Temperature design display device to use peltier elements and liquid crystal thermograph sheet "Thermo-Pict"
"Thermo-Pict" is a design apparatus produced by applying temperature visualization technology linked to an information display with the use of a thermograph sheet. Thermography is used to visualize the surface temperature of objects through their depiction as colors. This technology has been used primarily in the medical and research fields. Thermography display colors come in a wide range of hues and brightness that enables quick visualization of any object's surface temperature distribution. Use of this technology will be attempted as a tool in the production of design displays. [Fig. 1]
Thermoesthesia: about collaboration of an artist and a scientist
"Thermoesthesia" is a new style of interactive artwork with an original thermal sense display. In this paper, we describe the collaborative work approach taken in art and science. it. The work which had thermesthesia created a work of an unprecedented new seseasons as a theme by talks with environment. A total concept, directionality, a design of contents, document collection, talks of a method to be realized was performed among enginsituation of art. The primary objective of thistouch expression. "Thermoesthesia" is expected to extend the style of the interactive information access activity in dairy-life that is for ubiquitous information-intensive society. "Thermoesthesia " offers the audiences experience not Figure 1 ”Thermoesthesia ” In late years, by collaboration of an artist and an engineer, development of a new digital technology and production of contents came to attract attention. After starting SIGGRAPH, technology and collaboration of art expression can watch new movement in Japanese VR society or French Laval Virtual. The thermal sense display has been developed to allow users feel the temperature of the visually displayed objects, which is cool or warm, by directly touching the objects. This project began with suggestion of an artist. Mrs. Kushiyama showed art work "Transparent Blue" which we used touch panel in SIGGRAPH2005. It was a work to touch for an image of fresh and cool CG, but felt vanity of CG and a difference of the touch when we touched it. Challenges from there to a work accompanied with a cold sense to be hot began. This project consists by an artist, the electrical engineers and the CG programmers.General constitution is announced in form of a work by an artist. “WAVES” “ Transparent Blue “ SIGGRAPH2003 SIGGRAPH2005 Figure 2 Art works used touch panel display
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1