In this paper we describe a process called Diegetic Innovation Templating (DiT) whereby science fiction and fantasy stories are used as a systematic source of ideas for design and product innovation. We also introduce a concept called the Diegetic Gap which acts a metric for assessing how compatible a particular piece of fiction is to a given innovation space. We illustrate the Diegetic Innovat...

THISARTICLE PRESENTS A BIBLIOGRAPHY of 136 works of fiction, published in English, which feature deaf characters. It is divided into sections: novels for adult readers (fifty-six entries), short stories (thirtynine entries), fiction-young adults and older children (twenty-five entries), and books for young children (sixteen entries). Drama and poetry are not included. To aid in collection devel...

This paper is an introduction to the short story and science fiction prototype The Machinery of Love and Grace. We cover a brief overview of the goals of science fiction prototyping as well as an example for how both Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud used a very similar process to achieve greatness in their work. Finally we look into the specific science behind the story The Machinery of Love a...

While this work has been wildly successful in shaping both the machine learning [19, 16, 11] and systems fields [14, 15, 1], it also ignores a big part of real-world machine learning. In particular, much of the work in Learning Systems has operated under the fiction: the world hands me a static, potentially very large, dataset and I train an accurate, potentially complex, model. This fiction de...

Sensational interests, i.e. a curiosity for the violent and macabre, are reputedly common in mentally disordered offenders. However, ostensibly well-adjusted individuals are also interested in these topics. We tested the hypothesis that individual differences in sensational interests may partially reflect intrasexual competition for status and have an underlying evolutionary function. Several p...

The performance of markets with hidden information is of central importance in microeconomic theory. We present the results of a comprehensive experiment that distinguishes between the two crucial forms of hidden information, private and common values, in different contracting environments. Contracting environments vary by the degree of power that the screening market side has over the trades o...

Ports act as the nodes connecting water transport with land transport and play pivotal roles in logistics networks. The rapid rise in international freight volume has led to a faster growth in the throughputs of many ports. With the development of containerization, services provided by different ports could be substitutable with each other, especially those in the same region which are more com...

In this paper we will demonstrate how a science fiction storyboard was used as a means for delivering and discussing future technology and design innovations. We present a case in which an illustrated storyboard exemplified the interactions of an experienced-centered technology design concept – a winter caretaking system for a smart city and two devices that could assist its citizens. In the sc...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...