QS-Craft: Learning to Quantize, Scrabble and Craft for Conditional Human Motion Animation

Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-craft) for Craft Education

The e-CRAFT is specially designed for songket weaving course taught to certificate and diploma students from Fakulti Seni Kraf Tenunan in their first year study at Institut Kraf Negara, Malaysia (National Craft Institute). The courseware was developed in a web-based environment and overall development process was based on the Dick and Carey's process model and conceptual Instructional Design fr...

Renaissance Surgery Between Learning and Craft.

The Craft Consumer : Culture , craft and consumption in a postmodern

This article proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of an additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’,‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity-seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially both ‘made ...

Applying Missile Guidance Concepts to Motion Control of Marine Craft

This paper considers employing missile guidance concepts to design motion control systems for marine craft. Initially, classical concepts such as line of sight (LOS), pure pursuit (PP), and constant bearing (CB) are reviewed. Subsequently, the relationship of these concepts to motion camouflage strategies in nature is pointed out, as well as their application to robot manipulators. Ultimately, ...

Sociocultural learning within craft communities of practice

As craft production is a social enterprise, this document outlines the educational role of sociocultural theory within craft communities. Craft practitioners, whether they are aware of it or not, form themselves into groups which serve as their community and assist in the sharing of knowledge; relevant to this social clustering are the concepts of situated learning, cognitive apprenticeship and...