Culturebybabies: Imagining everyday material culture through babies’ engagements with socks

Embodied engagements with online pornography

Toward Robust Material Recognition for Everyday Objects

Material recognition is a fundamental problem in perception that is receiving increasing attention. Following the recent work using Flickr [16, 23], we empirically study material recognition of real-world objects using a rich set of local features. We use the Kernel Descriptor framework [5] and extend the set of descriptors to include materialmotivated attributes using variances of gradient ori...

Analyzing Asymmetric Opponents through Deconstruction of Asymmetric Engagements

This presentation reviews the results of an investigation into a process for developing asymmetric tactics in support for small unit training. Some have argued that asymmetric tactics are something outside of our normal understanding. This work disagrees with that assertion. We postulated that any force would prefer to achieve their strategic objectives through quick, decisive operations. Force...

Imagining material versus geometric properties of objects: an fMRI study.

Two experiments are reported that used fMRI to compare the brain activation during the imagery of material and geometric object features. In the first experiment, participants were to mentally evaluate objects along either a material dimension (roughness, hardness and temperature; e.g., Which is harder, a potato or a mushroom?) or a geometric dimension (size and shape; e.g., Which is larger, a ...

Evaluating Pop Culture Museum Engagements: Pedagogies of, about, and with Harry Potter