The paper presents the results of contrastive semantic analysis Polish lexeme zielony ‘green’ and its Lithuanian equivalent žalias. research based on methodology R. Tokarski K. Waszakowa is aimed at comparing collocability Pol. / Lith. žalias with names various objects phenomena (both in literal figurative senses) including identification prototype references connotative meanings. has illustrat...

Abstract Prototypes are critical design artifacts, and recent studies have established the ability of prototypes to facilitate communication. However, prior work suggests that novice designers often fail perceive as effective communication tools, struggle rationalize decisions made during prototyping tasks. To understand interactions between prototypes, pitches from 40 undergraduate engineering...

Logical rules are not the only way to understand the structure of data. Prototype-based rules evaluate similarity to a small set of prototypes using optimized similarity measures. Such rules include crisp and fuzzy logic rules as special cases and are natural way of categorization from psychological point of view. An elimination procedure selecting good prototypes from a training set has been d...

The selection of prototypes for the dissimilarity space is a key aspect to overcome problems related to the curse of dimensionality and computational burden. How to properly define and select the prototypes is still an open issue. In this paper, we propose the selection of clusters as prototypes to create low-dimensional spaces. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is useful in ...

This study explores the role of sketching when designers are creating fast, preliminary prototypes during hands on design-and-build activities. Many studies have noted the value of both sketching and the building of preliminary prototypes in the early stages of the design process. In a typical design scenario, exploratory sketches are made before prototypes are fabricated. However, in certain c...