This paper introduces Iconoscope, a game aiming to foster the creativity of a young target audience in formal or informal educational settings. At the core of the Iconoscope design is the creative, playful interpretation of word-concepts via the construction of visual icons. In addition to that, the game rewards ambiguity via a scoring system which favors icons that dichotomize public opinion. ...

This paper asks whether unpopular tail items in usergenerated content corpora are important, and how tail items differ from the popular head items. We develop a user-centric characterisation of the tail which shows that although the head receives a disproportionate share of interest, tail items collectively serve a large number of users. “Tail seekers”, with more ‘like’s in the tail than the he...

An extensive analysis of the college teaching literature (over 350 items) suggests that the perspective of perhaps the most highly effective college teachers has yet to be conceptualized, at least within a comprehensive developmental framework. This paper articulates that perspective-called here Systemocentrism (or teacher/learner-centeredness). The perspective b two distinctive elements-attent...

This paper approaches the problem of annotating measure positions in Western classical music recordings. Such annotations can be useful for navigation, segmentation, and cross-version analysis of music in different types of representations. In a case study based on Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre”, we analyze two types of annotations. First, we report on an experiment where several human listeners ...

Seeing the moving face of the talker permits better detection of speech in noise compared to not seeing their face. We report on an experiment that examined the basis of this AV facilitation effect. This work follows up research by [1] and [2] that developed a procedure for demonstrating an AV speech detection effect and [3] that showed that this facilitation occurred regardless of whether part...

A learner corpus is a useful resource for developing automatic assessment techniques for implementation in a computer-assisted language learning system. However, presently, learner corpora are only helpful in terms of evaluating the accuracy of learner output (speaking and writing). Therefore, the present study proposes a learner corpus annotated with evaluation results regarding the accuracy a...

In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolated, but are part of a larger online environment. This context, existing on different levels, can be incorporated into the retrieval model. We explore the use of thread, mailing list, and community content levels, by ex...

This paper describes a new method for visualizing complex information spaces as painted images. Scientific visualization converts data into pictures that allow viewers to “see” trends, relationships, and patterns. We introduce a formal definition of the correspondence between traditional visualization techniques and painterly styles from the Impressionist art movement. This correspondence allow...

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This article argues that in informational capitalism, the notion of class should not be confined to capital as one class and wage labor as the other class. The notion of class needs to be expanded to include everybody who creates and recreates spaces of common experience, such as user-generated content on the Internet, through their practices. These spaces and experiences are appropriated and t...