Sterben und Musik im frühen 17. Jahrhundert

'In fast allen Phasen des Sterbens und Bestattens in deutschen protestantischen Landen zwischen 1600 und 1650 erklang Musik. Welche Funktion nimmt sie ein? Welche Personen musizierten in welchen Phasen welche Musik? Anhand dieser Fragen werden soziale, theologische und musikalische Sinnstrukturen des protestantischen Sterberituals rekonstruiert. Als zentral erweist sich dabei die lutherische Überzeugung, dass der Sterbevorgang keinen Einfluss auf den Heilsstand des Sterbenden hat. Daher ist die Bestattung im lutherischen Verständnis prinzipiell eine säkulare Veranstaltung, wenn auch unter Mitwirkung der Kirche. Das hat Auswirkungen auf die Auswahl der Sterbelieder, auf die gedichteten Trauertexte und auf die komponierte Musik. Impliziter Adressat der erklingenden Musik ist nicht der Verstorbene, auch nicht Gott, sondern die Gemeinschaft der Hinterbliebenen.' (Autorenreferat)'Almost every phase of dying and burial in German protestant states between 1600 and 1650 was accompanied by music. Which function does music take up? Who played what kind of music in which phase? Along these questions, social, theological, and musical structures of sense of the protestant burial will be reconstructed. It turns out that the Lutheran belief is crucial that the circumstances of dying have no impact on the salvation of the dying person. So the burial, in Lutheran understanding, is a basically secular event, however with participation of the church. This causes consequences for the choice of songs, for the writing of funeral poets and the composing of funeral music. The implicit addressee of funeral music is nor the deceased nor god, but the community of the dependents.' (author's abstract

BlueSky: Combining Task Planning and Activity-Centric Access Control for Assistive Humanoid Robots

In the not too distant future, assistive humanoid robots will provide versatile assistance for coping with everyday life. In their interactions with humans, not only safety, but also security and privacy issues need to be considered. In this Blue Sky paper, we therefore argue that it is time to bring task planning and execution as a well-established field of robotics with access and usage control in the field of security and privacy closer together. In particular, the recently proposed activity-based view on access and usage control provides a promising approach to bridge the gap between these two perspectives. We argue that humanoid robots provide for specific challenges due to their task-universality and their use in both, private and public spaces. Furthermore, they are socially connected to various parties and require policy creation at runtime due to learning. We contribute first attempts on the architecture and enforcement layer as well as on joint modeling, and discuss challenges and a research roadmap also for the policy and objectives layer. We conclude that the underlying combination of decentralized systems\u27 and smart environments\u27 research aspects provides for a rich source of challenges that need to be addressed on the road to deployment