept the loss of data as the price of doing...
– “epidemic mental condition” | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age