scholarly journals Art and Design Practices as a Driver for Deformable Controls, Textures and Screen Interactions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cameron Steer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Art ◽  
Specific Element ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Digital Version ◽  
Deformable Interface ◽  
Design Interfaces ◽  
Screen System ◽  
Physical Tools ◽  
Future Work

In this thesis, we demonstrate the innovative uses of deformable interfaces to help de-velop future digital art and design interactions. The great benefits of advancing digital art can often come at a cost of tactile feeling and physical expression, while traditional methods celebrate the diverse sets of physical tools and materials. We identified these sets of tools and materials to inform the development of new art and design interfaces that offer rich physical mediums for digital artist and designers. In order to bring forth these unique inter-actions, we draw on the latest advances in deformable interface technology. Therefore, our research contributes a set of understandings about how deformable interfaces can be har-nessed for art and design interfaces. We identify and discuss the following contributions: insights into tangible and digital practices of artists and designers; prototypes to probe the benefits and possibilities of deformable displays and materials in support of digital-physical art and design, user-centred evaluations of these prototypes to inform future developments, and broader insights into the deformable interface research.Each chapter of this thesis investigates a specific element of art and design, alongside an aspect of deformable interfaces resulting in a new prototype. We begin the thesis by studying the use of physical actuation to simulate artist tools in deformable surfaces. In this chapter, our evaluations highlight the merits of improved user experiences and insights into eyes-free interactions. We then turn to explore deformable textures. Driven by the tactile feeling of mixing paints, we present a gel-based interface that is capable of simulating the feeling of paints on the back of mobile devices. Our evaluations showed how artists endorsed the interactions and held potential for digital oil painting.Our final chapter presents research conducted with digital designers. We explore their colour picking processes and developed a digital version of physical swatches using a mod-ular screen system. This use of tangible proxies in digital-based processes brought a level of playfulness and held potential to support collaborative workflows across disciplines. To conclude, we share how our outcomes from these studies could help shape the broader space of art and design interactions and deformable interface research. We suggest future work and directions based on our findings.

Conclusion

2013 ◽  
pp. 370-371
Author(s):  
Raoul Pascal Pein ◽  
Joan Lu ◽  
Wolfgang Renz
Keyword(s):  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Future Work

In this final chapter of the section, the conclusion of this book section is given. It is summarized how the initial hypothesis has been investigated and which answer has been found. A brief summary of the achievements as well as the intended future work in this area are presented.

Maritime History at the Crossroads

1995 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Future Work

This volume seeks to critically review the contemporary state of maritime historiography, as it stands at the volume’s publication date of 1995. The volume is comprised of thirteen essays, each focused on the recent research into the maritime concerns of a particular geographical location, listed as follows: Australia; Canada; China; Denmark; Germany; Greece; Ibero-America; India; the Netherlands; the Ottoman Empire; Spain; the United States; and a final chapter concerning historians and maritime labour in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. One concern made evident by the collection is the lack of stable identity and cohesive aims within maritime history, the subject holds many conflicting definitions and concepts. The purpose of this volume is to explore the recent developments in maritime history, plus the growth of scholarly interest, to provide a ‘beacon and stimulus for future work’ and to clearly direct and define maritime historiography toward a solid position in the field of history.

Future Directions

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. S125-S130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Arensman ◽  
Diego De Leo ◽  
Jane Pirkis
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Future Work

Abstract. This final chapter focuses on the progress made so far in the area of suicide prevention and calls attention to considerations for future work. Recommendations for the implementation of national suicide prevention strategies are proposed, including close collaboration between countries within the same geographic region, as well as guidance from countries wherein national strategies have successfully implemented, such as the sharing of effective strategy templates. In addition, the value of accurate surveillance data in overcoming barriers, informing actions and responding to real time trends in suicide and self-harm is emphasized. The need for more systematic research into the efficacy of intervention and prevention approaches is also highlighted. Furthermore, the provision of governmental support to ensure long-term sustainability of national suicide prevention strategies is endorsed. Approaches to enhance the evaluation of the efficacy of national suicide prevention strategies and interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborations are discussed. Finally, recommended resources to assist in implementing and evaluating key components of national suicide prevention strategies are listed.

Conclusions

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Timothy G. Barraclough
Keyword(s):  
Time Series Data ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Develop Model ◽  
Genome Data ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Future Work

This final chapter summarizes conclusions from the book and highlights a few general areas for future work. The species model for the structure of diversity is found to be useful and largely supported by current data, but is open to future tests against explicit alternative models. It is also a vital component for understanding and predicting contemporary evolution in the diverse systems that all organisms live in. The common evolutionary framework for microbial and multicellular life is highlighted, while drawing attention to current gaps in understanding for each type of organism. Future work needs to scale up to develop model systems of diverse assemblages and clades, including time-series data ranging from contemporary to geological scales. The imminent avalanche of genome data for thousands of individuals sampled within and between species is identified as a key challenge and opportunity. Finally, this chapter repeats the challenge that evolutionary biologists should embrace diversity and need to attempt to predict evolution in diverse systems, in order to deliver solutions of benefit to society.

A Network Approach to Define Modularity of Product Components

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel E. Sosa ◽  
Anupam Agrawal ◽  
Steven D. Eppinger ◽  
Craig M. Rowles
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Aircraft Engine ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Design Interfaces ◽  
Future Work

We consider complex products as a network of components that share technical interfaces in order to function as a whole. Building upon previous work in graph theory and social network analysis, we define three measures of component modularity that consider how components may share direct interfaces with other adjacent components, how design interfaces may propagate to all other components in the product, and how components may act as “bridges” between other components. We calculate and interpret all three measures of component modularity by studying the actual product architecture of a large commercial aircraft engine. We illustrate how to use these measures to test their impact on component redesign. Directions for future work are discussed.

Augumenting The Physiognomic Gaze Across Space and Time: A Conversation with onformative

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Devon Schiller ◽  
Cedric Kiefer
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Meandering River ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Sensory Modalities

Augmented photography can be used in the digital arts to over-code upon real-world environments with computer-generated data, in order to translate stimuli across sensory modalities, and thereby extent or increase our faculties for perceiving spatial and temporal relations. Because of this media-specific affordance, the augmentation of the photographic medium may have especial application for the “physiognomic gaze,” a way of doing “form interpretation” or “nature knowing” based on the physical behaviors and psychological phenomena of the human face, head and body. The innovativeness of such technological prosthetics becomes manifest how new ways are generated to both perceive and to know those experiences that were previously unseeable or otherwise unsensable. Here, I converse with Cedric Kiefer (co-founder and creative lead) of the onformative studio for digital art and design in Germany about their works Meandering River (2017), Pathfinder (2014) and Google Faces (2013). And we explore how onformative uses the augmented photograph in their digital artworks to extend the physiognomic gaze, bringing data not visible to the naked eye into the senseable sphere, to offer the audience different perspectives about space and time. Keywords: augmented photography, computer-generated data, digital art and science, onformative, physiognomic gaze

Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Hieronymi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Metaphysics Of Morals ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Modern Moral Philosophy

P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology to sociology. This book closely reexamines Strawson's paper and concludes that his argument has been underestimated and misunderstood. Line by line, the book carefully untangles the complex strands of Strawson's ideas. After elucidating his conception of moral responsibility and his division between “reactive” and “objective” responses to the actions and attitudes of others, the book turns to its central argument. Strawson argues that, because determinism is an entirely general thesis, true of everyone at all times, its truth does not undermine moral responsibility. The book finds the two common interpretations of this argument, “the simple Humean interpretation” and “the broadly Wittgensteinian interpretation” both deficient. Drawing on Strawson's wider work in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, the book concludes that the argument rests on an implicit, and previously overlooked, metaphysics of morals, one grounded in Strawson's “social naturalism.” The final chapter defends this naturalistic picture against objections. The book sheds new light on Strawson's thinking and has profound implications for future work on free will, moral responsibility, and metaethics. It also features the complete text of Strawson's “Freedom and Resentment.”

The practice of scalecraft

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Natalie Papanastasiou
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Scalar Politics ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Shed Light

The book’s final chapter discusses how the lens of scalecraft has helped to generate new readings of policy which take into account the scalar politics of policymaking. The discussion reflects on how scale played out in each of the empirical chapters, and how analysis has shed light on the under-examined relationship between policy, scale, and hegemony. Key features of the practice of scalecraft are also developed, including a description of three scalecraft techniques, and by doing so the book offers scholars of policy a clear framework for integrating a critical approach to scale in their analyses. The chapter also discusses how scalecraft contributes to the wider literatures of policy studies, political geography, and education governance. The book concludes by outlining the potential which lies in future work engaging with conceptualisations of spatial politics that go beyond scale.

Conclusions and future work

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-216
Author(s):  
Nicholas Owen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Future Work

The final chapter—chapter 12—reviews the main findings of the book and its implications. It also makes some proposals for future scholarly work on adherence. The chapter addresses the three principal audiences of the book—social movement theorists, political theorists, and historians, especially of Britain—indicating the possibilities for future work and interdisciplinary conversations between them. It also considers the ambivalence of contemporary responses to adherence and argues that exploring this ambivalence in greater depth is a good direction for future work.

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