scholarly journals Dialogues with the Machine, or Ruins of Closure and Control in Interactive Digital Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Hoydis
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Gaze Detection ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Digital Narratives ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Patterns And Processes ◽  
And Control

The interrelations between literary studies, and posthumanism deserve attention beyond the focus on the representation of posthuman identities on the story level. To explore these, this article looks at examples of interactive digital narratives (IDN): Bandersnatch (2018), a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’-type instalment of Netflix’s dystopian SF-anthology series Black Mirror, the short film The Angry River (2017), which employs gaze-detection technology to determine what viewers get to see, and the serious multi-platform videogame The Climate Trail (2019), specifically designed to move players ‘into action’. Straddling the border between ludology and narrative to varying degrees, all offer the chance of ‘do overs’ and the exploration of complex patterns and processes. They raise questions about the co-production of pre-scripted meanings, about authorial and reader agency, conceptions of control, closure, and narrative (un)reliability. Thus, this article argues, they challenge ideas about the potential of narratives in and beyond posthuman digital environments.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Visitors’ Experience at Kuching Orchid Garden with Mobile Guide Application

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Kamal Othman ◽  
Khairul Izham Idris ◽  
Shaziti Aman ◽  
Prashanth Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
And Control

This empirical study was conducted to measure visitors’ experiences with a mobile guide application at Kuching Orchid Garden (KOG). A between-group experimental design with 114 participants was conducted to test three groups;(1)a group using the mobile guide application as an information aid,(2)a control group (with no information aid), and(3)a group using pamphlets to explore the KOG. The Museum Experience Scale (MES) was used to evaluate visitors’ experience for all participants, whilst the Multimedia Guide Scale (MMGS) was used to evaluate the visitors’ experience with the mobile guide group. The most notable result from the Museum Experience Scale (MES) showed an impact on the visitors in terms of knowledge and learning when using the mobile guide application. However, the study found that enhancing visitors experience goes beyond simply providing interactive technologies in public settings to aid with information delivery. A limitation was providing relevant information in a timely and seamless manner due to inaccuracies of mapping between physical and digital environments. Future works should consider beacons and other Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology to address the issues with location based devices. It is also important to highlight that the use of one’s own device had a significant impact on learnability and control of the device, thus suggesting that the BYOD concept should be widely used in informal educational settings implementing mobile guide applications. The use of MES and MMGS informs future researches with an understanding of the different dimensions of visitors’ experiences with mobile guide technology in public spaces to inform mobile application development that may further boost visitors’ engagement, emotional connection, and meaningful experience.

scholarly journals VIRTUAL TOURS AND INFORMATIONAL MODELS FOR IMPROVING TERRITORIAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND THE SMART MANAGEMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: THE 3D-IMP-ACT PROJECT

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 473-480
Author(s):  
M. De Fino ◽  
C. Ceppi ◽  
F. Fatiguso
Keyword(s):  
3D Models ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Multimedia Contents ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Technical Assessment ◽  
Photorealistic Models ◽  
And Control ◽  
Development And Management

Abstract. The promotion and dissemination of architectural heritage for cultural enhancement and touristic enjoyment are increasingly focused on innovative ICTs, including 3D Geographic Information Systems, photorealistic models and scenes, and VR/AR immersive digital environments, which enable the interaction of visitors with a variety of informational contents, both educational and specialist. Within the above-mentioned framework, this paper will firstly outline the general objectives of the project “3D-IMP-ACT”, which has been funded under the international cooperation programme IPA CBC Interreg Italy-Albania-Montenegro. In this research, some ICT tools are tested and validated to create “virtual networks” of international ancient architectures and sites, based on the identification of “physical networks” of common historic, environmental and technical characteristics and infrastructural connections, in order to address coordinated strategies and transversal policies for development and management. Then, the paper will describe and discuss some results from the design and implementation of the project WebGIS system, which integrates virtual tours of 360° panoramas, 3D models from photomodelling of pictures taken by drones, multimedia contents, and 2D/3D historic evolution schemes within a single platform, where the users are supported in recognizing and exploring the tangible and intangible correspondences among the project pilot-cases. In conclusion, some remarks will be proposed on the potential benefits of the platform as an expert system which supports the technical assessment and control of architectural heritage toward maintenance, refurbishment and conservation.

scholarly journals From the Editor

Projections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Fractal Structures ◽  
Shot Duration ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Formal Features

Welcome to the first issue of our first three-issue volume of Projections. We begin this issue with a truly exciting collaboration between a filmmaker (and scholar), Karen Pearlman, and a psychologist, James E. Cutting. Cutting and Pearlman analyze a number of formal features, including shot duration, across successive cuts of Pearlman’s 2016 short film, Woman with an Editing Bench. They find that the intuitive revisions that Pearlman made actually track a progression toward fractal structures – complex patterns that also happen to mark three central pulses of human existence (heartbeat, breathing, walking).

Democracy for Profit?

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-176
Author(s):  
Jennifer Forestal
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Politics ◽  
For Profit ◽  
User Control ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Algorithmic Design ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
And Control

This chapter evaluates Facebook and Twitter’s algorithms using the framework of democratic space. Prominent critiques highlight their opacity and users’ lack of control; tools like Gobo “fix” these algorithms by increasing their flexibility. But while these solutions might cede more control to individual users, they are insufficient for building democratic communities; the more pressing concern for both Facebook and Twitter is their lack of clear boundaries, which undermines users’ ability to recognize their communities. The chapter concludes by showing how we might “democratize” these algorithms in ways that not only increase user control over their digital environments and the algorithms that structure them, but also help to generate and sustain the communities required to exert that control democratically. Ultimately, the chapter argues that questions of ownership and control must be placed alongside considerations about the communal effects of algorithmic design if we are to build environments supportive of democratic politics.

Exploration of Specialty Talents Training Program for Measuring and Control Technology and Instrumentation with the Core Features of Detection Technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 606-610
Author(s):  
Yang Yu ◽  
Hai Feng Sang ◽  
Dan Ping Jia
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Visual Inspection ◽  
Control Technology ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Professional Characteristics ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
And Control ◽  
Education Transformation ◽  
Core Features

Eleven instrumentations professional was integrated to measuring & control technology and instrumentation specialties in 1998, and its professional connotation is widely. During the elite education transformation to mass education, how to change education idea and cultivating talents are the most important. Discipline superiority had been fully utilized to outstanding "pipeline inner detection technology "and "visual inspection technology" characteristic and the detection technology was used as the core features. A series of reforms has been processing from course system refined to the specialty profession construction and students' practical ability training in order to form the professional characteristics.

Trematode behaviours and the perceptual worlds of parasites

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
M V.K Sukhdeo ◽  
S C Sukhdeo
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Host Finding ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Neuromuscular Systems ◽  
Innate Behaviour ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Patterns And Processes ◽  
Trematode Parasites

There is a great deal of empirical data and theoretical predictions on the patterns and processes of trematode behaviour, particularly in relation to host-finding activities by the free-living stages and site-finding migrations by the parasitic stages within their hosts. Ecological and evolutionary models of trematode life histories often make explicit assumptions about how these organisms must perceive and respond to signals in their worlds as they move from host to host and as they parasitize each host. Nevertheless, it is unclear how natural selection shapes the parasites' behavioural strategies. In addition, at each stage in their life cycle, trematodes are adorned with elaborate sensory organs and possess sophisticated neuromuscular systems, but it is not clear how they use these complex machinery to perceive their worlds. The purpose of this review is to address this question through insights gathered from a century of research on trematode behaviour. Core theoretical assumptions from modern animal behaviour are used to provide the context for this analysis; a key concept is that all animals have unique perceptual worlds that may be inferred from their behaviours. A critical idea is that all animals possess complex patterns of innate behaviour which can be released by extremely specific signals from the environment. The evidence suggests that trematode parasites live in ecologically predictable aquatic and internal host environments where they perceive only small subsets of the total information available from the environment. A general conclusion is that host finding in miracidia and cercaria, and site-finding by trematodes migrating within their definitive hosts, is accomplished through the release of innate patterns of behaviours which are adaptive within the context of conditions in the worm's environment. Examples from empirical studies are used to support the contention that, despite the apparent complexity of their free-living and parasitic environments, the perceptual worlds of trematodes are impoverished, and complex patterns of behaviour may be released by only a few signals in their environment.

Studies on the Efficiency of the CFG Pile-Net Reinforcement in the Soft Soil Subgrade

2011 ◽  
Vol 94-96 ◽  
pp. 2222-2225
Author(s):  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Zhao Yi Xu ◽  
Zhi Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Test Section ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Quality Detection ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Practical Engineering ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cfg Pile

Combined with Wuhan test section of Wuhan-Guangzhou passenger special line, proportioning of mixtures、integrity of pile、bearing capacity and cushion of CFG pile detection technology were studied in this paper. The systematic and perfect methods of quality detection and control standard have been put forward. It provide useful reference for practical engineering．

Precision Temperature Sensor Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 823 ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Yong Juan Meng ◽  
Hong An Guo
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Temperature Sensor ◽  
Temperature Compensation ◽  
Photovoltaic Cells ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Photoelectric Detection ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Precision Temperature ◽  
Temperature Signal ◽  
And Control

In the photoelectric detection technology,Often encountered in the detection and control of temperature.If the use of photovoltaic cells,Photoresistor,When the photodiode as a measurement of original,Because temperature of the light current or sensitive resistor, Therefore, if the requirements of high accuracy,Need to build circuit for temperature compensation on many occasions,For temperature control,Or independent testing to the temperature signal into the microcontroller,Through the system mathematical model associated with the temperature and temperature compensation of software,The last one is common ways.

scholarly journals Research on Interactive Routing of Cable in Virtual Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Bi-le WAN ◽  
Wen-xing HE ◽  
Chang-yu CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Control Point ◽  
Modeling Method ◽  
Shape Modeling ◽  
Discrete Control ◽  
Interference Detection ◽  
Matrix Modeling ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
And Control ◽  
Statistical Summary

On the basis of analyzing the defects of existing design methods of cable wiring, the feasibility of interactive cabling design in virtual environment is pointed out. Based on the discrete control point, the geometric shape modeling method and the topological structure matrix modeling method based on the wire unit are presented. Adopt the method of real-time interactive cable modeling and wiring, explains the wiring process and control point positioning technology, and through the stratified multistage collision interference detection technology improve the authenticity of the wiring process and results. After the wiring design is completed, the statistical summary of the model information is compiled to generate various inventory reports to guide the actual production.

scholarly journals Information Spread of Emergency Events: Path Searching on Social Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihui Dai ◽  
Hongzhi Hu ◽  
Tunan Wu ◽  
Yonghui Dai
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Information Spread ◽  
Spread Pattern ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
Emergency Events ◽  
And Control

Emergency has attracted global attentions of government and the public, and it will easily trigger a series of serious social problems if it is not supervised effectively in the dissemination process. In the Internet world, people communicate with each other and form various virtual communities based on social networks, which lead to a complex and fast information spread pattern of emergency events. This paper collects Internet data based on data acquisition and topic detection technology, analyzes the process of information spread on social networks, describes the diffusions and impacts of that information from the perspective of random graph, and finally seeks the key paths through an improved IBF algorithm. Application cases have shown that this algorithm can search the shortest spread paths efficiently, which may help us to guide and control the information dissemination of emergency events on early warning.

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