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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"Digital Tools"”.
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Digital Tools, Distributed Making and Design
Given the current social and business trends with digital fabrication and communication technologies, change in the manner and means of physical object production is clearly on the horizon. Recent peripheral projects show how access to digital fabrication and communication tools pull information …
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Digital Tools and Design: Improving Participation in Policymaking
This thesis examines how digital tools and design principles can be used to improve public participation in policymaking. I begin by identifying the problem that government consultations often fail to engage the public in policymaking because of their inaccessibility. I then explore ways to make …
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Elder perspectives: leveraging digital tools in language revival initiatives
… are at risk of extinction. Leveraging digital technologies while collaborating with Elders can support revival initiatives. Through semi-structured interviews and qualitative analysis, this study addresses how three Elders who use technology in their ancestral language teaching (1) …
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READY-MADE MODEL. Digital tools for reality-based virtual landscapes
Over the past three decades, the digital and information revolution has reshaped design methodologies, offering dynamic and multi-level modelling approaches. Urban Digital Twins have emerged as a powerful tool for Smart Cities, facilitating scenario assessments and citizen engagement. However, …
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
… theatre and performance artists use new media tools to facilitate political engagement. The chapters cover a diverse range of performancesfrom interventions in video games to mobile phone walking tours to theatre productions that use social media. In contrast to the dominant narrative of …
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Beyond models digital tools for urban design as mechanisms for better planning practices
… the potential of computational urban design tools as instruments to support the implementation of better urban design practices through more informed and collaborative urban development processes. Contemporary computational tools impact the inception of design ideas; evaluate design outputs …
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Using factory-level digital tools to improve quality and productivity in garment factories
… lead times, requiring Li & Fung to have a more digitally connected, nimble vendor base. Li & Fung uses a supplier network of thousands of garment factories around the world, the majority of whom are still capturing quality and production data manually, resulting in incomplete and inaccurate …
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Towards an Edition of Troilus and Criseyde: The Work, Authorial Versions, and Digital Tools
This dissertation explores the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde using phylogenetic methods. It has three main goals: (1) to show that phylogenetic methods can illuminate the relationships within the textual tradition, (2) to challenge the “three-version” theory that has …
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Leveraging digital tools and analytics for temperature management in cold chain systems for gene therapies
… describes the requirements for an end-to-end, digitally-enabled temperature management system for gene therapies. First, we establish a baseline understanding of the location, incidence, and severity of temperature excursions across the cold chain, based on current practices managing …
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Respectful Design With Remote Communities: How Can Real-Time Digital Tools Contribute in Cross Cultural Collaboration
This research investigates the role of digital technology in fostering respectful design practices in multidisciplinary distributed collaboration. Time and financial limitations currently hinder the application of respectful design, an Indigenous approach. This research assesses real-time digital …
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Digital tools for training frontline health workers in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review
… scope of work may evolve or expand over time. Digital health solutions (defined as the use of digital, mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives) are increasingly being used to support the training of FLHWs. Strategies may rely on use of digital tools, …
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Nelvana Animation: Shifting Labour Conditions, Digital Tools and Their Influence on the Design of 2D Children’s Animated Series
… economic growth and how the introduction of digital tools has impacted the aesthetic narrative of children’s animation. Applying the observations of cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han, the aesthetics of commercial 2D animation embrace smoothness as the positions of animators are reformed by …
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Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading <i>Yoshino ki</i>
… of premodern Japanese literature and digital humanities (DH) through an innovative online platform for reading, annotating, and coding. Centered on <em>Yoshino ki</em> 吉野記 (A Record of Yoshino), a seventeenth-century Japanese poetic travelogue authored by the poet and courtier Asukai …
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"We just learned from each other": ESOL pre-service teachers learning to use digital tools across coursework and student teaching
Educators can use digital tools to meet emergent bilingual students’ unique needs (e.g., Andrei, 2017; Liu, Navarrete, & Wivagg, 2014; Lund, 2008). However, language teachers generally feel unprepared to use technology with students even though many use digital tools in their daily lives (e.g., …
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Time Travel at the Fortress of Louisbourg: The Implications of Social Media and Digital Tools Affecting Visitation of Parks Canada National Historic Sites, Cape Breton Island, Canada
… the current methods of social media and digital tools used by Cape Breton Island tourism stakeholders to promote culture and heritage. The research analysis determined planning must occur months prior to a visitor’s arrival during the peak tourism season when all services are in full …
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A Framework for the Implementation of Digital Technologies in the Concept Stage of the Architectural Design Process
The use of digital tools such as Sketchup, Rhino, AutoCAD and others is now commonplace in the architectural design process. These tools have advantages for time management and support the iterative nature of design, while also providing an efficient connection to later stages of design development …
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Between the Lines: Encoding Relations Through Body, Tool, and Algorithm
The tools architects use orchestrate the discipline in seen and unseen ways. In recent decades, we have swapped early forms of mechanical drawing instruments for digital tools with unimaginable computing power. While this increased level of computational literacy allows us to script and code …
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