The Limits of Formal Learning, or Why Robots Can’t Dance http://nautil.us/blog/the-limits-of-formal-learning-or-why-robots-cant-dance
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julie
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Article about why robots have human like faces with eyes… http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/11/12437000/why-are-all-these-robots-staring-at-me
“The answer is simple: emotions are easy, and robots are hard.”
My thoughts are that it should be about body language not, what I’m calling, “static aesthetics”.
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julie
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Empathy for Robots
Humans Show Empathy for Robots | Human-Robot Interactions | LiveScience.
Article about how we empathise with robots – contains refs to studies on monitoring emotional responses.
Nice quote near the end: “[Alexander] Reben compared trends in robot development with breeding dogs for companionship. “We have been doing this for millennia,” he said. “I think we’re doing the same thing with robots.”
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Subtlety & Softness in Kinetic Data-driven Art @ Strata Conference
Slides from Subtlety and Softness in Data-driven Art presented 2nd October 2012 at the O’Reilly Strata Conference: Making Data Work
The slides contain data definitions and a data analysis framework developed during a research fellowship co-hosted by Seed Media Group, NY and Queen Mary University of London, summer 2012.