The robot in the garden : telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the Internet / edited by Ken Goldberg.

Other author Goldberg, Ken.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxix, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLeonardo
Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) ^A475854
Contents Introduction : The unique phenomenon of a distance / Ken Goldberg -- Eden by wire : webcameras and the telepresent landscape / Thomas J. Campanella -- Telepistemology : Descartes's last stand / Hubert Dreyfus -- Vicariousness and authenticity / Catherine Wilson -- Information, nearness, and farness / Albert Borgmann -- Acting at a distance and knowing from afar : agency and knowledge on the Internet / Jeff Malpas -- Telerobotic knowledge : a reliabilist approach / Alvin Goldman -- The speed of light and the virtualization of reality / Martin Jay -- To lie and to act : Potemkin's villages, cinema, and telepresence / Lev Manovich -- Dialogical telepresence and net ecology / Eduardo Kac -- Presence, absence, and knowledge in telerobotic art / Machiko Kusahara -- Exposure time, the aura, and telerobotics / Marina Gržinić -- The history of telepresence : automata, illusion, and the rejection of the body / Oliver Grau -- Feeling is believing : a history of telerobotics / Blake Hannaford -- Tele-embodiment and shattered presence : reconstructing the body for online interaction / John Canny and Eric Paulos -- Being real : questions of tele-identity / Judith Donath --Telepistemology, mediation, and the design of transparent interfaces / Michael Idinopulos -- The film and the new psychology (1945) / Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99059405
ISBN0262072033 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks TJ211 .R537 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold