Interactive agential dynamics

Agential obligation as non-agential personal obligation plus agency

I explore various ways of integrating the framework for predeterminism, agency, and ability in [P. McNamara, Nordic J. Philos. Logic 5 (2) (2000) 135] with a framework for obligations. However, the agential obligation operator explored here is defined in terms of a non-agential yet personal obligation operator and a non-deontic (and non-normal) agency operator. This is contrary to the main curr...

Interactive essential dynamics

Essential dynamics (ED) is a useful method for analyzing trajectories generated by molecular dynamics (MD), but current tools are awkward to use, limiting the usefulness of the technique. This paper describes a new interactive graphical interface for visualization of ED results, including filtering a trajectory on an arbitrary set of eigenvectors and manipulation of a structure's projection alo...

Porous masculinities: agential political bodies among male Hamas youth

Debating Sociomateriality: Entanglements, imbrications, disentangling, and agential cuts

Sociomateriality is on everyone's lips these days. Since Orlikowski (2006; 2007; 2009), together with Scott (Orlikowski and Scott 2008; Scott and Orlikowski 2009) first introduced this term in organisation studies and in information systems (IS) research, we count an impressive number of contributions on this topic along with calls for papers in renowned journals and conferences. Without going ...

Modelling Human-Computer Interaction from an Agential Perspective

This paper argues for an agent orientated approach to modelling human computer interaction, through the use of widgets. These are small fragments of a script that are used to help a human interact with a computer model. An example implementation, the Agent Orientated Widget Toolkit, is presented along with its notation. This is then compared to an object orientated approach to writing a ’user I...