Long points out that a robot is hardware that is situated in the world, while a computer-simulated agent is represented on a piece of hardware (i.e., on a computer, which admits of physical description) situated in the world.
In Ritter's music lessons, children wave a conductor's baton to move icons of instruments to the right place in an orchestra, represented virtually on a computer screen.
Soon they had created an animated diagram of the entire social network, with each resident represented on their computer screens as a dot that grew bigger or smaller as he or she gained or lost weight over 32 years, from 1971 to 2003.
A digital computer is a series of switches, or bits, that can represent "on" or "off" and "0″ or "1".
Finally, as noted elsewhere [ 34], the multimedia intervention tested by Llewellyn-Thomas et al. in 1995 was merely a standard consent form presented on a computer screen, representing variability in what the category of "multimedia" entails [ 35].
To depict this tension, Jason and Ali communicate via Skype, represented on stage by two laptop computers placed back-to-back with Jason and Ali standing on either side facing one another.
The measures are computed using trajectories obtained from a computer vision tracking algorithm and represented on heat-maps.
While it was interesting to see members of a band connecting and performing regardless of geography, it wasn't much of a performance, since the other members of the band were only represented as thumbnails and music waveforms on a computer screen.
Mr. Vilca was charged with 454 counts of possession, each count representing one image found on the computer.
The probability of dying was represented graphically on the computer screen by blackening out a corresponding proportion of a grid of 100 faces.
