We present an interactive method to restore severely damaged historical parchments. When damaged by heat in a fire, such manuscripts undergo a complex deformation and contain various geometric distortions such as wrinkling, buckling, and shrinking, rendering them nearly illegible. They cannot be physically flattened due to the risk of further damage. We propose a virtual restoration framework t...

Historical documents contain facts that family history enthusiasts are interested in extracting. In addition to fact extraction, organizing these facts into disambiguated entity records is also of interest. This paper shows how facts from an excerpt of a page in an OCRed book can be gathered automatically with some expert knowledge.

This article engages with the claimed limitation that critical design fails to address problems it condemns, such as capitalism, and suggests looking at different ways practices have related production in past. Three examples from historical moments are discussed through theoretical lens of tension progression. The discussion brings light four areas reflection which concern way we understand pr...

Technological literacy is required of all in the 21st century. Given its close relationship with technology, design education is fundamental to teaching children and young adults how to understand technology. This paper provides a historical review of the development of design education in Hong Kong. This development is found to be closely connected with a number of historical events, the devel...

a brief overview of the historical development of ergonomics in organizational design and management (odam) is presented. as a component of technology or ergonomics, macro ergonomics are described as a systematic. scientifically based means of optimizing work system  design. macro ergonomics  might  be reoffered  to  as: organization - environment - human - machine interface technology. involve...