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Images

• Photographs by Tobi Delbruck
• Photographs by Kynan Eng
• Photographs by Stefan Kubli
• Photographs by Paul Verschure

Videos

• Ada - intelligent space [YouTube]
  ♦ Overview of the Ada exhibit at the Swiss Expo.02
• Ada - a playful interactive space [YouTube]
  ♦ Another overview of Ada at Expo.02 including some details of tile design and technical operation
• A day in the life of Ada [YouTube]
  ♦ Summary of interactions with Ada (main space only)

Music samples

Papers - General

• K. Eng, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. J. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. M. Whatley, A. Wittmann, R. Wyss, and P. F. M. J. Verschure, Ada - Intelligent Space: An artificial creature for the Swiss Expo.02, presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2003), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003.
• T. Delbrück, K. Eng, A. Bäbler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, A. Briska, M. Costa, R. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. Wittmann, A. Whatley, R. Wyss, and P. Verschure, Ada: a playful interactive space, presented at Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact 2003), Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.
• K. Eng, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, A. Briska, J. Conradt, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, T. Netter, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. Whatley, A. Wittmann, R. Wyss, and P. Verschure, Ada: Constructing a Synthetic Organism, presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002.
• K. Eng, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, A. Briska, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, T. Netter, F. Roth, K. Wassermann, A. Whatley, A. Wittmann, and P. Verschure, Ada: Buildings as Organisms, presented at Game, Set and Match, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Holland, 2003.
• Ada fact sheet

Papers - Neuroscience & machine learning

• K. Eng, D. Klein, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. J. Douglas, K. Hepp, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. M. Whatley, A. Wittmann, R. Wyss, and P. F. M. J. Verschure, Design for a brain revisited: The neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space Ada, Reviews in the Neurosciences, vol. 14, pp. 145-180, 2003.
• K. Eng, R. J. Douglas, and P. F. M. J. Verschure, An Interactive Space that Learns to Influence Human Behaviour, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, vol. 35, pp. 66-77, 2005.

Papers - Human-machine interaction

• K. Eng, M. Mintz, T. Delbruck, R. J. Douglas, A. M. Whatley, J. Manzolli and P. F. M. J. Verschure, An Investigation of Collective Human Behavior in Large-Scale Mixed Reality Spaces, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments August 2006, vol. 15(4): 403-418.
• K. Eng, M. Mintz, and P. F. M. J. Verschure, Collective Human Behavior in Interactive Spaces, presented at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005), Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Papers - Technology

• T. Delbruck, A. M. Whatley, R. J. Douglas, K. Eng, K. Hepp and P. F. M. J. V. Verschure, A Tactile Luminous Floor for an Interactive Autonomous Space, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55: 433-443 (2007)
• K. C. Wassermann, J. Manzolli, K. Eng, and P. F. M. J. Verschure, Live soundscape composition based on synthetic emotions, IEEE Multimedia, vol. 10, pp. 82-90, 2003.
• T. Delbrück, R. J. Douglas, P. Marchal, P. F. M. J. Verschure, and A. M. Whatley, A device for controlling a physical system, in US 6,603,082; EP 1091334; JP2001180810: ETH Zurich, 2003.