Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments / / Fillia Makedon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910412120403321
• Autore: Makedon Fillia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 362.4
• Soggetti: Assistive listening systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: This year, the conference theme of "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments" takes a special meaning at this unique time in a world that is gripped by a pandemic crisis, as scientific results also bolster assistive technologies designed to meet human needs. Indeed, many of PETRA's AI based methods show compelling social applications to help build, stone by stone (PETRA means stone in Greek), new ways of life to survive in an increasingly challenging world. Results range from basic research in computer vision, machine learning, data mining, human robot interaction, and big data, to engineering applications in robotics, sensors, devices and software solutions that address physical, cognitive, and mental performance assessment and monitoring. The conference addresses the needs of both healthy individuals and persons with special needs, such as providing safe in-home care for the elderly, or persons with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, chronic arthritis, PTSD, low vision, autism, COPD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and other conditions.

Between nihilism and faith [[electronic resource] ] : a commentary in Either/or / / Karsten Harries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792594103321
• Autore: Harries Karsten
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-71646-8; 9786612716461; 3-11-174235-0; 3-11-022689-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Collana: Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, , 1434-2952 ; ; 21
• Classificazione: CH 8515
• Disciplina: 198/.9
• Soggetti: Danish literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diapsalmata -- 3. Immediacy and Reflection -- 4. Don Juan -- 5. Modern Tragedy -- 6. The Fellowship of the Dead -- 7. Kitsch -- 8. The Rotation of Crops -- 9. The Diary of the Seducer -- 10. In Defense of Marriage -- 11. Two Concepts of Freedom -- 12. The Meaning of "Either-Or" -- 13. Ultimatum -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep it responsible. We cannot escape this history, which has issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the ethical questionable. Nor could Kierkegaard. The specter of nihilism haunts all of his writings, as it haunts already German romanticism, to which he is so indebted. To exorcize it is his most fundamental concern. And it is the same fundamentally religious concern that makes Kierkegaard so relevant to our situation: What today is to make life meaningful? If not reason, does the turn to the aesthetic promise an answer? To really choose is to bind freedom. Either-Or calls us to make such a choice, i.e. to be authentic. But what does it mean to be authentic? How are we today to think of such an authentic choice? As autonomous action? As a ; blind leap? As a leap of faith? Either/Or circles around these questions.