Feedback for Web-EM-03

Car locking system

"It is this exploration of the model's [semantic] frame that is unique to the study of EM"

Countenancing 'taking the car door off' as well as 'opening the car door'

Empirically Modelling [!] a Fire Control System

[a real-world example of Human Computing - at any rate as manifest in the progressive transition from manual to an automated action]
integration of the model with a historical and practical narrative
rooting the modelling in contextual and physical observation, incremental development and progressive automation

Domestic robots developing EM construals [!]

Key idea: "trying to make a robot 'develop a construal'". Cue here for thinking about how observables, dependencies and other agencies might be recognised - and awareness of the empirical nature of this recognition.
There are robots that vacuum rooms - so what can EM potentially add?
Danger of projecting an external objective view onto a situation: "simulating the robot measuring distances" needs to be addressed from the perspective of the robot's potential "perception" of state
Robot supposedly identifies the room it's in by the dimensions of it' - but in fact when the robot is moved from one room to another (e.g. by a super-agent), it doesn't evaluate the distances from walls in the room and return a room index - the button agency that moves the robot into another room encodes the knowledge about which room the robot is in.
trigger for identifying the room is that 'currRoom' has changed - whereas should be that some observable that might influence the robot-perceived identity of the room has changed
Likewise, in motion of the robot, expect an appropriate response to moving the door whilst the robot is in motion.

Upgrading Sasami

creating primitive objects within Sasami without using external modellers
possible to redefine Sasami objects without replicating objects (A serious deficiency in the original Sasami as a definitive notation!)

An Eden-base Digital Logic Simulator

Remarkable piece of work given the difficulties of the programming medium! - e.g. the presence of many components with generic characteristics
abandoning the use of definitions in favour of actions to cope with feedback loops
no dependency --> clock --> previous state
external observer concept of global state potentially problematic?
of an EM model: 'empirically it never is finished' vs 'empirically it is finished'
A cut above the usual critique of EM from an OO programming perspective

DOSTE

Difficult to map DOSTE to EM!
more acknowledgement of the role and character of agency is needed? - especially the uncircumscribed nature of this agency
potential benefit to EM:
- value in having better means to describe behaviours using scripts
- getting away from the current hybrid definitive-procedural platform that a conventional OS requires

Synesthesia for all

Emphasis on the interactive and interpretative elements of model-making good
incorporates an RGB to HSL colour model converter - should be implemented as a function?
Shows good awareness of the personal subjective nature of EM

Distances between cars in traffic

unusual model - visual representation of qualitative dependencies: prominent experiential emphasis
dependencies being maintained aren't easily specified precisely by a formula
highlights personal subjective perceptual and psychological factors
definitely a promising area in which might have introduced LSD