Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari’s the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)

Nadarajan, Gunalan

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“…The mechanical automaton was an attempt to build a human-like artifact, capable of replicating and repeating human activity. In the 13th century, Al-Jazari, an Arabic mechanical engineer, built a programmable device capable of playing sounds autonomously (Nadarajan, 2007). In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci not only theorized on the possible robotic reproduction of an animal, but also advanced a project that attempted to mechanize the human being, with the mechanical knight of 1495 (Rosheim, 2006;Taddei, 2007).…”

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Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots From a Lifespan Perspective

Marchetti

Manzi

Itakura

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Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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Abstract. This review focuses on some relevant issues concerning the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and humanoid robots. Humanoid robots are employed in different everyday-life contexts, so it seems relevant to question whether the relationships between human beings and humanoids can be characterized by a mode of interaction typical of the relationships between human beings, that is, the attribution of mental states. Because ToM development continuously undergoes changes from early childhood to late adulthood, we adopted a lifespan perspective. We analyzed contributions from the literature by organizing them around the partition between “mental states and actions” and “human-like features.” Finally, we considered how studying human–robot interaction, within a ToM context, can contribute to our understanding of the intersubjective nature of this interaction.

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Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots From a Lifespan Perspective

Marchetti

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Itakura

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Zeitschrift für Psychologie

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When You Hear the Chime: Movable Books and the Dramaturgical Functions of Sound in Mixed Reality Interactive Narrative Design

Holloway-Attaway

Rouse

2022

Interactive Storytelling

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Wonder, Magic and the Fantastical Margins: Medieval Visual Culture and Cinematic Special Effects

Griffiths

2010

Journal of Visual Culture

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What are the nature and power of special effects that induce such strong reactions in cinema spectators, and is it possible to find an analog to this contemporary fascination in the visual culture of the Middle Ages? This article contends that spectators during the medieval period may have responded to fantastical, supernatural, phantasmagorical, miraculous, satanic, or spectacular images with a similar sense of awe and wonder as contemporary viewers of cinematic special effects. Proposing a reconsideration of the pre-history of cinematic special effects, the author suggests that the allure of cinematic special effects is broader than the historical experience of cinema, and that image-makers were exploiting the embodied modes of viewing offered by special effects far earlier than the invention of motion pictures.

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Islamic Automation: A Reading of al-Jazari’s the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206)

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Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots From a Lifespan Perspective

Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots From a Lifespan Perspective

When You Hear the Chime: Movable Books and the Dramaturgical Functions of Sound in Mixed Reality Interactive Narrative Design

Wonder, Magic and the Fantastical Margins: Medieval Visual Culture and Cinematic Special Effects

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