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Children's author and poet Carole Boston Weatherford
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Arts and Culture - Podcasts - Children's author and poet Carole Boston Weatherford.
Carole Oles, 11th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textCarole Oles, a member of the Associated Writing Programs Board of Directors, is the author of three books of poetry: The Loneliness Factor (1979), Quarry (1983) and Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell (1985). Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, and two Fellowships at the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Old Dominion University
Using N-gram Analysis for Forensic Author Identification and Text Relatedness
No full textAM Session
Using N-gram Analysis for Forensic Author Identification and Text Relatedness
Carole Chaski, ALIAS Technology LLC and Institute for Linguistic Evidence, Inc, US
Carole Boston Weatherford Claudia Lewis Award 2024 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Carole Boston Weatherford wins the Claudia Lewis Award 2024 for Kin Rooted in Hope from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Claudia Lewis Award
The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The award commemorates the late Claudia Lewis, distinguished children’s book expert and longtime member of the Bank Street College faculty and Children’s Book Committee. She conveyed her love and understanding of poetry with humor and grace.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1018/thumbnail.jp
‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book
No full textAn interview with prize-winning author James McBride on how he explores race in his new collection of stories, @Five-Carat Soul@
The Sun pays "substantial damages" to Ben Stokes [Author Interview]
No full textAuthor interview with the Daily Mail
About the nature of Kansei information, from abstract to concrete
No full textDesigner’s expertise refers to the scientific fields of emotional design and kansei information. This paper aims to answer to a scientific major issue which is, how to formalize designer’s knowledge, rules, skills into kansei information systems. Kansei can be considered as a psycho-physiologic, perceptive, cognitive and affective process through a particular experience. Kansei oriented methods include various approaches which deal with semantics and emotions, and show the correlation with some design properties. Kansei words may include semantic, sensory, emotional descriptors, and also objects names and product attributes. Kansei levels of information can be seen on an axis going from abstract to concrete dimensions. Sociological value is the most abstract information positioned on this axis. Previous studies demonstrate the values the people aspire to drive their emotional reactions in front of particular semantics. This means that the value dimension should be considered in kansei studies. Through a chain of value-function-product attributes it is possible to enrich design generation and design evaluation processes. This paper describes some knowledge structures and formalisms we established according to this chain, which can be further used for implementing computer aided design tools dedicated to early design. These structures open to new formalisms which enable to integrate design information in a non-hierarchical way. The foreseen algorithmic implementation may be based on the association of ontologies and bag-of-words.AN
Designing a graphical interface for creativity support tools for designers: a case study
No full textThis study proposes a co-designing, iterative methodology to design graphical user interface for creativity support tools for designers. Given the high level of expectation from designers, the interface quality was one of the most challenging aspects of the work, in conjunction with the utility of the functionalities. An iterative design and evaluation process was used to create the icon-based interface, during which the needs of the designers and the functionalities of the system were integrated until a complete operational prototype emerged. This process provided three sequential prototypes. In order to achieve this, we derived qualitative and quantitative results from various methods: creative sessions, semantic and emotional evaluations, questionnaires, semidirective interviews, subjective performance assessments, longitudinal tests, and focus group assessments. Finally, our iterative design and evaluation process can be considered to be a very efficient means of integrating end users’ spontaneous feedback about icon redesigns in the early phases of development. The design outcome enabled the end users to ensure that key features of the creativity support tool were both usable and appealing
Contract and Domination: A Collaborative Debate about Social Contract Theory
No full textA Collaborative Debate about Social Contract Theory featuring Carole Pateman, author of "The Sexual Contract" and Charles Mills, author of "The Racial Contract
In Search of Design Inspiration: A Semantic-Based Approach
No full textSources of inspiration help designers to define the context of their designs and reflect on the emotional impact of their new products. By observing and interpreting sources of inspiration, designers form vocabularies of terms, pallets of colors, or mood boards with images, which express their feelings, inspire their creativity and help them communicate design concepts. These ideas are the motivation behind the EU-funded project TRENDS, which aimed at developing a software tool that supports the inspirational stage of design by providing designers of concept cars with various sources of inspiration. This paper concentrates on OntoTag, the semantic-based image retrieval algorithm developed within the TRENDS project, and its evaluation. OntoTag uses concepts from a general-purpose lexical ontology called OntoRo, and semantic adjectives from a domain-specific ontology for designers called CTA, to index the images in the TRENDS database in a way which provides designers with a degree of serendipity and stimulates their creativity. The semantic-based algorithm involves the following four steps: (i) creating a collection of documents and images retrieved from the web, (ii) for each document, identifying the most frequently used keywords and phrases in the text around the image, (iii) identifying the most powerful concepts represented in each document, and (iv) ranking the concepts identified and linking them to the images in the collection. OntoTag differs significantly from earlier approaches as it does not rely on machine learning and the availability of tagged corpuses. Its main innovation is in the use of the words’ monosemy and polysemy as a measure of their probability to belong to a certain concept. The proposed approach is illustrated with examples based on the software tool developed for the needs of two of the industrial collaborators involved in the TRENDS project.European Comissio
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