The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design.
The use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of ps...
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| description | The use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of psychological concepts is investigated; further, the role of human associative memory and its exploitation in magical effects is explored. A new trick is developed and evaluated: a physical card trick partially designed by a computational system configured to search for and explore conceptual spaces readily understood by spectators. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-183682dca0a24db59334710286bffd592022-12-22T03:08:25ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01128e018187710.1371/journal.pone.0181877The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design.Howard WilliamsPeter W McOwanThe use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of psychological concepts is investigated; further, the role of human associative memory and its exploitation in magical effects is explored. A new trick is developed and evaluated: a physical card trick partially designed by a computational system configured to search for and explore conceptual spaces readily understood by spectators.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5549901?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Howard Williams Peter W McOwan The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. PLoS ONE |
| title | The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. |
| title_full | The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. |
| title_fullStr | The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. |
| title_short | The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. |
| title_sort | magic words using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design |
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