Abstract This chapter traces how dominant U.S. platform companies attempt to influence policy debates, focusing on (a) the issues they engage, (b) preferences communicate, and (c) what these communications reveal about their regulatory governance philosophies. Amid calls for private–public oversight frameworks, provide insight into such co-governance regimes might look like in practice. Specifi...

This study lies in the context of cognitive ergonomy and virtual engineering. We propose to model and implement the behaviour of autonomous virtual agents, using ideas from psychology (fuzzy cognitive maps, affordances) and neurophysiology (active perception). We describe the basis for a behavioral model imitating human beings’ perceptive operation. The psychological notion of “affordance” will...

We are investigating three kinds of advanced capabilities for computer game characters. First, we want characters to exhibit life-like qualities. They should show distinctive personalities, context-dependent moods, and normal variability in their behavior. Second, we want characters to follow directions . They should accept directions from various external sources, including game designers, gam...

Public interaction experiences are becoming ubiquitous recently, however, interaction is usually limited to broadcasting and the actual experience not very rich. Especially social connectedness and bonding are important aspects of public interaction that are often overlooked. This paper reports on research investigating how a publicly displayed application can improve social connectedness by ac...

This paper presents a software framework aimed at both simplifying the development of large and distributed complex systems and guarantying an efficient execution of applications. This software framework takes advantage of a concise actor model that makes easy the development of the actor code by delegating the management of events (i.e., the reception of messages) to the execution environment....

Dispatch-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been shown as an effective measure to improve the survival of this process. The development of a unified protocol for all dispatch centers of the different emergency medical services can be a first step towards this goal in our environment. The process of developing a recommendations document and the...