In this article, I examine how Maya Deren and Marie Menken’s mid-1940s filmmaking enacts a gestural aesthetic. Drawing on Vilém Flusser’s thinking gesture (his discussion of “moving tools” the thoughtfulness hands), draw attention to importance hands in work. Visual Variations Noguchi (1945), Menken employs handheld Bolex camera explore different material properties art objects. Through her swe...

The requirements engineering (RE) conference is turning 21, our conference is “grown up” now. We take this as a motivation to rethink our responsibility for this conference, and to prepare the path for sustainable RE conferences for future generations. Although sustainability has been broached as conference topic in RE’08, hardly any long-lasting consequences followed. We consider this as vital...

Biometric advances apply to a range of disciplines to ensure the safety and security of individuals and groups. To stress the value of biometrics, this study focuses on the application of biometric techniques to a vast range of individuals and groups, irrespective of their age. This report covers biometric development within three generations. For the younger age group, biometrics can play a si...

This article proposes a Serious Game about 'Set-Based Concurrent Engineering', which is one of the elements of lean practices in product design and development. Although Set-Based Concurrent Engineering is becoming popular in academia, in practice, understanding and adoption of it are low. Thus, the game presented in this article is designed to bring hands-on experience to practitioners to unde...

In this paper, we introduce “ Tangible Sound,” a musical instrument with a novel user interface that uses water. Like music, fluids cannot be physically grasped because their shape is constantly changing. We thus believe that water is a suitable interface for performing flowing music. We created a live, hands-on installation that uses the flow of water as an input medium to control the intuitiv...