Binding the pair: making a historical case for avicentric self-expression within 3D virtual communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper situates the historical relationship of Traveler, a 3D online virtual community with over ten years of continuous community use, in terms of avicentric expression as the creative protocol. Situated within the framework of contemporary virtual worlds, this paper aims to provide insight into the possibility of Traveler's potential influence on next-generation virtual communities. Specifically, we look at how Second Life's indigenous prosumer culture unconsciously reflects upon Traveler's creation of 3D objects and architectural environments as expressive extensions of identity and social space that together create a blurred boundary between individual avicentrism and community. Retrospectively, beyond Second Life and its infrastructural cousins, the avicentric design affordances of Traveler revolved around an integrated fusion of both oral transmission protocols and concentrated facial communication by head-shaped avatars for the purpose of embodied story-telling. We call this fusion 'binding the pair': the unification of the remote user and the corresponding avatar in the mind of the local viewer.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".