MoBorg: Mobility as Cyborg Prosthesis for "Being a Ball"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We propose an aquatic mobility aid that functions as a prosthetic extension of the mind and body. It provides water access for spinal rehabilitation incorporating a fun playful educational "Vironment" through creation of a smart walk-on-waterball together with a head-mounted and/or ball-mounted display. The system we name "MoBorg" (mobility cyborg) enables gameplay we call "Being a Ball". The gameplay uses the inherently unstable properties of a walk-on-waterball as a balance exercise to engage core muscles for physical fitness + rehab, together with an educational component: games to teach water conservation, garbage cleanup, etc., as well as Quaturnion™ , a virtual 4-dimensional space as a form of imaginal-socio-cyber-physical-fitness eXtended Reality (XR). Moborg is also the world’s first quaternion oscilloscope. It allows us to see and study double-covering (two revolutions per cisoidal quaternion cycle). We also use Moborg to gamify the cleanup of Peter Street Basin in downtown Toronto, as a research project in Vironmentalism™.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
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".