Browsing Conference Publications by Author "Featherstone, Coral"

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Features of conceptual blending in the context of visualisation

Author: Featherstone, Coral ; Van der Poel, E Date: Jun 2017 Computational creativity is a multi-disciplinary area of research that investigates what aspects of computing can be considered as an analogue to the human creative process. One premise is that humans come up with new concepts or creative ... Read more
Human creativity in the data visualisation pipeline

Author: Featherstone, Coral ; Van der Poel, E Date: Jul 2017 There are some aspects of visualisation that are uniquely human. This is because data visualisation is heavily influenced by the science of human visual perception, much of which emerged from the Gestalt School of Psychology. Humans can ... Read more
Identifying vehicle descriptions in microblogging text with the aim of reducing or predicting crime

Author: Featherstone, Coral Date: Nov 2013 Could social media, and in particular, microblogs such as Twitter, play a part in helping to track criminal movement? The aim of this paper is to narrow the focus of this broader problem of using social media to crowdsource information to ... Read more
RDSMS – A South African research and development survey management system

Author: Engelbrecht, Louis ; Featherstone, Coral ; Matyila, Pule M ; Du Toit, Kirsten ; Fogwill, Thomas A ; Alberts, Ronell Date: May 2018 Annual R&D surveys are conducted by the South African Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII). To improve the current system supporting their business processes for the completion of surveys, the Research and Development ... Read more
The relevance of social media as it applies in South Africa to crime prediction

Author: Featherstone, Coral Date: May 2013 Being able to identify and predict crime trends or track criminal movement would help anyone interested in preventing criminal activity or being able to assess where crime enforcement is needed, particularly in crimes where constant policing ... Read more
Sentiment analysis of the ICT4Rural education teacher professional development course

Author: Featherstone, Coral ; Botha, Adèle Date: May 2015 This paper reports on an attempt to gauge the experiences of teachers participating in a teacher professional development course through sentiment analysis. The course formed part of a large scale implementation aimed at changing teachers’ ... Read more
South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull

Author: Featherstone, Coral Date: Aug 2019 World wide, there is a concerning use of social media to sway public opinion through the use of disinformation campaigns. Elections, political decisions such as the Brexit referendum and topics such as vaccination have all been targets of ... Read more
Using character valence in computer generated music to produce variation aligned to a storyline

Author: Featherstone, Coral ; van der Poel, E Date: Jul 2015 This paper is to describes a method for interposing computer generated melody with tone linked to unique entities within the text of a novel. Background: A recent study describing a piece of software called “TransProse” has already shown that ... Read more

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