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'Techno-scientific Way of Thinking' on Women's Technoscientific Practices : From Barad's Agential Realistic Perspectives (여성들의 기술과학 실행에 대한 '기술-과학적 방식의 생각하기': 캐런 바라드의 행위적 실재론을 중심으로)

  • Leem, So-Yeon
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.97-119
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    • 2011
  • This paper, as an initiative to fertilize analyses on women's technoscientific practices, reviews theoretical discussions and empirical studies in-between feminism and STS, mainly owing its thinking technologies to Karen Barad's Agential Realism. The first part of this paper shows that women's technoscientific practices as research sites are not only fertile grounds between STS and feminism but also conflict areas between constructivist theories and feminist politics. The second part proposes Agential Realism as an way of thinking to deal with 'conflicts' between STS and feminism in analytical levels. Agential Realism provides useful conceptual tools for 'techno-scientific ways of thinking' through the reconceptualization of agency, the displacement of agency by accountability, and the configuration of STS analysis as 'apparatus.' The third part finds three examples of 'techno-scientific ways of thinking' on women's technscientific practices from previous feminist STS works, which suggests how to analyze not only women's technoscientific practices but also diverse practices of science, technology, and medicine as follows: follow 'the invisible', account for 'ontological choreography', and 'care' for what is analyzed.

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The Effect of Image Realism and Learner's Expertise on Persona Effect of Pedagogical Agent (이미지의 사실성과 학습자의 전문성이 학습용 에이전트의 의인화 효과에 미치는 영향)

  • Ryu, Jee-Heon
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to test the effect of pedagogical agent realism and expertise on persona effect. There were two perspectives of the pedagogical agents' social interaction. Self-identification hypothesis argues that complexity of agent image is better to increase social interaction. Subjective identification insists that simplified image is more helpful to facilitate social interaction. However, from the cognitive load theory perspective, learners' expertise can be a major factor to determine persona effect. Sixty-eight college students (male=19 and female=49) participated. The independent variables were the degree of realism of pedagogical agent (detailed vs. simplified image) and the expertise (high prior knowledge group vs. low prior knowledge group). The dependant variables were comprehension test and the agent persona instrument (API). There was no significant difference in comprehension test score; however, there were significant interaction effect on the most constructs of API: 1) facilitating of learning, 2) credible, and 3) human-like. The follow-up analysis of simple main effect revealed that high expertise group showed significantly higher perception of the three construct with high realism of pedagogical agent. The results of study show that learners' expertise plays a key role of perception of persona effect.

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A Mathematical Model of a Power Steering System (파워 스티어링 시스템의 수학적 모델에 관한 연구)

  • 장봉춘;이성철
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 1997
  • The focus of this research is to set up and describe the mathematical derivation of an automobile power-assisted rack and pinion steering system dynamics. The mathematical model of the power steering system dynamics with a 5 DOF linear vehicle model will be used in the computer simulation and evaluated comparing with the experimental results. This model is flexible to accommodate different vehicles through simple parameter changes. The developed mathematical model will attempt to provide enhanced driver realism to a Systems Technology, Inc. driving SIMulator(STISIM).

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A Study on Visual Expression Characteristics of Motion Poster (모션 포스터의 시각적 표현 특징 연구)

  • Chun, Christine Hyeyeon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2020
  • This paper analyzed the characteristics of Motion Poster (Moster) and discussed the visual expression methods. To this end, the existing literature on motion posters was organized. The visual representation of motion posters was analyzed by dividing into 'Main Visual', 'Mode of Movement', 'Playtime' and 'Sound'. The analysis results were as follows. As motion posters are kind of movie posters, they are made from the original movie poster images, characters, or scenes of the movie. Graphical representations used either photo-realism or computer realism. The movement methods are 'simple movement of visual elements(movement, gesture and rotation, appear or disappear)+fixed camera movement' or' camera movement (zoom in/out, rotate, move) + fixed visual element movement'. Playback time ranged from about 10 seconds to over 1 minute of video, and the longer the video, the higher the probability of including sound.

Hand Gesture based Manipulation of Meeting Data in Teleconference (핸드제스처를 이용한 원격미팅 자료 인터페이스)

  • Song, Je-Hoon;Choi, Ki-Ho;Kim, Jong-Won;Lee, Yong-Gu
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.126-136
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    • 2007
  • Teleconferences have been used in business sectors to reduce traveling costs. Traditionally, specialized telephones that enabled multiparty conversations were used. With the introduction of high speed networks, we now have high definition videos that add more realism in the presence of counterparts who could be thousands of miles away. This paper presents a new technology that adds even more realism by telecommunicating with hand gestures. This technology is part of a teleconference system named SMS (Smart Meeting Space). In SMS, a person can use hand gestures to manipulate meeting data that could be in the form of text, audio, video or 3D shapes. Fer detecting hand gestures, a machine learning algorithm called SVM (Support Vector Machine) has been used. For the prototype system, a 3D interaction environment has been implemented with $OpenGL^{TM}$, where a 3D human skull model can be grasped and moved in 6-DOF during a remote conversation between distant persons.

A Survey on Improving Realism for Image Composition (이미지 합성을 위한 현실성 향상 기술 분석)

  • Lee, Dong-Su;Ha, Ok-Kyoon;Jun, Yong-Kee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2017.01a
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    • pp.37-38
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    • 2017
  • 이미지 합성은 전경과 배경이 조화롭게 나타나도록 표현하는 것이 필수적이다. 이미지 합성의 품질을 나타내는 현실성이 결여될 경우 객체와 배경이 조화롭게 합성되지 못해 뒤틀리거나 돌출되는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 현실성 높은 합성을 위해 이미지 합성 기법들 중에서 현실성을 향상시키는 연구 동향을 조사한다. 이미지 합성 기법 분류에 따라 대표적인 기법을 선택하여 현실성 향상에 대한 연구를 중심으로 소개하고 발전방향을 제시한다.

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A Comparison of the Fuzzy Display Methods for a Surface Deformation

  • Park, Min-Kee
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2013
  • There are several kind of surface deformation display methods using the fuzzy model. In this paper, we describe three fuzzy display methods for a surface deformation and perform a comparative analysis between the modified fuzzy display method and some conventional fuzzy display methods. In each method, the analysis will be performed through computer simulation in order to show the performance of each algorithm. The results show that the modified method have improved the realism and can be used better than the conventional methods in practical applications.

The Voice of the Imperial in an Anti-Imperialist Tone: George Orwell's Burmese Days

  • DONMEZ, Basak AGIN
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.28
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    • pp.5-16
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    • 2012
  • First published in 1934, George Orwell's Burmese Days, which can be read as an example of both descriptive realism and fictional realism, is considered to be a colonial example of British literature because of its publication date. However, based on the personal experience of the author as an imperial officer in Burma, the novel has an anti-imperialist tone, which can also make it possible to read it through postcolonial eyes. As a result, the novel stands as an example of ambivalence since it has both the colonial and the postcolonial perspective; both the colonizer and the colonized are portrayed with their own flaws, adding to the impact of what can be called "Third Space." This is why the voice of the imperial is heard in an anti-imperialist tone in Burmese Days, through which Orwell presents a critique of colonialism with a from-within approach.