Archives > 2006-01

Special Section: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues Associated with Virtual Environments and Computer Mediated Reality Articles Sousveillance and Cyborglogs: A 30-Year Empirical Voyage through Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues Steve Mann Buddy Bots: How Turing's Fast Friends are Undermining Consumer Privacy Ian R. Kerr and Marcus Bornfreund The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation Luciano Floridi Some Practical Considerations of Ethical Issues in VR Research Katharina-Maria Behr, Andreas Nosper, Christoph Klimmt and Tilo...

Via Boing-Boing For nearly two decades Eduardo Kac has been at the cutting edge of media art, first inventing early online artworks for the web and continuously developing new art forms that involve telecommunications and robotics as a new platform for art. Interest in telepresence, also known as telerobotics, exploded in the 1990s, and remains an important development in media art. Since...

Via Washington University in St Luis A study by Daniel Moran and coll. has focused on studying perception and playing visual tricks on macaque monkeys and some human subjects. These scholars...

Effect of tutorial input in addition to augmented feedback on manual dexterity training and its retention. Eur J Dent Educ. 2006 Feb;10(1):24-31 Authors: Wierinck E, Puttemans V, van...

Meditation therapy for anxiety disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;(1):CD004998 Authors: Krisanaprakornkit T, Krisanaprakornkit W, Piyavhatkul N, Laopaiboon M BACKGROUND: Anxiety...