The Fiction in Computer Science: A Qualitative Data Analysis of the ACM Digital Library for Traces of Star Trek

Jordan, Philipp; Auernheimer, Brent

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60492-3_48

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“…For example, 403 documents were retrieved when the IEEE Xplore was queried for "digital libraries" and 1,057 resources were retrieved from the ACM Digital Library but not fewer than 25 researches where retrieved on the vast information on Africa. The authors in [20] described ACM digital Library background and other design principles, while the authors of [21] described the background of IEEE Xplore that also includes extensive information from other articles and websites, hence they can as well share resources with a serious and reputable African library of digital information if it did exist. Africa, with vast resources and very diverse population, can clone a library as big as these two because even researchers came to a conclusion that their design and operations mirror a number of other operational digital libraries.…”

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A Review of Digital Libraries and Their Impact in Africa

Zirra¹,

Ibrahim²,

Abdulganiyyi³

2019

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Digital libraries, recommender systems and information retrieval are some of the most celebrated breakthroughs in the book of internet evolution. Digital libraries are referred to digital resources that are a collection of electronic materials and technical facilities used in searching, creating, and making use of information. They became important sources of information sharing which are extensions and enhancement of information storage and retrieval system used in manipulating data or materials in digital medium. This designed digital storage are used by set or group of users were they will collect and organize the said storages in a way their contents along with their usability supports the information needs of the said of group of users. These digital information resources have revolutionized many aspects of human lives that includes, in especially, the academia. This research is an attempt to show how internet has paved way for a much easier means of information sharing in various communities across the world. The paper is also an attempt to review the idea behind digital libraries and investigate the use of digital resources among African communities and their socioeconomic importance and impact to the continent. The research did also review construction and networking of digital libraries among African institutions, some of which roles are played by e-libraries and information decimation in socioeconomic development, sectorial information needs and the issues involved in the lack of establishment of these digital libraries. Lastly, after the paper reviewed works in progress across Africa, it clearly outlined that in a global neighborhood, large work needs to be done in order for African nations to use information in harnessing their full potentials

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Digital Libraries and Their Impact in Africa

Zirra¹,

Ibrahim²,

Abdulganiyyi³

2019

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“…Moreover, robotic technology has also been used as a tool to grant human's eternal wishes: inviolable comfort and immortality. Some researchers believe that sci-fi writers are shaping the future of technology by inspiring engineers: Marcus [1] shows some examples of technologies predicted (or inspired) by sci-fi movies; Jordan and Auernheimer [2] searched for references to Star Trek in the ACM Digital Library and found 232 papers until 2017; Some others like Jordan et al [3] and Russell and Yarosh [4] explored the theoretical aspects of this inspiration process. Alternatively, it is also argued that these movies shape the conception of robots in ordinary people's minds, as the main potential consumers of robots in the future [5].…”

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“Does cinema form the future of robotics?”: a survey on fictional robots in sci-fi movies

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Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have always been among the most popular topics in science fiction (sci-fi) movies. This paper endeavors to review popular movies containing Fictional Robots (FR) to extract the most common characteristics and interesting design ideas of robots portrayed in science fiction. To this end, 134 sci-fi films, including 108 unique FRs, were investigated regarding the robots’ different design aspects (e.g., appearance design, interactive design and artificial intelligence, and ethical and social design). Also, in each section of this paper, some characteristics of FRs are compared with real social robots. Since some researches point to the significant role of the cinema in forming the community’s expectations, it is very important to consider these characteristics and differences in choosing the future pathway of robotics. As some examples of findings, we have found that unlike the non-metallic skins/covers of real social robots, most FRs are still covered by highly detailed metal components. Moreover, the FR ability of interactions are generally (more than 90%) shown to be similar or even more advanced than normal Human–Human interactions, and this milestone was achieved by ignoring the AI challenges of real HRI. On the other hand, the ethical aspects of movies do inspire us to consider the potential ethical aspects of real robot design. All in all, according to popularity of movies, studying FR could be a step toward more appropriate development of robotics and AI entities to be accepted by general users in the real world. Highlights: We reviewed 134 sci-fi movies containing 108 unique fictional robots regarding different design aspects. Fictional Robot (FR) is an artificial entity acting as a result of a fictional technology and playing a role in a movie. Investigating fictional robots can shed light on the development of real robotics and AI entities.

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“…In continuation of recent prior work, for example [33,34], our research methodology is based on content analysis and text mining of the presence of sci-fi-based robots in literature, a technique that emerges from the field of Scientometrics [38]. A similar method also applied by others, for instance de Souza [14], who currently explores the usages of the words and concepts of "human" or "user" within theoretical computer science repositories.…”

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Reflecting on the Presence of Science Fiction Robots in Computing Literature

Mubin

Wadibhasme

Jordan

et al. 2019

J. Hum.-Robot Interact.

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Depictions of robots and AIs in popular science fiction movies and shows have the potential to showcase visions of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) to the general public and computer science researchers alike. In contrast, studies on the referral, usage, and appropriation of these portrayals by computer scientists in their research publications is an academic void at present. However, such investigations are critical to better understand the potential utility and latent shortcomings of science fiction robots for future HRI research, innovation, and education. To address this research gap, this study investigates the overall presence, nature, and frequency of referrals of 18 popular science fiction robots in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. These robots were either portrayed in various movies and subsequently inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame, created by Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, or were top-ranked in a user-curated Internet Movie Database (IMDB) list. To do so, we performed full-text search and retrieval queries of all 18 robots in the ACM Digital Library. In total, we identified 121 relevant mentions, across 102 individual publications, in a time span from 1973 to 2017. These 121 mentions were then qualitatively analysed to determine the nature of the robot mentions. Our results indicate that the robot attributes of voice or dialogue were emerging as a popularly mentioned element. In addition, we find that research papers of philosophical nature mention sci-fi robots more frequently than papers of technical or theoretical nature. We also observe that the dystopian element of science fiction is under-utilised, with the majority of robot mentions exhibiting neutral or utopian characteristics. In conclusion, we speculate on our results and present possible avenues of future HRI research on the topic.

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The Fiction in Computer Science: A Qualitative Data Analysis of the ACM Digital Library for Traces of Star Trek

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

A Review of Digital Libraries and Their Impact in Africa

A Review of Digital Libraries and Their Impact in Africa

“Does cinema form the future of robotics?”: a survey on fictional robots in sci-fi movies

Reflecting on the Presence of Science Fiction Robots in Computing Literature

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