Improving, Situating, Expanding

Improving and expanding practice/se

Situating Instructions

A videographic study of origami is presented in which subjects were observed making four different origami objects under five modes of instruction: photos + captions, illustrations-only, illustrations with small captions, illustrations with large captions, and text-only as control. The objective of the study was to explore the gestures and other actions that subjects produce as they try to foll...

Situating Flatness

Our paper, ‘Human Geography without Scale’ (Marston et al. 2005), is developed in two parts: a critique that is immanent to scale, where we show that, even on the grounds of contemporary spatial theory, the concept is deficient; and a critique that is extrinsic to those grounds, where we make a contribution to an alternative ontology that does not rely on the transcendental abstraction of scale...

Improving LSA by expanding the contexts

Latent Semantic Analysis is used in many research fields with several applications of classifications. We propose to improve LSA with additional semantic information found with syntactic knowledge.

Improving, Expanding and Extending 3D Telepresence

For over a decade we have been pursuing a vision of threedimensional (3D) telepresence. Our primary driving problem is 3D medical consultation. Our basic goal is to enhance and expand medical diagnosis and treatment for lifecritical trauma scenarios by providing an advising health care provider and a distant medical advisee a “live” highfidelity sense of 3D presence with each other. Here we pro...