In this paper, we describe CrossTalk, an interactive installation in which the virtual fair hostess Cyberella presents and explains the idea of simulated dialogues among animated agents to present product information. In particular, Cyberella introduces two further virtual agents, Tina and Ritchie who engage in a carsales dialogue. Cyberella on the one hand, and Tina and Ritchie on the other ha...

Many scientific developments are based on the observation of natural phenomena. The studies of the Hungarian journalist Arthur Koestler proposed a neologism based on a new word, holon, to describe social systems and live beings. This paper will explain the holonic paradigm as a metaphor for the coordination problem of a virtual enterprise. The intentional stance will be used as a cognitive anal...

This is an introduction to a special issue of Issues Literary Types, which has no topic. The author the reflects on metaphor mind prober used define genre topic-free scientific journal. In case journal, research area strictly defined, as in thematic issues: defined by leading subject matter. It different without topic: outlined, but what topics will stand out foreground depends current state co...

Palimpsest is a novel purely-visual language intended to support exploratory live programming. It demonstrates a new paradigm for the visual representation of constraint programming that may be appropriate to future generations of keyboardless and touchscreen devices. The current application domain is that of creative image manipulation, although the paradigm can support a wider range of comput...

“1city1001vibrations” is a sound installation project of Sinan Bökesoy. It does continuous analysis of live sounds with the microphones installed on top of significant places at Bosphorus Istanbul. The transmitted sounds are accompanied by an algorithmic composition derived from this content analysis for controlling two Kuka industrial robot arms performing the percussions installed around them...

In this paper we focus on virtual campuses, i.e. virtual worlds representing real educational institutions that are based on the metaphor of a university and provide users with different learning tools. More specifically, we focus on the idea of integrating a virtual campus into the context of a virtual city where the students live and work to extend its possibilities for supporting learning an...

introduction: psychological symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (nccp) including perceptual, emotional, and behavioral problems can effect patient perception of chest pain. this study was conducted to determine the effect of metaphor therapy on mitigating depression, anxiety, stress, and pain discomfort in patients with nccp. materials and methods: this randomized, controlled, trial was conducte...

A component revolution is underway, bringing developers improved productivity and opportunities for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools work incredibly well on the desktop or for client-server structured systems, support for other styles of distributed applications has lagged. In this paper, we propose a new programming paradigm and a platform, in which instances of distributed protocol...