If we use the metaphor of the body for an approach to buildings, in their many and various forms,... more If we use the metaphor of the body for an approach to buildings, in their many and various forms, it is clear that for the greater part of history we have been dealing with entities that have a skeleton and a system of muscles and sinews, and which use some form of plumage for display, but which have lacked for anything that might be called a nervous system. Even now with most homes in the western world fully electrified, connected to a telephone network by wire and a communications network via broadcast terrestrial and satellite providers, the nervous system of the house is almost entirely undeveloped. There are a number of computers embedded in modern appliances and more and more homes include a PC or PC like standalone computer that could act as the 'brain' of an integrated local network but very few houses have moved in this direction. Even the much vaunted Gates' house is more geared to automation of some aspects of the systems in the house than to the overall probl...
Pervasive computing is the third wave in IT, after the PC and the Internet and is based on the us... more Pervasive computing is the third wave in IT, after the PC and the Internet and is based on the use of numerous “invisible”, omni-present, always-on, communicating computers embedded into everyday environments which gather personal information from people and deliver services to them. Whilst this technology promises great benefits, being invisible and autonomous and with its access to the most personal human behaviours, it raises significant new dangers for individuals, city dwellers, cultures and society as a whole.
We outline a vision, methodology and architectural design for creating an ambient environmental i... more We outline a vision, methodology and architectural design for creating an ambient environmental intelligence within a ubiquitous computing environment made up of scaleable, networked embedded agent-based artefacts. Embedded-agents are integrated into artefacts, such as domestic appliances or robots to give the artefact some useful amount of intelligence. We describe a practical ubiquitous computing test-bed environment, the Essex intelligent Dormitory (iDorm), which combines a number of heterogeneous artefact based agents and networks. We show novel results where the iDorm was occupied by a user for five and half consecutive days. During this period the iDorm was monitored and controlled by an intelligent and adaptive embedded agent using our fuzzy Incremental Synchronous Learning (ISL) approach. The ISL operates in a life long learning mode realising ambient intelligence in which it learns the user behaviour and controls the room according to his preferences in a personalised and n...
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis
In what follows I will develop an account of Fairbairn's object relations theory as I have un... more In what follows I will develop an account of Fairbairn's object relations theory as I have understood and developed it, and, apply that theory to an understanding of the threeact opera King Roger, Op. 26 (1926) by Karol Szymanowski. My Fairbairnian approaches to the opera come from my previous work on Fairbairn's object relations theory. In order to fully understand the first of the approaches I employ you may need to read my book Personal Relations Theory (Clarke, 2006), in particular chapters one, five, and six. In order to fully understand the second of the approaches I am using you need to read Thinking Through Fairbairn (Clarke, 2018a), in particular chapters two, three, and four, as well as my paper in the journal Attachment (Clarke, 2018b) on MPD/DID and Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms.
The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Jun 29, 2005
People are going to experience a revolution in the nature and capability of their home environmen... more People are going to experience a revolution in the nature and capability of their home environment in a future where domestic electronic artefacts containing embedded computers and network connections opens up the possibility for hundreds of communicating devices cooperating in communities serving the occupant–this is the “Pervasive Computing” vision. This paper describes research in progress that takes the notion of collaborating home artefacts forward in four ways;(a) it introduces a model that promises to change the nature ...
Abstract—The notion of an Intelligent Surface (iSurface) is the topic of several futurists' ... more Abstract—The notion of an Intelligent Surface (iSurface) is the topic of several futurists' visions. They predict the use of Smart Matter, nanotechnology with computational ability, as ubiquitous; literally everywhere. It will be sewn into our clothing, or painted on the surfaces of our environments. The futurists suggest that we will use these surfaces as video displays, user interfaces, and composite sensor arrays. The implication is that a coat of paint will be enough to add this functionality to a surface. In this paper we argue that such a vision is ...
In this chapter we show how intelligent embedded agents situated in an intelligent domestic envir... more In this chapter we show how intelligent embedded agents situated in an intelligent domestic environment can perform learning and adaptation. A typical domestic environment provides an environment where there is wide scope for utilising computer-based products to enhance ...
If we use the metaphor of the body for an approach to buildings, in their many and various forms,... more If we use the metaphor of the body for an approach to buildings, in their many and various forms, it is clear that for the greater part of history we have been dealing with entities that have a skeleton and a system of muscles and sinews, and which use some form of plumage for display, but which have lacked for anything that might be called a nervous system. Even now with most homes in the western world fully electrified, connected to a telephone network by wire and a communications network via broadcast terrestrial and satellite providers, the nervous system of the house is almost entirely undeveloped. There are a number of computers embedded in modern appliances and more and more homes include a PC or PC like standalone computer that could act as the 'brain' of an integrated local network but very few houses have moved in this direction. Even the much vaunted Gates' house is more geared to automation of some aspects of the systems in the house than to the overall probl...
Pervasive computing is the third wave in IT, after the PC and the Internet and is based on the us... more Pervasive computing is the third wave in IT, after the PC and the Internet and is based on the use of numerous “invisible”, omni-present, always-on, communicating computers embedded into everyday environments which gather personal information from people and deliver services to them. Whilst this technology promises great benefits, being invisible and autonomous and with its access to the most personal human behaviours, it raises significant new dangers for individuals, city dwellers, cultures and society as a whole.
We outline a vision, methodology and architectural design for creating an ambient environmental i... more We outline a vision, methodology and architectural design for creating an ambient environmental intelligence within a ubiquitous computing environment made up of scaleable, networked embedded agent-based artefacts. Embedded-agents are integrated into artefacts, such as domestic appliances or robots to give the artefact some useful amount of intelligence. We describe a practical ubiquitous computing test-bed environment, the Essex intelligent Dormitory (iDorm), which combines a number of heterogeneous artefact based agents and networks. We show novel results where the iDorm was occupied by a user for five and half consecutive days. During this period the iDorm was monitored and controlled by an intelligent and adaptive embedded agent using our fuzzy Incremental Synchronous Learning (ISL) approach. The ISL operates in a life long learning mode realising ambient intelligence in which it learns the user behaviour and controls the room according to his preferences in a personalised and n...
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis
In what follows I will develop an account of Fairbairn's object relations theory as I have un... more In what follows I will develop an account of Fairbairn's object relations theory as I have understood and developed it, and, apply that theory to an understanding of the threeact opera King Roger, Op. 26 (1926) by Karol Szymanowski. My Fairbairnian approaches to the opera come from my previous work on Fairbairn's object relations theory. In order to fully understand the first of the approaches I employ you may need to read my book Personal Relations Theory (Clarke, 2006), in particular chapters one, five, and six. In order to fully understand the second of the approaches I am using you need to read Thinking Through Fairbairn (Clarke, 2018a), in particular chapters two, three, and four, as well as my paper in the journal Attachment (Clarke, 2018b) on MPD/DID and Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms.
The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Jun 29, 2005
People are going to experience a revolution in the nature and capability of their home environmen... more People are going to experience a revolution in the nature and capability of their home environment in a future where domestic electronic artefacts containing embedded computers and network connections opens up the possibility for hundreds of communicating devices cooperating in communities serving the occupant–this is the “Pervasive Computing” vision. This paper describes research in progress that takes the notion of collaborating home artefacts forward in four ways;(a) it introduces a model that promises to change the nature ...
Abstract—The notion of an Intelligent Surface (iSurface) is the topic of several futurists' ... more Abstract—The notion of an Intelligent Surface (iSurface) is the topic of several futurists' visions. They predict the use of Smart Matter, nanotechnology with computational ability, as ubiquitous; literally everywhere. It will be sewn into our clothing, or painted on the surfaces of our environments. The futurists suggest that we will use these surfaces as video displays, user interfaces, and composite sensor arrays. The implication is that a coat of paint will be enough to add this functionality to a surface. In this paper we argue that such a vision is ...
In this chapter we show how intelligent embedded agents situated in an intelligent domestic envir... more In this chapter we show how intelligent embedded agents situated in an intelligent domestic environment can perform learning and adaptation. A typical domestic environment provides an environment where there is wide scope for utilising computer-based products to enhance ...
This study sets out, first, to locate the application of psychoanalytic theory t ramatic narrativ... more This study sets out, first, to locate the application of psychoanalytic theory t ramatic narrative in recent history. Then, to describe a theory of the psychology of t t
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