Zeitvertreib in Echtzeit? : Virtuelle Realität und ästhetische Erfahrung

in Karschnia, Alexander; Kohns, Oliver; Kreuzer, Stefanie (Eds.) et al Zum Zeitvertrieb : Strategien – Institutionen – Lektüren – Bilder (2005)

«La fortune iconographique et politique de la tour de Babel»

in Contemporary French Civilization (2005)

Bubble Caster – a mixed reality children application for interactive shadow play

in Proceedings of IDC 2005, Boulder, Colorado, USA (2005)

In this paper, we describe how the mixed reality application, Bubble Caster, technically works and how we involved children ages 7 to 8 in the design process. The children used their storytelling and ... [more ▼]

In this paper, we describe how the mixed reality application, Bubble Caster, technically works and how we involved children ages 7 to 8 in the design process. The children used their storytelling and programming skills to produce the interactive, mixed reality shadow play, The Magic Cauldron. The project enabled the children to acquire elementary programming skills in a playful learning environment. [less ▲]

La regulation américaine des agences de notation

in Risques : les cahiers de l'assurance (2005), (61), 55-55

Orthographie als soziale Praxis: Verschriftungslösungen des Okzitanischen

in Peter, Cichon; Barbara, Czernilofsky; Robert, Tanzmeister (Eds.) et al Entgrenzungen. Für eine Soziologie der Kommunikation. Festschrift für Georg Kremnitz zum 60. Geburtstag. (2005)

Quali sono gli obiettivi educativi privilegiati dalle famiglie ?

in Psicologia Dell’ Educazione E Della Formazione (2005), 7(2), 155-169

Der Einfluss von Expertise auf den Prozess der schulischen Leistungsbeurteilung

in Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Padagogische Psychologie (2005), 37

Two experiments investigated the effects of information processing goals on the recall of information about pupils and on achievement judgments. In Experiment 1 teachers (experts) were presented with case ... [more ▼]

Two experiments investigated the effects of information processing goals on the recall of information about pupils and on achievement judgments. In Experiment 1 teachers (experts) were presented with case reports about pupils. The reports were either read under the instruction (a) to form an impression of the personality of the described pupils or (b) to predict their future development. Afterwards subjects had to recall the case reports and to rate the academic achievement of the described pupils. Experiment 2 was a replication with university freshmen (laymen) as subjects. Depending on their processing goal, experts switched their processing of pupil information from top-down strategies involving the activation of prototypical categories about pupil personalities to bottom-up processing which consists of integrating the features of the individual case. Thus, processing goals appear as moderators in teachers’ judgments. [less ▲]

Planning with Continuous Actions in Partially Observable Environments

in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (2005)

We present a simple randomized POMDP al gorithm for planning with continuous actions in partially observable environments. Our algorithm operates on a set of reachable belief points, sampled by letting ... [more ▼]

We present a simple randomized POMDP al gorithm for planning with continuous actions in partially observable environments. Our algorithm operates on a set of reachable belief points, sampled by letting the robot interact randomly with the environment. We perform value iteration steps, ensuring that in each step the value of all sampled belief points is improved. The idea here is that by sampling actions from a continuous action space we can quickly improve the value of all belief points in the set. We demonstrate the viability of our algorithm on two sets of experiments: one involving an active localization task and one concerning robot navigation in a perceptually aliased of fice environment. [less ▲]

Representation of the Union's citizens by the European Parliament

in European Constitutional Law Review (2005), (1), 73-78

As it is obviously impossible for the modern ‘demos’ to assemble in order to take political decisions, democratic representation is an inevitable tool in large democracies. Representatives have to stand ... [more ▼]

As it is obviously impossible for the modern ‘demos’ to assemble in order to take political decisions, democratic representation is an inevitable tool in large democracies. Representatives have to stand for and to act for the people as a whole. Accordingly, the principle of representative or parliamentary democracy is a fundamental constitutional principle shared by all the Member States of the Union. Democracy doubtlessly works on the national level; the Member States' decisional powers, however, are fading with the constant transfer of competences towards the European level. This leads to a system of European ‘multi-level governance’ with wide consequences for the linkage between the represented peoples of the Member States and their representatives on both national and European levels. [less ▲]

Critic of Amy Gutmann - The Constructive Potential of Communitarian Values for Liberalism

E-print/Working paper (2005)

The view of Amy Gutmann is that communitarians have been unsuccessful in undermining liberalism. However, she thinks that their work presents a welcome challenge to it. In her opinion, the communitarian ... [more ▼]

The view of Amy Gutmann is that communitarians have been unsuccessful in undermining liberalism. However, she thinks that their work presents a welcome challenge to it. In her opinion, the communitarian criticism, rather than giving good reason to abandon liberalism, is of use in an attempt to discover a liberalism that successfully combines communitarian with liberal values. This paper examines the extent to which Gutmann successfully shows that communitarian values, like kinship, affection, or a sense of common purpose, have the latent but unrealized capacity to serve to improve liberalism. [less ▲]