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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Symbology"”.
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Head-up display symbology for ground collision avoidance
Four predictive ground collision avoidance displays (Break-X, Chevrons, Mountain, and Highway) were tested using a fixed-base T-38 simulator with a projection screen and simulated Head-Up Display (HUD). The Break-X was similar to the conventional military alert except that it remained on the screen …
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A Semiotic Approach to Russian Military Map Symbology and Terms
… to accurately interpret and organize Russian map symbology and terms raise questions about cognition and the basic processes of how humans interpret information. A potential pathway to answering these questions is through the application of semiotics—the study of signs and the process through …
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Helmet-mounted display symbology for ground collision avoidance in fighter aircraft
… through the use of Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) symbology. Modality and information presentation issues were addressed through the design and testing of five display formats. An audio alert with no visual symbology was used as a baseline. The addition of visual alert symbology was tested using a …
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Qualitative symbology: an evaluation of the pictorial signs of the National Park Service as cartographic symbols
… It is suggested that future testing of pictorial symbology might use semiotic and psychophysical research approaches to examine other coexisting symbol systems and discover more specific design principles for pictorial symbols.
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Conformal Flight Path Symbology for Head-Up Displays: Defining the Distribution of Visual Attention in Three-Dimensional Space
… conformal ILS (instrument landing system) symbology set. There was little evidence that the air-based navigation displays were supporting divided attention in three-dimensional space. The ground-based scene-linked (truly conformal) display indicated promising effects of dividing attention …
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Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot
… With heavy use of appropriated and ambiguous symbology, the Smith-Waite deck became a meditation tool for realizing alternative realities. By observing the history of the deck, analyzing Smith’s approach to illustration, and retracing the counterculture occult explosion in the 1970s, this …
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The Cartographic Representation of Language: Understanding language map construction and visualizing language diversity
… not only consistently categorizes language map symbology, it also captures unique strategies observed for handling locations with linguistic plurality as well as representing language data uncertainty. A new typology of language map symbology is compiled based on the map survey results. Finally, …
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Effloresce
… for this body of work, particularly the natural symbology found in Medieval and Renaissance Art. I employ painting techniques inspired by contemporary painters Alex Kanevsky, Mia Bergeron, Helene Delmaire, and Zoey Frank, as well as historical painters John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, …
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How can art change the meaning of the city? : an examination of an installation in a public setting, Compton Court, M.I.T.
… to public institutions, in terms of the work's symbology and meaning. Planners are questioning the value of their work based upon the lived perceptions of people on its streets. This shared questioning indicates the possibility of new directions for both environmental design and environmental …
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Workflow as a mediatory agency in a compositional language: portfolio of compositions with commentary
… composer-performer collaboration, and symbology. Particular attention is given to discussion of the development of graphic notation both in terms of the technical implementation, but also as apart of my workflow.<br/>The research aims to show how a composer's working environment has …
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Collapse Into Silence: Denys the Areopagite as the Key Source of Richard of St. Victor
… difference bears on Richard’s sacramentalism and symbology, the role of Moses as philosophical archetype, and the concept of love when reaching the apex of contemplation (chapter 4). Finally, this thesis offers some possible interpretations to better understand Dionysius’ legacy in Middle Ages, …
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UNtheater
… with stairs: exploring different types, the symbology associated with them, and why I was so adamant about making every fire stair beautiful. This led me to a program and a site - a theater on the corner of Swann St. and 14th St. in northwest Washington D.C.; a building necessitating stairs, …
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User interface design and evaluation of a shipboard electronic warfare console
… and high. Researchers have evaluated color and symbology with consideration to emitter display systems, but without considering how range information and emitter density effect performance. Results indicate that range information improves performance by 60%. The addition of color and the new …
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Down the rabbit hole: An Exhibition – and – Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self: An exegesis
… to this significant story, exploring the symbology and metaphorical nature of the text and seeing the story as a “reflexive project of the self” (Giddens, 1991, p. 5). I began this research having already created two exhibitions based on Alice in Wonderland and with a desire to understand …
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One For All: A Capitol Proposal
… in its state building, or should a different symbology, aesthetics, materiality, or origin story be reoriented and introduced? However, it also became clear that site selection would be of critical importance to this project. The result of months of research led me to believe that although the …
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An extended case study on the introductory teaching of programming
… supported by an analysis of the semiotics and symbology of programming languages that showed that there was no intrinsic support for the traditional sequence of introducing programming concepts. A second dimension to the transformation involved doubling the number of assessments to emphasise …
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