When creating new musical instruments on a mobile phone platform one has to map sensory input to synthesis algorithms. We propose that the very task of this mapping belongs in the creative process and to this end we develop a way to rapidly and on-the-fly edit the mapping of mobile phone instruments. The result is that the meaning of the instruments can continuously be changed during a live per...

The definitions of Virtual Reality are wide and varied, though all imply the same meaning, that of “The illusion of participation in a synthetic environment rather than external observation of such an environment...” [8]. Current technology is far from perfect in creating such an illusion though the present day systems offer a level of interaction and feeling of immersion in such a world that i...

As part of a strategy for creating 3D models of engineering objects from sketched input, we attempt to identify design features, geometrical structures within objects with a functional meaning. Our input is a 2D B-Rep derived from a single view sketch of a polyhedral shape. In this paper, we show how to use suitable cues to identify algorithmically two additive engineering design features, angu...

Meanings are constructed situationally by the participants in interaction, as they construe intent in each other’s uttered words. A well-known story (said to be a favorite of both Vygotsky and Bakhtin) tells of a group of sailors having a nuanced exchange by repeating the same expletive to each other, but with a different intonation and timing at each turn. This polysemousness of words is equal...

ions have universal value, still requires the aid of instances, analogies and metaphors. The fewness of these abstractions saves the linguistic situation. If we employed, say, a hundred radically different types of connections (still a small number) the task of limiting the misunderstandings due to the variety in our references would have proved impossible. The fundamental connections being thu...

The world is too complex to manage without radical functional simplification. Meaning appears to exist as the basis for such simplification. The meaning that guides functional simplification may be usefully considered as consisting of three classes. The first class consists of meanings of the determinate world. These are meanings based in motivation, emotion, and personal and social identity. F...

abstract a title, in conveying the meaning of the entitled photo, can act from being a designator to an element which changes the meaning and its message is perceived in different levels of obtaining the photo’s final meaning. therefore, ignoring its role in interpreting the content of work is the same as eliminating a part of photo. various studies have been done centering titling issue, but t...

the sāghināmeh composing is one of the poetic subjects in persian literature. likely inspired by the poems called khamriyyas, a style which had already had some records, nizāmi ganjavi introduced this literary subject. many iranian literary figures have paid attention to the subject and had made some changes to transform it in form and meaning. this paper debates on these changes which can be d...