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RFCs, MOOs, LMSs: Assorted Educational Devices\ud
Get PDFThis paper discusses implicit social consequences of four basic internet protocols. The results are then related to the field of computer-assisted teaching. An educational on-line community is described and compared to the emerging standard of web-based learning management.\u
Spartan Daily, February 22, 1993
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Embalmed|Unembalmed: the problems of the lived event within media studies 2.0
Get PDFMedia Studies 2.0 seeks to rewire the discipline of media studies from prevailing notions of
aggregate third-person, top-down or imposed identities (as found within the domain of industrial mass
communications media) toward what it sees as the communication of new bottom-up, first-person or
singular reflexive identities favored within the post-fordist, post-industrial spaces of the internet, social
networking sites, second life-like domains and computer game spaces. This article will point toward
many of the hidden, though still important, intersections between these two supposedly separate
conceptions through the use of a case study that throws notions of clean “communication” into question.
From this it will go on to argue for a recognition of such new media spaces as better conceptualized
through Batailleʼs notion of ʻGeneral Economyʼ and Derridaʼs notion of ʻUndecidabilityʼ, as dually taken
forward in the work of Arkady Plotnitsky. The conclusion? Far from modern teletechnologies offering a
new sense of micro-community or as channels of individual self-expression (a new Rousseauian or
McLuhanesque global village of intimate contact), these emergent teletechnologies serve to further
displace or undecide the locus of any signature context of communication, which this article takes as a
cause for celebration
Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech
Get PDF© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is through the use of a tele-operated humanoid robot avatar. Such avatars have been previously shown to enhance social presence and operator salience. We present a motion tracking based tele-operation system for the NAO robot platform that allows direct transmission of speech and gestures produced by the operator. To assess the capabilities of this system for transmitting multi-modal communication, we have conducted a user study that investigated if robot-produced iconic gestures are comprehensible, and are integrated with speech. Robot performed gesture outcomes were compared directly to those for gestures produced by a human actor, using a within participant experimental design. We show that iconic gestures produced by a tele-operated robot are understood by participants when presented alone, almost as well as when produced by a human. More importantly, we show that gestures are integrated with speech when presented as part of a multi-modal communication equally well for human and robot performances
EU–originated MOOCs, with focus on multi- and single-institution platforms
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