An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision

What will the future be? We wonder! In this survey, we explore the gap between current research in egocentric vision and the ever-anticipated future, where wearable computing, with outward facing cameras and digital overlays, is expected to be integrated in our every day lives. To understand this gap, the article starts by envisaging the future through character-based stories, showcasing through examples the limitations of current technology. We then provide a mapping between this future and previously defined research tasks. For each task, we survey its seminal works, current state-of-the-art methodologies and available datasets, then reflect on shortcomings that limit its applicability to future research. Note that this survey focuses on software models for egocentric vision, independent of any specific hardware. The paper concludes with recommendations for areas of immediate explorations so as to unlock our path to the future always-on, personalised and life-enhancing egocentric vision.Comment: We invite comments, suggestions and corrections here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=V3974SUk1

The Genealogy of Taste

A young man returns home to Lavington, a rural British Columbian town, freshly graduated with an Bachelors in English and without any direction in his life. In an effort to guide his life forward he undertakes writing an autobiography told through the filter of popular music. The narrator combines discussions of the sociology of popular music and its many facets and genres (i.e. the love song, the canon, the guitar solo etc) with an aural mapping, a connecting of songs and albums to various instances, people and experiences in his life. It is through this melding that the protagonist develops a sense of his own identity and is able to create plans for the future and move forward

ISSUES, PUBLICS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND PERSONAL NETWORKS: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED ISSUE ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Public relations scholars have long devoted efforts to conducting empirical research andbuilding theories about publics. While existing theories of publics tend to focus on theirpsychological dynamics, there is a lack of theoretical work that accounts for how publics areinfluenced by their social environments. This dissertation examines publics’ engagement with anissue from both their individual and social network levels. By drawing from and integrating thesituational theories, a framework of engagement, organization-public relationship, and egocentricnetwork approaches, this dissertation constructs an issue engagement model that captures threemajor dimensions of issue engagement. Cognitive and affective issue engagement concerns howpublics perceive, think, and feel about an issue. Issue engagement with organizations refers topublics’ issue-specific communicative actions (i.e., reviewing content or interacting withorganizations on social media) and substantive actions (e.g., making donations, attending specialevents) taken with organizations. Intra-public issue engagement examines how individualsdiscuss an issue with their social contacts (e.g., friends, families, coworkers etc.). The studyinvestigates the relationships among the three dimensions of issue engagement. To test the hypotheses, the study completed an egocentric network survey with 1,255respondents. The questionnaire collected data about respondents’ perceptions about an issueselected by themselves, their communicative and substantive actions about the issue, with whomthey discussed this issue, and the perceived attributes of these discussants. Results suggest thatissue capital (i.e., the amount of issue information, viewpoints, and opinions accessible indiscussion networks) is positively associated with cognitive and affective issue engagement,which further positively influences communicative actions and substantive actions. Moreover,issue mobilization (e.g., norms and expectations from one’s close issue discussants) has a strongpositive association with substantive actions. Results also reveal several influential variables thatconnect the three dimensions together. Discussions are provided regarding how the theoreticalmodel and research findings contribute to public relations theories and practices.Doctor of Philosoph

Picturing the "other:" visual representations of the South Pacific

Professional project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Journalism from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri--Columbia.This analysis compares the approach by two photographers who have both worked in the South Pacific region but who are separated by a 50-year timeframe. Jack Fields was a photographer who spent much of his life with his writer-wife, Dorothy, freelancing throughout the region in the magazine era of the 1950s-1980s. Amy Toensing recently photographed her 14th story for National Geographic, where she has been a regular contributor for more than a decade. Their distinctive approaches offer insight to how photojournalism has changed in respect to cultural photography and how both photographers have used outlets of their day to present work directly to viewers independent of the magazine publications with which they typically worked.Includes bibliographic references

Fruits are Ripe, WE are Fresh : The Rapper, The Emcee, The Cypher and the Participatory Spectrum of Hip-Hop

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard Colleg

Culture and Social Media

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The Language Learning Activity of Individual Learners Using Online Tasks

This study combines an initial interest in private speech (Flavell 1966; Vygostky 1987; Ohta 2001; Ellis 2003), that is, self-addressed speech, used by individual language learners as they interact with online tasks, with a practice-based concern with the introduction of technology in a new self-access centre at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. This had been done with little concern for the state of preparedness of learners and practitioners, as is often the case elsewhere (Benson 2001; Donaldson and Haggstrom 2006; Levy 2007; Winke and Goertler 2008). Literature on CALL, autonomy and task-based pedagogy revealed the need for an integrated, broad approach beyond technology itself with a special emphasis on the learning context, sociocultural issues and learner background. Often unexplored, the gap between what teachers plan and what learners do with tasks (Nunan 1989; Coughlan and Duff 1994; Roebuck 2000) began to focus the research efforts on investigating the nature of the language learning activity (Beetham 2007) of individual learners. Following suggestions from various authors from different traditions (e.g., Arnold and Ducate 2011; Lantolf and Poehner 2004; Chapelle 2001; Scanlon and Issroff 2005; Kaptelinin and Nardi 2006), activity theory (Vygotsky 1987; Leontiev 1978; Engeström 1987) was chosen as the most suitable theoretical framework and some of its key concepts, such as disturbances (Engeström and Sannino 2011; see also Montoro and Hampel 2011) and contradictions (Engeström 1987), were used to conduct a two-tiered analysis of empirical data gathered electronically during an online experiment followed by stimulated recall (SR) sessions. Findings include the widespread dependence of learners on private speech, memory and oral instruction and their underuse of learning tools (especially text-based ones such as dictionaries and notes), signalling links to literacy issues to be further explored and the prevalence of orality locally. Future research should explore these literacy issues and practical ways to improve the provision of language learning opportunities