Young People, Digital Cameras, and Art Gallery Spaces

2015 ◽  
pp. 168-188
Author(s):  
Narelle Lemon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Contemporary Context

Young people can take meaningful photographs and are thus capable users of handheld digital technology such as digital cameras. When their digital photographs are paired with their narratives (creating visual narratives) an intertexuality becomes evident whereby the child's voice is honored. By positioning children as capable photographers who generate images to share their lived experiences, this chapter describes a project (called Ways of Seeing) that was interested in how visual narratives could support participatory learning in an art gallery setting. Johnson, Adams & Witchey (2011) trends for 2011 – 2016 identify six emerging technology topics that resonate well with the projects aims and offer several concrete examples of how technology is used in museums and galleries. They believe that digital technology embedded with a contemporary context reflects the reality of education needs, learning and teaching. It is from this perspective that this chapter shares a project that builds on these notions and shares how a digital camera can be used in the gallery space with young people. A visual narrative of the method and a content analysis of the digital images generated by the young people is presented. This chapter demonstrates how it is possible to take digital technology such as digital cameras and embed them into gallery education programs with young people.

Young People in a Gallery with a Digital Camera

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-248
Author(s):  
Narelle Lemon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Context ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Future Program

Digital technologies that serve to develop new ways of engaging with each other and promote learning are challenging how collaborations are formed and enacted in the educational setting. This chapter discusses a project set in Melbourne, Australia, that involved learning about what young people think about visiting a gallery as part of an education program. The twist to this project was placing a digital camera in each of the hands of Grade 3 to 6 primary school students. The investigation centered around seeing if it was possible to integrate digital cameras in a specifically designed gallery program that required students to generate digital still photographs to share their experiences. One of the aims for this approach was for the student voice to inform the gallery educators of what they were engaging with in the gallery space and to influence future program development. The digital camera itself challenged ways of working in the gallery space, as too did listening to young people’s voice to inform learning and teaching as a part of the gallery education programs. Paramount to this project was seeing the transformation of K-12 education in the gallery setting particularly with the digital camera seen as a renewed or revisioned technology, that is, a technology that would not normally be utilized in the gallery space for educational programs. In building on the digital camera’s familiar use in the primary school context, this project highlights the integration of this device as a hand-held mobile technology that supports the crossing of boundaries between school and gallery learning environments and that supports young people to be trusted, honored, and allowed to explore their own voice and choice.

Accelerating semogenesis: an ecosocial approach to photography

2019 ◽  
pp. 147035721988776
Author(s):  
Christian Mosbæk Johannessen ◽  
Morten Boeriis
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Time Frames

Michael Halliday and Christian Matthiessen’s term ‘semogenesis’ refers to how meaning potentials are created through processes on many co-occurring time frames, most prominently those referred to as ‘phylogenesis’, ‘ontogenesis’ and ‘logogenesis’. The concept was originally infused with linguistic concern in an attempt to link a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) account of the lexico-grammatical and semantic strata with lived experience. In this article, the authors rethink the concept in order to (1) broaden its scope to the concerns of multimodal studies, and (2) accommodate how digital technology impacts on our communication practices. They do so by discussing semogenesis from a vantage point of ‘ecosocial semiotics’, a perspective that asks us to blend both sociological, technological, material and biological understandings of human activity. Taking digital photography as an example, the authors argue that digital media afford an acceleration of processes of multimodal semogenesis on all semogenetic time frames. Picking up the notion of ‘microgenesis’, a fourth, faster-than-logogenesis time frame that serves as a placeholder for any process enabling logogenesis, they suggest that this acceleration is driven by the global-scale introduction of digital technology. Through a discussion of select examples from the history of photography, specifically contrasting nascent photographic practice with contemporary photography, they propose that the development from camera to digital camera and the subsequent consolidation in recent decades of digital cameras into smartphones has had a profound impact, not only on practices of photography, but also on the processes of meaning making with photographic material.

scholarly journals Are Inclusive Education or Special Education Programs More Likely to Result in Inclusion Post-School?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Garry Hornby
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Outcome Studies ◽  
Behavioral Difficulties ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Vocational Curriculum

The main goal of both special education and inclusive education for young people with learning or behavioral difficulties is their maximum inclusion in the community as adults. The question of which of these two approaches is more likely to achieve this goal is addressed by considering the findings of three outcome studies of young people with moderate to severe levels of learning or behavioral difficulties who experienced either option, or some combination of the two. The overall findings indicate that students who left school from a special education setting had better outcomes than those who completed their education in mainstream schools. This is considered to be due to the vocational curriculum and work experience they gained in their final years of special education, which those in mainstream schools did not receive. This suggests that a policy of full inclusion, with the closure of special classes and special schools, will result in less inclusion in their communities post-school for young people with moderate to severe levels of learning or behavioral difficulties.

scholarly journals Optical Inspection Systems for Axisymmetric Parts with Spatial 2D Resolution

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1218
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Kulchitskiy
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Optical System ◽  
Measurement Accuracy ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Bodies Of Revolution ◽  
Optical Inspection ◽  
Inspection Systems ◽  
Projection Error

The article proposes a solution to the problem of increasing the accuracy of determining the main shaping dimensions of axisymmetric parts through a control system that implements the optical method of spatial resolution. The influence of the projection error of a passive optical system for controlling the geometric parameters of bodies of revolution from the image of its sections, obtained by a digital camera with non-telecentric optics, on the measurement accuracy is shown. Analytical dependencies are derived that describe the features of the transmission of measuring information of a system with non-telecentric optics in order to estimate the projection error. On the basis of the obtained dependences, a method for compensating the projection error of the systems for controlling the geometry of the main shaping surfaces of bodies of revolution has been developed, which makes it possible to increase the accuracy of determining dimensions when using digital cameras with a resolution of 5 megapixels or more, equipped with short-focus lenses. The possibility of implementing the proposed technique is confirmed by the results of experimental studies.

scholarly journals Bionic Birdlike Imaging Using a Multi-Hyperuniform LED Array

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4084
Author(s):  
Xin-Yu Zhao ◽  
Li-Jing Li ◽  
Lei Cao ◽  
Ming-Jie Sun
Keyword(s):  
Imaging System ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Frame Rate ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Structured Illumination ◽  
Pixel Resolution ◽  
Led Array ◽  
Frequency Aliasing ◽  
Imaging Sensors

Digital cameras obtain color information of the scene using a chromatic filter, usually a Bayer filter, overlaid on a pixelated detector. However, the periodic arrangement of both the filter array and the detector array introduces frequency aliasing in sampling and color misregistration during demosaicking process which causes degradation of image quality. Inspired by the biological structure of the avian retinas, we developed a chromatic LED array which has a geometric arrangement of multi-hyperuniformity, which exhibits an irregularity on small-length scales but a quasi-uniformity on large scales, to suppress frequency aliasing and color misregistration in full color image retrieval. Experiments were performed with a single-pixel imaging system using the multi-hyperuniform chromatic LED array to provide structured illumination, and 208 fps frame rate was achieved at 32 × 32 pixel resolution. By comparing the experimental results with the images captured with a conventional digital camera, it has been demonstrated that the proposed imaging system forms images with less chromatic moiré patterns and color misregistration artifacts. The concept proposed verified here could provide insights for the design and the manufacturing of future bionic imaging sensors.

Designing a Color Filter with High Overall Transmittance for Improving the Color Accuracy of Digital Cameras

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (29) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yuteng Zhu ◽  
Graham D. Finlayson
Keyword(s):  
White Light ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Color Filter ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Spectral Transmittance ◽  
Optimal Filters ◽  
Prior Art ◽  
Average Transmittance ◽  
Tristimulus Values ◽  
Correction Problem

Previously improved color accuracy of a given digital camera was achieved by carefully designing the spectral transmittance of a color filter to be placed in front of the camera. Specifically, the filter is designed in a way that the spectral sensitivities of the camera after filtering are approximately linearly related to the color matching functions (or tristimulus values) of the human visual system. To avoid filters that absorbed too much light, the optimization could incorporate a minimum per wavelength transmittance constraint. In this paper, we change the optimization so that the overall filter transmittance is bounded, i.e. we solve for the filter that (for a uniform white light) transmits (say) 50% of the light. Experiments demonstrate that these filters continue to solve the color correction problem (they make cameras much more colorimetric). Significantly, the optimal filters by restraining the average transmittance can deliver a further 10% improvement in terms of color accuracy compared to the prior art of bounding the low transmittance.

The Myth of the Digital Native and What It Means for Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Linda Corrin ◽  
Tiffani Apps ◽  
Karley Beckman ◽  
Sue Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
University Education ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
College And University ◽  
Radical Transformation

The term “digital native” entered popular and academic discourse in the early 1990s to characterize young people who, having grown up surrounded by digital technology, were said to be highly technologically skilled. The premise was mobilized to criticize education for not meeting the needs of young people, thereby needing radical transformation. Despite being repeatedly discredited by empirical research and scholarly argument, the idea of the digital native has been remarkably persistent. This chapter explores the myth of the digital native and its implications for higher education. It suggests that the myth’s persistence signals a need to better understand the role of technology in young people’s lives. The chapter conceptualizes technology “practices,” considers how young adults experience technology in their college and university education, and how their practices are shaped by childhood and adolescence. The chapter closes with some propositions for educators, institutions, and researchers.

Part Monitoring and Quality Assessment of Conformal Additive Manufacturing Using Image Reconstruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Kutzer ◽  
Levi D. DeVries ◽  
Cooper D. Blas
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Fused Deposition Modeling ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fused Deposition ◽  
Complex Part ◽  
Deposition Modeling

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have become almost universal in concept development, prototyping, and education. Advances in materials and methods continue to extend this technology to small batch and complex part manufacturing for the public and private sectors. Despite the growing popularity of digital cameras in AM systems, use of image data for part monitoring is largely unexplored. This paper presents a new method for estimating the 3D internal structure of fused deposition modeling (FDM) processes using image data from a single digital camera. Relative transformations are established using motion capture, and the 3D model is created using knowledge of the deposition path coupled with assumptions about the deposition cross-section. Results show that part geometry can be estimated and visualized using the methods presented in this work.

scholarly journals Aesthetic Visual Aspects in Digital Presentation of Cultural and Historical Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Dimitar Dobrevski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Historical Heritage

All serious theoretical research in the field of communication shows that, under the influence of global processes of globalization, information is increasingly visualized and iconized. Young people communicate using the wide range of opportunities provided by digital technology and the Internet. We spend a lot of our time in the virtual space. Everything seems fraudulently easy - everyone in minutes can upload information that is rapidly becoming available worldwide. Even small children handle as computer technicians. At the same time, the majority of participants in this communication have a substantial deficiency in visual literacy. Even specialists often ignore the language of forms, colors and compositional organization of space, which requires serious preparation, training and continuous specialization. Worldwide there are no good examples, but unfortunately they are not yet available to the cultural community in our country. The report raises a number of questions and issues for discussion and tries to draw attention to possible ways of solution. Keywords: visual communication, iconography, language of colors and forms

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