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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Visual aesthetics"”.
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Visual literacy for the 1990's
Visual aesthetics -- Whole-brain thinking -- Pictorial imaging -- Art and science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.
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Visual literacy for the 1990's
Visual aesthetics -- Whole-brain thinking -- Pictorial imaging -- Art and science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.
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Persuasive technology in tourism online experiences and implications on tourist buying behaviour
… UX elements corresponding to usability, visual aesthetics and credibility, but fail at incorporating strategies to support dialogue. The tourists’ suggest that usability, visual aesthetics and credibility UX elements affect their decision to buy, however, certain strategies that enhance …
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The awareness of visual manipulation
The notion of visual literacy is still not agreed upon many theories and theorists have conflicting opinions. This qualitative research looks at the study of two separate focus groups in order to measure whether formal aesthetic training is an important element in the recovery of ideological …
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Balancing Sight + Sound: A study of acoustics and architecture
… Many architects tend to focus solely on visual aesthetics, when in reality, it is the architect's job to create a space that is pleasing to all of the senses. Although all senses are important to the experience of a space, in most instances architects only have control over sight, sound, …
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'Orphan with a Gun' - A Graphic Novel Script and Pitch Package
… further innovates on the norms of narrative visual aesthetics common in contemporary graphic fiction for teens and young adults. Book 1 of the series chronicles the journey of three troubled teens who inadvertently discover a gateway into a twisted alternate reality—hidden inside a closed …
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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… cinematic products as purveyors of discernible aesthetics, and platforms of tightening the gaze and critique on other facets of society. Genre is one of the principal elements of cinema, which, invites a study into this largely unexplored subject within African cinematic exegesis. Therefore, …
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Reconstituting experience : a place for experimental electro-acoustic music
… ". Architecture has become valued purely by its visual aesthetics. We have come to believe that it is sufficient to appreciate architecture as an image as opposed to actually being there. This has lead to typical design methods that subjugate the other senses, thus not requiring the body and …
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Cityscapes of exclusion: representation of the favela, favelados and figures of authority with specfic reference to cidade de deus
… I discuss the relationship between the film's visual style and socio-potitical messages that it communicates in order to argue that Cidade de Deus employs what I would describe as an aesthetics of exclusion. Some critics have argued that Meirelles and Lund's film exploits the favelados of CidSe …
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The impact of giftware design and its packaging attributes on consumer purchasing intentions behaviour in Malaysian context
… this research is based on the findings that the visual aesthetics of packaging attributes is associated with consumers’ evaluations and purchase intention behaviour. This research also contributes to an understanding of how designers and marketers use packaging attributes to change consumer’s …
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Re-animating Post-Digital Cinema: [Animated] Fluidity and Hybrid Aesthetics in Tomm Moore’s Celtic Trilogy
… on the innate qualities of fluidity in animated aesthetics. This fluidity in visual aesthetics and narratology honors the legacy of studio animation over the past century, while reintroducing technological and creative experimentation. This freedom further allows for authentic cultural …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… period, explores a similar set of verbal and visual aesthetic problems that foregrounds the role of the exterior in the well-documented modernist "discovery" of the interior and the search for a unifying psychological reality behind human perception. For both Woolf and Lewis, the object, the …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… an archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors cultivated professional and interpersonal connections with American painters and …
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Becoming beauty : the implications of the writings of Luce Irigaray for feminist art practices
… the production of meaning in the realm of the visual, and visual aesthetics. The first two chapters focus upon mimetic practices, including mimesis, masquerade and hysteria. They identify the maintenance mimesis in phallocentrism, and the productive mimesis which develops structures of …
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The English wing spinet of the 17th and 18th centuries: with special reference to the extant Haward spinets indtroducing newly discovered evidence for Samuel Pepys' Haward spinet and Queen Anne's Haward spinet
… comparable string lengths and plucking points. Visual aesthetics, particularly important for spinets, are discussed as well as the importance of the English trestle to their design. Spinets from Ireland, Scotland, and America -- all made in ‘England’ - are referenced as well as one by Jacob …
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Improving treatment engagement in people with eating disorders: utilising digital approaches.
… of designs of the front page of MotivATE for aesthetics and behavioural indicators derived from an adapted technology acceptance model. Multi-level modelling of this data showed that judgements of simplicity and craftsmanship significantly influenced behavioural intentions towards the …
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A Framework for Integrating Pure Shadow Lines into Architectural Design Process
… geometries with pure mathematical expression are visually pleasing. The present research aims to integrate these geometric relationships with daylight when formed by the edge of light and shadow, resulting from direct sunlight entering a room through roof openings and presenting on a northern …
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Wind plant annual energy production maximisation and efficiency improvement with considerations for thrust and turbulence intensity
… expenditure, land use and space optimisation, visual aesthetics and environmental impact, and the economic viability of hexagonally deployed WPs in comparison to optimised layout WPs and conventionally deployed WPs.
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Evaluation of anxiety treatment for children through online education (ACE)
… who were satisfied with the website’s visual aesthetics reported significantly more overall satisfaction, and those who reported a good working alliance with their e-therapist perceived ACE to be significantly more credible and overall satisfactory. Further, improvements in parenting …
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Data-driven modelling of perceptual properties of 3D shapes
… to search, organise and re-use massive online 3D visual content libraries. We explore crowdsourcing and machine learning techniques to help alleviate these difficulties by focusing on the visual perceptual properties of 3D shapes. We study “style similarity” and “aesthetics” as two fundamental …