Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-114). Also available on the Internet.

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Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 121-127). Also available in print.

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The purpose of this paper is to compare a group of adolescents with the learning disorder of dyslexia and a group of adolescents without dyslexia in regard to their ability to make realistic drawings. Subjects selected for the study were from a suburban junior high school in which a random sample was taken of both dyslexic and non-dyslexic students. Each was given three standardized drawing tasks, including a still-life drawing, a contour drawing, and a perspective drawing. The drawings were judged by five evaluators on a continuum of realistic to non-realistic. The ratings were then analyzed by the application of the Mann-Whitney U-Test, which indicated that there are no significant differences in the abilities of the two groups to render drawings realistically.

When asked to draw, most people are hesitant because they believe themselves unable to draw well. A human instructor can teach students how to draw by encouraging them to practice established drawing techniques and by providing personal and directed feedback to foster their artistic intuition and perception. This thesis describes the first methodology for a computer application to mimic a human instructor by providing direction and feedback to assist a student in drawing a human face from a photograph. Nine design principles were discovered and developed for providing such instruction, presenting reference media, giving corrective feedback, and receiving actions from the student. Face recognition is used to model the human face in a photograph so that sketch recognition can map a drawing to the model and evaluate it. New sketch recognition techniques and algorithms were created in order to perform sketch understanding on such subjective content. After two iterations of development and user studies for this methodology, the result is a computer application that can guide a person toward producing his/her own sketch of a human model in a reference photograph with step-bystep instruction and computer generated feedback.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1976. / Title from title page screen, viewed Nov. 30, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Barry Moore (chair), Eugene Fitzpatrick, Clifford Edwards, Fred Mills, Jack Hobbs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-87) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1983. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 17, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Max R. Rennels (chair), Marilyn P. Newby, Susan Amster, Robert Stefl, Forrest Wisely. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-112) and abstract. Also available in print.

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