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Showing 1 to 20 of 449 for “"first person"”.
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First-Person Participation in Dante's 'Commedia'
… sets out a case for a mode of reading I term first-person participation in relation to Dante’s 'Commedia', a narrative poem I propose to function as an exceptionally participatory text. That Dante’s poem invites active engagement on the part of its readers is widely accepted in scholarship. My …
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Data visualization in the first person
This dissertation will examine what a first person viewpoint means in the context of data visualization and how it can be used for navigating and presenting large datasets. Recent years have seen rapid growth in Big Data methodologies throughout scientific research, business analytics, and online …
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Viewer interface for first person shooter streaming
… into the realm of mainstream entertainment, the first person shooters still lag behind other types of games in terms of viewer consumption. This is partly due to the genre's fast paced nature, which makes it difficult for new users to pick up or for experienced users to explain effectively during …
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The acoustic ecology of the first-person shooter
… that the player(s) and soundscape(s) in the first-person shooter (FPS) game, and the relationships between them, may be construed as an acoustic ecology. It explores the idea that the single-player FPS game acoustic ecology has the basic components of player and soundscape and that the …
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First-Person Teleoperation of a Bimanual Robotic System
First-person teleoperation of robots is a large field of research that could serve many benefits for automation. Teleoperation is a popular method to collect demonstrations for imitation learning that are easily learned by the robot, and thus it’s important to create teleoperation systems that are …
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
… these dynamics, to reconnect, care and enable personally, relationally and professionally, as ethical care of the self resistance, as a form of learning and development practice. To come home to self personally, as political action. However, inquiring in personally protected and camouflaged …
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Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels
This study of first-person fictive narration analyzes a selection of contemporary American novels so as to understand and describe more fully a literary effect I call immediacy. I employ the term immediacy to define narrative situations in which little durational gap exists between experience and …
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Learning to kill? Taking aim with the first-person shooter.
… By investigating the learning potential of first-person shooter games from the Call of Duty franchise this study gives fresh stimulus to the area of video games as tools for facilitating learning. Some games attract the label ‘serious’, replicating pre-existing notions of high culture and …
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Game traffic analysis and simulation in first person shooter environment
… such as IP phone and video streaming. For First Person Shooter (FPS) games, where delay is even more important, Internet delay can determine who wins or loses a game. The previous research showed that player at a distance was disadvantaged due to larger delay. Network traffic for such games …
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Understanding reflective practice: encouraging better student engagement. First person action inquiry
… where I teach. Research was conducted using a first-person action approach, with data acquired via critical self-observation and non-inquisitorial involvement in work-based situations feeding into action-reflection cycles. Conclusions highlighted strengths and areas for development as teacher …
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Toward 'Henry Esmond': Thackeray's Apprenticeship in First-Person Narrative, 1837-1850
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First-person singular pronouns in Japanese: How do they work in conversation?
… linguistic items in a wide range of languages. First-person singular (1SG) pronouns may be one of the most fundamental linguistic items for expressing subjectivity because they directly reflect the speaker, who is the owner of subjective point of view. This dissertation explores the use of 1SG …
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First-person documentary filmmaking : an ethical act or an act of betrayal?
… very act of filming betrays the filmed person - and whether first-person filmmaking can be an ethical act rather than an act of betrayal. I am a self-reflective researcher and practitioner with a background in filmmaking and a strong personal interest in psychoanalysis. I grew up in …
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Kant's Ontology: Reality and the Formal Structure of the First Person Perspective
This work argues that Kant's transcendental philosophy is built upon the insight that any judgment about what there is or what is possible must emerge from an existential perspective rather than a purely logical one. Rather than a mere account of our conceptual resources, I argue that Kant's goal …
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Strategies of self-disclosure in the first-person narratives of Gabrielle Roy
"All of Gabrielle Roy's first person narratives exhibit evidence of a quest to understand the self. These narratives demonstrate both an evolution in the textual construction of the self portrait and a consistency of perspective with regard to textual self-disclosure. This can be explained by the …
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‘My’ self on camera: first person DV documentary filmmaking in twentyfirst century China
This project explores first person DV documentary filmmaking practice in China in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Building on existing studies of first person filmmaking in the West, which predominantly analyse filmic self-representation on the textual level, this study addresses two …
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The 'I' in First-Person Thought and What is Meant by Self-Knowledge
… exactly it is that is being referenced by the first-person pronoun, ‘I.’ Immanuel Kant believed the ‘I’ associated with a thinking subject is just a formal representation of the substantially existing subject. This raises the question about whether or not ‘I’ is actually a referring expression? …
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A novel interface for first person shooter games on personal digital assistant devices
The main aim of this study is to enhance the playability of games on current standard PDA devices. The newly designed interface more effectively leverages current well-established devices, which solves the problem of rapidly and accurately executing a large number of gaming commands. The outcomes …
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Leading from Within: A First-Person Study on How Meditation Might Enrich Leadership Praxis
… about meditation’s potential to support personal well-being while simultaneously enhancing my leadership capacity within my organization. Recognizing that leadership decisions shape futures and inspire change, I explored how meditation can strengthen the integration of rational analysis …
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Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Operator Workload and Situation Awareness Utilizing First Person View Techniques
… study was to examine whether the use of first-person view (FPV) techniques while piloting sUAS within the NAS would have an effect on the operator’s workload and if FPV techniques affect the operator’s Level 1 situation awareness (SA). More specifically, this study examined sUAS operator …
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