Tom Haymes presents ‘Visual Thinking, AI, and Moving Beyond Text’ moderated by Dene Grigar. AI: Summary Tom Haymes presented his work on the Knowledge Navigator project, which aims to move beyond text-based information processing through visual thinking and AI-assisted concept mapping. His presentation explored how traditional linear text constrains our understanding of complex information patterns… Continue reading Tom Haymes: ‘Visual Thinking, AI, and Moving Beyond Text’
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Folded Ways
Frode Hegland: More Visually Interactive Text
Presentation by Frode Hegland with discussion, moderated by Dene Grigar on making text more visual, with a presentation on design and Author re-design case study asking the question: While still largely conforming to academic practices of formatting, how might we be able to make text more visually parseable? This presentation incldued a Case Study of… Continue reading Frode Hegland: More Visually Interactive Text
Author & Reader : Millard
Presentation by Frode Hegland to Professor David Millard, of Hegland’s software Author and Reader, as well as discussions into XR/VR. Frode Hegland presented two software systems: Author (writing system) and Reader (reading system). Both share features like fullscreen mode (accessed via Escape key) and context menus (accessed via control-click or double tap on trackpad). He… Continue reading Author & Reader : Millard
5 March (dev)
This meeting focused primarily on the design and interaction aspects of the “cube” knowledge object, with discussions about how to visualize and interact with citations and annotations. The participants conceptualized how users could place citations onto the cube, view them from different sides, and unfold the cube to view multiple texts side by side. Fabien… Continue reading 5 March (dev)
Andreea Ion CojoCaru ‘Writing on Water: Embodied Text in a Disembodied Medium’
Presentation by Andreea Ion CojoCaru. Moderated by Dene Grigar. AI: Summary The meeting featured a presentation by Andreea Ion Cojocaru titled “Writing on Water: Body Texts in a Disembodied Medium.” As an architect and VR developer, Andreea explored the conceptual framework for understanding space in extended reality (XR). She began by explaining her architectural approach of… Continue reading Andreea Ion CojoCaru ‘Writing on Water: Embodied Text in a Disembodied Medium’
Authorship in XR : Manuscript
This themed session is a follow up to the first Authorship in XR session, which we would encourage you to have a look at for context. We will be discussing the interfaces for interactions for how to author a ‘Cube’ (our working title for your manuscript/document/slate/pad) in XR based on knowledge objects which are ‘magically’… Continue reading Authorship in XR : Manuscript
Spatial Volumes of Knowledge
Dene, Fabien, I think we might want to pivot to mostly look at Bob Horn murals in XR for academic documents. Let me elaborate… After having gone through the user process https://futuretextlab.info/authorship-process/ and we decided that what we should focus on this year is the act of composing a spatial volumes of knowledge we could… Continue reading Spatial Volumes of Knowledge
AI Overview (general)
Prompt & Result used for the first AI Overview experiment. Prompt Please ignore previous information about me and previous questions when working on this, only consider what I write here. Note that there is not a lot of space to display all your answers so please add only a single line break after each answer… Continue reading AI Overview (general)
Cog Aware (biology)
Prompt & Result used for the first AI Overview experiment. User Information Provided in Settings I am: A university student majoring in biology. I know a lot about: biology, human brain, human computer interaction, knowledge work, tools for thought, culture, sociology I would like to learn more about: IT, technology, programming, hypertext, computers and history of… Continue reading Cog Aware (biology)