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Participatory Distributed Systems design: Local coordination for global management
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Participatory Distributed Systems design: Local coordination for global management

Fundamental to participatory distributed systems design is the notion of local coordination. Every…
Merging realities
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Merging realities

In communication trajectories we incorporate on- and offline interaction into one experience over…
Being there
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Being there

To create digital technologies for mediating presence, psychologists and computer scientists have…
Of Waste Recycling: Immediate rewards as a solution
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Of Waste Recycling: Immediate rewards as a solution

Rethinking Recycling in a way such that it always appeals to the masses. Where positive motivation…
Of Composting and Creating Gardens
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Of Composting and Creating Gardens

What is often dumped without a second thought may veritably be the starting point for something…
Day 2: Of Buzzing Bees and Brainstorms
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Day 2: Of Buzzing Bees and Brainstorms

The Lecture on Biomimicry by Dr. Videler. Learning about Being-Here. Brainstorming. The Group-Work…
Day 2 (Tuesday 19, March 2013)
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Day 2 (Tuesday 19, March 2013)

Day 2 started with a lot of uncertainties but has shown itself far more interesting than yesterday.
Interpersonal synchrony
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Interpersonal synchrony

The analysis of synchrony and rhythm in interpersonal communication and human cognition is a…
Our ‘sensing’ of the other
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Our ‘sensing’ of the other

In her work on witnessed presence, Nevejan (2009) argues that that our awareness and connectivity…
Timing and meaning
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Timing and meaning

In music, timing is very important. If you get the rhythm right, the tune will be recognizable as…
Physiological and motor system
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Physiological and motor system

In addition to the discussion on error correction, the production or perception of a musical pulse…
The development of workplace design
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The development of workplace design

I put forward that, for a long time, workplace design has been modelled on a presence-in-person…
Trauma and Witnessing
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Trauma and Witnessing

Stephanie Bezanquen, a French philosopher focusing on cultural representations of genocide and mass…
Performance
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Performance

In social interaction people perform presence in relation to one another. When meeting a grim face…
Multiple presences in the quest for truth
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Multiple presences in the quest for truth

The complicated questions of witnessed presence in The Third Memory are closely linked to…
Witnessing Simulacra
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Witnessing Simulacra

The idea that the new technological media have changed our idea of presence and witnessing has been…
Natural, mediated and witnessed presence
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Natural, mediated and witnessed presence

This paper does not intend to give an all-inclusive overview of presence theories, but makes use of…
Presence and representation
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Presence and representation

The relation between presence and representation in the arts has never been simple, as the many…
Who is witnessing the destruction?
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Who is witnessing the destruction?

The point is ironically illustrated by some of Walker’s pieces that depict the biblical flood or…
After the Deluge, by Kara Walker
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After the Deluge, by Kara Walker

The work that Walker made shortly after hurricane Katrina had caused the flooding of New Orleans…
Poetry as Apostrophe
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Poetry as Apostrophe

The contrast with other major generic modes of speaking is that in narrative somebody is speaking…
Proving presence
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Proving presence

In the online world, not only music but also human communication is based on mental maps. Human…
Witnessing in court
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Witnessing in court

In European Systems of Law, technological systems are not accepted as witnesses in their own right.
Bloggers telling the truth
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Bloggers telling the truth

Given current technology the Internet facilitates millions of bloggers offering stories that could…