“Both my Cleansed Hands”

Ready Both to Your and to My Hands: Mapping the Action Space of Others

To date, mutual interaction between action and perception has been investigated mainly by focusing on single individuals. However, we perceive affording objects and acts upon them in a surrounding world inhabited by other perceiving and acting bodies. Thus, the issue arises as to whether our action-oriented object perception might be modulated by the presence of another potential actor. To tack...

Some Virtues of Modeling With Both Hands

Webb distinguishes two endeavors she calls animal modeling and animat modeling and advocates for the former. I share her preference and point to additional virtues of modeling actual biological mechanisms (animal modeling). As Webb argues, animat modeling should be regarded as modeling of specific, but madeup, biological mechanisms. I contend that modeling made-up mechanisms in situations in wh...

TCP Inigo Fighting Congestion With Both Hands

The Land of Net is always in peril from unscrupulous “princes” and six-fingered apps. TCP Inigo is the hero of this story. He functions surprisingly well, considering he has a drinking problem or two and prefers to fight with his left hand even though he’s right handed. Join TCP Inigo as he overcomes his faults and defeats the six-fingered apps who killed his buffer.

My Hands or my Mouse: Comparing a Tangible and Graphical User Interface using Eye-Tracking Data

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) have drawn the interest of HCI and learning communities because of their potential positive impact on the learning experience. In this paper, we describe a preliminary study of a TUI application for training spatial skills of carpenter apprentices. We designed a tangible interface to perform a CAD modelling activity in a way that resembles what apprentices do in ...

Accidental Adhesion of Both Hands with Super Glue: A Case Report