In this paper, the artist/author wishes to examine corporeality in the virtual realm, through the usage of the (non)-physical body of the avatar. Two sister art installations created in the virtual world of Second Life®, both of which are meant to be accessed with site specific avatars, will provide the creative platform whereby this investigation is undertaken. While the installation “Anatomia...

A series of balanced bipartite row-column designs (BBPRC-designs) into sets of treatments with v1=4t+3 (test treatments) v2=2t+2 (control treatments) with varying replication has been obtained by supplementing a set of v2=2t+2 treatments in blank positions of non-orthogonal RC design of Agrawal (1966). Such designs find applications in agricultural and industrial experimentation where the inves...

Patients residing in nursing homes may undergo burdensome transitions in care during the final months of life. They may get care they do not want and are unlikely to benefit from. Patients and families may not understand prognosis or the potential benefits of treatment. A "goals of care" conversation can be the critical first step in identifying a patient's wishes and then developing a plan of ...

To ensure fulfilling stakeholder wishes, it is crucial to validate the documented requirements. This is often complicated by the fact that the wishes and intentions of different stakeholders are somewhat contradictory, which manifests itself in inconsistent requirements. To aid requirements engineers in identifying and resolving inconsistent requirements, we investigated the usefulness for manu...

: Individuals might reasonably expect the freedom to make their own decisions regarding their health. However, what happens when an individual's wishes conflict with what is in that individual's best interests? How far should an individual's rights be restricted for his or her own benefit? Similarly, what limitations should be placed on an individual's behaviour when that person's wishes go aga...

Methods A mini-survey (N=10) and two individual interviews was conducted among young patients in the pediatric outpatient clinic to explore the young peoples wishes for a youth-friendly daily praxis as well as wishes concerning transfer to the adult department. Based on these experiences we introduced shared transfer-consultations in collaboration between rheumatologists from the pediatric and ...

Social robots need to understand the affective state of the humans with whom they interact. Successful interactions require understanding mood and emotion in the short term, and personality and attitudes over longer periods. Social robots should also be able to infer the desires, wishes, and preferences of humans without being explicitly told. We investigate how effectively affective state can ...

Network formation games capture two conflicting objectives of selfinterested nodes in a network. On one hand, such a node wishes to be able to reach all other nodes in the network; on the other hand, it wishes to minimize its cost of participation. We focus on myopic dynamics in a class of such games inspired by transportation and communication models. A key property of the dynamics we study is...

The aim of this paper is to show that the construction of semantic resources is a sine qua non if one wishes to tackle such complex and ambitious tasks as word sense disambiguation or (machine) translation selection, which are notorious stumbling blocks in most natural language processing systems. More specifically, I will illustrate my contention with examples featuring o/phrases to show that ...