In this paper we introduce our experiences of blended learning for open and distance learning in our university in recent years. We form our basic philosophies to implementing blended learning and make one blended learning system with 10 subsystems, which is consisted of online learning environment, instruction design, interaction, space, time, curriculum, learning material, community of practi...

Conceptual blending is a mental process that serves a variety of cognitive purposes, including human creativity. In this line of thinking, human creativity is modeled as a process that takes different mental spaces as input and combines them into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this form of combinational creativity, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the i...

Thinkers have always been fascinated by mental patterns that are commonly classified under labels such as analogy, category extension, metaphor, framing, counterfactuals, and grammatical constructions. Typically, they are considered part of distinct disciplines: counterfactuals in philosophy and logic, metaphor in literature, analogy in psychology, framing in sociology and artificial intelligen...

Thinkers have always been fascinated by mental patterns that are commonly classified under labels such as analogy, category extension, metaphor, framing, counterfactuals, and grammatical constructions. Typically, they are considered part of distinct disciplines: counterfactuals in philosophy and logic, metaphor in literature, analogy in psychology, framing in sociology and artificial intelligen...

In an article entitled "The YOYO theory: YOu're on Your Own" published in Paper Magazine in February 2002, David Hershovits describes the ethic of rugged individualism espoused by airline pilots in the wake of the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The acronym YOYO (for You're On Your Own) had formerly been reserved for the case in which an air traffic controller bid a pilot adieu as he left...

In this paper, we present an application of a space mapping technique for surface reconstruction (more precisely: reconstruction of missing parts of a real geometric object represented by volume data). Using a space mapping technique, the surface of a given model, in particular tooth shape is fitted by a shape transformation to extrapolate the remaining surface of a patient's tooth with occurri...

Blended Reality Space is our term for an interactive mixed-reality environment where the physical and the virtual are intimately combined in the service of interaction goals and communication environments aimed at health support and rehabilitation. The present study examines the effect on rated presence and self-presence of three key factors in the way blended realities may be implemented for t...

Treating sentiment analysis as a classification problem has proven extremely useful, but it misses the blended, continuous nature of sentiment expression in natural language. Using data from the Experience Project, we study texts as distributions over sentiment categories. Analysis of the document collection shows the texts contain blended sentiment information substantially different from a ca...

Conceptual blending is a mental process that serves a variety of cognitive purposes, including human creativity. In this line of thinking, human creativity is modeled as a process that takes different mental spaces as input and combines them into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this form of combinational creativity, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the i...

Conceptual blending is a mental process that serves a variety of cognitive purposes, including human creativity. In this line of thinking, human creativity is modeled as a process that takes different mental spaces as input and combines them into a new mental space, called a blend. According to this form of combinational creativity, a blend is constructed by taking the commonalities among the i...