Fashion Theory Volume 13 Issue 2 The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

by Rovine, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781847884268
• ISBN10: 1847884261
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This is a special issue of Fashion theory which covers African fashion. While African dress has been the topic of much research and popular fascination as an element of "traditional" African cultures, the work of professional African fashion designers in contemporary Africa has received very little attention. These four articles, accompanied by an introduction by the editor, address diverse aspects of both the creativity of changing dress styles in Africa today and, in one article, African influence on Western fashion design.

Author Biography

Victoria Rovine is Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Art History, and a member of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI Researchers	p. 11
Introduction	p. 12
Theory of Creativity	p. 23
Creative Processes	p. 24
Principles of Design for Creativity Support Tools	p. 45
Creativity and Cognition 2007 Conference	p. 56
U. S. National Science Foundation Efforts	p. 67
Near-term Outcomes	p. 7
References.	p. 8
Integrating Learning Processes Across Boundaries of Media, Time and Group Scale	p. 111
Introduction: Starting Point and First Orientation	p. 122
Media Integration in the Classroom	p. 133
Process Integration and Explicit Learning Process Modelling	p. 164
"Learning-Design by Example"	p. 175
Learning Objects and Learning Communities	p. 206
Extending the Notion of "Communication through Artefacts" to Asynchronous Settings	p. 217
The COLDEX Project	p. 228
Challenge-based Learning	p. 249
Contextualised Indexing and Retrieval 2510 Summary and Perspectives	p. 26
References	p. 27
Optimal Cost Haptic Devices for Driving Simulators	p. 291
Introduction.	p. 292
Haptic Devices	p. 313
Control Board	p. 304
System Architecture	p. 325
Force Contact Models	p. 335
1 Normal Force Model	p. 335
2 Tangential Force Models	p. 345
Non-Conservative Tangent Force Models	p. 345
Conservative tangential force model	p. 345
3 Force Model to Render the Behaviour of Haptic Devices	p. 356
Experimental Results	p. 367
Conclusions	p. 38
Acknowledgments	p. 39
References	p. 39
Interference of Auditory Information with Haptic Perception of Stiffness in Virtual Reality	p. 411
Introduction	p. 412
Method	p. 432
1 Subjects	p. 432
2 Material	p. 442
3 Procedure	p. 443
Results	p. 464
Discussion	p. 495
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