L’alliance normando-tupi au xvie siècle : la célébration de Rouen by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

“…The Norman-Tupi alliance in the 16th century: the celebration at Rouen.In 1550, the city of Rouen prepares a series of festivities for the royal entry of Henry II and his court, of which two elements point to the links between the Norman harbour merchants and the Brazilian coastal Tupi: a performance of the Indians’ daily life – called « Brazilian festival » by the historian Ferdinand Denis, involving 50 Tupi and 250 Norman sailors – and a staged naval battle between French and Portuguese. …”
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“Making Sense” of Art through Design: Towards a Multisensory Theory of Reception Aesthetics by Inbal Strauss

“…Drawing on Wolfgang Kemp’s theory of reception aesthetics on the one hand and Donald Norman’s theory of design on the other, this article proposes a methodology for analysing the impact of artistic productions in design terms (namely, affordances, constraints, signifiers, feedback, mapping, and conceptual model). …”
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Voix de revenants dans les Pièces pour danseurs de W.B. Yeats. L’exemple de Ce que rêvent les os by Pierre Longuenesse

“…On the one hand, everything in the play is a return, as the events of the Easter Rising re-enact, from the other end of historical time, the event which gave rise to the oppression resulting from the betrayal of the royal couple, Diarmuid and Devorgilla when, dispossessed of their kingdom, they sought the assistance of the Anglo-Normans to reclaim it. On the other hand, through a subtle relationship between the visual and aural, and the new form taken by speech and enunciation, it is the role of the voice, according to defined protocols, to express this presence-absence and this drama of an impossible return. …”
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Capturing Requirements for a Data Annotation Tool for Intensive Care: Experimental User-Centered Design Study by Marceli Wac, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Chris McWilliams, Christopher Bourdeaux

“…Participants were observed during task completion and their actions were analyzed within Norman’s Interaction Cycle model to identify the software requirements. …”
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Clinically probable RBD is an early predictor of malignant non-motor Parkinson’s disease phenotypes by Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Hunter Hutchinson, Patricia Coutinho, Filipe Pereira Sarmento, Venkat Srikar Lavu, Qingqi Yuan, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Aysegul Gunduz, Gregory M. Pontone, Michael S. Okun, Joshua K. Wong

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