Paper-based web connected objects and the Internet of Things through EKKO

Paper has existed as a communications ‘platform’ for thousands of years. It’s ‘versioning history’ spans papyrus, parchment and pulp, and when paper became a scalable and mass-production item, most famously via the Guttenberg press, it sparked unparalleled social and political change. It’s a technology that’s had ‘impact’. More recently, News and Information - a sector with paper at its core - has seen substantial editorial and commercial disruption from digital communications networks. This paper outlines a collaborative project between journalism, media and technology researchers, and commercial product designers, exploring the potential of paper-based web-connected objects. Our work examines how emergent conductive ink technologies could offer a disruptive alternative to existing media products, and explores how to create, power and populate a connected paper platform, and analyse user activity. Through a range of industry partnerships with newspaper, magazine and book publishers, our research creates new paper affordances and interactions, and positions paper as a digital disruptor

Paper Gaming: Creating IoT Paper Interactions with Conductive Inks and Web-connectivity through EKKO

Paper is ubiquitous. It forms a substantial part of our everyday activities and interactions; ranging from our take-away coffee cups -- to wallpaper -- to rail tickets -- to board and card games. Imagine if you could connect paper to the Internet, interact and update it with additional data but without recourse to reprinting or using e-ink alternatives. This paper explores work examining conductive inks and web-connectivity of printed objects, which form part of an emergent sub-field within the Internet of Things (IoT) and paper. Our research is starting to explore a range of media uses, such as interactive newspapers, books, beer mats and now gaming environments through prototype IoT device named EKKO; a clip that allows conductive ink frameworks to detect human touch interaction revealing rich media content through a mobile application as the 'second screen'

Gun Control: College Student Attitudes and the Meaning for Appalachian Social Workers

Senseless and tragic shootings across communities such as Newtown, Connecticut have riveted public attention on gun control. Bombarded by pro- and anti-gun-control forces, policy makers are often reactionary. Social workers must deal with these policies and the clients who fear them. Social scientists have suggested that cultural world views have greater influence on this issue than any other predictors. A survey of rural Appalachian college students (N=294) explored gun control attitudes in order to consider what makes compromise and consensus on the issue of gun control so difficult. It considers these influences and their implications for rural social workers

Global/local processing in incidental perception of hierarchical structure

The goal of the current thesis is to provide a framework for investigating and understanding visual processing of hierarchical structure (i.e., local parts nested in global wholes, such as trees nested in forests) under incidental processing conditions—that is, where processing of information at global and local levels is both uninformative (cannot aid task performance) and task-irrelevant (need not be processed to perform the task). To do so, a novel method combining two widely-used paradigms (spatial cueing and compound stimulus paradigms) is used for implicitly probing observers’ perceptual representations over the course of processing. This compound arrow cueing paradigm was used in five experiments to address a series of objectives. First, which level (global or local) is more dominant in the evolution of a percept? Relatedly, is the temporal structuring of global and local processing fixed or flexible? And what is the time course of level-specific advantages—do they occur earlier or later in the course of processing, and do they follow a transient or protracted time course? Finally, what controls level-specific selection (sensory, perceptual, and/or attentional factors)? The results of the five experiments addressing these issues contribute to a greater understanding of visual perception by elucidating the nature of global and local processing under incidental processing conditions. Advisor: Michael D. Dod

The intersection of some classical equivalence classes of matrices

Let A be an n x n complex matrix. Let Sim(A) denote the similarity equivalence class of A, Conj(A) denote the conjunctivity equivalence class of A, UEquiv(A) denote the unitary-equivalence equivalence class of A, and UA denote the unitary similarity equivalence class of A. Each of these equivalence classes has been studied for some time and is generally well-understood. In particular, canonical forms have been given for each equivalence class. Since the intersection of any two equivalence classes of A is again an equivalence class of A, we consider two such intersections: CS(A) ≡ Sim(A) ∩ Conj(A) and UES(A) ≡ Sim( A) ∩ UEquiv(A). Though it is natural to first think that each of these is simply UA , for each A, we show by examples that this is not the case. We then try to classify which matrices A have CS( A) = UA . For matrices having CSA≠U A , we try to count the number of disjoint unitary similarity classes contained in CS(A). Though the problem is not completely solved for CS(A), we reduce the problem to non-singular, non-co-Hermitian matrices A. A similar analysis is performed for UES(A), and a (less simple) reduction of the problem is also achieved

IS 501 Christian Formation: Kingdom, Church, and World

Course Description/Content What is the mission of the church? Behind this question is a cluster of related questions, the most important focused on the nature of God’s creative and redemptive purpose, its ongoing expression in the world, and its consummation in the eschaton. Participants in this course will explore how the church might discern, embrace, and participate in God’s own mission.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3415/thumbnail.jp

Global/local processing in incidental perception of hierarchical structure

The goal of the current thesis is to provide a framework for investigating and understanding visual processing of hierarchical structure (i.e., local parts nested in global wholes, such as trees nested in forests) under incidental processing conditions—that is, where processing of information at global and local levels is both uninformative (cannot aid task performance) and task-irrelevant (need not be processed to perform the task). To do so, a novel method combining two widely-used paradigms (spatial cueing and compound stimulus paradigms) is used for implicitly probing observers’ perceptual representations over the course of processing. This compound arrow cueing paradigm was used in five experiments to address a series of objectives. First, which level (global or local) is more dominant in the evolution of a percept? Relatedly, is the temporal structuring of global and local processing fixed or flexible? And what is the time course of level-specific advantages—do they occur earlier or later in the course of processing, and do they follow a transient or protracted time course? Finally, what controls level-specific selection (sensory, perceptual, and/or attentional factors)? The results of the five experiments addressing these issues contribute to a greater understanding of visual perception by elucidating the nature of global and local processing under incidental processing conditions. Advisor: Michael D. Dod

Pure and Simple: Music as a Personal and Comedic Resource in Car Share

This chapter examines Peter Kay’s Car Share (BBC1, 2015) to consider the ways it represents pop music as both a resource which the characters draw on to make sense of their lives and, by virtue of this, a fertile site for comedy. One way the programme does this is by showing how pop functions as a marker of taste and a resource for the enactment of cultural snobbery. Here we suggest that the programme’s comedy can – in certain respects – be understood via the superiority theory of humour. However, we also go on to argue that superiority is not, in fact, the key way in which humour functions in the series. Rather, what might at first appear to be a comedy which mocks the granting of undue significance to pop music, instead ultimately offers up as humorous attempts to deny the powerful personal emotional resonances that such supposedly simple culture can facilitate