Experiencing sensory-pleasing environments and recreating perceptions of past lived environments ... more Experiencing sensory-pleasing environments and recreating perceptions of past lived environments can benefit patients greatly in coping with irreversible conditions (e.g., dementia) or during healing after traumatic experiences. Such environments can evoke emotional responses that are associated with a patient’s positive memories of a place, an activity, or people. A design concept of an intimate architectural space informed by knowledge of anticipatory systems was developed for the purpose of generating variable personalized environments. In particular, such environments are designed for patients, according to their individual demands and expectations. The design is guided by aesthetic data acquired through perceptual user studies. Such adaptive spaces can be delivered to a large number of users in healthcare in the form of Architecture-as-Service (AaS). The research presented expands the notion of AaS and is premised upon an IoT application.
Buchrezension: Christoph Klütsch: "Computergrafik. Ästhetische Experimente zwischen zwei Kul... more Buchrezension: Christoph Klütsch: "Computergrafik. Ästhetische Experimente zwischen zwei Kulturen. Die Anfänge der Computerkunst in den 1960er Jahren". Springer. Wien NewYork, 2007
Aging, along with the associated costs (not just in dollars), is a major health problem (cf. Unit... more Aging, along with the associated costs (not just in dollars), is a major health problem (cf. United Nations Programme on Ageing 1). Many resources are utilized for fi ghting aging and its effects at its core (genetic, molecular, neuronal), but few for attenuating the consequences of the basic aging process. The fact that the post-World War II baby boom generation will be reaching elderly status in the coming years adds urgency to the need to address foreseeable problems before they occur. This situation is tantamount to a “Sputnik ” for research in aging, similar to what became the impetus for the American space program
Semiotics has to be understood as the conceptual undergirding of any form of design and engineeri... more Semiotics has to be understood as the conceptual undergirding of any form of design and engineering. While it does not provide operational means, it rather demands understanding of design and engineering aspects in a broad sense. Without the underlying semiotics, design and engineering remain mere problem-solving activities, and therefore will fall short of achieving their formative function. Through design, interaction languages, pertinent to engineering, contribute to shaping culture. In the end, semiotics contributes to making such languages available. The world before the computer and the world after the computer, including the ubiquitous smartphone, are not only technologically different, but also essentially culturally different. With the smartphone we progress from mere data processing to machine learning based interactive computation. The hybrid human-interactive computation has anticipatory characteristics.
Which part of medicine, if any, can and should be entrusted to AI, now or at some moment in the f... more Which part of medicine, if any, can and should be entrusted to AI, now or at some moment in the future? That both medicine and AI will continue to change goes without saying.
Designers are among those professionals who have shown a first and continued interest in the mode... more Designers are among those professionals who have shown a first and continued interest in the modern revival of semiotics. In search of a theory for a field of human practice characterized by a lack of conceptual discipline, designers, especially those formed in the Ulm School tradition, were willing to adopt semiotics as their theory, provided that semioticians pay attention to critical problems of design and not extend a logocratic model where something else seemed necessary. Maldonado (1967) undoubtedly deserves credit for being receptive to semiotics and making it part of his own design concept. At Theo Crosby's initiative, and with the assistance of some of his students (Guy Bonsiepe deserves mention here), he published several articles dealing with semiotic concepts and their pertinence to design. This happened when Europe discovered Charles S. Peirce; when Bense, continuing his search for a scientific foundation of aesthetics, arrived at sign theory (1970, 1971), and when ...
A semiotic machine, no matter how it is embodied or expressed, has to reflect the various underst... more A semiotic machine, no matter how it is embodied or expressed, has to reflect the various understandings of what the knowledge domain of semiotics is. It also has to reflect what methods and means support further acquiring knowledge of semiotics. Moreover, it has to express ways in which knowledge of semiotics is tested, improved, and evaluated. Given the scope of the endeavor of defining the semiotic machine, the methodological approach must be anchored in the living experience of semiotics. Accordingly, the cultural-historic perspective, which is the backbone of any encyclopedic endeavor, is very much like a geological survey for a foundation conceived from a dynamic perspective. The various layers could shed light on a simple aspect of the subject: At which moment in the evolution of semiotics does it make sense to make the association (in whatever form) to tools and to what would become the notion of a machine? Reciprocally, we would have to explain how the various understanding...
The crisis of experimental reproduction is indicative of the need to distinguish between the know... more The crisis of experimental reproduction is indicative of the need to distinguish between the knowledge domain of of the decidable and that of the undecidable. One corresponds to physics and related fields covering the non-living, the other, to the knowledge domain pertinent to the living. They are not reducible to each other.
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