Virtual Ideas Research Articles

Mothers with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Behavioral Health Conditions and Community Experts Provide Recommendations for Treatment/Services, Systems, and Research.

Mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are vulnerable to perinatal complications and adverse outcomes. Their vulnerabilities may also be exacerbated by co-occurring behavioral health (BH) conditions. Their wellbeing may be compromised by a lack of tailored treatments or by treatments and services that are inaccessible, irrelevant, and/or ineffective. A five-session virtual Ideas Lab workshop series was implemented to bring together diverse community experts (n = 30), including mothers with IDD/BH, to discuss the experiences of mothers and set priorities for treatment/services, systems, and research. Participants completed background and evaluation surveys and brainstormed, grouped, and ranked items of importance, which fell into two broad categories: (1) cross-cutting themes drawn from lived experience with recommendations applicable to all substantive domains (i.e., accessibility, diversity, adverse experiences and trauma, and trust) and (2) substantive themes with specific recommendations for treatment/services and systems (i.e., services and supports, peer support, provider practices and training, and systems navigation/transformation). Research recommendations were generated in all discussions and emerged in relation to all themes, underscoring the importance of including mother-driven questions and priorities in research agendas and strengthening researcher training and skills to engage mothers with IDD/BH and other community members actively, and in meaningful ways.

Virtualizing Pragmatism

This paper aims at exploring a particular dimension of the affinity between Gilles Deleuze and pragmatism: his ontology of the virtual, which results in a metaphysics of power. In Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza, the essence of an entity is identical to its power: what can it do? substitutes the Socratic ti esti? as the leading philosophical question. This shift, operated by Spinoza and given a new and adequate ontology by Deleuze, is very close to Peirce’s pragmatic revolution: if Deleuze’s virtual ideas are identical to the range of variations in power and affects that a body may go through, Peirce defines meaning in terms of the whole range of possible effects that an idea would produce if taken to be true. Contradictory as it may sound, the concept of the virtual entails something like a pragmaticism of the singular, which informs every aspect of Deleuze’s philosophy: his doctrine of faculties and his theory of praxis will be used as instances of this pervasiveness. This pragmatist reading of Deleuze could possibly shape an alternative path for contemporary pragmatism: instead of valorising its “edifying” (linguistic, historicistic, humanistic) tendency, Deleuze allows to highlight the vitality of the second vein of pragmatism, the “constructive,” empiricist, speculative, even metaphysical one.

Larval intelligence: Approaching AI in terms of Deleuze’s “system of the dissolved self”

In this article, the work of Gilles Deleuze, specifically in his 1968 book, Difference and Repetition, is investigated in order to make a contribution at a philosophical and conceptual level to the question of what kind of cognitive architecture could best facilitate progress towards strong artificial general intelligence. After tracing the outlines of Deleuze’s consistently genetic position on the emergence of thought from material sensibility, it is argued that the situated, embodied, dynamic (SED) architecture proposed by cognitive scientist Randall Beer has affinities with the Deleuzian understanding of thought that merit further investigation. With regard to the “situatedness” strand of SED, affinities with Deleuze’s description of the nested structure of contemplation are pointed out. The “embodied” strand of SED, on the other hand, invites investigation of the correspondence with the genetic line of the emergence of thought as conceived by Deleuze. Finally, the “dynamic” strand of SED which employs dynamic systems theory might benefit from Deleuze’s understanding of virtual ideas as problems that could be actualised in many diverse solutions.

The Intensive Expression of the Virtual: Revisiting the Relation of Expression inDifference and Repetition

In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze claims that it is in virtue of a relation of expression which holds between intensive processes of individuation and virtual Ideas that the former determines the latter to be actualised in concrete entities. He is, however, less than forthcoming in this book about exactly how we should understand the relation of expression. This article addresses itself to this lacuna. It clarifies five characteristic features of the expressive relation, partly by drawing on Deleuze's discussion of the relation of expression in Expressionism in Philosophy, party by examining familiar examples of expressive relations. It then maps these characteristic features of expression onto Deleuze's discussion of the relation between Ideas and intensity in Difference and Repetition, showing that virtual Ideas are ontologically inseparable from the intensive processes that both constitute and actualise them in the production of actual entities. By way of conclusion, this expressive account of the relation between the virtual, the actual and the intensive will be compared and contrasted with several leading accounts to be found in the secondary literature.

Interactive Media-Based Information System Design and its Application

Based on the modernization of educational multimedia video technology is the primary means of education. Analysis of the Web-based virtual learning system design objectives and design ideas, describes the basic architecture of the virtual learning system, architecture, the role of the layers has been described, while the virtual learning system online experiment module design and virtual teaching scene were studied; Finally, the Web-based virtual system online browsing courseware, whiteboard and online experiments and other key technologies to achieve.

Look at Me - Using Signaling Theory to Design Profile Functionalities for Virtual Ideas Communities

In existing virtual ideas communities (VICs) there are no functionalities that allow members to signal directly their skills and competences. While through submitted ideas, users of VICs can signal their competencies indirectly, a possibility to communicate explicitly their skills and competencies is missing. Drawing from existing literature within the field of VICs we assume that users that have the possibility to signal their skills will be more active. Hence, to satisfy members' self-marketing needs, community members have to be provided with possibilities or, more specifically, functionalities which enable them to signalize their proficiencies. Against this backdrop, we designed profile functionalities based on the signaling theory. In addition to systematically designing these IT artefacts, our research in progress also contains a first evaluation.

Introducing Open Innovation to Universities How to Increase Universitiess Innovativeness

In order to react to increasing competition for new students, European universities need to become more attractive and listen to the demands of their students. Open Innovation has proven to be an effective way for the integration of new stakeholders into innovation processes and increase innovativeness. This paper describes the application of a framework for the design of Collective Intelligence task to an Open Innovation context. We will show how the framework supports the conceptual design of an idea generation process for a virtual ideas community platform for a German university. The process will account for the specific environment of public universities and the demands of their students. The paper shows that the framework for Collective Intelligence is also applicable to crowdsourced Open Innovation activities like idea generation.

Idea Contributors Wanted - Towards the Adaption of the Pyramiding Approach to Recruit New Idea Contributors for a Virtual Ideas Competition

In this research in progress paper we report on our efforts to recruit idea contributors for a topic-related ideas competition. Due to the narrow topic of the competition, we expected our present marketing measures to imply high spreading losses. As a consequence we adapted the pyramiding approach for use in an online-based setting. As the study that we are reporting on is at its beginning stages, the main contribution of this paper lies in the adaption of the pyramiding approach for use in a virtual social network. We describe our reasons for using the pyramiding approach, and elaborate on the supposed benefits that an adaption of the pyramiding search within an online setting would imply. We present the first results of this study, which reveal promising insights into the possibility of conducting a pyramiding search in a virtual social network.

Deleuze and Ric ur: Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self

A book on the self by a practising psychiatrist might facilitate much needed dialogue between post-structuralist philosophy and the medical establishment. Sheerin has, at least explicitly, surprisingly little to say about the more habitual topic of the unconscious, however, and, in the broader context of his otherwise beautiful presentation, what he says about it is not always clear. The work's principal aim is to use Deleuze to shore up the simultaneous flimsiness and rigidity of Paul Ricœur's reduction of the self to narrative. Deleuze's status as the thinker of the ungrounding of the self makes this something of a paradoxical undertaking, and there a number of difficulties. Yet Sheerin has produced a striking and valuable account of a concept that, for all its undoubted importance, is frequently treated only by way of shorthand, dismissed as a modern philosophical dogma we can simply do without. In addition to sustained and thorough readings of both Deleuze and Ricœur, he draws on a range of illustrations from film and literature, notably the Irish legend of Mad Sweeney, but also Blade Runner, whose presence serves considerably to anchor intricate philosophical argumentation. The multiple literary and theoretical voices in the text capture the rearticulation of the self around multiple, overlapping, provisional narratives, even multiple selves, weaved together through the imagination. Following a lucid account of the Kantian conception of selfhood, Sheerin takes as his point of departure Ricœur's reproach of Heidegger. Ricœur rejects the latter's overemphasis on being-toward-death, the uncertainties of the future, at the expense of the formation of identity through the inheritance and narration of past events. Sheerin argues that to account for the birth and infancy that precede the ability to narrate, phenomenological hermeneutics must be supplemented by an ‘ontogenesis’ of narrative. This leads him to the Deleuzian virtual, a transcendental field of experience that does not ordinarily yield itself to representation. The virtual becomes the site of multiple pre-narrative selves that introduce difference and multiplicity into a thinking of narrative difference, allowing narrative to come into existence at the interface between virtual and actual. Deleuze's references to larval selves and an ‘âme’ existing on the plane of immanence underwrite the argument, and Sheerin reads him fairly literally, despite drawing attention to the (anti-metaphorical) philosopher's own recourse to metaphor. The case for some sense of virtual selfhood is made quite rigorously, but Deleuzians would still want to take issue with what will be seen as an anthropomorphism of his constitutive antihumanism. The discussion of virtual ideas, for example, at times gives the impression that they inhere in consciousness, as opposed to being the intensities from which the organization of consciousness emerges. Related to this, perhaps not enough is said about Deleuze's identification of the virtual with the unconscious and how this applies to Lacan, sporadically invoked in relation to an underdeveloped idea of jouissance féminine. Sheerin thus provides the analytical rigour that the concept of selfhood deserves, but teeters towards reintroducing it via the back door.

Collaboration between students and experts in a virtual design studio

The present study examined the design process as a socially and physically mediated activity. This activity was investigated in the context of design education, where students imported their design proposals into the virtual design studio; then, with external domain experts, they discussed and modified them. The study proposed a framework for constructing the horizontal and vertical development of design representations and for analysing expert participation through these representations within the virtual design studio. The results indicated that the design representations had an essential role in the process of continually improving design ideas. The conceptual and visual representations served as a basis for experts to evaluate and question students' design proposals or to create new ideas. In addition to the virtual collaboration, the feedback and ideas from the prototype-testing situation played a very substantial role in students' design decisions.

Transfromation in Deleuze and Heidegger

The relationship between identity and change, being and becoming, is one of the oldest problems in Western philosophy. Is it possible to bridge the gap between these apparent opposites in order to make sense of a world that seems orderly yet subject to fundamental alterations? Atomistic materialism has attempted to solve this problem by restricting change to the spatiotemporal movement and causal relations of the basic forces and forms of matter, which, including the complications specified in quantum mechanics, have a static set of properties and are governed by unchanging laws. If this approach is too conservative because it ignores the historical transformation of the basic components of every theory, to what extent can we describe such unique and unexpected shifts without ending up with the haphazard chaos of a Cratylan flux? We are apparently caught in the dilemma of saying too much about the process of change and eliminating the possibility of transformation or saying too little and stripping the world of order and continuity. The latter problem confronts intuitionistic theories of singularity, which maintain that unique and unforeseeable events are incommensurable with preceding events and are only accessible through nondiscursive intuition. To a great extent, the prominence of the concept of repetition in continental philosophy is motivated by the attempt to avoid both of these extremes: If singularities arise from a repetition of past events that transforms these events rather than identically reproducing them, then singularities remain continuous with the past but are irreducible to it. In what follows, we will examine the role of continuity and transformation in Deleuze and Heidegger's conceptions of repetition, who, I believe, are the most articulate representatives of two distinct strains of continental thought on this issue. We will conclude with a critical examination of their views. The Serial Method For both Deleuze and Heidegger, repetition is closely tied to the question or problem, a lacuna that continually disrupts the self-evident order of the world. Unlike Heidegger, however, Deleuze maintains that we are not confronted by a single, overarching question but by a changing plurality of problems that are closely connected with everyday activities and concerns. We resolve the indeterminacies in our actual, conscious experience by articulating the virtual order of ideas that underlies experience, though these lacunae are replaced by new ones. According to Deleuze, virtual ideas are completely determinate and, like Kant's regulative ideas, provide the ideal of systematic unity that holds our actual experience together (DR 218-20/168-69).1 In contrast, however, the virtual ideas are not merely regulative but are as real as actual entities and causally determine the latter. According to Deleuze, the idea is a multiplicity that consists in virtual elements, the differential relations between these elements, and the singularities or distinctive points that are generated by these relations (DR 356/278). The elements are holistic and merely formal insofar as they are defined in terms of their relations and have no independent existence. For example, the idea of color consists in the relation of the three primary colors, considered as ideal elements rather than the colors we experience. These relations generate all of the possible colors. Virtual ideas in all their various forms-e.g., mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, social, and linguistic-are reducible to the relation between a set of differential elements; thisindicates one sense in which they are completely determinate (DR 236-37, 266-67, 356,242/182-83,206,278,187; QRS 250-51/ 179). According to Deleuze, virtual ideas are actualized through the progressive determination of the relations between their elements, which results in a continuous emission of ordinary or distinctive points. There are distinctive points, or singularities, in every event that determine the remaining ordinary points, such as the corners of a square. …

A course in computer structures

In this subject, we treat computer structure as an element of a group of interacting structures including the technology, algorithm, data, and programming language. In the belief that the best designs result when these structural factors “match” in a complementary manner, the influence of each of these domains is carefully studied at both the conceptual and descriptive levels. Thus a modular treatment of current technology is provided, as well as a thorough analysis of algorithmic structure as reflected in computational schemata. Single-sequence machine design is discussed, including advanced topics such as multiple functional unit conflict resolution. Following a presentation of microprogramming and input/output, virtual ideas centered around the notion of process are introduced, leading to the design of multiprocessing and multiprocessor systems. These ideas are applied and extended in the presentation of the Burroughs B6700 as a higher-level language machine designed to execute ALGOL efficiently. Finally, the subject concludes with an introduction to general interpretive structures for high-level languages.