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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"icons"”.
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American Cultural Icons in Museums
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
<p>Blinking Icons:Letters to Saint Augustine is a hybrid contemporary epistolary historical novel in conversation with Saint Augustine’s Confessions. Sarah Ruden’s translation inspires an exploration of interiority, states of consciousness, memory, voice, and more broadly, the parallel …
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Corporate icons in the suburban landscape
The image of the modern workplace in the American suburb has long been a contentious topic of discussion among academics, planning and development professionals, and the public. Today, the critics of office parks in the low-density neighborhoods are applauding the idea of reverse migration back to …
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Roanoke Passenger Train Station: Framing Icons
… Virginia. A passenger train station frames these icons and brings people directly to the train. This framing creates a new icon for the city. An area on the train tracks is revitalized and creates a permeable threshold into and out of the city.
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Implementing African American Icons into an ESL Classroom
… it is important to incorporate African American icons into an ESL classroom.</p>
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Passenger Knowledge of Airline Safety Icons: A Cultural Study
… American cultures in their ability to comprehend icons used in airline passenger safety information. The 116 subjects were outbound international airline passengers traveling from San Francisco International Airport to either Japan or Korea. The instrument used contained thirteen icons similar to …
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Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology
Icons surround us but are so ubiquitous they are difficult to observe. Specifically urban cultural icons are a scientific sub-topic under urban morphology's heading and as well are closely related to economic development issues. This study premises that businesses are urban cultural icons which can …
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Scripting graphics with graphics : icons as a visual editing tool
… procedures with graphic representations or "icons." The icons are small bitmap images that carry with them information about spatial placement, list placement, and pointers to procedures. Icons have been created and connected to a series of image transformation procedures. Two interactive …
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Cultural Icons: A Case Study Analysis of their Formation and Reception.
… answer the general question, what are cultural icons? To meet this end a definition of iconicity will be proposed consisting of four inter-connected conditions comprising, a) distinctness of image, b) durability of image, c) reproducibility of image and d) the tragic-dramatic narrative inherent …
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The Development of a Genre: Commencement Addresses Delivered by Popular Cultural Icons
… with an analysis of speeches from pop culture icons to establish the defining characteristics of the genre. These characteristics are: 1) acknowledging the graduates, 2) creating identification, 3) presenting the world, and 4) instilling hope.
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… view of pre-hip hop era and hip hop era icons, iconology, archetypes and aesthetics and teases out their influence on hip hop aesthetics. I identify specific figures, movements and events within the context of African American and American folk and popular culture traditions and link them …
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The effects of using icons and direct manipulation interfaces : an empirical study
… was to examine the performance impact of using icons and direct manipulation in human-computer interfaces. An icon based interface uses pictures or images to represent commands, objects, and system information. These images can be invoked, activated, moved by the user simply by pointing to the …
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An Investigation of Auditory Icons and Brake Response Times in a Commercial Truck-Cab Environment
… overload of the visual channel. Auditory icons have been shown to improve operator performance and decrease learning and response times, not only in industrial applications, but also as emergency braking warnings. The use of auditory icons in commercial truck cabs has the potential to …
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Heritage or Hate?: An Examination of Americans’ Popular Memory of the Confederate States of America and Its Icons
… into the United States. However, its memory and icons continued to be perceived separately. The current debate over whether Confederate icons, such as the so-called "Confederate Flag," Robert E. Lee, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, should be considered symbols of heritage or of hate reflects the …
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The Integration Of Audio Into Multimodal Interfaces: Guidelines And Applications Of Integrating Speech, Earcons, Auditory Icons, and Spatial Audio (SEAS)
… paradigm utilizing Speech, Earcons, Auditory icons, and Spatial audio (SEAS) cues is proposed and guidelines for the integration of SEAS cues into multimodal systems are presented. Finally, the results of two studies are presented that evaluate the utility of using SEAS cues, developed …
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The Relief Icon in Byzantium
This dissertation examines Byzantine relief icons from the ninth to the fifteenth century, challenging the prevailing scholarly emphasis on panel-painted sacred images. While Byzantine icons are often equated with painting, the material record reveals a rich corpus of relief imagery fashioned from …
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Field computers for spatially referenced social surveys
… to investigate whether it is feasible to use icons to represent SE variables, whether HCI theory is useful for assessing the field observations of the volunteers using the palm computer, and whether the data collected is useful in terms of informal settlements and Communal Property …
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From Tempera to Ink to Code: The Other Media of Orthodox Iconography
… Ink to Code traces the remediation of Orthodox icons. It examines icons’ unexplored, other media: cheap print, the book and digital media. Its interdisciplinary, cross-medial approach draws upon the fields of media studies, art history, art practice, religious studies, history and bibliography …
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A Visual Programming Language for Visualization of Scientific Data
… transform data into pictures by connecting data icons to program icons. The program icons can be customized, extended, and composed using the same "plumbing" metaphor, and new program icons can be defined using the same metaphor. Thus, DataVis is both a set of finished programs for visualizing …
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