Creating Action Space

Author : Aharon Kellerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781317656289

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The Internet as Second Action Space by Aharon Kellerman Pdf

One of the most significant and important advancements in information and communication technology over the past 20 years is the introduction and expansion of the Internet. Now almost universally available, the Internet brings us email, global voice and video communications, research repositories, reference libraries, and almost unlimited opportunities for daily activities. Bridging geographical distances in unprecedented ways, the Internet has impacted all aspects of our daily lives – from facilitating the running of businesses, the attainment of services and keeping in touch with friends and family. Accessible at any time and for many of us from our mobile phones, the Internet has opened up a world of knowledge and communication platforms that we cannot now imagine living without. This book explores the concept that the Internet has become a second action space for individuals. Coexisting with traditional and "obvious" real space, the Internet serves as a novel spatial platform and action space to its subscribers all over the world. Kellerman expertly discusses this notion and examines the practical integration of cyberspace with real space. Part I examines the Internet as a platform for action and presents its relations with physical space concerning a range of uses and applications which were traditionally performed in physical space only. It discusses the idea that the Internet has become a second space and explores theoretical perspectives surrounding this notion. The Internet has undeniably made humankind more efficient and connected. Part II explores the Internet as an action space for human life, considering basic human needs, curiosity, identity and social relations. It further considers instances whereby use and application of the Internet cannot be fully performed in real space, mainly regarding people’s presentation of identity. Part III explores daily actions over the Internet, such as work, shopping, banking and social interactions. Kellerman also briefly touches on the darker aspects that the expansion of the Internet has made possible – including its role in fraud and other crimes. The concluding chapter discusses people living across the two spaces and identifies potential future developments. The Internet as Second Actions Space will appeal to students across the social sciences, in particular those studying Geography, Sociology, Media Studies, Internet Studies, Business and related disciplines.

Author : Luisa Feiersinger,Kathrin Friedrich,Moritz Queisner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110464979

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Image – Action – Space by Luisa Feiersinger,Kathrin Friedrich,Moritz Queisner Pdf

Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems and virtual reality applications merge images and operations. They turn viewing first and foremost into using and reflect the turn towards an active role of the image in guiding a user’s action and perception. From professional environments to everyday life multiple configurations of screens organise working routines, structure interaction, and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines the linking of screen, space, and operation in fields such as remote navigation, architecture, medicine, interface design, and film production asking how the interaction with and through screens structures their users’ action and perception.

Author : Richard W. Morris,Aaron Bornstein,Amitai Shenhav
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128120996

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Goal-Directed Decision Making by Richard W. Morris,Aaron Bornstein,Amitai Shenhav Pdf

Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits examines the role of goal-directed choice. It begins with an examination of the computations performed by associated circuits, but then moves on to in-depth examinations on how goal-directed learning interacts with other forms of choice and response selection. This is the only book that embraces the multidisciplinary nature of this area of decision-making, integrating our knowledge of goal-directed decision-making from basic, computational, clinical, and ethology research into a single resource that is invaluable for neuroscientists, psychologists and computer scientists alike. The book presents discussions on the broader field of decision-making and how it has expanded to incorporate ideas related to flexible behaviors, such as cognitive control, economic choice, and Bayesian inference, as well as the influences that motivation, context and cues have on behavior and decision-making. Details the neural circuits functionally involved in goal-directed decision-making and the computations these circuits perform Discusses changes in goal-directed decision-making spurred by development and disorders, and within real-world applications, including social contexts and addiction Synthesizes neuroscience, psychology and computer science research to offer a unique perspective on the central and emerging issues in goal-directed decision-making

Author : Parag Kulkarni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118271551

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Reinforcement and Systemic Machine Learning for Decision Making by Parag Kulkarni Pdf

Reinforcement and Systemic Machine Learning for Decision Making There are always difficulties in making machines that learn from experience. Complete information is not always available—or it becomes available in bits and pieces over a period of time. With respect to systemic learning, there is a need to understand the impact of decisions and actions on a system over that period of time. This book takes a holistic approach to addressing that need and presents a new paradigm—creating new learning applications and, ultimately, more intelligent machines. The first book of its kind in this new and growing field, Reinforcement and Systemic Machine Learning for Decision Making focuses on the specialized research area of machine learning and systemic machine learning. It addresses reinforcement learning and its applications, incremental machine learning, repetitive failure-correction mechanisms, and multiperspective decision making. Chapters include: Introduction to Reinforcement and Systemic Machine Learning Fundamentals of Whole-System, Systemic, and Multiperspective Machine Learning Systemic Machine Learning and Model Inference and Information Integration Adaptive Learning Incremental Learning and Knowledge Representation Knowledge Augmentation: A Machine Learning Perspective Building a Learning System With the potential of this paradigm to become one of the more utilized in its field, professionals in the area of machine and systemic learning will find this book to be a valuable resource.

Author : Alessandro Palmas,Emanuele Ghelfi,Dr. Alexandra Galina Petre,Mayur Kulkarni,Anand N.S.,Quan Nguyen,Aritra Sen,Anthony So,Saikat Basak
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781800209961

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The The Reinforcement Learning Workshop by Alessandro Palmas,Emanuele Ghelfi,Dr. Alexandra Galina Petre,Mayur Kulkarni,Anand N.S.,Quan Nguyen,Aritra Sen,Anthony So,Saikat Basak Pdf

Start with the basics of reinforcement learning and explore deep learning concepts such as deep Q-learning, deep recurrent Q-networks, and policy-based methods with this practical guide Key FeaturesUse TensorFlow to write reinforcement learning agents for performing challenging tasksLearn how to solve finite Markov decision problemsTrain models to understand popular video games like BreakoutBook Description Various intelligent applications such as video games, inventory management software, warehouse robots, and translation tools use reinforcement learning (RL) to make decisions and perform actions that maximize the probability of the desired outcome. This book will help you to get to grips with the techniques and the algorithms for implementing RL in your machine learning models. Starting with an introduction to RL, you’ll be guided through different RL environments and frameworks. You’ll learn how to implement your own custom environments and use OpenAI baselines to run RL algorithms. Once you’ve explored classic RL techniques such as Dynamic Programming, Monte Carlo, and TD Learning, you’ll understand when to apply the different deep learning methods in RL and advance to deep Q-learning. The book will even help you understand the different stages of machine-based problem-solving by using DARQN on a popular video game Breakout. Finally, you’ll find out when to use a policy-based method to tackle an RL problem. By the end of The Reinforcement Learning Workshop, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to solve challenging problems using reinforcement learning. What you will learnUse OpenAI Gym as a framework to implement RL environmentsFind out how to define and implement reward functionExplore Markov chain, Markov decision process, and the Bellman equationDistinguish between Dynamic Programming, Monte Carlo, and Temporal Difference LearningUnderstand the multi-armed bandit problem and explore various strategies to solve itBuild a deep Q model network for playing the video game BreakoutWho this book is for If you are a data scientist, machine learning enthusiast, or a Python developer who wants to learn basic to advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms, this workshop is for you. A basic understanding of the Python language is necessary.

Author : Alan J. Munro,Kristina Höök,David Benyon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447108375

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Social Navigation of Information Space by Alan J. Munro,Kristina Höök,David Benyon Pdf

This volume examines how people deal with information in a computerized environment, looking at what happens when people actively explore information space looking for objects without specific goals in mind. The topics are particularly relevant to the industrial application of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) techniques, especially with regard to teleworking and virtual organizations. This volume will be useful for researchers interested in human computer interaction, virtual communities, and information visualization.

Author : Vieri Giuliano Santucci,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Andrew Barto,Gianluca Baldassarre
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889634859

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Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning in Autonomous Robots by Vieri Giuliano Santucci,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Andrew Barto,Gianluca Baldassarre Pdf

Author : Svein Jentoft,Arne Eide
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400715820

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Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries by Svein Jentoft,Arne Eide Pdf

Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however, interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This requires deep understanding of what poverty means to the fishers, their families and communities; how they cope with it; and the challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives for the better. This book provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development. In-depth case studies from fifteen countries in Latin America, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, demonstrate the enormously complex ecological, economic, social, cultural and political contexts of this sector. Conclusions for policy-making, formulated as a joint statement by the authors, argue that fisheries development, poverty alleviation, and resource management must be integrated within a comprehensive governance approach that also looks beyond fisheries. The scientific editors, Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide, are both with the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Author : Jana Pflaeging,Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725001

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Empirical Multimodality Research by Jana Pflaeging,Janina Wildfeuer,John A. Bateman Pdf

This volume advances the data-based study of multimodal artefacts and performances by showcasing methods and results from the latest endeavors in empirical multimodal research, representing a vibrant international and interdisciplinary research community. The collated chapters identify and seek to inspire novel, mixed-method approaches to investigate meaning-making mechanisms in current communicative artifacts, designs, and contexts; while attending to their immersive, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions. Each contribution details innovative aspects of empirical multimodality research, offering insights into challenges evolving from quantitative approaches, particular corpus work, results from eye-tracking and psychological experiments, and analyses of dynamic interactive experiences. The approaches and results presented foreground the inherent multidisciplinary nature and implications of multimodality, renegotiating concepts across linguistics, media studies, (social) semiotics, game studies, and design. With this, the volume will inform both current and future developments in theory, methods, and transdisciplinary contexts and become a landmark reference for anyone interested in the empirical study of multimodality.

Author : Scott Doorley,Scott Witthoft,Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118143728

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Make Space by Scott Doorley,Scott Witthoft,Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University Pdf

"If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times." —Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum "Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it." —James P. Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase An inspiring guidebook filled with ways to alter space to fuel creative work and foster collaboration. Based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space is a tool that shows how space can be intentionally manipulated to ignite creativity. Appropriate for designers charged with creating new spaces or anyone interested in revamping an existing space, this guide offers novel and non-obvious strategies for changing surroundings specifically to enhance the ways in which teams and individuals communicate, work, play--and innovate. Inside are: Tools--tips on how to build everything from furniture, to wall treatments, and rigging Situations--scenarios, and layouts for sparking creative activities Insights--bite-sized lessons designed to shortcut your learning curve Space Studies--candid stories with lessons on creating spaces for making, learning, imagining, and connecting Design Template--a framework for understanding, planning, and building collaborative environments Make Space is a new and dynamic resource for activating creativity, communication and innovation across institutions, corporations, teams, and schools alike. Filled with tips and instructions that can be approached from a wide variety of angles, Make Space is a ready resource for empowering anyone to take control of an environment.

Author : Sanna Schliewe,Nandita Chaudhary,Giuseppina Marsico
Publisher : IAP
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9781641132879

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Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World by Sanna Schliewe,Nandita Chaudhary,Giuseppina Marsico Pdf

The interventions have ranged between benevolent exchanges to powerful influences as well as military domination. Although interpersonal and group influence has been an important domain of study in Social Psychology, we propose to take a fresh look at these phenomena from the specific orientations provided by the discipline of Cultural Psychology. In this perspective, meaning making processes becomes a key for understanding the everyday experiences of the receivers and agents of intervention. In this volume, we see how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life. It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life through organizational structures, informal peer network, traditional rituals or symbols, that collaboration can be created and sustained.

Author : Oliver Brock,Jeffrey C. Trinkle,Jeff Trinkle,Fabio Ramos
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262513098

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Robotics by Oliver Brock,Jeffrey C. Trinkle,Jeff Trinkle,Fabio Ramos Pdf

State-of-the-art robotics research on such topics as manipulation, motion planning, micro-robotics, distributed systems, autonomous navigation, and mapping. Robotics: Science and Systems IV spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the proceedings of the fourth annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, held in 2008 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The papers presented cover a range of topics, including computer vision, mapping, terrain identification, distributed systems, localization, manipulation, collision avoidance, multibody dynamics, obstacle detection, microrobotic systems, pursuit-evasion, grasping and manipulation, tracking, spatial kinematics, machine learning, and sensor networks as well as such applications as autonomous driving and design of manipulators for use in functional-MRI. The conference and its proceedings reflect not only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline but also the desire in the robotics community for a flagship event at which the best of the research in the field can be presented.

Author : Eric Jenkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474415361

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Special Affects by Eric Jenkins Pdf

Examines the translation of classical Hollywood into Disneys feature films from a Deleuzian perspectiveSpecial Affects retells the emergence of Disney animation and classical Hollywood cinema from the perspective of affect and the embodied modes of generating affection. The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create aspecial sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel and the fantastic. Such affections subsequently become mined by consumer industries for profit, thereby explaining the connection between media and consumerism that today seems inherent to the culture industry. Such modes and their affections are also translated into ideology, as American culture seeks to make sense of the sociocultural changes accompanying these new media, particularly as specific versions of American Dream narratives.Special Affects is the first extended exploration of the connection between media and consumerism, and the first book to extensively apply Deleuzian film theory to animation. Its exploration of the connection between the animated form and consumerism, and its re-examination of twentieth-century animation from the perspective of affect, makes this an engaging and essential read for film-philosophy scholars and students.

Author : Abby Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351747769

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Contemporary Political Protest by Abby Peterson Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of the new wave of militant political activity emerging across Europe. The book examines the role of emotions in militant activity, the way in which the body is implicated in militant political actions, and the concept of media modernity as a precondition for the contemporary politics of militancy.

Author : Michael Mangan,Mark Cutkosky,Anna Mura,Paul F.M.J. Verschure,Tony Prescott,Nathan Lepora
Publisher : Springer
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319635378

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Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems by Michael Mangan,Mark Cutkosky,Anna Mura,Paul F.M.J. Verschure,Tony Prescott,Nathan Lepora Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2017, held in Stanford, CA, USA, in July 2017.The 42 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The theme of the conference encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis and metamorphosis.