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Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, A. (2009, November). Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion. Paper presented at ESRC Seminar Series: Women in Britain in the 1950s. Glamour? A New Look at Fifties Women, University of Manchester, UK

Suggesting that 'co-creativity' was always a driving force in consumer culture, and using 1950's fashion as an example, the presentation addresses issues about the development of creative practices such as fashion design, by suggesting that it is dri... Read More about Co-creativity: New ways of understanding 1950's fashion.

Overcoming the barriers to installing property level flood protection: An overview of successful case studies (2009)
Presentation / Conference
protection: An overview of successful case studies. Paper presented at Road Map Towards a Flood Resilient Urban Environment, Paris, France

Recent changes in the focus of flood risk management policy in the UK have led to an increased emphasis on making space for water. In the recognition that not all property at risk of flood can or will benefit from traditional engineered flood defence... Read More about Overcoming the barriers to installing property level flood protection: An overview of successful case studies.

The need for improved sensing technology for estimating emissions and concentrations of pollution at ground-level in the lower latitudes space for Africa (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Fagbeja, M., Hill, J., Chatterton, T., Longhurst, J., Akinyede, J., & Adegoke, J. (2009, November). The need for improved sensing technology for estimating emissions and concentrations of pollution at ground-level in the lower latitudes space for Africa. Presented at 3rd International Academy of Astronautics Regional Conference Space for Africa: Joint Participation, Knowledge Development and Sharing, Abuja, Nigeria

Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2009, November). Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms. Paper presented at Slavery and the British Country House, London School of Economics

This presentation describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transa... Read More about Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms.

The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Oechsler, M. (2009, November). The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things. Presented at The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

The symposium was composed of presentations and live performances by Pil and Gallia Kollectiv, Ruth McLeanan, Wayne Lloyd, Judith Dean, Monika Oechsler, Anita Ponton, Uriel Orlow, Jonas Ranson-Christina Mitrentse and concluded with a panel discussion... Read More about The eagle document: The new collection of enumerated things.

Rome at the Poetry Society (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dean, J. (2009, November). Rome at the Poetry Society. Paper presented at The Eagle Document: A Performance/Events Symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

Lessons from the campsite: Developing a taxonomy of the socio-spatial relationships that facilitate successful communities (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sara, R. (2009, November). Lessons from the campsite: Developing a taxonomy of the socio-spatial relationships that facilitate successful communities. Poster presented at Field/work 6th AHRA International Conference 2009, Edinburgh

This paper describes an ongoing research project which examines the campsite, in order to explore the particular qualities that make campsites work as temporary communities. The study draws on a visual methodology – using photographs and drawings - a... Read More about Lessons from the campsite: Developing a taxonomy of the socio-spatial relationships that facilitate successful communities.

Synthetic training data generation for ADL modeling (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Monekosso, D., & Remagnino, P. (2009, November). Synthetic training data generation for ADL modeling. Paper presented at Third European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI09), Saltzburg, Austria

Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, November). Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity. Paper presented at International Jean Rouch Symposum, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Building on Rouch’s thoughts on cinema-sincerity, this paper will interrogate new possibilities for the creation of polyphonic narratives brought about by the multiple windows environment of 21st century computing. Drawing on material recorded in the... Read More about Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity.

Online simulation of real life experiences (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Falconer, L., & Frutos-Perez, M. (2009, November). Online simulation of real life experiences. Paper presented at National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds, Coventry University, UK

The technology enhanced learning (TEL) strategy being developed by the University is focussing upon the use of online technologies to support learning through simulated experiences in a range of subject areas, using both “Web 1.0” and “Web 2.0” techn... Read More about Online simulation of real life experiences.

Still pictures, moving contexts (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J., & James, W. (2009, November). Still pictures, moving contexts. Paper presented at The Image Relation: Towards an Anthropology of Photography, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

This presentation will highlight ways of presenting still photographs, both black and white and colour, as well as colour slides, using multimedia methods which add fresh resonance to archival materials. Examples will be drawn from James’s ethnogra... Read More about Still pictures, moving contexts.

Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Rizzi, A., Parraman, C., & McCann, J. (2009, November). Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment. Paper presented at MINET (Measuring the Impossible Network) Conference: Measurement, sensation and cognition, National Physical Laboratory, London

Paper given at Perception and Sensation Session 3. Colour sensation does not depend strictly of the light signal conveying colour information, but also depends on the arrangement of the visual array of all signals coming from the scene. Colour cons... Read More about Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment.

Reflectance, illumination and edges (2009)
Presentation / Conference
McCann, J., Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2009, November). Reflectance, illumination and edges. Paper presented at Seventeenth Color Imaging Conference: Color Science and Engineering Systems, Technologies, and Applications, Albuquerque, New Mexico

We studied color constancy using a pair of 3-D Color Mondrian displays made of two identical sets of painted wooden shapes. There are only 6-chromatic, and 5-achromatic paints applied to nearly 100 block facets. The three-dimensional nature of these... Read More about Reflectance, illumination and edges.

SweetTalk 38 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dowling, J. P., Anderson, I., Mochnacz, M., Council, A., & Solomons, G. (2009, November). SweetTalk 38. Presented at Creative to Creative Lecture series, The Watershed, Bristol

Bristol design blog typenowhere.com join forces with CandyCollective to bring SweetTalk to Watershed. SweetTalk is a creative-to-creative live event, bringing together local creative talent with international luminaries in a relaxed, social environme... Read More about SweetTalk 38.

Addiction and the brain (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Albertson, D. (2009, November). Addiction and the brain. Presented at Science of Addiction conference, Mankato, MN, USA

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