Semiotic Flesh by Thurtle Phillip;Mitchell Robert E.;

Author:Thurtle, Phillip;Mitchell, Robert E.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press

This scenario builds its vision of the future from systems like Hunter's microsurgical robot. Among the many remarkable features in this account, perhaps one of the most salient for my purposes is the medialization and simultaneous rewriting of human agency depicted. The Committee on Virtual Reality Research focuses on the utility of the system for teaching purposes. In Hunter's system, multiple participants can be “faded in” and “faded out” so that they actually feel what the surgeon directing the robot feels. But here a reverse video effect seems to set in: it is difficult to determine who is in control, robot system or human. A human team clearly programs the robot, but the robot enhances perception and actually guides the hand of the surgeon, correcting for errors due to (human-generated) hand tremor. The guiding hand of the microsurgical system “trains” Jennifer's erratic movements.

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