This book highlights recent advances in natural computing, including biology and its theory, bio-inspired computing, computational aesthetics, computational models and theories, computing with natural media, philosophy of natural computing and educational technology. It presents extended versions of the best papers selected from the symposium 8th International Workshop on Natural Computing (IWNC7), held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2014. The target audience is not limited to researchers working in natural computing but also those active in biological engineering, fine/media art design, aesthetics and...

This book highlights recent advances in natural computing, including biology and its theory, bio-inspired computing, computational aesthetics, computational models and theories, computing with natural media, philosophy of natural computing and educational technology.

The essence of natural computing is aesthetics; Because touch perception is instinctively related to a sense of beauty, the aesthetics of tactile sense are considered as algorithms by using the Tactile Score, which encodes tactile sensation.