Interior Bowers

Liam Bannon , Steve Benford , John Bowers

Assembling mixed media artifacts in order to create engaging museum environments. Hybrid Design Creates Innovative Museum Experiences T he Situating Hybrid Assemblies in Public Environments (SHAPE) project within the European Disappearing Computer initiative has explored how emerging ubiquitous technologies can support museum visiting experiences. Many museums still rely on simple text panels t...

An interview with Sylvia Frazier-Bowers

Dr. Frazier-Bowers is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), in the Department of Orthodontics. She received a BA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a DDS from the University of Illinois, Chicago. After completing the NIH Dentist-Scientist Program at UNC-CH in Orthodontics (Certificate, 97’) and Genetics and Molecular Biology (PhD, ...

William R . Latham and Helen Bowers

Measuring sparseness in the brain: comment on Bowers (2009).

Bowers challenged the common view in favor of distributed representations in psychological modeling and the main arguments given against localist and grandmother cell coding schemes. He revisited the results of several single-cell studies, arguing that they do not support distributed representations. We praise the contribution of Bowers (2009) for joining evidence from psychological modeling an...

Earth’s Interior