A comparison is made between the expected photometric accuracy of the FOC, and that observed. The presently known systematic eeects are listed and quantiied. Typically when both internal and external factors are included one only expects to obtain photometry accurate to 0.2 mag in the ultraviolet. This expectation is tested by comparing magnitudes extracted from F220W images of nine starburst g...

The modern science festival movement has grown significantly since the Edinburgh International Science Festival launched in 1989. Hundreds of festivals now occur annually and vary widely. This article examines how term “science festival” is used within research practice. We find that most articles fail to describe they study. A subsequent analysis websites other publicly available information c...

This article mainly focuses on the application of Yao Panwang Festival elements interactive packaging design for local products, discusses as a carrier to convey festival cultural spirit. The methods ABM: Analysis(festival contents)-Build relationship (traditional vs modern)-Media(interactive package,toy,emoji,etc.). builds "Interactive Packaging Design Analysis Table" explore and evaluate. fea...

This article explores the idea of 'tragic festival' advanced by Henri Lefebvre in his 1965 book La Proclamation de la Commune and related texts from 1960s 70s. It contextualises vision as a violent revolutionary festival terms explorations tragedy earlier studies Nietzsche Pascal, while problematising link between everyday life, well transition (and its failure). The reconstruction Lefebvre's d...

This paper describes the interactive installation Sissy (Sound-driven, Interactive, Self-conscious SYstem) at the STRP festival. The concept adheres to the design philosophy of slow technology and aims at stimulating relaxation. Sissy is made out of 700 flip dots with a black and white side and it responds to visitors’ movements sensed by a camera. The white dots are coloured through the projec...

In recent years, social commitment based approaches have been proposed to solve problems issuing from previous mentalistic based semantics for agent communication languages. This paper follows the same line of thought since it presents a dialogue game based agent communication language (called DIAGAL) which allows agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue, by ...