The creative cognition approach views creativity as the generation of novel and appropriate products through the application of basic cognitive processes to existing knowledge structures. It relies on converging evidence from anecdotal accounts of creativity and tightly controlled laboratory studies designed to examine the processes that are assumed to operate in those anecdotes. Specific examp...

Artifact flow represents an important aspect of teaching/learning processes, especially in CSCL situations in which complex relationships may be found. However, explicit modeling of CSCL processes with artifact flow may increase the cognitive load and associated effort of the teachers-designers and therefore decrease the efficiency of the design process. The empirical study, reported in this pa...

It is inadequate to just assure the functional requirements. Quality of service (QoS) must also be satisfied. An important challenge for developing efficient Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to maintain the QoS attributes because of compositional and dynamical environment of SOA. It is significant to scrutinize how quality attributes are supported by SOA. However, implementation of SOA pr...

HANS – the Neugebauer Primary based color separation and halftoning print control approach – was presented in broad terms at CIC18. The present paper provides an in–depth look at how HANS color separation can be optimized, what level of variety it provides access to and how it can be used for direct optimization of print attributes. The results show that even in the case of having only three co...

Research on the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on developing learners’ explicit knowledge by the use of measures of explicit knowledge abounds in the literature. However, measuring learners’ implicit knowledge employing fine-grained measures has rarely been the concern of researchers in the field. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to scrutinize the effectiveness of implici...

Color is commonly described in terms of the three perceptual attributes-hue, saturation, and brightness-of which only hue has a qualitative nature, saturation and brightness being of a quantitative nature. A possible reason for such a phenomenological structure of the color manifold, and its geometric representation, are discussed.

Actions can create preferences, increasing the value ascribed to commodities acquired at greater cost. This behavioural finding has been observed in a variety of species; however, the causal factors underlying the phenomenon are relatively unknown. We sought to develop a behavioural platform to examine the relationship between effort and reinforcer value in mice trained under demanding or lenie...

This paper presents the design and simulation of a cyclic robot for lower-limb exercise robots. The robot is designed specifically for cyclic motions and the high power nature of lower-limb interaction—as such, it breaks from traditional robotics wisdom by intentionally traveling through singularities and incorporating large inertia. Such attributes lead to explicit design considerations. Resul...

Understanding activity from observing the motion of agents is simple for people to do, yet the procedure is difficult to codify. It is impossible to enumerate all possible motion patterns which could occur, or to dictate the explicit behavioural meaning of each motion. We develop visualization tools to assist a human user in labelling detected behaviours and identifying useful attributes. We al...