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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Off-screen"”.
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Spatial peripheral interaction techniques for viewing and manipulating off-screen digital content
… within its viewport. To support interacting with off-screen content, our work explores the design and evaluation of several spatial off-screen exploration techniques that make use of the interaction space around the display. These include Paper Distortion, Dynamic Distortion, Dynamic Peephole …
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… performance studies. The thesis employs Erving Goffman?s notion of ?social performance? (1959) and Richard Schechner?s concept of ?in-between identities? (1985) to position Tang?s on- and off-screen persona and performance within and without the Chinese ideological context. By examining the …
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Bid-Ask Spread Modelling in the South African Bond Market
… it can be used to leverage information from an onscreen market (albeit a different market) to imply bid-ask spread estimates in an off-screen market. The results indicate that the Huang and Stoll (1997) model consistently outperforms the De Jong and Rindi (2009) model. Furthermore, the yield …
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BiDi screen : depth and lighting aware interaction and display
… of interactive display that supports both on-screen multi-touch interactions and off-screen hover-based gestures. This BiDirectional (BiDi) screen, capable of both image capture and display, is inspired by emerging LCDs that use embedded optical sensors to detect multiple points of direct …
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“Luxury Items”: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy
… to host a diverse range of talent both on and off screen and in doing so to encourage diversity, as a reflection of a pluralised British audience and society, across all British terrestrial channels.
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
… race, the black body and sexual violence on and off screen. I also trace the conventions of the slave narrative across mediums and discuss the complex nature of authorship and authenticity. Assessing the close connection between the different narrative forms across three centuries, my research …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… human beings who create and use technology off screen for our own purposes. This dissertation focuses ethnographically on one social movement, the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra: The Peoples' Front in Defense of Land) of San Salvador Atenco on the outskirts of Mexico City, and …
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Investigating the lived experience of an after-school Minecraft club
… methods, including child-produced video, audio, screencasts, photography, fieldnotes and virtual model-making discussion sessions. In response to this data, this thesis takes a novel approach to representation, drawing on a range of modes. This results in a hybrid text that includes comic strips, …
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Nuevos sistemas de acceso al audiovisual histórico en relación con los elementos espacio-temporales presentes y ausentes
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la manera en que los elementos espacio-temporales, presentes y ausentes, inciden en el audiovisual histórico, mediante el estudio de la elipsis y el fuera de campo. Ambos conceptos sufren un importante desarrollo con la llegada de nuevos sistemas que …