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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"Visual representation"”.
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Learning STEM Through Integrative Visual Representation
… have emphasized the external cognitive load of visual presentation only. Under the Virk Long Term Working Memory Multimedia Model of cognitive load, drawing from the Cowan model, students presented with integrated animations of the key neural signal transmission subcomponents where the …
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Visual Representation Learning from Synthetic Data
Representation learning is crucial for developing robust vision systems. The effectiveness of this learning process largely depends on the quality and quantity of data. Synthetic data presents unique advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability, and controllability. Recent advances in generative …
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EXPLORING THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF TEEN IDOLS
Exploring the Visual Representation of Teen Idols investigates the meaning of North American teen idols and their depiction in mass media and contemporary art. Young celebrities and entertainers, especially those in the popular music industry and produced by the Disney Company, are regarded as teen …
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Women Refugee Students: United Nations' Visual Representation
… Refugees (UNHCR) website. The researcher used visual analysis of digital media in the UNHCR’s ‘Her Turn’ multimedia report, which highlights girls’ education and the UNHCR’s accommodation efforts in refugee camps, to investigate representation of refugee women with focus on women who are …
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Visual Representation and the Body in Early Modern Anatomy
… and science. This thesis argues that the visual representation of the anatomical body played a key role in this transformation. Until the end of the seventeenth century the iconography of anatomy legitimized the dissection of the body and portrayed the anatomist as an honourable, dignified …
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Improving utilization, granularity, and interpretability in visual representation learning
This thesis presents three works that revolve around improving the learning and usage of deep model features in computer vision. The first work is about improving style transfer, which is a generative artistic method that leverages pretrained deep model features. Style transfer boils down to a …
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Visual discussions : a visual representation of threaded discussion groups
… Corp. In this project we are creating a visual overview of ongoing threads of a discussion database. This will allow users to quickly focus their attention to relevant areas of areas in a large information space.
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Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture
… of their daily lives. In this environment, a new visual form of expressioninternet memeshas emerged. Cultural memes develop in an extremely fascinating manner and have gradually become mainstream on social media. Memes have a significant impact on young people; the emerging visual culture may …
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The Visual Representation of Self in the Social Media Era
… would be different from their behaviour and self representation in the physical world. I seek commonalities in these areas. My research includes making art works in which I attempt to bring together the online and physical worlds. A series of experiments resulted in a series of performances by …
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Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place
I evaluate how elevated perspective representations have been perceived over time, and find that they have been used in real and meaningful ways throughout Chicago's history. I argue that what makes the elevated perspective unique from other representational forms, at least as a strategy of seeing, …
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Selective attention and the visual representation of object attributes in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex of the rhesus monkey
… or another of an object's attributes on neuronal representations of that object were investigated using extracellular recordings. A female rhesus monkey performed a delayed match to object attribute (DMSA) task, in which she alternately matched object orientations and object colors. In half of the …
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EFFECTS OF ABSTRACT VERSUS CONCRETE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL SIMULATION ON STUDENTS' DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING TRANSFER, AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE SIMULATION
… most effectively based on the simulations' visual attributes. One of the design principles that play an important part in the simulation design process is the visual representation of on-screen objects used to describe science concepts or principles. The purpose of this study was to …
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Visualization of Student Cohort Data With Sankey Diagrams via Web-Centric Technologies
… referred to as swirl), or drops out entirely. A visual representation of how students flow between majors and colleges can aid in this understanding. This thesis will study how a student cohort can be represented in a Sankey Diagram. In this analysis, a student cohort is represented as a …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… these emancipated slaves to determine what this visual representation revealed about the psyche of nineteenth-century America and the latent ideologies these images exposed. This thesis contextualizes these images through the frame of popular visual culture during the mid-nineteenth century by …
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Security Risk Assessment Methods: An Evaluation Framework and Theoretical Model of the Criteria Behind Methods' Success
… and perceived usefulness and ii) the use of visual representation of risk models that can positively impact methods' perceived ease of use, but negatively affect methods' perceived usefulness if the visual representation is not comprehensible due to scalability issues. To further investigate …
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Color image quality measures and retrieval
… can be divided into two categories: one is visual representation, and the other is image quality measure. Three algorithms are designed for visual representation: (1) An image-based visual representation for color correction on low bit-rate JPEG images. Previous studies on color correction …
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FAMILY SYSTEMS THROUGH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
… study views the family photograph album as a visual construction of social reality which represents how the family perceives and defines its world. This popular cultural artifact is used to examine the social and geographical boundaries of this world as well as the family's conceptualization …
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ReflectionSpace: an interactive visualization tool for supporting reflection-on-action in design
… reflective practice through design process visualization. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that a visual representation of design materials that captures and communicates the design process and context of design activity will better foster reflection-on-action. In support of this …
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Face Interface : a methodology for experimental learning of input modalities
… demonstrates that creating a system with a visual representation of the face which mirrors the user's facial gestures appears to solve problems in teaching a user to use the new input affordances of face-based interfaces. From experiences with the Attentive Interaction Design Toolkit, …
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