Touchscreen Archaeology
Touchscreen Archaeology

Author: Wanda Strauven

Publisher: Meson Press Eg

Published: 2021-05-17

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9783957961860

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The touchscreen belongs to a century-long history of hands-on media practices and touchable art objects. This media-archaeological excavation examines the nature of our sensual involvement with media and invites the reader to think about the touchscreen beyond its technological implications. In six chapters, the book questions and historicizes both aspects of the touchscreen, considering "touch" as a media practice and "screen" as a touchable object.

Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural Heritage
Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural Heritage

Author: Marinos Ioannides

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 3319496077

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This volume on virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and gamification for cultural heritage offers an insightful introduction to the theories, development, recent applications and trends of the enabling technologies for mixed reality and gamified interaction in cultural heritage and creative industries in general. It has two main goals: serving as an introductory textbook to train beginning and experienced researchers in the field of interactive digital cultural heritage, and offering a novel platform for researchers in and across the culturally-related disciplines. To this end, it is divided into two sections following a pedagogical model developed by the focus group of the first EU Marie S. Curie Fellowship Initial Training Network on Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH): Section I describes recent advances in mixed reality enabling technologies, while section II presents the latest findings on interaction with 3D tangible and intangible digital cultural heritage. The sections include selected contributions from some of the most respected scholars, researchers and professionals in the fields of VR/AR, gamification, and digital heritage. This book is intended for all heritage professionals, researchers, lecturers and students who wish to explore the latest mixed reality and gamification technologies in the context of cultural heritage and creative industries. It pursues a pedagogic approach based on trainings, conferences, workshops and summer schools that the ITN-DCH fellows have been following in order to learn how to design next-generation virtual heritage applications, systems and services.

Easter Island
Easter Island

Author: John Loret

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-08-31

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780306474941

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Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown. Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World's Environmental Problems in Microcosm presents the research results from three years of interdisciplinary expeditions to Easter Island. The primary objectives were to investigate the effects of human population growth on the ecology of the island and to discover whether any dramatic climatic changes such as a prolonged El Niño could have disrupted the island's fragile ecosystem. The interdisciplinary scientific team were mainly researching the paleontology, archaeology, climatology, and geophysics of the island. This book now brings together the results of the three expeditions, identifies new areas of research, and hopefully will continue to inspire aspiring scientists to revisit this amazing island to explore and demystify this timeless enigma of human history.

Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema
Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema

Author: P. Coates

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-01-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137396709

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This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Véronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire.

Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis

Author: Charles Bohl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 717

ISBN-13: 1135234728

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These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within today’s multi-cultural modern cities. The volume brings together the rich perspectives on the thought, practice and influence of leading figures from the great era of civic art that began in the nineteenth century and blossomed in the early twentieth century as documented in the works of Werner Hegemann and his contemporaries and considered fundamental to contemporary practice.

Horizons Touched
Horizons Touched

Author: Steve Lake

Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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The ECM label and its founder Manfred Eicher have altered musical history.

Human Resources Policies and Procedures Manual
Human Resources Policies and Procedures Manual

Author: Inc Bizmanualz

Publisher: Bizmanualz, Incorporated

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 9781931591102

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Human Resources Procedures for Employee Management can help you easily create the Human Resources (HR) policies and procedures manual you need to ensure the fair treatment of employees as required by Federal law. Thoroughly researched and reviewed by experts in the field, this important organizational resource provides more than 800 pages of content based on best practices, and it addresses important issues such as COBRA, HIPAA, ADA, FMLA, and other major Federal employment regulations. This quality hardback edition also covers important employer/employee topics such as job descriptions, hiring and termination, compensation and benefits, training and development, as well as general HR administration. It also includes a sample Employee Handbook and an HR Managers Manual. Designed for busy professionals such as HR Executives, Office Managers, and Business Owners, Human Resources Procedures for Employee Management is an important tool in managing the most important resource in your business - your employees. This new edition also includes updated and complete job descriptions for every job referenced in the text. Given the broad range of topics that fall under the HR rubric, creating a system of policies and procedures can be a daunting task. Fortunately, with Human Resources Policies and Procedures Manual there is no need to start from scratch - it's already been done for you!