: This article examines information theory from the aspect of its "conduit metaphor." A historical approach and a close reading of certain texts by Warren Weaver and Nor...
The abundance of complex media-rich information in state-of-the-art bio-medical sciences underlines the importance of paradigms for organizing, searching, browsing, and assimilati...
Identifying verbally and non-verbally referred-to objects is an important aspect of human-robot interaction. Most importantly, it is essential to achieve a joint focus of attentio...
Domain specific information retrieval has become in demand. Not only domain experts, but also average non-expert users are interested in searching domain specific (e.g., medical a...
The ability to learn is a potentially compelling and important quality for interactive synthetic characters. To that end, we describe a practical approach to real-time learning fo...
Bruce Blumberg, Marc Downie, Yuri A. Ivanov, Matt ...