Over the course of my career in this life I've collected an assortment of toys that work well atop my computer monitors and I've assembled quite a menagerie.<P>Primary Display: Gumby holding a Chinese ...

A Ph.D. student at the University of Basque Country in Spain has presented a thesis arguing that avatars can improve computer communications by getting across the sorts of emotional information ...

As everyone knows who has played computer games that use avatars, avatars are agents controlled by the player. Human consciousness can be likened to be an avatar controlled by the brain and acting on ...