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KSEM
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
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ALIFE
2004
15 years 2 months ago
Basic Autonomy as a Fundamental Step in the Synthesis of Life
In the search for the primary roots of autonomy (a pivotal concept in Varela's comprehensive understanding of living beings), the theory of autopoiesis provided an explicit cr...
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno
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CSCW
2002
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Instant messaging in teen life
Instant Messaging (IM) is being widely adopted by teenagers. In a study of 16 teenage IM users, we explore IM as an emerging feature of teen life, focusing our questions on its su...
Rebecca E. Grinter, Leysia Palen
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CONNECTION
2002
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15 years 2 months ago
A model of absolute autonomy and power: toward group effects
We present a model of absolute autonomy and power in agent systems. This absolute sense of autonomy captures the agent's liberty over an agent's preferences. Our model ch...
Henry Hexmoor
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PSYCHNOLOGY
2008
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15 years 2 months ago
Being Part of the Life of One's Hometown: Strategies to Support Community Connectedness
Luís A. Castro, Víctor M. Gonz&aacut...