This paper describes an interactive robotic art installation Dream Painter by the artistic duo Varvara & Mar that deploys artificial intelligence (AI), a KUKA industrial robot and interaction technology in order to offer audience interpretation of their past dreams, which are then turned into collective painting. The is composed four larger parts: design, AI-driven multicoloured drawing sof...

This paper describes a new method (DREAM) for structured, semi-quantitative dermal exposure assessment for chemical or biological agents that can be used in occupational hygiene or epidemiology. It is anticipated that DREAM could serve as an initial assessment of dermal exposure, amongst others, resulting in a ranking of tasks and subsequently jobs. DREAM consists of an inventory and evaluation...

In the developing mouse brain, once the generation of neurons is mostly completed during the prenatal period, precisely coordinated signals act on competent neural precursors to direct their differentiation into astrocytes, which occurs mostly after birth. Among these signals, those provided by neurotrophic cytokines and bone morphogenetic proteins appear to have a key role in triggering the ne...

In the emerging agile manufacturing paradigm, there is a great need for a flexible and re-configurable IT platform to form virtual enterprises. In this paper, according to the functional requirements of virtual agile manufacturing, a pragmatic Web-based platform entitled ‘‘E-DREAM’’ has been developed to support the virtual enterprising. Firstly, this paper discusses the E-DREAM basic architect...

In this position paper we present a novel approach to neurobiologically plausible implementation of emotional reactions and behaviors for real-time autonomous robotic systems. The working metaphor we use is the “day” and “night” phases of mammalian life. During the “day” phase a robotic system stores the inbound information and is controlled by the light-weight rule-based system in real time. I...

This paper presents a recent study focusing on how Internet users introduce themselves publicly in cyberspace through personal web pages, personal diaries and web sites where they can search for relationships, love, or friendship. Our goal is to analyse the extent to which personal relationships are considered from a marketing standpoint, and in what sense we can talk about how personal relatio...

tions. 1917. Price 6s. net. The analysis of the dream was initiated by Dr. Hughlings Jackson as the key to many problems of psychiatry. Dr. John Abercrombie, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, and others have pointed out that the understanding of dreams is closely linked with the investigation of mind. The theories and demonstrations on cerebral localisation have brought into the forefront the anatomical con...