The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration of conceptual modeling principles with computer-aided design applications. Most product designers prefer to work with traditional artistic forms of design, especially early in conceptual design. Computer-Aided Design systems have not reached the level of flexibility and easy of use where they can be freely and creatively used by a designer...

“O morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug,” wrote Franz Kafka in The Metamorphosis. “He lay on his armorhard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely...

Music is known to be one of the most visible forms of artistic expression through which traditional patriarchal values in society can be contested and challenged. However, it has not been recognised to what extent globalisation has enhanced or hindered the use of music as a tool for gender equality. Therefore, it is necessary to find linkages between gender and music in globalisation processes....

The author is carrying out technology studies to explore and expand human emotions, sensibility, and consciousness by making innovative use of artistic creativity. We develop interfaces for experiencing and expressing the "essence of culture'' such as human feelings, ethnicity, and story. History has shown that human cultures have common and unique forms such as behavior and grammar. We suggest...

Virtual Reality Artworks provide sophisticated user experiences but their development is a complex process. We describe the use of Intelligent Virtual Environments for VR Art. In this approach, virtual world behaviour is governed by a symbolic system. This supports news forms of experimentation with physical laws or with causality that we have termed Alternative Reality. In addition, basing wor...

the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. the separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...

Every poet has a set of vocalizations that he used to use in his poetry until it became own stylistic feature, and Ibn Rashiq Al-Qayrawani referred this idea saying, “The well-known poets are familiar examples the should not prepare nor any other” (1). Each language distinguishes him from other poets, they multi-cultural literary. They take care it, as represents basic element building poetry. ...

Science Fiction Prototyping (SFP) is a powerful tool to imagine, explore, and exploit future technologies, science, and environments and it can be a valuable asset for education, multimedia, and research. This article explores SFP in interactive, flexible, immersive, and collaborative settings, which introduced as Interactive Science Fiction Prototyping (ISFP) and allows new forms of experienci...

Honoring the memory of Hryhoriy Savych Skovoroda in anniversary year his birthday, we can talk about eternal, inexhaustible potential creativity and ideas, which are endowed with category timeless, gaining new meanings every era for almost three centuries. The life philosophical literary heritage H. (which complementary terms content, because he included reflections on meaning works) have been ...