Saying I Know You – Conversational Analysis On Internet-Chatting By Dating Couples –

I see what you are saying

The motor cortex in the brain tracks lip movements to help with speech perception.

Whom Are You Chatting With?

Instant messengers (IMs) have become a very popular and convenient tool for communication. Having started with simple presence protocols, IMs now support exchange of text, sound, video, even game playing. Tons of information are being daily exchanged through IMs. Still, it seems that IMs favor functionality over security. Most popular IMs (MSN, Yahoo! messenger, ICQ etc...) send data as plainte...

I Think You Know That I Know That You Think : Epistemology and Interactive Digital Art

Contents 1 Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Discovery 9 Reflection 13 Synthesis 18 Conclusion 20 Appendix 21 Glossary 22 Bibliography 1 Abstract I create computer simulations that illustrate some aspect of meta-knowledge (ie. knowledge about knowledge.) Building from my earlier art and a discussion about epistemology (the scholarly discipline of meta-knowledge,) my thesis artwork is based on the princ...

On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1

Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference

We rely on both our own observations and on others’ testimony when making causal inferences. To integrate these sources of information we must consider an informant’s statements about the world, her expressed level of certainty, her previous accuracy, and perhaps her apparent self-knowledge – how accurately she conveys her own certainty. It can be difficult to tease apart the contributions of a...