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    The Cognitive Condition of Design
    (2015-04-09) Nadin, Mihai; Chandrasekaran, B; MacNeil, Ronald; Mitchell, William; Rheinfrank, John J., III; Whitney, Patrick; 0000 0000 6299 2245 (Nadin, M); 81092031 (Nadin, M); 37856172 (Nadin, M); Zaff, Brian S.; Branham, Ruth; Branham, Richard; Cavalier, Todd; Chen, Shenchang E.; Cherian, Lisa C.; Davies, John C.; Dilnot, Clive; Emery, John F.; Ettinger, Linda; Evans, Susan; Goihl, Cameille; Gorski, Richard K.; Guindon, Raymonde; Ho, Ming-Chylian; Hollinger, Wendy Allyn; Justice, Lorraine; Killen, Judith; Kirwin, David; Krippendorf, Klaus; Leinbach, Charles; McCleary, George F., Jr.; Maegert, Peter; Miller, Richard A.; Mullet, Kevin E.; Nasar, Jack L.; Novak, Marcos; O'Grady, James O.; Powell, Earl; Rice, Duane; Rolfe, Laura; Sanders, Elizabeth; Sears, Ronald J.; Sepetys, George N.; Snediker, David K.; Svet, David; Tahn, Whei-Tsu; van Bakergem, David; van Dijk, Hans; van Dijk, Susan; Waldron, Manjula B.; Wilcox, Stephen B.; Zahner, Carol
    On March 26 and 27, 1987 graphic, product and interior designers, architects, city and regional planners, psychologists, computer scientists, students and others interested in the issues surrounding design met to discuss the cognitive condition of design. There was at this symposium no formal presentations or scholarly papers, but rather the free and open exchange of ideas concerning the range of activities that have as their common denominator design.
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    Topology and Evolution of the Network of Western Classical Music Composers
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2015-04-22) Park, Doheum; Bae, Arram; Schich, Maximilian ((UT Dallas); Park, Juyong
    The expanding availability of high-quality, large-scale data from the realm of culture and the arts promises novel opportunities for understanding and harnessing the dynamics of the creation, collaboration, and dissemination processes - fundamentally network phenomena - of artistic works and styles. To this end, in this paper we explore the complex network of western classical composers constructed from a comprehensive CD (Compact Disc) recordings data that represent the centuries-old musical tradition using modern data analysis and modeling techniques. We start with the fundamental properties of the network such as the degree distribution and various centralities, and find how they correlate with composer attributes such as artistic styles and active periods, indicating their significance in the formation and evolution of the network. We also investigate the growth dynamics of the network, identifying superlinear preferential attachment as a major growth mechanism that implies a future of the musical landscape where an increasing concentration of recordings onto highly-recorded composers coexists with the diversity represented by the growth in the sheer number of recorded composers. Our work shows how the network framework married with data can be utilized to advance our understanding of the underlying principles of complexities in cultural systems.
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    How did Americans Really Think About the Apple/FBI Dispute? A Mixed-Method Study
    (Routledge, 2019-06-03) Lee, Angela M.; Tenenboim, O.; 0000-0001-8793-2780 (Lee, AM); 216155824 (Lee, AM); Lee, Angela M.
    Second-level agenda-setting suggests that news media influence how we think. As a case study examining the nature and effects of mainstream news media’s coverage of the 2015 Apple/FBI dispute about data privacy versus national security, this study found via content analysis that a majority of articles covering the dispute (73.7%) made the same potentially misleading claim about how the American public feels about the dispute. Nearly half (45.6%) of those articles made public opinion claims without offering empirical evidence, and almost all articles (97.4%) that cited the Pew survey appeared to have inadvertently created an unsubstantiated social reality. Then, this study found in a subsequent experiment that, consistent with impersonal influence, the above-mentioned news portrayals significantly affected the participants’ view on Americans’ collective opinion towards the Apple/FBI dispute. The long-term effect of this journalistic oversight is notable. Theoretical implications and practical recommendations for future science communication in the news are discussed. ©2019 Informa UK Ltd., trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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    Exploring Medical Cyberlearning for Work at the Human/Technology Frontier with the Mixed-Reality Emotive Virtual Human System Platform
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.) Zielke, Marjorie A.; Zakhidov, Djakhangir; Hardee, Gary M.; Pradeep, Jithin; Evans, Leonard; Lodhi, Zahra; Zimmer, Kevin; Ward, Eric; Zielke, Marjorie A.; Zakhidov, Djakhangir; Hardee, Gary M.; Pradeep, Jithin; Evans, Leonard; Lodhi, Zahra; Zimmer, Kevin; Ward, Eric
    This paper describes the Mixed-Reality Emotive Virtual Human System Platform - a machine for cyberlearning at the human/technology frontier. Our initial use case is for medical school students practicing patient interviewing in preparation for Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs). The work is deliberately focused on a futures environment where students can seamlessly enter a virtual learning experience and return to the face-to-face. For the context of our work, we define mixed reality as the ability to traverse real and synthetic learning experiences utilizing a variety of technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality in a dynamic, emergent environment. Much of the work is based on the Emotive Virtual-Reality Patient research sponsored by the Southwestern Medical Foundation and exploration of the US Ignite ultra-high speed network, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. We use the US Ignite network to facilitate the development of virtual humans and the overall platform. We also explore evolving learning theory that supports the development of this knowledge system which blends real and synthetic roles of professors, mentors, and standardized patients in an emergent artificial intelligence and machine learning driven environment. Future applications of the model are also discussed.
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    Design and Semiotics
    Nadin, Mihai; 0000 0000 6299 2245 (Nadin, M); 81092031 (Nadin, M); 37856172 (Nadin, M)
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    Dream Architectonics: An Interactive Audiovisual Installation
    (MIT Press) Dufour, Frank; Dufour, Lee; Dufour, Frank
    This article presents the processes that guided the production of the interactive artwork DreamArchitectonics, attempting to render perceivable the altered experience of time characteristic of the dream-state. This project originated with the observation of dream reports that were revealed, across a broad variety of contents, to be relatively invariant in form, with this form appearing to function as a mnemonic artifact allowing the dreamer to actually remember dreams. The details of the representational process applied to oneiric time and manifested in these artifacts have been identified to resonate meaningfully with poetic expression, especially in its relationship to the sensation of movement. DreamArchitectonics aims at producing the context for an experiential synthesis of this intuition and acting as the generator of phenomenological data in a disposition that the authors envision as the most fruitful for collaboration between arts and sciences.