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... as devices that are called shape-sharing. The shape and motion of remote shape-sharing devices are always synchronized. Operations to the robot, such as the modification of posture, or the input of motion, are reflected to the remote end in real-time....

... artwork which would critically address the icon, an essential element in most graphical user interfaces found in computer operating systems today. Recombinant Icon refers to Turing's idea of a machine that can alter itself by reading its own state and...

...An Explicit Volume is an interactive installation comprising nine books arranged in a three by three grid. Each book is operated by an electronic page turner. The project is sited in a darkened space where four red vinyl chairs are arranged facing the books, across an...

... 'The Crying of Lot 49' which revolves around a phenomenon called the Tristero: a clandestine mail system which operates under the radar of the US Postal Service, whose initiates covertly inscribe and re-direct apparently innocent letters as a...

... is augmented with many small ad hoc functions for dealing with plurality, conjugation, tense, etc. Most of these functions operate at the word level, but depend on "self-reading" texts and backtracking techniques. Pattern recognition techniques are used at...

... computer or console games (...)' (Lindley, 2005: 1) By creating complex and hybrid interfaces, pervasive games operate at the level of mixed reality, both augmenting and contaminating the real with the virtual, life with game, form with chaos....

...a Multi-user Computer Game for Girls --- In cooperation with Mathias Fuchs, Edeltraud-Hanappi-Egger, Gerhard Hanappi --- This Game is about careers, lifestyle, dreams and realities of young women. FemCity is a simulation of a complex social and economic environment,...

... Cultura and was connected to Kac by means of a fax in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. The basis of this link was a real time operation utilizing the fax as a dialogic medium in the context of a television broadcast, a unidirectional system of mass...

... but also supports the action of the user. A quintessential application of this system is surgery. In a surgical operation, a doctor uses many kinds of tools to incise body tissue, like scalpels, scissors, etc. If the doctor uses a scalpel...

... accordingly i.e. robots can follow a path (path following mode), the can avoid obstacles (avoidance mode) and they can operate in wander mode. They all try to avoid one another - depending on their proximity to one another - while searching the space....