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Do Social Bots Dream of Electric Sheep? A Categorisation of Social Media Bot Accounts

So-called ‘social bots’ have garnered a lot of attention lately. Previous research showed that they attempted to influence political events such as the Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections. It remains, however, somewhat unclear what exactly can be understood by the term ‘social bot’. This paper addresses the need to better understand the intentions of bots on social media and to ...

Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep? Virtual People and the Sense of Presence

Philip K. Dick's celebrated book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (filmed as Blade Runner) explored the complex relationships between humans and almost perfect humanoid androids known as “replicants.” It grapples with the moral difficulties involved in the termination of beings who look and behave like humans. There is a worldwide endeavor to create parallel virtual world’s populated by vir...

Do Distributed Semantic Models Dream of Electric Sheep? Visualizing Word Representations through Image Synthesis

We introduce the task of visualizing distributed semantic representations by generating images from word vectors. Given the corpus-based vector encoding the word broccoli, we convert it to a visual representation by means of a cross-modal mapping function, and then use the mapped representation to generate an image of broccoli as “dreamed” by the distributed model. We propose a baseline dream s...

Do Androids dream of Opportunistic Applications?

THE next to come urban scenario will be pervasively equipped with a huge of road side hotspots and Wi-Fi access points enabling profiled and mobile users to access the desired contents with some logical or functional scope. Today, the most part of the mobile computing services are rigidly server-centric: imagine that Alice meets Bob and wants to share some content with him. With a traditional a...