The merging or stitching of separately captured portions (tiles) of an object into a single unified digital image is becoming increasingly popular in the cultural heritage community. Maps, negatives, tapestries, and paintings that were once too onerous to digitize faithfully because of their physical size are now included in digital collections. These can be digitally sewn together from compone...

Today, a successful career in science makes one international or global. People move laboratories and change countries. Researchers collaborate and interact around the globe. The notion of the international nature of science was prominent in the recent BBC program “Desert Island Discs,” in which the guest was Sir Andre Geim, a physicist and the winner, with Konstantin Novoselov, of the 2010 Nob...

We examine the socio-historical formation of the consumer subject during the development of consumer culture in the context of leisure consumption. Specifically, we investigate how an active consumer was forming while a coffeehouse culture was taking shape during early modern Ottoman society. Utilizing multiple historical data sources and analysis techniques, we focus on the discursive negotiat...

Textiles and computational technology share a common background in the early days of automation and industrial production. Today, we see a new opportunity for these two, by now, rather disparate areas to be joined in the search for new design spaces for everyday things. It is the ambition of this paper to outline this new design space and to sketch a design and research program for investigatin...

The subtexts of Shakespeare's plays often provide surprisingly accurate insights not only into the central themes of the plays, but also a greater understanding of the unifying elements. The subtexts from a representative sampling of plays from each of the major periods reveáis that such subtextual elements as repeated words, near synonyms and recurrent images are fairly accurate assessors of t...

When conceptualizing “The Unexpected Caribbean” special issue for the journal of Women, Gender, and Families Color, we, as editors, sought to contest many stereotypical visualizations Caribbean its diasporas highlight some unexpected counternarratives innovations in representation that appear literature, arts, society. Focusing on women, gender, families allowed us consider how women—typically ...

Ubiquitous computing has tremendous potential for framing learning, particularly in informal and socially constructed contexts. To reach this potential it is necessary for the current desktop-focus development of technology in education to be challenged through the design, development and testing of new ubiquitous prototypes for learning. We define an intelligent environment as any space where ...