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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/technology-middle-class-jobs-policy">
    <title>Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did | Dean Baker</title>
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    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via: https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov/status/418091791607685120 "the story of the hollowing out of the middle does not fit the data for the 2000s at all. … Since 2000, the increase in employment has occurred almost entirely in low-wage occupations. There has been a decline in relative employment for both workers in middle wage and high wage occupations. If this "occupational shift story" explained trends in wages we should expect to see sharply rising wages for retail clerks, custodians and other workers employed in low-paying occupations. Of course, we see the opposite. Workers in these occupations continued to lose ground in the 2000s as they did in the prior two decades. Their wages barely kept pace with inflation over the last three decades. … over the last three decades then, it means that inequality was a result of policy. It was not something that just happened; it was something that we did or was done to us. … This agenda wouldn't just mean empathy from those on top, but also lead to them losing some of their gains from the last three decades. Therefore we are likely to keep hearing stories about technology destroying middle wage jobs for some time, even if the evidence doesn't back up the stories."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2013-12-21T07:40:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Apple’s $10.5B on Robots to Lasers Shores Up Supply Chain - Bloomberg</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.monad-lifescience.com/">
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    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s an ironic scenario: the sex bot, conceived of as little more than a vibrator that talks, may end up being the catalyst for the fight for true robot rights."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://cryptome.org/dodi/dodd-3000-09.pdf">
    <title>DoD Directive 3000.09, November 21, 2012: Autonomy in Weapon Systems</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-28T07:09:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cryptome.org/dodi/dodd-3000-09.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This directive "Does not apply to semi-autonomous cyberspace systems for cyberspace operations; unarmed, unmanned platforms; unguided munitions; munitions manually guided by the operator (e.g., laser- or wire-guided munitions); mines; or unexploded explosive ordnance""]]></description>
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    <title>Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You | Danger Room | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-28T07:08:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/human-robot-kill/</link>
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    <title>Robot kills weeds on farms with 98% accuracy</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-18T10:30:28+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://procrastineering.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/robot-cute-vs-non-cute.html">
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    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>2012 robots robotics Johnny_Chung_Lee</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://magicalnihilism.com/2012/09/04/blog-all-dog-eared-unpages-guilty-robots-happy-dogs-the-question-of-alien-minds-by-david-mcfarland/">
    <title>Blog all dog-eared unpages: Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds by David McFarland « Magical Nihilism</title>
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    <link>http://magicalnihilism.com/2012/09/04/blog-all-dog-eared-unpages-guilty-robots-happy-dogs-the-question-of-alien-minds-by-david-mcfarland/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/science-dogs-can-shake-70-of-the-water-from-their-fur-in-4-seconds-heres-how/261191/">
    <title>Science: Dogs Can Shake 70% of the Water from Their Fur in 4 Seconds, Here's How - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/08/07/sexism-affects-robots/">
    <title>Sexism affects robots | Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-07T20:33:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/08/07/sexism-affects-robots/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>gender robots stereotypes 2012 study psychology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-robot-vacuum/">
    <title>Best Robot Vacuum | The Wirecutter</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-07T18:22:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-robot-vacuum/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>bots robots vacuums home domestic review 2012</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/drone-pilots-waiting-for-a-kill-shot-7000-miles-away.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>Drone Pilots, Waiting for a Kill Shot 7,000 Miles Away - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-02T08:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/drone-pilots-waiting-for-a-kill-shot-7000-miles-away.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All the operators dismiss the notion that they are playing a video game. (They also reject the word “drone” because they say it describes an aircraft that flies on its own. They call their planes remotely piloted aircraft.) “I don’t have any video games that ask me to sit in one seat for six hours and look at the same target,” said Joshua, a sensor operator who worked at Creech for a decade and is now a trainer at Holloman. “One of the things we try to beat into our crews is that this is a real aircraft with a real human component, and whatever decisions you make, good or bad, there’s going to be actual consequences.” In his 10 years at Creech, he said without elaborating, “I’ve seen some pretty disturbing things.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>drones USAF NYT 2012 robots war</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/21556234">
    <title>Robot ethics: Morals and the machine | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-01T13:38:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/21556234</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>robots ethics technology Economist Tom_Standage 2012 sf</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428402/automate-or-perish/">
    <title>Automate or Perish - Technology Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-06T15:49:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428402/automate-or-perish/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As the MIT economist David Autor has argued, the job market is being "hollowed out." High-wage, high-skill employment is still being created—and so are many poorly compensated service industry jobs for food preparers, home care aides, and others. It's the jobs in the middle that are disappearing: certain clerical, sales, and administrative jobs and some on factory floors. Now a combination of growing computing power and advances in data crunching mean automation is primed to threaten not just tax preparers and travel agents but higher-rung jobs such as those in the medical and legal professions, where software can increasingly do things like analyze images and understand speech more accurately and in more contexts than ever before. Any work that is repetitive or fairly well structured is open to full or partial automation. Being human confers less and less of an advantage these days."]]></description>
<dc:subject>work automation robots employment trends 2012</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://singularityhub.com/2012/06/29/us-navy-x-47b-robot-fighter-jet-completes-first-phase-of-testing/">
    <title>US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing | Singularity Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-30T07:50:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://singularityhub.com/2012/06/29/us-navy-x-47b-robot-fighter-jet-completes-first-phase-of-testing/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/secretive-us-military-space-shuttle">
    <title>Secretive US military space shuttle lands itself at California base | World news | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-17T12:46:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A secretive unmanned US space shuttle landed at a California military base early Saturday, having completed a 15-month clandestine mission. The air force craft, which was launched from Cape Canaveral air force station in Florida in March 2011, conducted in-orbit experiments during its time in space, officials said. It was the second such autonomous landing at the Vandenberg air force base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. In 2010, an identical unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth after seven months and 91m miles in orbit."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predators-and-robots-war/">
    <title>Predators and Robots at War by Christian Caryl | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-13T05:57:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predators-and-robots-war/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The US Air Force now trains more UAV operators each year than traditional pilots.”  via Phil]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/21556234?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/moralsandthemachine">
    <title>Robot ethics: Morals and the machine | The Economist</title>
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    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/21556234?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/moralsandthemachine</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>Economist machines drones robots Asimov ethics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/i-robot.html">
    <title>The Infinite Matrix | Cory Doctorow | I, Robot</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-31T14:08:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/i-robot.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>Cory robots sf 2005</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/machines_pr.html">
    <title>Wired 12.07: Rise of the Machines</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-31T14:05:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/machines_pr.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>Cory Wired 2004 Asimov sf machines robots</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html">
    <title>Famous Movie Robots - Illustrated History of Film Robots</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-23T11:01:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>film cinema robots history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:be391c7d2684/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hypebeast.com/2012/04/marquese-scott-for-irobot-roomba-campaign-video/">
    <title>Marquese Scott for iRobot Roomba Campaign Video | Hypebeast</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-21T10:44:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hypebeast.com/2012/04/marquese-scott-for-irobot-roomba-campaign-video/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>Marquese_Scott robots dance Roomba 2012</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:19520a0e79cd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:dance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Roomba"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers.htm">
    <title>History Making Mobile Robots</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-09T00:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>robots history timeline</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:c59cccd72d0e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://revdancatt.com/2012/04/07/why-the-new-aesthetic-isnt-about-8bit-retro-the-robot-readable-world-computer-vision-and-pirates/">
    <title>Why the New Aesthetic isn’t about 8bit retro, the Robot Readable World, computer vision and pirates |</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-07T23:25:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://revdancatt.com/2012/04/07/why-the-new-aesthetic-isnt-about-8bit-retro-the-robot-readable-world-computer-vision-and-pirates/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The first part of NA I’ve been paying attention to has been the examples of this spilling out, the bits of the city not meant for us. The second part of NA I paid attention to was what happened when artists began to deconstruct and respond to that encroachment, how can designing for robots influence our own design?" "current computer vision can probably “see” computer graphics from around 20-30 years ago. Which in turn means to design for machine eyes we need to be at the level of computer graphics from the 8bit era, and so we have QR codes all over the place. … NA is about what machines can see now, rather than what they could produce back then, it’s just that vision is 20-30 years behind creation and so there are many similarities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Dan_Catt design robots new_aesthetic 2012</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://trujillodiego.com/work/withrobots.html">
    <title>With Robots</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-07T23:23:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://trujillodiego.com/work/withrobots.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One common argument for humanoid robots is that as our homes are based around the scale and form of humans it is logical that robots operating in this space should be based on the same form. With Robots approaches the issue from an alternative perspective looking at how our homes and objects might change in order to accommodate the needs of robots. The changes on the objects were designed thinking on the tasks domestic robots will be doing such as folding bed sheets, setting the table, washing, cooking and learning to interact with the 3D world. The photographs presented also aim to capture the atmosphere generated by the adoption of these objects."]]></description>
<dc:subject>robots design 2011</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:acafaa78ee9d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/welcome-to-the-real-future-labor-bots-and-pothole-filling-machines/254756/">
    <title>Welcome to the Real Future: Labor Bots and Pothole-Filling Machines - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-20T19:45:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/welcome-to-the-real-future-labor-bots-and-pothole-filling-machines/254756/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["one of the metaphors for what our future is going to look like: a bewildered human stands in the dark as hundreds of quiet robots route around him doing all the work. And a marketer looks on."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Alexis_Madrigal 2012 robots bots work employment</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:0572111a1fbf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215155309.htm">
    <title>In New Mass-Production Technique, Robotic Insects Spring to Life</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-19T08:34:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215155309.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>bots robots make 2012 origami Mobee drones</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:d83ef4da085f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:make"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:origami"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Mobee"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/01/15/the-ethnography-of-robots/">
    <title>The ethnography of robots | Ethnography Matters</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-11T16:53:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/01/15/the-ethnography-of-robots/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["there is a very deeply-rooted assumption that humans have some innate, unique qualities that distinguish us from not only mere matter but other animals as well. … once we show that life is not a necessary criterion for this thing called culture, then the fun really begins — and you can see why lots of people would oppose this. … I keep returning to this quote from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus on music: “Of course, as Messiaen says, music is not the privilege of human beings: the universe, the cosmos, is made of refrains … The question is more what is not musical in human beings, and what is already musical in nature. Moreover, what Messiaen discovered in music is the same thing ethnologists discovered in animals: human beings are hardly at an advantage, except in the means of overcoding, of making punctual systems.” Music is but one of many domains that is typically seen as inherently social and therefore uniquely human, and the anthropocentric perspective tends to reduce everything to how it functions in the human experiential frame. And on a side note, this is why I’m so excited by Ian Bogost’s upcoming book “Alien Phenomenology: Or What It’s Like To Be A Thing” … Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm. This is probably what fascinates me most"]]></description>
<dc:subject>robots ethnography culture 2012 agency agents actor-network_theory life Stuart_Geiger</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:2012"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:actor-network_theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:life"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://booktwo.org/notebook/a-ship-adrift/">
    <title>A Ship Adrift | booktwo.org</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-09T10:02:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://booktwo.org/notebook/a-ship-adrift/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We live in a world that is increasingly coded, that is, it exists as a composite of physical space and language and software, a strange hybridity that I have been trying to articulate in the New Aesthetic that others have been pointing at too, in Kevin Slavin’s algotremors, in BERG’s robot-readable world, in Timo‘s beautifully compelling compilation of machine visions … I’ve been talking about the fact that the best arrangements for our most complex spaces rely on a highly specialised cooperation between humans and intelligent agents, and the fact that the best chess is not played by computers against humans—they outstripped us long ago—but by teams of computers and humans. Twenty-two of the top thirty Wikipedia editors are bots. Knowledge and literature are coded spaces too. Stuart Geiger puts this succinctly: “a non-vitalistic ethnography: an account of a culture devoid of life. Like with Latour and agency, once we show that life is not a necessary criterion for this thing called culture, then the fun really begins.” This is why I am increasingly pro-Artificial Life. … I want to build a system for cooperating with software and chance."]]></description>
<dc:subject>James_Bridle bots robots agents code 2012 culture Wikipedia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/01/14/machine-pareidolia-hello-little-fella-meets-facetracker/">
    <title>Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella Meets FaceTracker | Ideas For Dozens</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-14T17:36:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/01/14/machine-pareidolia-hello-little-fella-meets-facetracker/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the more of these I saw, the more the effect started to feel truly other: like a coherent, but alien idea of what faces were. It made me wonder what I was missing. “What is it seeing there?” It’s a feeling akin to having a conversation with someone who’s gradually losing interest in what you’re saying and starting to scan the room over your shoulder." via Matt (Twitter)]]></description>
<dc:subject>pareidolia robots faces alien Other perception 2012 Uncanny_Valley uncanny vision machines Matt_Jones</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7166385cdbfc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/texas-county-police-buys-drone-can-carry-weapons">
    <title>Texas county police buys drone that can carry weapons | Homeland Security News Wire</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-04T10:46:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/texas-county-police-buys-drone-can-carry-weapons</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>drones police robots 2011 USA</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html">
    <title>THE ROBOT AND THE BABY</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-04T06:58:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>John_McCarthy sf robots AI 2001</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/09/22/clocks-for-robots/">
    <title>Product sketch: Clocks for Robots – Blog – BERG</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-22T20:06:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/09/22/clocks-for-robots/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Line of sight to our clock now gives us a ‘trusted’ or ‘authenticated’ place. A human-legible sense of place is matched to what the phone ‘sees’. What if digital authentication/trust was achieved through more human scale systems? … Timo again: "In the film there is an app that looks at the world but doesn’t represent itself as a camera (very different from most barcode readers for instance, that are always about looking through the device’s camera). I’d like to see more exploration of computer vision that wasn’t about looking through a camera, but about our devices interpreting the world and relaying that back to us in simple ways." … We’re curious as to what might happen if you start to use these dynamic signs for computer vision"]]></description>
<dc:subject>BERG place QR_codes 2011 clock bots robots spimes</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-readable-world/">
    <title>The Robot-Readable World/Antiflage – Blog – BERG</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-03T21:01:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-readable-world/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Computer vision is a deep, dark specialism with strange opportunities and constraints. The signals that we design towards robots might be both simpler and more sophisticated than QR codes or other 2d barcodes. … Living in the middle means that our limited human sensoriums and their specialised, superhuman robotic senses will overlap, combine and contrast. Wavelengths we can’t see can be overlaid on those we can – creating messages for both of us. … the opposite of camouflage – the markings and shapes that attract and beguile robot eyes that see differently to us – just as Dawkins describes the strategies that flowers and plants have built up over evolutionary time to attract and beguile bees, hummingbirds – and exist in a layer of reality complimentary to that which we humans sense and are beguiled by. And I guess that’s the recurring theme here – that these layers might not be hidden from us just by dint of their encoding, but by the fact that we don’t have the senses to detect them without technological-enhancement. …  it is a phenomena to design for, and with. It’s something we will invent, within the frame of the cultural and technical pressures that force design to evolve. … we’re the ones making the robots, shaping their senses, and the objects and environments they relate to. … The Robot-Readable World is pre-Cambrian at the moment, but perhaps in a blink of an eye it will be all around us."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Matt_Jones 2011 BERG senses perception robots AI future near_future</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:AI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:future"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/06/the-smell-of-control.php">
    <title>The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust - we make money not art</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-04T09:44:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/06/the-smell-of-control.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The designers of android robots we see being developed today have concentrated on humanising them with very broad and obvious qualities; fleshy skin, bright eyes and teeth, with clothing covering everything else. I am interested it how the more complex and private parts of the human body would be translated onto the robot. These are the parts that we ourselves sometimes find disgusting but yet are integral to our humanity. I like to beguile the viewer from a distance drawing them in to the imagery to appreciate the detail only to disgust them as they draw closer. Conceptually I mirror this approach too, whereas initially the ideas I present seem innocent and functional, as the viewer learns more an underlying darkness becomes apparent. … While there has been some research into chemical communication between robots and also into developing a robotic sense of smell, there is very little inquiry into the use of smell or chemicals in human-robot interaction."]]></description>
<dc:subject>robots smell senses HCI 2011 RCA</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:ecfdd008c702/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:HCI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:2011"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://infovore.org/archives/2011/06/12/wheres-towerbridge/">
    <title>Infovore » Where’s @towerbridge?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-12T17:17:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://infovore.org/archives/2011/06/12/wheres-towerbridge/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Cool URLs don’t change, and these have just gone. And in their place: marketing. I’ve never pretended to be an official account; I’ve never dissimulated; no-one from the exhibition has ever got in touch with me about the bot. So, for the time being: this is why the bot has disappeared. I’m very, very cross, and perhaps a little upset; the robots are our friends, after all."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Tom_Armitage London Tower_Bridge Twitter URLs permalinks preservation robots bots 2011</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:4066fe8ea5d9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:London"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Tower_Bridge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:URLs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:permalinks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:preservation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:bots"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://booktwo.org/notebook/books-computational-value/">
    <title>Regarding the library with envious eyes | booktwo.org</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-24T22:09:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://booktwo.org/notebook/books-computational-value/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The value of books to Google is not like the value of books to a library, it is like the value of books to people, who might understand them and act on that understanding. We should be asking about the algorithms which are being developed not for search but for understanding, the value of n-grams and the capabilities of financial news-readers and recommendation engines. What does a book look like to a machine?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>James_Bridle 2011 books digitisation Google Google_Book_Search algorithms machines robots</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:449658c2508b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:digitisation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Google_Book_Search"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:machines"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://infovore.org/archives/2011/05/21/waving-at-the-machines/">
    <title>Infovore » Waving at the Machines</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-22T10:56:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://infovore.org/archives/2011/05/21/waving-at-the-machines/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""these days I find myself unconsciously walking behind rather than in front of people so as not to obstruct some invisible field of view." … If the robot-read world becomes part of the vernacular, then it’s going to affect behaviours and norms, as well as more visual components of aesthetics. That single line in the Kinect QA tester’s blogpost made me realise: it’s already arriving."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Tom_Armitage 2011 robots behaviour Kinect</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:f05732995c4c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385530,00.asp">
    <title>Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language - Technology News by ExtremeTech</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-18T18:11:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385530,00.asp</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>robotics robots Australia language 2011</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:a863bf64f337/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Australia"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/lingodroid-robots-invent-their-own-spoken-language">
    <title>Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language - IEEE Spectrum</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-18T18:10:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/lingodroid-robots-invent-their-own-spoken-language</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>robotics robots Australia language 2011</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:dc727e5de1c0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Australia"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itee.uq.edu.au/~ruth/Lingodroids.htm">
    <title>Lingodroids</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-18T18:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itee.uq.edu.au/~ruth/Lingodroids.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lingodroids are language learning robots that play location language games to construct shared lexicons for places, distances, and directions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>robotics robots Australia language</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:5ebc747405ad/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Australia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:language"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itee.uq.edu.au/~ruth/">
    <title>Ruth Schulz</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-18T18:09:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itee.uq.edu.au/~ruth/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><dc:subject>robotics robots Australia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7caf849e294d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/03/does-moores-law-suddenly-matter-less.html">
    <title>Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less? The robots are coming.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-08T19:23:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/03/does-moores-law-suddenly-matter-less.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["there’s a much faster rate of advancement on the software layer. And if this is true it has broad impacts for computing, and computing enabled society, as a whole. … The hardware is rapidly becoming an abstraction in a lot of cases. … Our friend the cloud is making this an even more dramatic separation as hardware resources become elastic, dynamic, and much easier for the software layer folks to deploy and use. And, as a result, there’s a different type of activity on the software layer. I don’t have a good answer as to whether it’s core algorithms, distributed processing across commodity hardware (instead of dedicated Connection Machines), new structural approaches (e.g. NoSql), or just the compounding of years of computer science and software engineering, but I think we are at the cusp of a profound shift in overall system performance"]]></description>
<dc:subject>Moore's_Law 2011 cloud-computing robots AI technology software performance algorithms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:2ea4ed83c10b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:2011"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:cloud-computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:AI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:performance"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/02/18/artificial-empathy/">
    <title>Artificial Empathy – Blog – BERG</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-22T21:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/02/18/artificial-empathy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Again like Boxcar2d, we do the work, we ascribe hurt and pain to something that absolutely cannot be proven to experience it – and we are changed. So – we are the emotional computing power in these relationships – as LIREC and Alex are exploring – and perhaps we should design our robotic companions accordingly. Or perhaps we let this new nature condition us – and we head into a messy few decades of accelerated domestication and renegotiation of what we love – and what we think loves us back."]]></description>
<dc:subject>empathy emotion robots AI UX 2011 Matt_Jones machines dogs</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:7f9629a78a50/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:AI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:UX"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:2011"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Matt_Jones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:machines"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://interconnected.org/home/2011/01/28/furby_and_the_fourth_kingdom">
    <title>furby and the fourth kingdom (28 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-28T17:09:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://interconnected.org/home/2011/01/28/furby_and_the_fourth_kingdom</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The third kingdom is corporations. The philosopher Manual DeLanda, in A New Philosophy of Society, diagrams societies at multiple levels: social networks, organisations and governments, cities and nations. His book is a zoo of these inhuman macro buckyballs. Such massive animals have flows of money, power, and people instead of blood and nerves. In Platform for Change, Stafford Beer outlined the intrinsic behaviour of corporations: that they have a desire to continue their existence, and this dominates their response to stimuli. At the very smallest, cellular level, organisations are small groups of people, and their actions are dominated by group psychology -- at a national and planetary scale, economics. But cities and corporations cannot be understood in the same terms as dumb matter or organic life, so that's why they're the third of my kingdoms of nature." "Polite robots would be the best! But I don't think we get to choose. Polite robots would be lovely. But the nature of the fourth kingdom - their equivalent of evolution - is that they reproduce in the sales figures of technology corporations and the womb-factories of China. The testes of robots are the shelves of Toys-R-Us. Humans don't get to choose the personality of robots, the market does."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Matt_Webb robots organisations groups 2011 behaviour politeness corporations BASAAP</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:44ca0095d48a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:Matt_Webb"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:organisations"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/t:politeness"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/04/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2010/">
    <title>A Review of the Best Robots of 2010 | Singularity Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-08T23:58:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/04/a-review-of-the-best-robots-of-2010/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via Matt]]></description>
<dc:subject>robots robotics 2011</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:3bb8f521fc18/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/17519716?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Far%2Funcannyrobotics">
    <title>Animation and robotics: Crossing the uncanny valley | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-24T19:55:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/17519716?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Far%2Funcannyrobotics</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dr Mori’s ideas of familiarity and comfort level do not properly get at the quality of uncanniness. … the researchers eventually lighted on 19 that described aspects of four underlying qualities that they dub attractiveness, eeriness, humanness and warmth. … all four are important qualities for designers. A robot that exhibits warmth and attractiveness will be easier to interact with than one that looks cold and ugly. Only two of them, however, are needed to explain the uncanny valley … humanness and eeriness. Eeriness is not quite the same thing as comfort level, likeability or even strangeness. Levels of eeriness were indicated by eight descriptive scales, including “ordinary/supernatural”, “boring/shocking” and “uninspiring/spine-tingling”. By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontal axis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman … can recreate Dr Mori’s chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Economist 2010 robots uncanny</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:e2c8d1ed474c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/04/b-a-s-a-a-p/">
    <title>B.A.S.A.A.P. — Non-human actors in our home, that we’ve selected personally and culturally. – Blog – BERG</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-21T20:18:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/04/b-a-s-a-a-p/</link>
    <dc:creator>Preoccupations</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Be As Smart As A Puppy … and for want of a better term, consumer-grade artificial intelligence. BASAAP is my way of thinking about avoiding the ‘uncanny valley‘ in such things… Making smart things that don’t try to be too smart and fail, and indeed, by design, make endearing failures in their attempts to learn and improve. Like puppies. … the algorithms involved are old. It’s just that the data and the processing power is there now to actually get to results. … BASAAP services are here. BASAAP things are on the horizon. … we’re talking about things that change their behaviour based on their environment and their interactions with us, and that have a certain mobility and agency in our world. … staying on the puppy side of the uncanny valley is a design strategy here – as is the guidance within Adam Greenfield’s “Everyware”: how to think of design for ubiquitous systems that behave as sensing, learning actors in contexts beyond the screen." "What is this going to feel like?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>AI interfaces Matt_Jones BERG 2010 design UI ubicomp everyware uncanny machinelearning robots BASAAP</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Preoccupations/b:3c1a13257090/</dc:identifier>
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