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The Metaplastic Virtual Spaces
Abstract
Virtual reality systems need new metaphors for their communication. This paper presents a fuzzy enhanced semantic virtual
space model. The application of the model tries to improve its conceptualization and definition of a new virtual world system.
The paper explains more precisely the theoretical and artistic background of metaplastic virtual worlds evolutions,from their
archetypes to their definition.
... This imagined space can be produced by inverting, abstracting, or contradicting ordinary environments (Burrows, 2020). This aesthetic approach is related to futurism, abstract art, and constructivism (Mura, 2007). ...
Background Despite the significant level of recent interest in social virtual reality (VR), there has been little discussion about environment design considerations that affect social interactions. This study suggests two possibilities for environment design in social VR. One is reality-based worlds where the definition of place is obvious, and the other is virtuality-based worlds where the definition of place is ambiguous. This study aims to explore environment roles in social VR by comparing behaviours and users' responses in the two environments, with a focus on the early stages of social VR. Methods This study collected data from 46 research participants who were assigned to a team and arranged in a virtuality-based or reality-based environment setting. In order to explore initial social interactions, data of exploration and meeting sessions were collected. The differences in behaviour, according to their environment, were compared based on the coding scheme via video recording. For qualitative analysis, a contextual interview was held to understand affective responses by the given environment and the environmental factors influencing behaviours. Results As a result of the behaviour observation analysis, specific behaviours were prominent according to the provided environment designs in the early stages of social interactions. Significantly, we found that the behaviour of gazing at other participants (S_HeD) was significantly higher in the virtuality-based environment, and the behaviour of manipulating objects (In_Obj) was prominent in the reality-based space during the exploration session. On the other hand, the gap in behaviour decreased during the meeting session. As a result of the interview analysis, it was revealed that the virtuality-based environment indicates freedom to users, while the reality-based environment provides familiarity. Conclusions This research contributes to exploring the design possibilities and considerations through user data analysis of the different social VR environments. The study illustrates the importance of environment design in social VR and showes that the design can induce specific behaviours according to its contextual meaning. Also, social interactions can be motivated depending on how users affectively accept the environment. Understanding the role of environment design is significant for successful social VR functioning.
... Similarly, the digital medium can convincingly expand and reformat the analogue world into a highly malleable and plastic digital simulation (Mura, 2008). The virtual world also has an equal capacity, in what could be seen as an autopoietic (Maturana & logically and economically throughout the Exonet. ...
A provocative analysis of two critical paradigmatic shifts in human technology use. This short chapter tessellates Neolithic tool use with Anthropogenic computer code applications which appear bound together by the behavioural fundamentals of curiosity, exploratory behaviours and environmental affordance leverage. In summation the chapter explores and compares human Anthropology and humanities Digital Anthropology through the lens of technological progress and raises some creatively destructive conclusions designed to propel and accelerate further discussion and chart future possible trajectories.
This chapter introduces a methodology of metaplastic discipline for the realization of new virtual world. It explains the theoretical and artistic background of metaplastic virtual worlds evolutions, from their archetypes to their definition. The union between the plastic elements and the fuzzy logic systems, found its expression with new metaplastic aesthetic values. The virtual media acquire form and meaning through its process of conceptual interpretation. The metaphor of the artistic machine finds its new realization where the machine itself becomes aesthetic expression of the virtuality. The following paragraphs use metaplastic definitions within Art and Sciences application fields. In the conclusion of this chapter, two practical examples will be introduced.
This chapter describes the theory of the Metaplastic metadiscipline (Ars MetaPlastica), a science-artdesign research field that studies the most recent technological influences into the contemporary culture. It discusses the realization of the metaplastic virtual media through interdisciplinary methodologies between reality and virtual realities. The virtual media acquire form and meaning through its process of conceptual interpretation. The metaphor of the artistic machine finds its new realization where the metaplastic machine itself becomes aesthetic expression of the virtuality. The Open Metaplastic framework's art approach applied to software and hardware modeling design are also discussed and some examples of applications are introduced.
This chapter defines a new metaplastic discipline through analysis of Digital art history and their relations among artistic and scientific achievements. Virtual Realities found in Art and Science a new modality of definition based on technological codifying with language philosophies that interpret new digital aesthetics. It would be introduced new metaplastic virtual media used in different research areas with examples of applications.
Interaction systems with the user need complex and suitable conceptual and multisensorial new media definition. This study analyzes social and conceptual evolutions of digital media and proposes an interactive mixed-space media model which communicates the information contents and enhances the user experience between interactive space of physical objects and online virtual space. Its feedback gives information through user performance among its multisensorial interfaces. The research widens previous research publications, and gives precisely a definition of a fuzzy logic cognitive and emotional perception level to the metaplastic multimedia model. It augments the interaction quality within its conceptual media space through an action-making loop and gives as a result new contents of information within its metaplastic metaspace configurations.
This virtual art installation aims to add new complexities to Arts and Technology through the Metaplastic visual languages. The MetaPlastic Cosmos are mixed realities conceptual cyberspaces expressed through wireless connections between the immersant and the virtual space within perceptual arousal synaesthetic flows of lights, chromatics and sounds.
This paper introduces an open and conceptual platform of met plastic discipline for the realization of new media and interdisciplinary methodologies of Cyber Arts between reality and virtual realities. It explains the theoretical and artistic background of met plastic met space and virtual worlds evolutions, from their archetypes to their definition. The following paragraphs use met plastic definitions within art and sciences application fields. In the conclusion of this paper a practical example is introduced.
The globalization of the real world we live has been almost exploding in its speed and scale spatiotemporally in all the key aspects including business, economy, industry, education and culture, making it hard for human beings to cognize what's going on and deal with them . Thus the links between the real world and conceptual world is getting weaker. The globalization is mainly driven by the Web-based activities in their cyberspaces creating cyberworlds as seen in e-business, e-commerce, e-manufacturing and cultural heritages through the Web and on the Web. Thus the links between the real world and cyberworlds are ever becoming tighter nonlinearly in time and space. It is now crucial to find a way to automatically integrate the dynamically changing worlds, namely the real world, cyberworlds and conceptual worlds, fast enough to cope with the rapid changes. It is a hard task owing to the vast complexity of the worlds to be integrated, and it requires an advanced abstraction modeling. This is an interim progress report on it, presenting the outline based on the previous works on the abstraction hierarchy modeling of cyberworlds to realize an incrementally modular hierarchical modeling of cyberworlds via attaching spaces as quotient spaces and attaching maps. Attaching spaces are also for unique integration of the worlds that are real, cyber, and/or conceptual. They also guarantee liner interoperability of the integrated worlds to eliminate the combinatorial explosion of the computing in their complexity.
The problem of the relation between our bodies and our minds, and espe cially of the link between brain structures and processes on the one hand and mental dispositions and events on the other is an exceedingly difficult one. Without pretending to be able to foresee future developments, both authors of this book think it improbable that the problem will ever be solved, in the sense that we shall really understand this relation. We think that no more can be expected than to make a little progress here or there. We have written this book in the hope that we have been able to do so. We are conscious of the fact that what we have done is very conjectur al and very modest. We are aware of our fallibility; yet we believe in the intrinsic value of every human effort to deepen our understanding of our selves and of the world we live in. We believe in humanism: in human rationality, in human science, and in other human achievements, however fallible they are. We are unimpressed by the recurrent intellectual fashions that belittle science and the other great human achievements. An additional motive for writing this book is that we both feel that the debunking of man has gone far enough - even too far. It is said that we had to learn from Copernicus and Darwin that man's place in the universe is not so exalted or so exclusive as man once thought. That may well be.
The complexity of abstract art languages create new semantics in art. This model tries to implement its conceptual language
within creating a new virtual environment. The gap between art and technology has been approached with a fuzzy logic engine
which uses a red and black semantic codification. The examples include the application of this metalanguage to a virtual artwork
experimentation.
The complexity of abstract art languages create new semantics in art. This model tries to implement its conceptual language within creating new virtual environment. The gap between art and technology has been approached with fuzzy logic engine which uses a red and black semantic codification. The examples include the application of this meta-language to a virtual artwork experimentation
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