Experiments inTelepistemology

Ken GoldbergUC Berkeley

ken.goldberg.net

Virtual reality:

Telepresence:

Telerobotics: Related Work• Goertz, ‘54• Mosher, ‘64• Tomovic, ‘69• Salisbury,Bejczy, ‘85• Ballard, ‘86• Sheridan, ‘92• Sato, ‘94• Presence Journal ‘92-

Data Dentata (1992)

WWW Cameras

• Passive – Cambridge Coffee Pot– Fishcams– Steve Mann

• Active– Labcam– Mechanical Gaze

Mercury Project

(1994-5)

TelegardenGoldberg, Santarromana

Bekey, Gentner, Morris, Sutter, Wiegley, Berger

(1995-)

Tommycam

Telepistemology

I know P if and only if:

1) I believe that P,

2) this belief is justified, and

3) P is true.

(Plato)

Legal Tender

www.counterfeit.org

(1996-7)

Title 18, Section 333: Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill ...shall be fined or imprisoned.

Invisible Cantilever

(1996)

SEM Microphoto////

Memento Mori(1997-)

Dislocation of Intimacy

(1998)

MIT Press (2000)

The Robot in the Garden:Telerobotics and Telepistemology on

the Internet

• Borgmann• Campanella• Canny and Paulos• Donath• Dreyfus• Goldman• Druckrey• Grau• Grzinic

• Hannaford• Idinopulos• Jay• Kac• Kusahara• Malina• Malpas• Manovich• Merleau=-Ponty• Wilson

ThanksSteven Gentner, Jeff Wiegley, Joe Santarromana, Richard Wallace,

Eric Paulos, John Canny, Florian Brody, Sarah Hahn, Gerfried Stoker, Rosemary Morris, Roger Malina, Lind Gee, Peter Lunenfeld, Carl Sutter, George Bekey,

ErichBerger, Mark Pauline, Judith Donath, Karl Bohringer, Woj

Matusik, Bob Farzin.

Dislocation of Intimacy, 1998-Memento Mori, 1998- Shadowserver, 1997- Legal Tender, 1996-7 Invisible Cantilever, 1996 The Telegarden, 1995-8 Mercury Project, 1994 Data Dentata, 1993

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Other WWW Robots

• Australian Six Axis Arm (1994)

• Xavier (1995)• Mechanical Gaze (1995)• Space Browser (1996)

Telepresence Art

• Eduardo Kac• Ken Feingold• Michael Naimark• Steve Wilson• Netband• Julia Scher

Telegarden

• Multi-Tasking• Customizable User Interface• MPEG video choreography

http://telegarden.aec.at

Ars Electronica Center, through 6/97:

"The electric light escapes attention as a communication medium precisely because it has no `content'.” - M. McLuhan

Interactive CAD

• remote interactive optimization testbed

http:\\riot.ieor.berkeley.edu