Traditional art creation design research is a course that cultivates comprehensive talents in the Fine Arts Department of Sichuan University Arts. This has been offered over eight terms, and its purpose to cultivate students’ ability. aims abilities create inherit traditional as well control study creation. Based on teaching practice this course, evaluation system reformed studied so form bette...

There is a long history of creative encounters between tangible interface design and the Arts. However, in comparison with media art, tangible interaction seems to be quite anchored into many of the traditional methodologies imported from human–computer interaction (HCI). How can the Arts help tangible interaction design? Building on Søren Pold’s Interface Aesthetics, a re-orientation of the ro...

The impact of school-based Tae Kwon Do training on self-regulatory abilities was examined. A self-regulation framework including three domains (cognitive, affective, and physical) was presented. Children (N = 207) from kindergarten through Grade 5 were randomly assigned by homeroom class to either the intervention (martial arts) group or a comparison (traditional physical education) group. Outc...

This paper is concerned with the ways in which Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) affect women’s lives and perceptions regarding their infertility, contraception and reproductive health. The paper is based on a qualitative feminist survey study to explore and analyze issues arising from the use of ARTs by women in New Delhi, the capital of India. A rapid growth in the number of fertility...

We describe an Application Program Interface (API) that facilitates the use of GLSL shaders in computational design, interactive arts, and data visualization. This API was first introduced in the version 2.0 of Processing, a programming language and environment widely used for teaching and production in the context of media arts and design, and has been recently completed in the 3.0 release. It...

The Centre for Electronic Arts was formed in 1985 when 'Computer Art' was dominated by photorealism. The trend has been to user controlled, rather than creator specified artworks. At an intermediate stage, artists took broad control, with detail completed by computer systems. Partial control was sometimes passed to the observer, who became creator and participant. In the age of interactive medi...

BACKGROUND The medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine. OBJECTIVE This article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician. DISCUSSION The medical humanities serve three main goals: the study of the human aspects of medicine from within traditional arts disciplines of history, phil...