http://www.robotecture.com/eco06/
Units: 3.0: Lecture /
Location: MWF 4-7pm, Room IDC
Instructor: Michael Fox (mafox@foxlin.com or
Novel Applications and Human Interaction
“The
best way to predict the future is to invent it” – Alan Kay
Attributes List:
What are
the factors that the system is responding to:
1) Physical factors: Acoustics
2) Physical factors: Sunlight
3) Physical factors: Temperature
4) Physical factors: Wind
5)
Direct Physical interaction
6)
Direct Virtual user interaction via a particular
website
7)
Internet activity
(input
data sets)
8) Human Activity of a particular group in
a particular place (input data sets)
·
Practically what does it do?
·
How does it do it?
·
What type of environment is it?
A
stimulating place
A
contemplative place
A
commentary
Is
it playing a game – having a conversation with people?
Can
you create a completely new way of experiencing space?
the
space knows who you are, where you are and what you are doing. (Spatial
behavioral patterns (adaptive control)
the
space can physically re-configure itself according to changing needs.
(Dynamically react)
the
space can mediate, support and promote interaction between users.
(privacy/ collaboration/ shared information)
the
space deliver (translate/interpret) the environmental change to users. (temperature/ views/ translated affect)
Question
ethics:
Complex
behavior can be had via the aggregates of relatively simple interacting agents
(tracking cameras, speech recognition systems connected to external stores of
information (person locators, www, etc. --- Groups of simple agents can be
combined to do interesting things A room filled with multiple layers of
behaviors in which higher-level agents rely on the activity of lower-level
ones…. higher level agents can override the specific behaviors of lower level
ones
No
individual agent is particularly complex and no single agent centralizes the
system’s control
Individual
behaviors make the overall system robust to failure – things need to be precise
in their own operational way but no in terms of tolerance of the larger
environmental whole.