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The Chronicle, Amber Bryant-Tapper, Tommy Birch, Chris Cole, Ian Pope, Erica Shorkey Brumm, Sabrina Kempton, Jordana Andre, Matt Bockert, Ian Bodson, Cheyenne Hayes, Bryan Helmus, Andrew Martin, Abby Mcgrean, Mike Schrad, Aaron Vestal, Dana Flory

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Celebrates Gravure Day, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

November 17th 2004, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together: Pricing In Anticommons Property Arrangements, Ben Depoorter, Sven Vanneste

George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series

Recently, a new theory has drawn considerable attention in the literature on common property. A number of scholars have pointed to the danger of excessive propertization in the context of what are termed "anticommons" property regimes. Although this theory has found its way into numerous legal and economic applications, the empirical and cognitive foundations of the theory of fragmentation remain unexplored. Based on experimental data, this Article conducts an investigation into the social and personal processes involved in the anticommons.

The results confirm the theoretical proposition that anticommons deadweight losses increase with the degree of complementarity between individual parts and …

Panther- November 2004 - Vol. Lxxxiii, No.12, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 17, 2004, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Faculty Council Minutes, November 17, 2004, Faculty Council

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 17, 2004

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The French Expatriate Assignment: Helping Accompanying Spouses To Adapt By Assuming The Role Of Anthropologist, Angela Marsha Williams

Theses and Dissertations

A common practice of multinational companies is to temporarily transfer employees to international locations in order to exchange technology, launch new ventures, and facilitate communication within the company. To do this, multinational companies must make a number of decisions regarding their expatriate programs. Even though international companies would rather stay focused on the professional performance of their employees without having to "meddle" in personal and family affairs, recent research has shown that the adaptation of the accompanying spouse is one of the most critical factors in expatriate assignment success or failure. By studying the available literature on expatriate spouse adaptation, …

The Bg News November 17, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 17, 2004. Volume 95-Issue 60.

Real Space Projects For University Student Education, Robert J. Twiggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Real Space Projects for University Student Education" from November 17, 2004.

Developing Design Agencies' Competences: From Craftsmanship To Consulting., Anssi Tuulenmaki

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper focuses on the relationship between design agencies and their clients. The paper aims to reveal how such relationships have developed towards higher levels of value creation. What kind of knowledge and processes are needed from agencies’ point of view in order to improve their service offerings? How could they move from limited execution role, i.e. craftsmanship, more towards the business development and business-consulting role? To address the topic we interviewed senior executives of six major Finnish design agencies, one international design agency and 23 of agencies’ present or potential clients. Interviews lasted 60-120 minutes each; all of them …

Bridging Cultures In Electronic Communication New Multiliteracy Models For Interaction Design., Patricia Search

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In my research I am developing new multiliteracy models for computer interface design. These design models are derived from dynamic, time-based communication structures used in oral communication in Indigenous cultures. The research uses visual patterns to represent the changing semantic structures in an interactive information space where there are numerous networks of associations. These multiliteracy models integrate the semiotics of early oral cultures with the semiotics of modern electronic communication. They reflect pluralistic, aural-visual, community-based communication styles that differ from Western perspectives of temporal sequencing, logical analysis, and fixed hierarchies. For these reasons these designs have important implications for improving …

The Design Of The Edge As Cultural Activity: Towards A Dislocation Of The Greek Logos., Konstantinos Ioannidis

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The vital relation between coastline and human emotion has been projected within every possible rhetoric means (from poetry and painting to literature and cinema) but never before had this relation played the most affective role to our behavior than nowadays where cities are determined to return these areas back to citizens and restore all these notions-meanings that have, so violently, been removed from the urban waterfront as a result of the socio-economic changes of the last decades. But in most times this effort is muddied by amateurish attempts at generalization with standardized architectural practices which develop more or less customary …

Urban Design: Not Just 'Delight', But 'Commodity' And 'Firmness' As Well., Ina Klaasen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In 1961, in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs stated 'A city can not be a work of art'. 40 years later this message has not yet reached most urban designers. Influenced by the discipline of architecture the achievement of experiential value, particularly in cultural and aesthetic respects, guided by personal form concepts, is the central issue. The focus is on final processes with a relatively large temporal grain: the transformation of urban area (counted in years or decades). (http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/onderzoek/portfolio/ (Research Theme Urbanisme 02-2004). The New Charter of Athens (The European Council of Town Planners, 2003) …

Ecological Sustainability Integration In Australian Industrial Design Education., Mariano Ramirez

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Industrial designers play a significant role in seeking out alternative solutions to the wasteful lifestyles of contemporary society. But how has the design education community responded to the challenge? Is ecological sustainability now sufficiently integrated within industrial design academic programs? Do studio projects engage students into long-term visioning into the environmental implications of their design outcomes? Does mainstream studio thinking include the minimization of ecological impacts of the products and systems that are created? Are academics and students adequately informed of strategies for ecological product development (ecodesign), and if they are, do they apply those in their design endeavours? Are …

Embodied Interaction - Designing Beyond The Physical-Digital Divide., Pelle Ehn, Per Linde

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The physical and digital worlds are wide apart. Each has its own design professionals: product designers and human-computer interaction experts. However, as computers are becoming ubiquitous, embedded in our everyday objects and environments and embodied in the way we experience them in our everyday lives, this divide becomes problematic. This dilemma is accentuated by the parallel threat of demassification, the potential loss of material and social properties when artefacts become digital. In this paper we argue for embodied interaction as a useful stance for designing beyond this physical-digital divide. This term has been coined by Paul Dourish in the phenomenological …

Socially Responsible Branding., Debra Satterfield

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This research examines the relationship between branding elements, product identifiers, and other design elements and the consumers’ ability to make accurate product selections. It will consider the role of design variables such as form, color, position, proximity, unity and variety in helping consumers discriminate between brand-related products.

A Framework For The Visual Representation Of Spatial Information On The Web., Chun-Wen Chen, Manlai You, Sang-Chia Chiou

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Map is a natural way to represent spatial information. Nowadays it’s also very popular to get map service on the Web. Although such maps are mainly to provide information about places for people’s daily life, they may not be well designed to fulfill the functions. Most electronic maps on the Web, or so-called Web maps, follow the forms of traditional topographic maps, not like the pictorial maps in our daily life. For the limitation of screen resolution and file size on the web, it’s not even feasible to transfer large high-resolution illustration-like map to the Web. We would like to …

Kinds Of Anthropomorphic Form., Carl Disalvo, Jodi Forlizzi, Francine Gemperle

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper is a report on ongoing basic design research into anthropomorphic forms in design. With this research, we are building a core of design knowledge to inform both design studies and design practice. Our intention is to present an understanding of anthropomorphic forms that can be used for the interpretation and critique of existing forms and provide guidance in the use of anthropomorphic forms in new products. Towards these ends we are interested in three fundamental questions; what are the kinds of anthropomorphic forms, how are anthropomorphic forms created, and how are anthropomorphic forms used. In this paper we …

Models Of Design Intervention., Gisele Raulik

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper investigates National/Regional design initiatives and specifically those aimed at the small and medium business sector (SMEs)a. The role of such SME organisations is generally seen as critical to both economic and social development of their countries. The term ‘Design Intervention’ has been coined to express that area of ‘Design Initiative or Advisory Activity’, which actually delivers or acts as what we believe can be easily comprehended as a “bridge” between companies and design resources. The aim of this study is to understand how this bridge has been set up by various initiatives, what key issues are common faced, …

The Appropriateness Of Things., Norman Lawrence, Ian Montgomery

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses the concept of design appropriateness as a multisensory and multiperceptory experience. It presents examples and examines key issues related to the perception of design in controlled and free environments. It also comments upon the role of memory in perceived appropriateness.

Invisibility Of Design Research In Practice., Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Communities of practice that focus on research or professional practice within the same discipline are often distinct and can easily fail to intersect. Each forms its own discourse and protects specific territory. An example of such a separation is research and practice in design. With the growth of graduate programs and particularly Ph.D.s in design, it is reasonable to expect the development of research useful to design and expect an increase in sophisticated performance-in-practice based on research. Or is it? Varieties of research are not only based on different presuppositions, they also function in different ways. Research based on history …

Comparing Human-Centered Design Methods From Different Disciplines: Contextual Design And Principles., Mark Notess, Eli Blevis

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The human-computer interaction (HCI) community has developed primarily among those trained in computer science and psychology. Design methodologies within HCI tend to address the needs and interests of those who have been trained in cognitive science, human factors, or software engineering. This paper illuminates the similarities, distinctions and opportunities existing between one of the better known HCI methodologies, Contextual Design, and an encapsulation of the oral tradition of studio-based design methods that we call PRInCiPleS. PRInCiPleS forms part of the curriculum in HCI design at the Indiana University School of Informatics. We present a case study wherein both methods were …

Translating And Extending Gestalt Grouping Principles To Include Time To Establish A Research Framework In Which To Study Motion., Jinsook Kim, Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper introduces the grouping principles of Gestalt in motion. The motion attributes of speed, direction and duration are embedded in two events: transformation, meaning the act of changing in appearance, and transposition, meaning the act of moving position in space. In extending Gestalt principles from 2D, the following investigations will be visually demonstrated. 1 What is “closeness” in time that can explain proximity in motion? 2 What is “likeness” in time that can explain similarity in motion? 3 What is “absence but presence” in time that can explain closure in motion? 4 What is “correspondence” in time that can …

Relearning Typography: Introducing A Cross-Disciplinary Typographic Framework., Joyce S R Yee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Current theory and vocabulary used to describe typographic practice and scholarship are based on a historically print-derived framework. As yet, no new paradigm has emerged to address the divergent path that screen-based typography is taking from its traditional print medium. Screen-based typography is becoming as common and widely used as its print counterpart. It is now timely to re-evaluate current typographic references and practices under these environments, which introduces a new visual language and form. This paper describes a study that utilises a combination of empirical methods and action research projects to form a new conceptual framework for the understanding …

What Is The Future Of Interactive Multi-User Systems?, Mark Palmer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The research objective concerns the creation of genuine multi-user systems. This work arises from the creation of immersive systems and the philosophical critique of the assumptions made by discourses that seek to understand the digital. Although in philosophical terms this has focused on an immanent rather than transcendent ontology it is also possible to understand this approach through the ‘discoveries’ of complexity theory; concepts through which research can develop practical strategies that can be employed in the creation of these systems.

A Study On Visualizing Process And Effective Communication In An Edesign Project., Juhyun Eune

DRS Biennial Conference Series

A new design field called eDesign appears as if eBiz is an online related business in which an industrialized design creates the individual value added facing a digital revolution. The field of eDesign requires a special design process and management methodology regardless of the fact that human sensitivity will be satisfied through a dehumanized computer technique. However, it is the reality of eDesign that has been dependent upon a simple process or project management tool of general design. In this study, we develop an eDesign platform based on an eDesign process and template mainly focused on eBusiness in order to …

Design Development Strategy Of Mobile Phones For The Korean Domestic Market., Sungzin Chae, Soon Jong Lee, Kun-Pyo Lee, Kwanghyun Gwak

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Mobile phone manufacturing, selling and exporting becomes big business for some Korean electro-electric companies, such as Samsung, LG and couple of medium- sized companies. In 2003, it is expected approximately 100 million and 100 thousand mobile phone would be produced in Korea, and crank up the 10 billion dollars of exportation. It means Korean manufacturers take 25% sharing in the 400 million units of global market. However semi-conductor and its machining component stay top position of exportation so far, it will be out-passed by mobile phone and its component sooner or later. Notable phenomenon has emerged recent years. In 2002 …

A Common Mental Model Of The Design Process., Richard Fry

DRS Biennial Conference Series

A successful Design Process should be a tool to assist the designer in consistently delivering creative, appropriate results. What are the characteristics of a process that would do this? This paper/presentation will focus on the characteristics of a successful Design Process and the creation of a mental model that defines and harmonizes the different terms Design Tools, Design Methods, and Design Activities. Additionally, this paper will present ways of using this tool to define curriculum, identify personal strengths, and create and market proprietary design services for design consultancies, design departments.