The present collection is the result of a review process done on the contributions received in response to an open call for a thematic special issue dealing with pattern recognition and crowd analysis. Part of the submitted contributions are significantly extended versions of papers discussed at the first edition of the Workshop on ''Pattern Recognition and Crowd Analysis'' of the, grouping con...

This paper looks at the online presence of the exhibition ‘Things’ by artist Keith Wilson that took place at Wellcome Collection in October 2010. It examines the process by which objects were temporarily acquired from members of the public for an exhibition, and the way in which those images were digitised and managed to form the online element of the exhibition, using the photo sharing website...

Jeffrey C. Delafuente, MS, FCCP, FASCP, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of pharmacotherapy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia, will assume the office of 2013-2014 president of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists at the Society's 2013 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in November.

In this paper, we describe MapTop, a system working on a mobile device, developed to support the exploration of an exhibition. When using digital exhibition guides, one po­ tential problem is that the guide system may become the fo­ cus of attention, interrupting the exploration experience. To avoid this problem, we used positioning of the mobile device as a way to infer the focus of attention ...

Creation is an important part of many interventions in creative arts therapies (art, music, dance, and drama therapy). This active part of art-making in arts therapies has not yet been closely investigated. The present study commits to this field of research using a mixed-methods design to investigate the effects of active creation on health-related psychological outcomes. In an artistic inquir...

The present study explored the public conceptualization of creativity on Twitter through co-listed hashtags associated with #creativity in a million tweets. Exploratory Graph Analysis was used to identify network semantic clusters, and pre-trained language model yielded sentiment underlying clusters reflect well-known everyday creative domains focused visual digital arts, storytelling, handicra...

The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) was established in 1996 to collect, preserve and encouraging the reuse of digital resources created during scholarly research in the arts and humanities. The AHDS is now responsible for the preservation of over 3,000 digital resources and holds a wide range of data types, from plain text and image files to datasets (spreadsheets, databases, statistica...

Placemaking, as a form of urban development often focusing on arts- and community-based approaches, is becoming key site for responding to pressing social environmental concerns around the sustainable futures. This article explores potential arts-based methods develop “multispecies placemaking” in which “the community” expanded also include non-human species. Drawing performative event aiming p...