Human, Robot, and Animal Rights in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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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...

Do Tablets dream of electric ink?

The Tablet PC version of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system includes components that recognise handwriting. The data structures and objects used to store handwriting in Tablet PCs are called “ink”. The recognition of handwriting appears to be quite slow. A technical introduction to ink and the definition of the interfaces that allow the creation of purpose built handwriting recognition mod...

Do Mobile phones Dream of Electric Orchestras?

MoPhO is the newly established Mobile Phone Orchestra of CCRMA. It is the first repertoireand ensemblebased mobile phone performance group of its kind. We describe the motivation and making of such an ensemble and the repertoire of MoPhO’s first concert, performed in January 2008. The ensemble demonstrates that mobile phones orchestras are interesting technological and artistic platforms for el...

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 ...