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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Visual Preference"”.
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Preferred Symbols by Gay Men Utilizing the Arrington Visual Preference Test: A Jungian Based Construct
… symbols of gay men based on the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) a Jungian construct. Thirty-one gay men from the San Francisco Bay Area participated in the study. The results of the study indicated that the most preferred Jungian archetype was transformation and the least preferred …
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Visual preferences in an ageing population : design, theory, practice, education & critical reflection
… with formative periods continues to influence preference throughout life. In design for an ageing population these preferences are important because designers often wrongly assume a decline in interest in design and physical ability. If these assumptions are prioritised there can be a …
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Residential Preference at Transit-oriented Development: A Visual Choice Experiment
Insufficient knowledge of residential preferences represents a major obstacle to achieving residential satisfaction and quality of life. This obstacle is even greater in the case of transit-oriented developments (TODs), as their success depends, in part, on the degree to which people's preferences …
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Place Pulse : measuring the collaborative image of the city
… a tool capable of conducting large crowdsourced visual preference surveys. The data collected with Place Pulse was used to create quantitative measures of the perceptions people hold of urban environments. From this data, novel algorithms identified locations associated with positive and negative …
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Using the AVPT With German University Students to Establish a Norminative Base for Visual Construct Preferences
<p>This research study explored the visual construct preferences of young male and female German adults, using the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT). The AVPT is a pre-existing Jungian based test, developed to identify the visual construct preferences of individuals or groups. Eighteen female …
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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
The aim of this study is to examine the public preferences for urban riparian corridors in arid regions, by testing to what extent people are willing to trade-off unmaintained ecological landscape for aesthetics offered by specific micro and macro environmental factors. Landscape design …
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Using The AVPT to Establish Viusual Concepts Norms of Taiwanese College Students
… of Taiwanese College students. The Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT), a pre-existing test developed to identify recurrent symbolic choices in different populations, was modified to use with a group of Taiwanese students. Forty- eight female and nineteen male Taiwanese College students …
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A Jungian Based Study for Diagnosing Acculturative Stress Within the Hispainc Immigrant and Refugee Population
… stress affected self-esteem as reflected in visual constructs. An attempt to gain some initial insight into this issue was the motivation for this research.</p> <p>Finding a non-verbal and visual form of obtaining pertinent information was necessary. The Arrington Visual Preference Test …
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Original and Digital AVPT: An Art-Based Assessment Comparison Study
… opinion focusing on comparing the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) created by Arrington (1986), and the newly developed digital AVPT, created by this researcher.</p> <p>This study hypothesized that practicing mental health clinicians would find a digital art- based assessment to be …
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Aesthetic Preference and Poetic Writing Style: A Correlational Study
… to find correlations between verbal and visual expressive styles. Both forms of expression are often encountered through the course of psychological treatment, and understanding what the projective expression means can be a daunting task.</p> <p>This research project tested the hypothesis …
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Preferred Symbol, Archetypal Stages, and Life Satisfaction of the Spritiual Woman at Midlife
… family of origin attitudes, archetypal symbols, visual constructs, modalities of creativity, spiritual life, and life satisfaction of 20 women from Judeo-Christian backgrounds, ages 36 to 55, who by study and practice followed a mystical spiritual path.</p> <p>The purpose of the study was to …
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Toward Local Brownfield Regeneration: Factors Affecting People's Attitude and Preference of Brownfield Landscape
… prepared for ethical issues. For this study, visual preference survey for neighborhoods along the rail yard in the City of Roanoke was conducted. A dimensional analysis found six brownfield landscape types. First of all, historical landmark and maintained landscape types received the highest …
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The landscape design preferences of older people
What are the landscape style preferences of older people? What are the preferred outdoor activities of older people? In this study I want to raise the issue of how the external environment is aesthetically perceived, and how we as designers might facilitate the user’s needs in design. In order to …
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Effects of Light on BDBT Puncta Formation in the Drosophila Eye Reveal Involvement of BDBT with Color Preference Behavior and Distinct Nuclear Localization Pathways for DBT and PER
… it was discovered that both the circadian and visual photoreceptors have roles for normal cycles of BDBT foci formation. This BDBT foci cycling is needed for normal changes in subcellular localization of the circadian regulators PERIOD (PER) and DOUBLETIME (DBT) in the Drosophila eye. Finally, …
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Sex differences in 12, 18 and 24-old-month infants' preference for colour, toys and shape
… have found differences between boys' and girls' preferences for sex-typed toys during infancy. Toy preferences have been explained using biological, social and cognitive theories. More recently, focus has turned towards the low-level properties of toys that boys and girls find attractive. The …
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Majority Influence in Infancy
… behaviour in different contexts, primarily via visual attention. Chapter 2 examined whether a majority influenced 18-month-old infants' preference (i.e., looking time and behavioural preference) for two novel toys. The results across two experiments revealed that infants' visual preference for a …
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Managing Riyadh's Urban Growth: Assessing Resident Satisfaction in the Current Residential Neighborhoods and Examining Smart Growth Strategy Preferences for the Future Growth in the Context of Rapid Urbanization
… precise mechanisms for public engagement or preferences in shaping future growth. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to manage this rapid urbanization and growth smartly by shaping future growth from the perspective of residents' preferences and how to draw that into urban policies. This …
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Evaluation of an Objective Visual Image Quality-Based Method to Identify Spectacle Corrections for Individuals with Keratoconus
… approximation of the neural performance of the visual system; and 3) an objective method to search the refractive space in the phoropter. Methods: This work was conducted in two parts. First, a direct comparison was made between this objective method of identifying a spectacle prescription, …