By saraht, on November 6th, 2009
I just found this interview with Tom Boellstorff, the author of ‘Coming of Age in Second Life’. One part of the interview stood out to me as I am struggling to come to terms with the virtual ethnography project. I am finding the ethnography a very partial piece of research as I am not including any of the participants’ [...]
By saraht, on November 5th, 2009
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Ted Talks – David Hanson on ‘Robots that Share Emotion’
Danson is working on robots that can build relationships with people by showing empathy via recognising and mimicking facial expressions. He calls this area of study ‘character robotics’. It seems that he has already developed a ’spokesbot’ for the animatronic/robotic community.