We investigated the process of design creativity by examining the characteristics of thinking during design activity involving concept synthesis. In our experiments, subjects were asked to perform two tasks to interpret novel noun-noun combinations and to create a design based on novel noun-noun combinations. We analyzed and compared the thinking used in each task using a method reported in cog...

In this paper I explore Fauconnier and Turner's (1998) conceptual blending as an evaluative technique for user interface design. Conceptual blending theory offers a rich model that may account for meaning construction and meaning elaboration in design. Blending has been used previously to analyze jokes (Coulson, 1995), metaphor (Fauconnier & Turner, 1998), and Hebrew verb morphology (Mandelblit...

Amphiphilic block copolymers can assemble into a variety of structures on the nanoscale in selective solvent. The micelle blending protocol offers a simple unique route to reproducibly produce polymer nanostructures. Here we expand this blending protocol to a range of polymer micelle systems and self-assembly routes. We found by exploring a range of variables that the systems must be able to re...

A common method for constructing blending Dupin cyclides for two cones having a common inscribed sphere of radius r > 0 involves three steps: (1) computing the (?r)-oosets of the cones so that they share a common vertex, (2) constructing a blending cyclide for the ooset cones, and (3) computing the r-ooset of the cyclide. Unfortunately , this process does not always work properly. Worse, for so...

Since 2001, the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) has worked to put the results of its trials into the hands of community treatment programs, in large part through its participation in the National Institute on Drug Abuse-Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Blending Initiative and its close involvement with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment...

Coal blending is a critically important process in the coal mining industry as it directly influences the number of product tonnes and the total revenue generated by a mine site. Coal blending represents a challenging and complex problem with numerous blending possibilities, multiple constraints and competing objectives. At many mine sites, blending decisions are made using heuristics that have...

Conceptual blending is a cognitive theory whereby elements from diverse, but structurally-related, mental spaces are “blended” giving rise to new conceptual spaces that often possess new powerful interpretative properties, allowing better understanding of known concepts or the emergence of novel concepts altogether. This paper provides an overview of the wide computational methodological spectr...

We consider texture modeling techniques which are exemplar-based, i.e. techniques which use several example texture images to learn pixel arrangements. The motivation for these techniques is that the structure of a texture can be characterized by the spatial distribution of pixels in a neighborhood of the image or the multiresolution pyramid. To get another instance of the same type of texture,...

A blobtree is an implicit surface defined by a tree of objects. Each node of the tree can either be a primitive or an operation. Primitives are skeletal implicit surfaces defined by a skeleton (like a point or a line) and a potential function which maps the distance to the primitive to R. Operations (like union, twist or blend) are nodes that work on one or more other nodes. Skeletal implicit s...

Study the effect of blending hydrophilic agent and water and oil repellent agent on cotton fabric property of antifouling and easy decontaminating. The study shows that blending could make the fabric have property of antifouling and easy decontaminating.