Dishing up Distinction: Language Materiality and Multimodal Coherence in Elite Foodways

Dishing up bone formation

ow cells connect to each other and to the extracellular matrix (ECM) was a sticky issue in the early 1980s. Integrins, molecules that hook the cy-toskeleton to ECM proteins such as collagen and fibronectin, hadn't been discovered, but evidence for a link between external and internal fibers was mounting. For example, Irwin Singer (1979) observed that extra-cellular fibronectin molecules closely...

Dishing up Individual and Collective Dimensions in Knowing

This paper investigates the interplay between individual, collective and organizational dimensions in knowing? We consider knowing in practice in the perspective of habitus, practice and field dynamics in Bourdieu’s praxeology. We ground our research in the case of a grand restaurant. During our eight year-observation range, three chefs managed this restaurant while the cook team remained stabl...

A Device-Independent Multimodal Mark-up Language

Today’s growing heterogeneity of end user devices makes it crucial for application developers to deploy applications on as many devices as possible with an acceptable effort. Furthermore, new modalities like speech and gestures allow for more natural interaction especially with small mobile devices. It is hard to simply extend existing Web applications to support multimodal interactions. Hence,...

Food and Foodways

A Multimodal Presentation Mark-up Language for Enhanced Affective Presentation

Nowadays, agent systems are flourishing. We can see them presenting news on the Internet, or guiding virtual tourists in 3D worlds. All these agents are considered as a new interface between user and computer, more friendly and natural. This involves natural voice communication and natural behaviour management. Our interest is to create a language called Multimodal Presentation Mark-up Language...