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Tuesday's final lectures of the term were about affective computing - "Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion or other affective phenomena". MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group have many interesting projects, such as the Huggable robot and Cyberflora. The Affective Diary was also mentioned, which "aims at letting users relive both the physical parts of their experiences as well as the cognitive parts." Readers of this LiveJournal are sure to want to relive my physical experiences and emotions in future.

Current Location: London, UK

Today, I was planning to check out of the fictional B&B I've been staying in, but that wasn't possible, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Term started again and I found myself sitting in another basement lecture theatre. This one had brown stripes and aeroplane-style flip-out tables, but they were wooden and not designed to hold coffee. The lecturer spoke about denying the reality of the external world.