To reuse successful experience in software architecture design, architects use architectural patterns as reusable architectural knowledge for architectural synthesis. However, it has been observed that the resulting architecture does not always conform to the initial architectural patterns employed. Architectural synthesis using architectural patterns is also recognized as a challenging task, e...

Integrins are cell surface receptors that bind cells to their physical external environment, linking the extracellular matrix to cell function. They are essential in the biology of all animals. In the late 1980s, we discovered that integrins are required for the ability of breast epithelia to do what they are programmed to do, which is to differentiate and make milk. Since then, integrins have ...

We examine the rhetorical strategy of architects in widely available architectural texts, to identify what words are available for use in the cultural register. Our results show that these cultural register texts use distinct but related rhetorics; vocabularies of competency that are revealed through clusters of keywords and which capture institutional logics of business, profession and state. ...

In this paper I reflect on the role of HCI Education in University level courses. The theme of the conference is 'Architecting the Future' and I analyse what we mean by this in terms of HCI Education. As a community we seem to have moved from fundamental HCI issues through usability and user-centered design, and last year were all about design and creativity – have we moved one step beyond agai...

In this work we describe a 3D authoring tool which takes advantage of multimodal interfaces such as gestures and speech. This tool allows real-time Augmented Reality aimed to aid the tasks of interior architects and designers. This approach intends to be an alternative to traditional techniques. The main benefit of using a multi-modal based augmented reality system is the provision of a more tr...