Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Locality of data
The place of a computer could be defined by the locality of its inputs (keyboard, mouse and monitor…
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Synchronizing rhythms
When discussing the example of the tabla player, who could change any delay into a different beat
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Connecting rhythms
There are time-based protocols to regulate interactions between computers. These protocols can be…
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Tracking time
Time is an issue because of a-synchronicity. In distributing programs time is an issue because the…
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The right medium for the right task
Sander van Splunter has been investigating how complex software can adapt by itself. One of the…
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Dramatic difference
Asked about witnessed presence in systems, middleware or applications, Quillinan finds that the…
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Understanding crisis
One of the biggest problems in most crisis has been lack of understanding, lack of knowledge of…
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Witnessing crisis
Witnessing is one of the issues in crisis management. In a crisis different people witness the same…
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Modelling crisis
Quillinan is working on a use case of crisis-management for a European funded project. They are…
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People you know and do not know
In relations the witnessing and the recognizing of the other is very important. Computers…
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Interacting with your computer
Because of their scale and speed, computers and systems have changed important concepts of space
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Rythm and feeling
When asked about the interaction of rhythms between humans and systems Quillinan emphasizes that…
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Scales of time
Asked to comment on the rhythms, frames, loops and organisation of time in machines and between…
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Only one way of communicating
Instead of having the computer adapt to the person, the person is supposed to adapt to the computer.
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Intelligence in systems
Realizing the impact computers and systems have, the question that arises is whether, and if so in…
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Looking and Seeing
Quillinan, when asked abut his association with witnessing, makes the distinction between looking…