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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Pattern Language"”.
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A proto-pattern language for human-computer interaction.
… of the growing new technology. We need a shared language for communicating insights and experiences to resolve common difficult problems encountered in this field. One way to create a shared language is to build a pattern language. A language of this sort is a collection of patterns which share …
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Access control obligation specification and enforcement using behavior pattern language
… sensitive environments. We provide a descriptive language that is capable of defining a variety of complex behavior patterns based on a sequence of user actions. Such a description can be used to specify different elements of the obligation in order to attach to a policy language, and it is also …
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Pattern Language as a Design and Evaluation Tool for Teaming Environments
… research study explored the use of a web-based pattern language as a new tool for designing and evaluating teaming spaces. Pattern language is a design formulation methodology developed in 1977 by Christopher Alexander and his associates. It consists of a series of interrelated physical elements …
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Patterns of Moments Reasoning about Space Video via Pattern Language of Human Behavior by Extracting MultiAction Activities via Machine Learning Video
… Alexander published a collection of design patterns that promotes everyday users to become consciously aware of their living patterns around specific architectural setups. However, his prescriptive proposal outlines only his empirical insight, without further exploration into the dimension …
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Place That Lives-- Urban Mixed-Use Development in response to Christopher Alexander
… question. Supposedly an answer lies in the pattern language developed by Christopher Alexander to allow anyone to design a building that feels alive, and has a special quality that makes buildings and places beautiful. I developed my thesis to use his pattern language to design a 12-story …
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From physical to virtual : extending the gallery experience online
… development of the Web site for the exhibition Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator at Art Interactive.
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Integration Patterns of Learning Technologies
This research proposes sets of design patterns of learning environments as an innovative approach towards an intelligent architectural design process. These patterns are based on teachers’ spatial and pedagogical use of their learning environments. The study is based in the desired condition that …
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A Working Model towards Understanding and Enhancing House Design in Saudi Arabia
… theory and the associated design system, A Pattern Language. Through the discussion, it was concluded that this research’s outcomes could be referred to as The Pattern Language of Saudi HD. Consequently, the results were employed and developed further by adapting a number of existing design …
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Teacher's LAB : a platform for teacher learning
… blocks. I call these elements pedagogical patterns and argue that understanding these patterns is a key dimension of teacher learning. Teacher's LAB promotes this understanding, helping classroom teachers become more reflective practitioners. Furthermore, using the software to share …
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Housing design for land-lost farmers in Suzhou, China
… In order to alleviate the problems, design patterns are used as principles in this housing design project. The principles are applied based on the specific site context. The principles are generated from A Pattern Language to meet the special requirements of the land-lost farmers. They are …
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Cyber-sustainability : towards a sustainable digital future
… solutions are presented in the form of patterns, which are offered here as an invitation for others to join in the further elaboration of these patterns towards a comprehensive pattern language.
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Evolving the Quarter Acre
… quarter acre represents the iconic Kiwi housing pattern, although its extinction in our largest city is looming. Auckland is currently experiencing a major transformation of its urban form, to accommodate the anticipated influx of new residents by 2040. The primary solution being put forward to …
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Designing for communities in bushfire-prone situations: Redesigning the FireWatch website interface
… frameworks arose from the research undertaken: a pattern language for presenting map-based hazard information and a personas framework for designing for remote Australian community based users.
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Patterns of Domestic Video Mediated Communication
… and awareness practices using VMC systems, into patterns and a pattern language. These communication and awareness practices were codified into Patterns of Practices that can be used as a design tool to design technologies for domestic communication and as a vocabulary to describe domestic …
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Chord Sequence patterns in OWL
… musical knowledge in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) focusing on chord sequence representation and presents and evaluates a newly developed solution. The solution consists of two main components. Ontological modelling patterns for musical entities such as notes and chords are introduced …
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Model-driven security in service-oriented architectures : leveraging security patterns to transform high-level security requirements to technical policies
… in security policies. However, security policy languages for SOA are complex and difficult to create due to the expressiveness of these languages. To facilitate and simplify the creation of security policies, this thesis presents a model-driven approach that enables the generation of complex …
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The Gardener Architect: designing with the emergent natures of places
… series has appeared. The tools used are open patterns that fall into two categories: setting – physical – and nurturing – behavioural. They are developed in dialogue with, and within, the ecosystems, especially with the inhabitants. These patterns set situations and tweak the dynamic processes …