The workshop examines aesthetics-in-action through naturalistic studies focusing on the role of technology in artistic composition-production, performance, consumption, aimed at creating a body of knowledge to inform innovative technology design.

School curricula and teachers have traditionally suggested that creativity is only possible in subjects such as art, music, drama and dance. However the digital technology now available to schools can offer users opportunities to be creative in different ways and in other subject areas. Using ideas from recently published UK reports on creativity and creative thinking, grade 1 and 2 students in...

This paper highlights the ways in which current computer interfaces impair the capture and refinement of knowledge. It defines an interaction paradigm “informal interaction”, and proposes that pen-based interfaces designed around the concept of informal interaction have the potential to overcome the current impediments. Finally, it identifies specific areas of research required to develop infor...

The paper introduces the digital watermarking technology which is a data hiding technique that embeds a message into a multimedia work such as an image or text or other digital object. The proposed technique has several important applications; the majorly important is the digital copyrights protection. The digital watermarking system as any other data hiding technique has its own requirements t...

The EU FP7 PROTAGE project opens up a novel approach to digital preservation by utilizing agent ecosystems for automation of preservation processes. The resulting preservation tools have the potential to enable integrated automated digital preservation operations in digital archives and libraries of different scales throughout Europe. It could also assist individuals in preserving their persona...

I t is said that travel broadens the mind. A recent trip to Italy for a conference in the Apennines and a workshop in Turin sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Interchange certainly provoked me into some broadening if unsettling thoughts. The first week's largish conference broadened my thinking incrementally, as do good conferences everywhere— with lots of interesting people and thought-...

THIS ARTICLE examines the implications of the Internet for the ownership, distribution and consumption of cultural and expressive goods, broadly defined.1 By this I mean literature, music, visual and performance arts, libraries, archives, and the like. The growth of the Internet has affected many areas of life besides this one, of course. It has allowed the growth of new ways to associate with ...

The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control in the Photovoltaic system is the key control technology, however present controller has the disadvantages of long development cycle, high cost and complex verification, and there are some disadvantages carrying out totally physical simulation or totally digital simulation of different control algorithms. This paper carried out design of hardware ...