Neural Models of Temporally Organized Behaviors: Handwriting Production and Working Memory

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ONR N00014-92-J-4015); Office of Naval Research (N00014-91-J-4100, N00014-92-J-1309

Sanal gerçeklik sanatı ve sürükleyici deneysel tipografi

As an emerging technology, Virtual Reality (VR) is perceived as a platform with the potential to changethe artwork generation methods and consumption paradigms The immersion, presence and interactionfeatures of VR provides for art unique opportunities to find new forms of expression. The potential ofVR in the artistic context will be revealed more clearly as researches in this area increase. The way artuses VR, how it interprets it, and the change VR will cause in art will expand the perspective for both.It is seen that in most of the researches on the relationship between VR and art, this relationship isconsidered in a general context. Very few researches has been done on the use of writing for artisticpurposes in VR and a limited number of practical studies have been produced. From this point of view,in this article, the relationship between experimental typography and VR art is examined with examples.The most effective use of writing in both a linguistic context and as a visual expression has been withinthe scope of conceptual art and this has brought new discourses and perspectives to the art. In thisregards, the inclusion of VR in the combination of writing and art may provide completely differentresults in conceptual and intellectual contexts. The intersection of writing, art and VR has a rich potentialfor different perspectives and new patterns. In this paper, the use of writing as the main narrative elementin VR Artworks has been discussed as an experimental typography study. Experimental typography isa practice based on exploration and interpretation, seeking new forms of visual expression apart fromtraditional patterns. VR Artworks based on experimental typography may reveal various contents thatexplore the role of language for art as structured images in virtual environment. Within this article, threeVR Artworks based on the experimental typography are examined and it has seen that they all presenteddifferent visual solutions than the clean, meticulous 3D visualization approach used in most VRapplications. In this context, it has been suggested that the use of experimental typography in VR Artcan expand the narrative language of VR.Gelişmekte olan bir teknoloji olarak Sanal Gerçeklik (SG), sanat üretimi ve tüketimi paradigmalarınıdeğiştirme potansiyeline sahip bir platform olarak görülmektedir. SG’nin daldırma, varlık ve etkileşimözellikleri yeni ifade biçimleri bulma konusunda sanata benzersiz olanaklar sunmaktadır. SG’ninsanatsal bağlamda potansiyeli bu alanda yapılan uygulamalı çalışmalar ve araştırmalar arttıkça daha netortaya konacaktır. Sanatın SG’yi kullanış biçimi, onu nasıl yorumladığı ve SG’nin sanatta yaratacağıdeğişim her iki alanda da perspektifi genişletecektir. Bugüne kadar SG ve sanat ilişkisi üzerine yapılanaraştırmaların çoğunda bu ilişkinin genel bağlamda ele alındığı görülmüştür. Yazının SG’de sanatsalamaçla kullanımını üzerine çok az araştırma yapılmış ve sınırlı sayıda uygulama çalışması üretilmiştir.Buradan hareketle bu makalede SG’de sanatsal bağlamda yazının kullanımını araştırılmıştır. Yazınıngerek dilbilimsel gerekse görsel ifade biçimi olarak en etkin kullanımı, kavramsal sanat kapsamındaolmuş ve bu sanata yeni söylemler ve bakış açıları kazandırmıştır. Bu bakımdan, yazı ve sanatbirlikteliğine SG’nin de dahil olması, kavramsal ve düşünsel bağlamda ortaya bambaşka sonuçlarçıkarabilir. Yazı, sanat ve SG’nin kesişim noktasının farklı perspektifler yakalama ve yeni örüntülerkeşfetme konusunda yüksek bir potansiyeli vardır. Bu makalede SG sanat projelerinde ana anlatı ögesiolarak yazının kullanımı deneysel bir tipografi çalışması olarak ele alınmıştır. Deneysel tipografi,geleneksel kalıpların dışında, keşfe ve yoruma dayalı, yeni görsel ifade biçimleri aramaya yönelik birpratiktir. Deneysel tipografiye dayalı SG sanat çalışmaları yapılandırılmış imgeler olarak dilin sanattakirolünü sanal ortam içinde keşfeden farklı içerikler ortaya koyabilir. Bu makale kapsamında deneyseltipografiye dayalı üç SG sanatı çalışması incelenmiş ve çoğu SG uygulamasında kullanılan temiz, özenli3D görselleştirme yaklaşımdan daha farklı görsel çözümler ortaya koydukları görülmüştür. Bubağlamda SG sanatında deneysel tipografi kullanımının SG’nin anlatım dilini genişletebileceği önesürülmüştür.Publisher's Versio

The effect of the handwriting without tears program on student cursive writing achievement at Central Institute for the Deaf (CID)

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Lifelong learning for text retrieval and recognition in historical handwritten document collections

This chapter provides an overview of the problems that need to be dealt with when constructing a lifelong-learning retrieval, recognition and indexing engine for large historical document collections in multiple scripts and languages, the Monk system. This application is highly variable over time, since the continuous labeling by end users changes the concept of what a 'ground truth' constitutes. Although current advances in deep learning provide a huge potential in this application domain, the scale of the problem, i.e., more than 520 hugely diverse books, documents and manuscripts precludes the current meticulous and painstaking human effort which is required in designing and developing successful deep-learning systems. The ball-park principle is introduced, which describes the evolution from the sparsely-labeled stage that can only be addressed by traditional methods or nearest-neighbor methods on embedded vectors of pre-trained neural networks, up to the other end of the spectrum where massive labeling allows reliable training of deep-learning methods. Contents: Introduction, Expectation management, Deep learning, The ball-park principle, Technical realization, Work flow, Quality and quantity of material, Industrialization and scalability, Human effort, Algorithms, Object of recognition, Processing pipeline, Performance,Compositionality, Conclusion

A Correlational Study of 5th Students\u27 Handwriting Legibility and Scores on Writing Samples in a Northwest Georgia School

This study explored the relationship between legibility in handwriting scores and compositional scores of students in grade five in one Northwest Georgia school. The ability to recall and write the letters automatically may impact the composing skills of students engaged in the writing process. Handwriting, often considered a motor skill in young children, may have a greater impact on literacy learning than is often considered. The strong connection to literacy learning along with the importance as a skill in communications both contribute to the importance of this study. Data was collected from one elementary school in Northwest Georgia. The school was chosen based on location and the school’s use of a writing workshop model. As one school was chosen, all students are a part of the sampling for this study. A writing rubric for each piece of writing was scored and then compared to students’ handwriting scores to determine if there is a statistically significant correlation. Sufficient evidence during this study to reject both null hypothesis was found. The results of this correlational study can add to the body of research investigating the amount of instructional time spent on handwriting