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Interpreting Graphic Design: Cultural Imaginaries And Social Productions., Raymond Donovan, Leong K Chan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Graphic design influences and shapes the production and interpretation of cultural information and visual knowledge. The Australian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project (AGAP) locates graphic design as a social process in the production of epidemic knowledge, applying a textual-visual analysis to the images and messages of public health prevention campaigns, including brochures, posters and videos. It documents the influence of government policies and community-sector ideologies in the formulation of safer sex campaigns: how campaigns shape public knowledge of the epidemic; how graphic images generate social meanings about the epidemic; and how cultural responses influence designers in a morally charged arena. The research …

Designing Transmutational Worlds In Game Space., Troy Innocent

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Digital games are often situated within interactive 3D spaces that create the feeling of being in ‘another world’. The limitations of realtime simulation make it necessary for compromises to made in the representation of game worlds – it is not possible to recreate every detail of ‘reality’ within these worlds. So, they are abstractions of reality that rely on the player’s mind to fill in the gaps. This paper looks at principles of world design for digital games in terms of the most significant elements needed to ‘create a world’ in the players mind. The player becomes the subject addressed …

Questioning Understanding: The Cultural Perception Of Visual Communication By Recent Immigrants To The U.S., Patricia Boman

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This research project documents the cultural perceptions and general comprehension of recent U.S. immigrants (immigrated within last 3 years) to visual communication designed to market a product or service. During interviews, participants will share their understanding of a variety of visual communication including: product advertisements, marketing brochures, packaging, and multimedia related to specific products and services ranging in quality and type from ordinary to luxury. Interview questions include but are not limited to the following: What does each example communicate to them? What do they think is the key idea or message of the example? Do they have a positive …

Bathing The Dog: Research-Based Practice At The Experimental Nexus Of Art And Design., Darragh O'Brien, Jo Dane

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There is much academic debate on the idea of design practice as research; Dickey (2002), for example, refers to research as “a fact-based activity” and design practice as “a series of subjective commitments”. Langer (1942) suggests that although objects may express ideas, those ideas are not presented as a legitimate form of language, thus cannot be compared with the discursive properties of the written word. For over fifty years, such comments have polarized academic opinion, suggesting that research and design practice are somehow mutually exclusive. The intention of this paper is to examine design research as a liminal pursuit where …

Incorporating Research Into Master Of Industrial Design Projects And Theses: Six Students With Six Design Research Paths., Lorraine Justice

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper serves the purpose of providing an overview of six graduate students projects and theses that incorporated traditional research methods throughout their learning process. An overview of the Master of Industrial Design Program is provided in order to understand how their studies are couched and regulated. The six students whose work is presented represent the varied paths and processes an individualized Master’s degree with design research takes. Following these project overviews are recommendations for those who are working to incorporate research methods into their design curriculum, and for those who want to prepare Masters students for doctoral studies in …

Re-Viewing The Heart: Making Sense Of Building Babel., Dorita Hannah

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The 'Heart of PQ' was the central thematic exhibition in the 2003 Prague Quadrennial (a four yearly international exposition on stage design and theatre architecture) that focussed on the senses-in-performance. As a site-specific installation within the Middle Hall of Prague's Industrial Palace it sought to challenge, disrupt and eliminate the borders that traditionally exist in theatre, so new relationships could be explored between the body and the built. The notion of gathering performers from a number of continents and placing them in a shared space to explore the limits of built form and their own bodies is, on one hand, …

Innovation Planning Toolkit., Vijay Kumar

DRS Biennial Conference Series

To maintain leadership position, companies need to be continuously proactive in exploring new opportunities for innovation. Focusing on core offerings, customer support, and relationship management is a safe way to sustain business and maintain continued revenue flows. But complacency with the successes of core offerings and eagerness to serve the core customer base frequently leads to inaction in the search for new opportunities. Companies deliberately need to be in an active sensing mode during which new opportunities are continuously sought. An active innovation culture needs to evolve within organizations. This should be predominantly characterized by continuous exploration and search for …

Contextual Invention - A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Develop Business Opportunities And Design Solutions., Girish Prabhu, David M Frohlich, Warren Greving

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper describes a new research methodology, which brings together ethnographic, business, design and technical research in a focused way. Various combinations of these disciplines have been used together in the past, both inside HP Labs and in the wider industry. However, all four disciplines are rarely harnessed together in the pursuit of innovation and new business opportunities. We aim to do this in a principled user- centered way, by using a deep understanding of user and cultural needs to drive design ideas, business modeling and technological investigations. This approach can be seen as an extension of Contextual Design in …

Investigating The Nature Of Design Thinking., Kees Dorst

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Many of the problems we face in today’s society are extremely complicated; they tend to spans many different disciplines, to be ill-structured, and their solution requires a creative, solution focussed approach. In other words, many problems we face today are bearing an ever closer resemblance to design problems. This realisation has led to an extensive study into the possibilities of developing a ‘design methodology of the social sciences’, where fields such as ‘lawmaking’ and ‘the making of a curriculum ’, have been described in design-like terms, and supported by design methods [Heffen et al. 1999, Visscher-Voerman, 1999]). The solution of …

Design As A Device., Sidney Newton

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper will describe the collaborative research project as a case study in how design and other disciplines intersect. Critically, it will argue that what design brings to such a situation may have less to do with design as a particular methodology, and more to do with design as a new device for understanding and engaging with the material content of the project. The paper will argue that significant qualities otherwise (and typically) attributed to ‘the nature of design’, can in fact be accounted for through the phenomenological concept of ‘introducing’. This alternative account has clear implications for the future …

Willy Porter To Play At Iwu, Leslie Boelter

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Design, Drawing And Dialogue Interaction In Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (Cscw) In Design., Phebe Mann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Most research studies looking at computer-supported collaborative design have focused on either synchronous or asynchronous modes of communication, but near-synchronous working has received relatively little attention. Yet it could be argued that near-synchronous communication encourages creative, rhetorical and critical exchanges of ideas, building on each other’s contributions. Although many researchers have carried out studies on collaborative design protocols (Cross, 1997; Gabriel and Maher 1999; Peng, 1994), argumentation and constructive interaction (Baker, 1999), but little is known about the interaction between drawing and dialogue in collaborative design. This research explored and established the needs of design students engaged in collaborative design …

Iwu News Advisory, Taylar Kuzniar

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Flu Season in Full Force
• Campus
• National
• Opinions
• OpEd
• Classifieds, Etc.
• Sports

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Iwu News Advisory, Taylar Kuzinar

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Bard Observer, Vol. 18, No. 5 (November 16, 2004), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

No abstract provided.

11-16-04 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 22, Issue 9)

2004 -- 2005

No abstract provided.

The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 09 - November 16, 2004, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 21 [No. 22], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Reed, Lindsey. Remedial Courses Get New Policy
• Bruggemann, Marlene. Standing Tall – Quinton Head
• Richardson, Kelly. Trial Set for Alleged Peeper – Reginald Calhoun
• Coulter, Amber. Shantytown Raises Money for Habitat for Humanity
• Richardson, Kelly. Aneurisms Claim Life of Western Employee – Nancy Ausbrooks
• Wilberding, Beth. Student Government Association to Present Evaluation Plan
• Richardson, Kelly. Man Arrested for Computer Theft – William Simmons
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon re: Charles Moose
• North, Amber. Is Gay the New Communism?
• Casagrande, Michael. Somebody Save Private Ryan
• Buckman, Josh. …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 94 [95], No. 18 (Nov. 16, 2004), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 94, but it is the 95th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Unh Receives Grant For Research Ethics Education, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 13, November 16, 2004, Adriano Gambarini, Augusto Auler, Ericson C. Igual

KIP Articles

Contents: Workshop "Manejo de Cavernas e Sistemas Cársticos - Uso Público" participe! - Bahia é palco do mais longo mergulho já realizado no mundo - Gruna da Bananeira no sudoeste da Bahia atinge 6,5 km de extensão - Espeleologia brasileira perde um de seus maiores incentivadores - Mapeadas cavernas em Nobres, MT - Krubera, a primeira caverna a superar os 2000 metros de profundidade - Programa Pega-Leve lança manual eletrônico de mínimo impacto em cavernas - Monitor ambiental é assassinado em Iporanga, SP - Cancelado seminário FEAM - Fósseis de mastodontes encontrados em cavernas alagadas de Bonito são expostos no …

Martz Cancels Speech At Um Reception, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Griz Honor Butte Friends, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Top Administrator At Helena Cot Retires, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Ub Viewpoint – Hooray For Sinclair, Eric Easton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Generalized Design Of Diffractive Optical Elements Using Neural Networks, Ajay Pasupuleti, Anand Gopalan, Ferat Sahin, Mustafa A.G. Abushagur

Presentations and other scholarship

Diffractive optical elements (DOE) utilize diffraction to manipulate light in optical systems. These elements have a wide range of applications including optical interconnects, coherent beam addition, laser beam shaping and refractive optics aberration correction. Due to the wide range of applications, optimal design of DOE has become an important research problem. In the design of the DOEs, existing techniques utilize the Fresnel diffraction theory to compute the phase at the desired location at the output plane. This process involves solving nonlinear integral equations for which various numerical methods along with robust optimization algorithms exist in literature. However all the algorithms …

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 17 (Nov. 16, 2004), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Iran, The Status Quo Power, Mohsen M. Milani

Government and International Affairs Faculty Publications

In what follows, I will discuss the transformation of Iran’s Persian Gulf policy since 1979, its role in past regional security regimes, its reaction to the emerging strategic situation in the region, and its current policy toward Iraq. I will make four main arguments. First, the collapse of Saddam Husayn has accelerated Iran’s transformation from a revolutionary to a regional status quo power in search of creating “spheres of influence.” One of Iran’s ultimate strategic goals is to become a hub for the transit of goods and services between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, Central Asia, and possibly China. Second, …