Interactive artifacts from divination to deep learning
Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults
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Anatomy and frequency of interactive repair
A With interactive repair, another participant initiates repair, inviting a repair solution by the first; the repair initiation is a
Network of Siwu ideophones
Networks can be an effective way to visualize relationships between ideophones, and offer users a dynamic way to interact with
Beyond Single-Mindedness
A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction.
Using cumulative iconicity to predict guessability
In Panel A, point clouds show how 239 ideophones from five languages (dots) are distributed in terms of guessability in
Triangulating iconicity
Panel A illustrates the notion of structure mapping. A sound wave representing the spoken Korean word tuˈgɯndugɯn heartbeat is compared
Interactive repair across modalities
Three examples of interactive repair sequences in British Sign Language: (A) visual-only repair initiator realized by a freeze-look (Interlocutor 2);
Actionable metrics for openness in generative AI
Fine-grained openness judgements (1) can be turned into actionable metrics in several ways: they can feed into a cumulative openness score (2), discretized into categories like energy labels (3), or dichotomised into a binary measure (4). Yet another measure, increasingly popular, is to let only a single measure be the arbiter of openness, for instance ‘open weights’ or an ‘open license’ (5).…
The toron of language
The Grand Mosque of Djenné, Mali, during the 2023 annual replastering. Perhaps the most visually striking aspect of this earthen
Interjections and conversational structure
Excerpt of an English conversation. Transcript adapted from the Newport Beach corpus transcribed by Gail Jefferson, reference NB:1:1:19, timecode 4m57s.