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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Locative"”.
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Enabling Locative Experiences
… contributions. First is the SeeVT framework, a locative backbone that uses currently-available data and equipment in the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg VA environments (e.g., wireless signal triangulation, GPS signals) to make available to applications the location of the device in use. …
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Unlocking Landscapes Using Locative Media
… is situated within the practice and discourse of locative media at the confluence of art, location and technology. The practice-based research project aims to use the arts to address a crisis arising from rapid redevelopment in a marginal coastal town – Hayle, Cornwall. A recent supermarket build …
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Syncwalk : a framework for locative audio composition
… In this work, I survey prominent works in the locative-sound art field and propose a scale-independent software framework for composing sound in space. As a proof-of-concept and to encourage further dialogue, I use this framework to create a large-scale participatory project that will allow …
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Locative expressions in signed languages: A cross-linguistic comparison
… to examine whether sign languages organize their locative expressions similarly to spoken languages. Paving the way in the study of spatial relations by focusing on the structuring of ON and IN locatives in spoken languages, Bowerman and colleagues (Bowerman 1980; Melissa Bowerman & Eric Pederson …
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Learning locative verbs : how universal linking rules constrain productivity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1989.
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Locative relations in American Sign Language word formation, syntax and discourse
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.
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Mobile nodes: mobile and locative media, everyday life and sense of place
… features. To this end, the development of locative media within specific types of location-aware mobile devices and services is shown to be intimately interrelated with different aspects of place-making and self-presentation in London. This thesis demonstrates that mobile and locative media …
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AIDE : case-based approach for designing graphics from locative and temporal data
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Local norms and innovations within the system of locative prepositions in Cajun French
… sociolinguistic study, we analyze the use of locative prepositions. We add two important dimensions to existing studies: real-time evidence for a diachronic descriptive perspective, and a methodological tool, measuring the degree of exposure to French (MDI). This approach allows us to …
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Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative
… expanded narrative practices and specifically locative narrative, a genera of expanded narrative, hold the potential to prompt the experiential effects of multi-stability. The metaphor of multi-stability introduced here stands in for three aspects of experience: language, perception and belief. …
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The aspectual nature of thematic relations : locative and temporal phrases in English and Chinese
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Children's production of locative expressions in English : the influence of geometric and extra-geometric factors
The research in this thesis examines the influence that both geometric and extrageometric factors have on children's spatial language production. Over the years it has widely been assumed that spatial prepositions identif' where objects are in the world (geometric factors) and that this is …
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Connecting places.Il coinvolgimento delle comunità locali nella valorizzazione partecipata del territorio: le prospettive aperte dai locative media
… si focalizza sulle esperienze legate ai locative media, che, dal ristretto panorama della sperimentazione artistica della fine degli anni Novanta, si stanno oggi affermando come pratiche comuni e quotidiane tra gli utenti, grazie al diffondersi di tecnologie e dispositivi location aware, …
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Perceiving Experience: Accounting for the role of the audience in the construction of pervasive and locative artworks
… examines the role of audiences in pervasive and locative artworks. It critically examines claims made for the ability of pervasive and locative artworks to provide audiences with new, heightened and engaging experiences. It addresses the way in which the role of the audience is shaped by both the …
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Generalized inversion and theory of agree
… structures. I first provide an analysis of Locative Inversion. I show that the mixed A- and A- syntactic behavior of the fronted PP in English could be derived once we understand how the featural composition of locative phrases influences on the Probe-Goal relation between C and the …
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Localizing the media, locating ourselves: a critical comparative analysis of socio-spatial sorting in locative media platforms (Google AND Flickr 2009-2011)
… of populations. In their current guise as locative media platforms, these systems build rich databases of places facilitated by user-generated geocoded media. These geoindexes render places, and users of these services, this thesis argues, subject to novel forms of computational modelling …
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Altaic evidence for the Japanese and Korean case suffix systems
… the Mongolian prosecutive li.The Old Japanese locative tu/du/da and the Old Korean dative-locative *a/*ai/*ahi are compared with the Manchu-Tungus dative-locative-partitive du/da/a, with the Mongolian dative-locative du/da/a, and with the Old Turkic dative-locative-ablative-directive du/da/a. …
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A poetics of uncertainty: a chorographic survey of the life of John Trevisa and the site of Glasney College, Cornwall, mediated through locative arts practice
Connections between the medieval Cornishman and translator John Trevisa (1342-1402) and Glasney College in Cornwall are explored in this thesis to create a deep map about the figure and the site, articulated in a series of micro-narratives or anecdotae. The research combines book-based strategies …
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Re-enchanting spaces : location-based media, participatory documentary, and augmented reality
… Due to the proliferation of sophisticated locative technologies, location-based media are increasingly ubiquitous in areas including art, gaming, urban planning, marketing, and tourism. While location-based approaches have enormous potential, however, rapid technological change and widely …
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Space is the Place: Space, Place and Transformation in the work of James Attlee
… to Station (Attlee, 2015), as well as one locative digital fiction, The Cartographer’s Confession (Attlee, 2017). The appraisal is structured around key statements by the geographer Fi-Fu Tuan, particularly from his book Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1981) and his Farewell …
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