Creating a meaningful life: Psychobiographical investigations

Creating Meaningful Representations

Demanding business environments increasingly require knowledge work. Hereby, knowledge creation needs to rely on meaningful entities and representations, in particular for organizational change processes. In this paper we report on exploring essential benefits for stakeholders and communities when applying major principles of Maria Montessori when articulating and communicating knowledge. Exper...

A psychobiographical analysis of Brian

The suggestion of a relationship between creativity and mental disorder has existed for centuries, and has been advocated by many psychological researchers. The present analysis offers a consideration of the nature of mental disorder present in Brian Wilson, an individual recognised as one of the most creative figures in 20th century popular music. Using converging biographical evidence, and th...

Creating Meaningful Environment Models for Augmented Reality

This article introduces a framework to generate three-dimensional models for Augmented Reality (AR), which include semantics. Augmented reality applications often associate 3D models with some aspect of reality. While the addition of semantics to 3D models has been studied previously in the field of intelligent virtual environments, AR is different because the semantics are attached to objects ...

Creating and Monitoring Meaningful Individual Rugby Ratings

Creating Meaningful Melodies from Text Messages

Writing text messages (e.g. email, SMS, instant messaging) is a popular form of synchronous and asynchronous communication. However, when it comes to notifying users about new messages, current audio-based approaches, such as notification tones, are very limited in conveying information. In this paper we show how entire text messages can be encoded into a meaningful and euphonic melody in such ...