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Community As Client: Defining Social Design As A Means Of Designing For Good, Ryan Kough Gibboney

Open Access Theses

Approaching the design field today is a significant quantity of societal needs that have potential to be resolved through systematic design initiatives. There is increasing curiosity around the designer's role and responsibility within society; a belief that designers have the power to make social change happen in their own communities. Many neighborhoods with driven community members and professional designers are working together to turn to design as problem solving, as social activism on a local scale. But how do we make this sustainable?

To create a systematic change, designers must rethink the processes in which they view the problems and …

First Opinion: More Than Matzah: A Child’S Eye View Of The Observance Of Passover, Susan Britsch

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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Back Matter

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

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Defining Industry Expectations And Misconceptions Of Art And Technology Co-Creativity, Vanessa C. Brasfield

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to establish whether or not students and industry professionals share the same views about what students should be learning in animation education, what skills are necessary, and whether or not students graduating with a bachelor’s degree would be adequately prepared for an entry level position. To establish where misconceptions lie, surveys were issued to three groups: undergraduate students, post-graduate students, and industry professionals. These surveys were then analyzed using paired t-test for validation and question relevance, and ANOVA models to establish whether or not groups shared viewpoints. These data established significance within the …

Defining Industry Expectations And Misconceptions Of Art And Technology Co-Creativity, Vanessa C. Brasfield

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to establish whether or not students and industry professionals share the same views about what students should be learning in animation education, what skills are necessary, and whether or not students graduating with a bachelor’s degree would be adequately prepared for an entry level position. To establish where misconceptions lie, surveys were issued to three groups: undergraduate students, post-graduate students, and industry professionals. These surveys were then analyzed using paired t-test for validation and question relevance, and ANOVA models to establish whether or not groups shared viewpoints. These data established significance within the …

@Brunning: People & Technology: At The Only Edge That Means Anything / How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

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So, What Is Terrorism? Framing The 9/11 Attacks In African Editorial Cartoons, Duncan Mainye Omanga

Re-visioning Terrorism

As artifacts of political culture, editorial cartoons reveal prevalent public opinion on a particular issue with direct or indirect effects to members of society. The central question addressed in this paper is how editorial cartoons in Kenya’s press framed the 9/11 event and the extent to which such framing accorded or denied terrorists, government agencies and other stakeholders legitimacy. Specifically, the section probes the extent to which the dominant frames careered, and whether framing tilted away or towards legitimizing or delegitimizing terrorism. From these, conclusions are drawn on the extent to which particular aspects of knowledge, opinion or ideologies were …

Creating Online Tutorials At Your Libraries: Software Choices And Practical Implications, Maribeth Slebodnik, Catherine Fraser Riehle

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

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Back Matter, Journal Of Purdue Undergraduate Research

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Information about the editorial and design staff responsible for the first volume of the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research.

Visual Learning Styles Among Digital Natives, Eric Palmer

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

This study explored the concept of digital nativity and its educational implications, including application of the learning styles hypothesis. The concept of digital natives, first put forth by Marc Prensky, introduced the notion that individuals raised in a technological environment have developed in such a way as to utilize information differently than the non-native generations before them. This study examined the possibility that these differences may include an increased efficiency in the utilization of narrative imagery versus textual information. The potential benefit of utilizing narrative imagery as an instructional tool is discussed. An experimental test application was developed for the …

Mapping Knowledge-Making In Writing Center Research: A Taxonomy Of Methodologies, Sarah Liggett, Kerri Jordan, Steve Price

The Writing Center Journal

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Ambiguity, Children, Representation, And Sexuality, Catharine Lumby

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality" Catharine Lumby considers current and historical scholarly and popular debates about the representation of children, including concerns about their sexualisation in such representations. The article begins by examining images taken by photographers in the Victorian era, including Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron, and asks not only how the gaze of the photographer frames the child but how the child returns the adult gaze. Lumby seeks to problematize our understanding of the ways in which images "sexualize" children. Drawing on the work of James Kincaid, it examines discourses that frame children as, on …

First Opinion: Signage And The City, Susan Britsch

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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Survey Of Eresearch Practices And Skills At Qut, Australia, Stephanie Bradbury, Martin Borchert

International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries, 31st Annual Conference

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a multidisciplinary university in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and has 40,000 students and 1,700 researchers. Notable eResearch infrastructure includes the QUT ePrints repository, Microsoft QUT Research Centre, the OAK (Open Access to Knowledge) Law Project, Cambia and leading research institutes.

The Australian Government, via the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), is funding institutions to identify and describe their research datasets, to develop and populate data repositories and collaborative infrastructure, and to seed the Australian Research Data Commons. QUT is currently broadening its range of research support services, including those to support the management of research …

Surfing The Net With A Mini-Cam: A Low Tech Approach To International Audio-Visual Communication At St. Mary's University Of San Antonio, Alejandro Vélez, Robert B. O'Connor, Rubén A. Candia

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.

Multiliteracies, Social Futures, And Writing Centers, John Trimbur

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

New Media Matters: Tutoring In The Late Age Of Print, Jackie Grutsch Mckinney

The Writing Center Journal

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Introduction, Christiane E. Keck, Allen G. Wood

Global Business Languages

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Research Priorities In Languages For Specific Purposes, Christine Uber Grosse

Global Business Languages

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Virtual Classroom Extension For Effective Distance Education, Radu Dondera, Chun Jia, Voicu Popescu, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Melissa Dark

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Dynamic Construction Visualizer, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

The Dynamic Construction Visualizer (DCV) is general-purpose 3D visualization system that allows simulation model developers to animate modeled operations with chronological and spatial accuracy in 3D virtual space. The system is independent of any particular simulation-modeling program or CAD modeling software.

Quality Assessment Program As Contribution For The Sibi/Usp Management., Adherbal Caminada, Adriana A. Barreiros, Adriana Cybelle Ferrari, Cristia Olaio Villela, Cybelle Assumpçao Fontes, Maria Imaculada Cardosa Sampaio, Rosa Maria F. Zani

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

It addresses the relevance of the quality assessment processes as instruments of support for managing information services. It describes the implementation of the Product and Service Quality Assessment Program (PAQ) of University of São Paulo’s Integrated Library System (SIBi/USP), reporting two phases performed so far. Phase one, performed in 2002, assessed products and services of SIBi’ libraries by means of questionnaires and interview for data collection. Five electronic questionnaires were applied comprising the SERVQUAL – tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy dimensions and an interview was applied to library users, using three questions. Phase two of PAQ was performed in …

Multimedia In The Writing Center: Visual Rhetoric And Tutor Training, Tammy Conard-Salvo

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations

This presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) discusses the impact that multimedia projects have on writing centers and offers one model for integrating a visual rhetoric unit in an undergraduate tutor training course.

Censoring What Tutors' Clothing "Says": First Amendment Rights/Writes Within Tutorial Space, Margaret Weaver

The Writing Center Journal

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Selected Bibliography Of Work In Cultural Studies And Us-American Popular Culture, Marta Guirao, Benton Jay Komins

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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New Times Need New Curricula: Meeting The Demands Of Industry In Training Information Professionals In Sadc, Theo Jd Bothma, Johannes J. Britz, Maritha E. Snyman, Retha Snyman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Bibliography Of Contextual (Systemic And Empirical) Approaches In The Study Of Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Multiliteracies, Social Futures, And Writing Centers, John Trimbur

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Softlab: A Virtual Laboratory Framework For Computational Science, A. C. Catlin, M. G. Gaitatzes, Elias N. Houstis, Z. Ma, S. Markus, Nien-Hwa Wang, S. Weerawarana

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Scene Change Detection For Video Database Management Systems-A Survey, Haitao Jiang, Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Anupam Joshi

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.