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Evolution of the internet has generated enough scope for marketspace in the past 10–15 years. This digital reform in the way businesses are conducted has generated a need to reexamine the factors influencing purchase intention in the context of the online platform. This paper provides an understanding of the designing of marketspace and purchase behavior in the context of most vulnerable digital natives—millennials. Data collected from Indian millennials were subjected to regression analysis, ANOVA and t-test. Findings reveal that millennials are using marketspace rationally and seeking functionality in their purchase with skepticism towards privacy. Also, marketspace should be designed keeping in mind its functionality rather than emphasizing on fun element of marketspace. Marketers who have designed their marketspace and invested in look and feel may need to motivate millennials to consider it as a deterministic attribute.

The article calls attention to a neglected source for the over-all “look and feel” of the Glagolitic alphabet as it was first created by Constantine the Philosopher circa 863 ad. This source is the variant forms of the Greek and other alphabets (including Hebrew and Arabic) that consist of so-called Brillenbuchstabe (otherwise charactères à lunettes or ring-letters). These variant alphabets were employed chiefly for esoteric purposes, including astrological and magical ones. Because of their limited use, they have largely been overlooked in standard handbooks of Greek and Oriental paleography. An interest in such subjects as astrology and magic comports poorly with routine assumptions about the inner lives of Medieval Saints such as Constantine. Relying on the extant primary sources for Constantine’s life, however, the article shows that his education, interests and mystical inclinations make a familiarity with some of these esoteric alphabets virtually certain. Thus it is historically plausible that such alphabets were among the inspirations for the general style, that is, the “look and feel”, of the letters of Constantine’s original glagolitic alphabet. (This article supplements the author’s earlier study from 2014, “A New Reconstruction of the Original Glagolitic Alphabet”.)

The GUIs you have created up until now have all focused mainly on function and less on appearance and customization. Creating a layout to organize widgets in a coherent manner is just as important as modifying the look and feel of each and every widget. By choosing the right styles, colors, and fonts, a user can also more easily navigate their way around a user interface. In Chapter 6, you will find out how to use Qt Style Sheets to change the look of your applications. You will also find out about event handling and how to create your own custom signals.

The popularity of online gaming has grown dramatically, driven in part by streaming and the billion-dollar e-sports industry. Online games regularly update their software to fix bugs, add functionality that improve the game's look and feel, and change the game mechanics to keep the games fun and challenging. An open question, however, is the impact of these changes on player performance and game balance, as well as how players adapt to these sudden changes. To address these questions, we use causal inference to measure the impact of software patches to League of Legends, a popular team-based multiplayer online game. We show that game patches have substantially different impacts on players depending on their skill level and whether they take breaks between games. We find that the gap between good and bad players increases after a patch, despite efforts to make gameplay more equal. Moreover, longer between-game breaks tend to improve player performance after patches. Overall, our results highlight the utility of causal inference, and specifically heterogeneous treatment effect estimation, as a tool to quantify the complex mechanisms of game balance and its interplay with players' performance., 9 pages, 11 figures

Written by the co-founder and former board president of a non-profit shared-use commercial kitchen, Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within presents an intersectional analysis of CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen), in order to explore what just sustainabilities can look and feel like from within and without. Through a unique combination of autoethnography, participant observation, surveys, and secondary research, this book offers insights into CLiCK’s micro and macro successes, failures, and unknowns in relation to its attempt to put the concept of just sustainabilities into daily practice, and praxis. Developing its practical analyses from a theoretical basis, this book does not focus on definitive answers, recognizing instead that the closest we can get to understanding just sustainabilities in praxis is through long-term collective struggle and ultimately love. Researchers and educators who are interested in linking theory with practice, especially in relation to just sustainabilities and intersectionality, will appreciate the theoretical grounding, making it desirable for multiple social science classes. Additionally, those involved with the social justice, food justice, and just sustainabilities movements will benefit from the book’s insights into best practices to address issues of social inequalities on the micro level, while also offering the benefits of a macro intersectional analysis.

Context: Nowadays, video games look and feel increasingly realistic, and provide engaging and immersive experiences to players. Understanding what makes games so appealing and immersive is important to grasp in order to provide better experiences. Objectives: To provide a better understanding of the concepts of flow, immersion and usability in video games and understand how usability interact with these different concepts. Method: 20 participants took part in user tests and answered a survey about usability and immersion. Results: Usability had a positive effect on immersion which was fully mediated by appeal. Learnability was correlated with absorption by activity, and usability was correlated with fluency of performance. Conclusions: Usability and appeal are both contributing to the feeling of immersion which in turn increases the general appreciation of the game. Immersion and flow are both relevant to understand players’ appreciation of the game.

Augmented Reality (AR) is a trending technology that augments or superimposes an image generated by a computer system virtually into the real world environment for the user’s viewpoint using a smart phone or other hand held devices. AR shows recent advancements in the shopping domain with various implementation trails and refinement. The simplicity and flexibility in online shopping where people stay in their own place and do shopping brought a great challenge to retail shopping environment today. Retail stores are now struggling a lot to bring in the customers and the foot traffic has been greatly reduced due to which online sales are boosting and retail sales are stalling. This necessitates to bring new technological innovations to offline shopping to attract people. With the use of AR, it is possible to merge digital component to physical products in the store to stimulate the engagement of the shopping experience with more fun and joy. On the other hand, in the online shopping, though user reviews and product showcase aids the customers to analyze the quality, look and feel of diverse products, the buyer still cannot see how exactly the product fits in a real environment or how it works. Here plays AR a vital role in online shopping where it uses animations and visualization techniques to offer more value to their shoppers virtually aiding to see exactly the look of the product in user environment. This paper explains the advancement of AR in both retail and online shopping of various product domains with an implementation model of ShopAR for Online shopping and AR significance in near future.

The maintenance of applications is a crucial activity in the software industry. The high cost of this process is due to the effort invested on software comprehension since, in most of cases, there is no up-to-date abstraction or documentation to ease this task but the source code. The goal of many commercial and academic tools is to build software architectural views from the code. The main disadvantages of such tools are: i) they are dependent on the language/technology on top of which the application is built; and ii) they offer pre-defined views that are too difficult to adapt to meet particular software comprehension needs. In this paper, we present a Technology-independent approach which is flexible enough to allow developers to define metric-centered architectural views by using annotations. These views display in a single canvas architectural elements whose look and feel maps software metrics. Our work results from joint projects with industry partners with software modernization needs in different technologies: Oracle Forms, Java EE, and Ruby on Rails. We present how our proposal was applied in these projects and compare the results with those of the previously followed process.

The prop-based 3D virtual object manipulation method is widely used for interaction in Augmented Reality (AR) due to its convenience and flexibility. However, when the represented virtual object is different from the physical prop, the look and feel of the object are not well aligned. To address this problem, we present a dynamic finger remapping approach to creating a visuo-haptic illusion that dynamically adjusts the presented virtual hand posture to fit different sizes and shapes of virtual objects in AR. The finger movement toward a physical prop is synchronously remapped to the movement of the virtual fingers towards the corresponding virtual object. We developed a system that enables users to perceive consistent visual and tactile feedback while grasping and releasing various virtual objects represented by a physical prop. We conducted a user study to explore the effect of this visuo-haptic illusion on the perceived size of virtual objects, setting the sizes of the rendered virtual object and the physical prop as independent variables. We found that the perceived size of a virtual object varied with its rendered size in an almost linear fashion, while the physical prop size did not significantly affect the perception. We also conducted a second study to compare our system with a current prop-based method on virtual object manipulation. The results indicated that the remapped hands could effectively improve the realism and naturalness of the experience. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Despite the past few decades of research providing convincing evidence of the similarities in function and neural mechanisms between imagery and perception, for most of us, the experience of the two are undeniably different, why? Here, we review and discuss the differences between imagery and perception and the possible underlying causes of these differences, from function to neural mechanisms. Specifically, we discuss the directional flow of information (top-down versus bottom-up), the differences in targeted cortical layers in primary visual cortex and possible different neural mechanisms of modulation versus excitation. For the first time in history, neuroscience is beginning to shed light on this long-held mystery of why imagery and perception look and feel so different. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) machines are able to challenge our notion that human intelligence can be the sole source of creativity. In this study, the author has developed a pipeline in which the client inputs a selection of images that they prefer, from which the computer infers the client’s preferences using image classification and suggests three design proposals in the form of a “mood board” using approximate nearest neighbor finding and generative adversarial networks (GANs). The mood board is a way of capturing and presenting architectural ideas to a client widely used in the architectural field. The machine’s output acts as “sketches”, similar in their look and feel to human created sketches that are included in traditional, human generated mood boards. The author believes that this technology will not be a replacement for the work of the architect, but rather be a complement to it, as the architect still has a valuable role to play in “deciphering” and interpreting the computer’s output, as well as in moving forward with the execution of the project. However, it has potential to speed up and enhance the iterative design process through the computer’s generative capabilities and the architect will benefit from the abundance of new ideas to accompany his or her own. In the long run, the architectural profession may change towards serving a more managerial role that brings computer made designs to (real) life.

Background Most patients use the internet to search for health information. While there is a vast repository of searchable information online, much of the content is unregulated and therefore potentially incorrect, conflicting, or confusing. Abortion information online is particularly prone to being inaccurate as antichoice websites publish purposefully misleading information in formats that appear as neutral resources. To understand how antichoice websites appear neutral, we need to understand the specific website features of antichoice websites that impart an impression of trustworthiness. Objective We sought to identify the characteristics of false or misleading abortion websites that make these websites appear trustworthy to the public. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform. We used validated questionnaires to ask participants to rate 11 antichoice websites and one neutral website identified by experts, focusing on website content, creators, and design. We collected sociodemographic data and participant views on abortion. We used a composite measure of “mean overall trust” as our primary outcome. Using correlation matrices, we determined which website characteristics were most associated with mean overall trust. Finally, we used linear regression to identify participant characteristics associated with overall trust. Results Our analytic sample included 498 participants aged from 22 to 70 years, and 50.1% (247/493) identified as female. Across 11 antichoice websites, creator confidence (“I believe that the creators of this website are honest and trustworthy”) had the highest correlation coefficient (strongest relationship) with mean overall trust (coefficient=0.70). Professional appearance (coefficient=0.59), look and feel (coefficient=0.59), perception that the information is created by experts (coefficient=0.59), association with a trustworthy organization (coefficient=0.58), valued features and functionalities (coefficient=0.54), and interactive capabilities (coefficient=0.52) all demonstrated strong relationships with mean overall trust. At the individual level, prochoice leaning was associated with higher overall trust of the neutral website (B=−0.43, 95% CI −0.87 to 0.01) and lower mean overall trust of the antichoice websites (B=0.52, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.99). Conclusions The mean overall trust of antichoice websites is most associated with design characteristics and perceived trustworthiness of website creators. Those who believe that access to abortion should be limited are more likely to have higher mean overall trust for antichoice websites.

In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2”, the Nokk appears as a horse made of water. Throughout the film, he assumes different forms: at times wild, and others calm; above and below the waterline; frozen and transitioning between states. This talk will describe the collaborative process of design, animation, simulation and lighting to achieve the look and feel of a character made of water.

The success of consumer AR Smartglasses relies on having a set of elements falling into place and playing nicely together. The first piece of the puzzle is content, which largely determines the appeal of any new consumer electronics product. Two other puzzle pieces, display technology and system power efficiency, determine how the content will be presented and for how long it will be available. The final piece is the industrial design that largely decides in what environment and circumstances the new product will be used. Taking into account these considerations, Bosch recently introduced the LightDrive display technology, designed to support present and future smartglasses content and system architectures. The LightDrive offering comprises a full Retinal Projection system enabling the design of smartglasses that look and feel like regular eyewear.

Consumers have grown increasingly aware of the impact of packaging on the environment. Therefore, interest has grown in more environmentally friendly packaging, but we wondered how consumers recognize ‘green’ as distinct from ‘grey’ when evaluating packaging. We asked over 3,000 respondents from Germany, France and the United States how they recognize environmentally friendly packaging. To solicit responses that we may not have anticipated, we used an open‐ended format, which we then followed with a closed‐ended format so that we could compare the two sets of responses. Not surprisingly, in both sets of responses, we found labelling to be the attribute consumers rely upon most, as well as evidence of misleading labels. We also found consumers in Germany and the United States relied on information on the packaging and named searching for information as one of their preferred ways to decide whether packaging is environmentally friendly. French consumers seemed less trusting of published information and more trusting of the look and feel, especially the material, of the package. Our results point to the importance of cultural influences in the acquisition of perceptual cues by the consumer.

In this chapter, I reflect on the self of autoethnographic inquiry through the prism of care, in particular, Foucault’s reworking of the notion of the care of the self from ancient Greek philosophy. Through this prism, the self of inquiry is constituted through rigorous self-scrutiny and attempts at self-mastery, and intimately concerned with tensions between engagement and disengagement - between work and ‘time-out’ from work. The themes I explore include: relations between leaders and stakeholders; the complexities of expertise and ‘best practice’; and confessional writing as something which might look and feel self-promoting, but instead be self-renouncing. I hope this chapter will serve as an invitation to consider Foucauldian ideas - and their classical origins - to help to frame and interrogate what we are doing with self-disclosure and the processes of reflection that underpin it.

When consumers shop online, it is primarily their visual sense that is being triggered. With technology under development to also provide an experience in the olfactory, taste, and haptic sense, this paper investigates the added value of background music in the online store environment. In particular, a study is conducted with three conditions: a no music condition, a condition with music which is crossmodally incongruent with the online store environment, and a condition with music crossmodally congruent with the online store environment. Crossmodal congruency refers to the crossmodal correspondences (i.e., the tendency of one sensory attribute to be associated with an attribute in another sense) that are shared between the music and the online store environment. Although both musical pieces used were considered as pleasant, consumer reactions were not more positive when compared to the no music condition. Interestingly, the value of the money spent in the no music condition was significantly higher than in both musical conditions. The incongruent music condition, however, did lead to significantly lower consumer reactions for the other variables measured (i.e., pleasure, arousal, and store environment evaluation) when compared to the no music and congruent music condition.

Websites are important in every organisation and tremendous effort is made to design websites that not only look and feel good, but are usable and of high quality. Nevertheless, one critical task is how to evaluate these websites to ensure that users are satisfied with its quality and usability. Although a variety of methods and approaches have been proposed, there is currently an increase in research efforts to model website quality and usability evaluation from the point of view of decision-makers which existing methods do not handle. Thus, this has led to the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches in the evaluation of websites to handle complexity in decision-making. This paper, therefore, provides a review of the various MCDM methods that have been used in the usability and quality evaluation of websites. The search strategy which was adopted identified a total of 63 published articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences between 2005 and 2017. From the research questions formulated for the study, the papers were classified into various MCDM approaches, website genre, number and list of criteria used over the years and the localization of websites based on country. Some of the findings showed that the Analytical Hierarchy Process approach integrated with fuzzy logic has been the most common method over the years. In addition, e-commerce websites make up the most common website genre. Besides, currently most active websites are from Turkey and five is the average number of criteria for the evaluation of website quality and usability.

The Conservatives have usually been Wales’ second political party. Before the 2019 general election, the Party’s best performance was in the Thatcher era. This chapter explores the links between that period and the very recent one. It examines how Thatcher’s Welsh Office was, in some regards, proactive and interventionist in Wales, especially in the way it supported and bolstered the Welsh language. The Party also helped make Wales look and feel more like its own nation state. However, the chapter also covers the way in which the Party undermined a key symbol of Wales—its heavy industry—prompting long-lasting political divisions in the process.

“Propaganda in the New Era” under Xi Jinping has gone digital, has a different look and feel, and has been more effective than expected. It is clear that Xi has placed an importance on propaganda not seen since perhaps the Mao Zedong era, elevating much ideological work from state organs to those of the Chinese Communist Party. Propaganda is undercovered in mainstream discussions of Chinese politics, but in this chapter, Damien Ma and Neil Thomas analyze the content, the funding, and the effectiveness of propaganda. In the digital age, winning the hearts and minds of domestic audiences has never been more challenging, but the CCP has also learned how to adapt with the times.

We conducted two studies examining how the “look and feel” of an organization shapes newcomers’ trust in that organization. More specifically, we examined the effects of situational normality—the degree to which the work setting appears customary, with everything in proper order. We then introduced the construct of situational aesthetics—the degree to which the work setting has a pleasing and attractive appearance. A field study of new accountants revealed that situational normality and situational aesthetics had indirect effects on trust through perceived trustworthiness, with trust going on to predict coworker ratings of learning behavior. We then replicated those trustworthiness findings in a laboratory setting. Taken together, our results suggest that newcomer trust formation may be shaped by aspects of the work setting that have been heretofore ignored by trust scholars

How does hospitality look and feel at a performed hanging? On a nightly basis, Japanese performance artist Hangman Takuzō would hang himself in his Tokyo garden. For a small fee, audience members witnessed the hangings, but were also welcomed as guests, invited to share refreshments, eroding the border between morbid performance ritual and everyday gestures of fellowship.

Background The decision-making process for clients in need of long-term care is challenging and clients need to make choices about the care they prefer. A tool to assist the clients and caregivers with the decision-making and elicitation on preferences could be beneficial. The aim is to investigate user-requirements of a tool for the decision-making. Methods We applied a user-centred design to develop this tool. This was an interactive process of collecting data with end-users and improving the prototypes. The end-users included clients, relatives, and caregivers. Four end-users participated in a development team and 22 end-users were interviewed individually. We collected data during three phases of iteration: look and feel, navigation, and content. We analysed the data using thematic analysis and adjusted the prototype after each phase. Results The lay-out was approved by all participants during the look and feel phase, but there was a need for different/neutral pictures. During the navigation phase, participants experienced easy navigation, but text-blocks had to be shortened. Considering the content, participants missed questions about well-being/happiness. After the third phase, the tool was finalized. Conclusion The user-centred design was necessary to move from the prototypes to the finalized tool fitting usability-requirements of end-users. The tool ‘What matters to me’ (http://www.watikbelangrijkvind.nl) is currently in the feasibility-testing phase.

Graphic designers often manipulate the overall look and feel of their designs to convey certain personalities (e.g., cute, mysterious and romantic) to impress potential audiences and achieve business goals. However, understanding the factors that determine the personality of a design is challenging, as a graphic design is often a result of thousands of decisions on numerous factors, such as font, color, image, and layout. In this paper, we aim to answer the question of what characterizes the personality of a graphic design. To this end, we propose a deep learning framework for exploring the effects of various design factors on the perceived personalities of graphic designs. Our framework learns a convolutional neural network (called personality scoring network ) to estimate the personality scores of graphic designs by ranking the crawled web data. Our personality scoring network automatically learns a visual representation that captures the semantics necessary to predict graphic design personality. With our personality scoring network, we systematically and quantitatively investigate how various design factors (e.g., color, font, and layout) affect design personality across different scales (from pixels, regions to elements). We also demonstrate a number of practical application scenarios of our network, including element-level design suggestion and example-based personality transfer.

The bank client identity verification system developed in the course of the IDENT project is presented. The total number of five biometric modalities including: dynamic handwritten signature proofing, voice recognition, face image verification, face contour extraction and hand blood vessels distribution comparison have been developed and studied. The experimental data were acquired employing multiple biometric sensors installed at engineered biometric terminals. The biometric portraits of more than 10 000 bank clients were registered and stored in the database during the presented study and then verified experimentally. Problem- specific survey was done on the basis of questionnaires completed by the subjects in order to assess the look and feel of the developed biometric system as well as to collect opinions concerning its implementation in banking outlets. A discussion concerning the quality of registered data and results achieved in the study is included.

The Sunday Assembly has a complex relationship with atheism and religion. It holds events which look and feel like religious worship, but uses this format to create a ‘godless congregation’. Described as an ‘atheist church’ by the media, members prefer to talk about inclusive communities. If the Sunday Assembly simultaneously embraces and rejects both atheism and religion, then how do attendees identify and describe themselves? We add to the growing literature exploring identities between the religious and the secular, presenting a qualitative study based on interviews with Sunday Assembly attendees. We interrogate three concepts: non-religion, the secular sacred and indifferentism to examine how the identity of Sunday Assembly attendees can be better understood. Our findings show that a significant number of attendees publicly identify as indifferent towards religion, while privately maintaining a more strongly non-religious identity, thus suggesting that for Sunday Assembly attendees, inclusivit...

Purpose For many years, the librarians at University of Wyoming’s George William Hopper Law Library fielded questions about the history of the law school and alumni. Unfortunately, no one collection of institutional historical documents was available to search for relevant answers. The result was a decision to collect historic materials in a digital archive to make them available to anyone in the law school who might field such inquiries and to preserve them for future interest. The purpose of this case study is to provide a blueprint for building a digital archives from the ground up. Design/methodology/approach The digital archive began with print-born historical documents, scanned as preservation copies and entered into a database of images and files to which searchable metadata could be added. In addition to historical materials, it was important to collect the materials that the law school and the law library were producing. Therefore, the project was twofold: collect, preserve and make searchable the printed historic materials in a digital environment and harvest, preserve and make searchable print-born and digital-born materials as part of an ongoing process. To do this, appropriate software had to be identified. Findings The following steps blueprint the building of an archive on a digital platform: establish the site’s internet address, title and description; select a look and feel template and personalize the archive; create collections; identify Dublin Core preferences; add items and files using controlled vocabulary; experiment with any available plugins; and promote and provide access to the archive. Originality/value The digital archives project initiated by the library has led to other initiatives and opportunities for service.

The conversion from analogue to digital – the product of the digital revolution – has disrupted the media landscape. Not only has it affected the look and feel and sound of media – be it film, tele...

The purpose of this study is to understand the role of store layout in predicting shopping behaviors by influencing the perception of crowding. With today's growing popularity of online shopping, brick–and–mortar stores are faced with increased challenges to create positive shopping experiences and attract more customers to the store. The customer's shopping experience often starts with the environment's physical appearance and navigation. Crowding is one of the known factors contributing to how stores look and feel. Using 3D simulation technology capable of offering a realistic virtual experience, we tested the hypothesis—that the negative impact of crowding could be effectively controlled through physical space configuration—by exploring the role of store layout and human density on perceived crowding using a 2 × 2 between–subjects design with 60 college students. Two distinct store layouts and their effects on perceived crowding and approach intentions were investigated. In addition, we also considered the role of individual differences in crowding perception. The findings demonstrate the critical role of store layout in controlling retail crowding and shopping motivations, potentially contributing to store success. We found increased shopping intentions in the store environment with a linear and symmetrical configuration than with a curvilinear and asymmetrical one. Such tendency was found to be significantly greater for male customers. A significant mediating role for perceived crowding on the relationship between the effects of store layout on shopping intentions was also found. This confirms the critical effect of store layout on perceived crowding that indirectly, yet significantly, influences customers’ shopping behavioral intentions. No prior work in retail literature has examined retail crowding on the basis of an empirical manipulation of the environment. By using virtual walk–through simulation, this study joins a limited body of knowledge pertaining to the store environment and aims to expand our understanding of the distinct effects of retail environments on consumers’ experience and behavior.

Within this paper, I explore the look and feel of the subjective point-of-view (POV) shot in narrative cinema and how it presents an awkward and uncomfortable space for the viewer to inhabit. It considers what David Bordwell has called the surrogate body: the concept in which viewers step into the role of an offscreen protagonist. In numerous films, this style invites the spectator to see and feel through the eyes and movement of a particular type of surrogate character, which as I argue, predominantly consists of killers, victims or socially inept characters. The term I give for this particular trait in cinema is hap-tech narration, which is inspired by Laura Marks&rsquo, concept of haptic cinema. Unlike Marks&rsquo, understanding of haptic which focuses upon sensual beauty, hap-tech narration considers phenomenological uncomfortableness which is considered through Don Ihde&rsquo, s philosophy of technology. This paper incorporates Ihde&rsquo, s framework of postphenomenology, which considers how experientiality is changed and filtered through technological devices (which in this analysis will be the technology of the camera and the frame of the screen). Using Ihde&rsquo, s postphenomenological understanding of human&ndash, technology relationships (which this work explores in detail), I consider a range of narrative films that utilise POV camerawork, including: Delmer Daves&rsquo, Dark Passage (1947), Michael Powell&rsquo, s Peeping Tom (1960) and Julian Schnabel&rsquo, s Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and Butterfly, 2007). Each of these titles present events through the subjective gaze of a killer, victim or socially damaged character. This paper offers a rationale as to why this is the case by addressing POV through the philosophy of Ihde, enabling an understanding of hap-tech narration to be unpacked, in which viewers are placed into corrupted and damaged corporeality through the technological power of the camera.

In general, many products in the function and shape of the interpretation of the lack of clarity or abstract may affect the user for the use of the product in the misunderstanding or the shape of the do not understand. In this research, we examined the figurative design. Then, these images will measure the correlations between the different semantics according, including: the congruous, incongruous related, incongruous categories. These can be as a new tool to measure the semantic study. Consumers understand and recognize the look and feel of products and use products intuitively.

Mark Thomas With overgrown shrubs, rambling roses, and a relaxed look and feel, the High Maintenance Garden stands out from the manicured perfection of the show gardens and floral marquees at the Chelsea Flower Show. Created by Sue Hayward for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, this is a garden being reclaimed by …

Current techniques for teaching spinal mobilisation follow the traditional classroom approach: an instructor demonstrates a technique and students attempt to emulate it by practising on each other while receiving feedback from the instructor. This paper introduces SpinalLog, a novel tangible user interface (TUI) for teaching and learning spinal mobilisation. The system was co-designed with physiotherapy experts to look and feel like a human spine, supporting the learning of mobilisation techniques through real-time visual feedback and deformation based passive haptic feedback. We evaluated Physical Fidelity, Visual Feedback, and Passive Haptic Feedback in an experiment to understand their effects on physiotherapy students' ability to replicate a mobilisation pattern recorded by an expert. We found that simultaneous feedback has the largest effect, followed by passive haptic feedback. The high fidelity of the interface has little effect, but it plays an important role in the perception of the system's benefit.

Low-status groups report lower levels of well-being than do high-status groups. Although system justification theory posits that the endorsement of system-justifying beliefs should decrease this well-being gap, the underlying mechanisms responsible for this hypothesized palliative effect have evaded empirical scrutiny. We address this oversight by arguing that system-justifying beliefs confer palliative benefits upon low-status groups by decreasing perceptions of group-based discrimination. Using nationally representative data from New Zealand ( N = 12,959), we demonstrate that ethnic minorities (Study 1a) and women (Study 1b) generally report lower levels of well-being than do New Zealand Europeans and men, respectively. Nevertheless, as hypothesized, these differences were mitigated by the endorsement of ethnic- and gender-specific system justification, respectively. Mediated moderation analyses further revealed that part of the palliative effects of system justification occurred via reductions in perceived group-based discrimination. The implications of these findings for intergroup relations are discussed.

Today, much of the contact we have is through the internet. It is known that not all of this contact is positive. In online environments, we form opinions about others much faster and more harshly and discussions can easily escalate. "Why does this happen? Why are people quicker to argue with each other online, and do we judge others more harshly online than we would in person?" Many current scientific opinions point to how we feel more anonymous when communicating through the internet. This sense of anonymity also ensures we can't see the people we are talking to, or the effect our words and actions have on them. There's often a mob mentality online, and it's easy to disparage others when you don't need to worry about it turning physical. Introducing a new explanation of our online behaviour However, besides these statements, another explanation can also play a role. Many of today's online environments provide personalisation options and the perception of high control over the environment. Everyone feels at home in their own environment, and many social media platforms allow users to personalise their environment according to their preferences. We can upload our own photos as backgrounds, change the language, adjust the look and feel of the environment down to the fonts used, and choose who we do and do not communicate with. Just like our homes, we organise social media and other online environments to our comfort and make it our own, under our control. Does this affect the choices we make when using the internet, and how we interact with others online? After all, in our own homes we often do things differently than we do elsewhere. Empirical research My dissertation provides proof for this home environment theory through journal research and three experiments. In my experiments, I found that participants who were asked to personalise an online environment were quicker to form negative judgements about others who did not meet their standards. These participants allowed their own interests to play a role in their choices more than the participants who were not able to personalize their environment. On the other hand, those who personalised their environments were also more amicable towards the friends they had in that environment. To conclude, when using personalised online environments, we judge others who do not meet our standards more harshly, we put our own interests first, and we are kinder to our friends.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze user perception towards cultural-based e-government portal design. User perception is measured based on feedback on emotional state received from participants towards an e-government portal that has been developed based on cultural and emotional through look and feel. Cultural studies in the context of e-government development and implementation is still lacking. User testing was conducted with 33 participants. The data obtained have been analyzed. User testing specifically focus on the High and Low Power Distance Dimension. The participants gave their perceptions based on the prototype of e-government portal representing High and Low PD design. The results are based on the mean analysis. The PD design with a higher mean score indicates that it poses a stronger feeling on a particular emotion state. It can be conclude that the emotion states are perceived differently between High and Low PD design.

This chapter considers Unity’s aesthetic impact on the cultural work it is used to produce, developing the metaphor of ‘grain’, from woodworking, to consider how users are oriented towards particular design methodologies. The chapter first considers how videogames inherit a nebulous ‘look and feel’ from their engines. It then charts the interrelationship between the design principles that are developed within a medium and the design standards that are imposed by software and that, in Unity’s case, become design principles. Finally, the chapter considers Unity’s dominant design standard of iterative design, which encourages Unity users to take advantage of existing assets. Here, the look and feel of a game engine is directly caught up with the aura, or lack thereof, of an individual videogame work.

With rapid progress in economy, technology and society of the world as a whole, living environment of humans are also changing daily for good. These days, the requirement for a nice indoor living space is no longer limited to the practicality of a house, but people are also interested in improving the aesthetic aspect of their interior living space for a better quality lifestyle. In this aspect, a major problem faced by the interior designers is the inconvenience for them to simulate a home with a different interior design to depict an image of the improved interior living spaces in real life. Potentially Virtual Reality Technology has an extensive application in this field to tackle the problem of simulating different interior design in a given space conveniently and allowing people to get an image of their changed house interior. In this paper, we have applied the rapidly developing virtual reality technology and proposed a 3D interior decoration design methodology, VR3ID, by which people can simulate in VR and see how a given space would look and feel like with changes to its interior design.

Packaging design is not only an indispensable marketing tool but also an important vehicle for shaping sensory evaluations and for nudging healthy food choices. However, insights specifying how the ‘look and feel’ properties of product packaging design influence evaluations and sensory impressions such as taste and smell are lacking, thus thwarting informed decision-making regarding the selection of the most appropriate design elements. The aim of the present chapter is therefore to demonstrate how an embodied perspective can account for effects of design variables on consumer evaluations. Specifically, the influence of design variables relating to (1) packaging shape, (2) graphic layout and composition, and (3) tactile packaging properties is discussed in light of recent studies based on the embodied cognition framework. In doing so, moderators of design influences pertaining to the consumer and the environmental context are discussed. Furthermore, as packaging designs always comprise a multitude of design factors, we elaborate on their interplay and on how (mis)matches between expectations generated by packaging design and sensory impressions on experiencing the product can influence information processing and evaluation. Finally, we discuss avenues for future product development, research, and design for behaviour change initiatives.

The Kobayashi Maru is a training simulation that has its roots in the Star Trek series notable for its defining characteristic as a no-win scenario with no “correct” resolution and where the solution actually involves redefining the problem. Drawing upon these characteristics, we designed a board meeting simulation for an experiential course in nonprofit governance, which places students in a high-stakes decision-making situation closely modeled on real events. To do so, we uniquely integrated principles from acting literature with theory and research in training and development. The Kobayashi Maru Meeting is a simulation with high physical and psychological fidelity—that is, one that closely resembles the “look and feel” of real-world board governance. The topics are deliberately sensitive to personal, organizational, and societal values to create high engagement and deep learning and to highlight the importance of good governance for organizational leadership. Results from multisource, multimethod data suggest that the simulation enhanced students’ decision making, critical thinking, and communication skills, as well as their ability to deal with their own and others’ reactions in intense circumstances. Beyond board governance, the simulation creates an authentic learning experience that can be adapted to multiple learning contexts including leadership, ethics, decision making, and communication.

In this paper, we describe the key elements to wine packaging. Through a two-phase methodology we determine the extrinsic wine label cues that influence the quality perception and purchase intention of the consumer. The first phase was a selfadministrative questionnaire (80 respondents) and the second phase an eye-tracking method (44 participants). Phase one’s results showed the importance of the front label and brand name. Phase two of the methodology again highlighted the importance of a known brand name, a classical look and feel, the importance of the visibility of the grape variety, terms like "reserve" or "limited edition". The images on the bottle can have a negative influence on the quality perception and purchase intention if not wine related.

The softness of objects can be perceived through several senses. For instance, to judge the softness of our cat’s fur, we do not only look at it, we also run our fingers in idiosyncratic ways through its coat. Recently, we have shown that haptically perceived softness covaries with the compliance, viscosity, granularity, and furriness of materials (Dovencioglu et al.,2020). However, it is unknown whether vision can provide similar information about the various aspects of perceived softness. Here, we investigated this question in an experiment with three conditions: in the haptic condition, blindfolded participants explored materials with their hands, in the visual-static condition participants were presented with close-up photographs of the same materials, and in the visual-dynamic condition participants watched videos of the hand-material interactions that were recorded in the haptic condition. After haptically or visually exploring the materials participants rated them on various attributes. Our results show a high overall perceptual correspondence between the three experimental conditions. With a few exceptions, this correspondence tended to be strongest between haptic and visual-dynamic conditions. These results are discussed with respect to information potentially available through the senses, or through prior experience, when judging the softness of materials.

In a variety of visual programming environment, if some features not provided directly to the user, use the Windows system to provide a large number of API functions tend to play a multiplier effect. This paper describes what API functions and the core of the Windows API DLL, followed by a brief description of the classification API function, and then focuses on the visualization platform how to call Windows system API function, the application API function advanced programming capabilities, and finally and analysis tips and cautions users to call the API function.

In this paper, the authors answer the question and help readers to form a view of ‘what does safe look and feel like’? Five important aspects of safety are addressed logically: Safety Culture, Safety Awareness, Safety Function, Processes, and Training. In each part, rather than just address what elements are involved and the importance of every element, this paper also provides general ideas and examples to help improve the level of safety. While safety culture is to a large extent influenced by the leadership; a best-in-class safety culture can be self-perpetuating particularly if the initial journey to best-in-class safety culture embeds the concepts of safety awareness, safety functions, processes and training in the organization. The paper provides an overview of safety related actions, tools, and processes that High Reliability Organizations follow, and should serve as a benchmark for other organizations of all sizes in search of safety improvement.

With the NHS facing one of its most challenging periods since its inception almost 68 years ago, Alistair Quaile reports on this year's Ambulance Leadership Forum, which focused on the future look and feel of ambulance service provision.

Though perceived trustworthiness is one of the most important characteristics of online contents, few empirical studies have been conducted examining the visual perception of typography and trustworthiness. This study investigates whether the shape of typeface can influence the perception of a message. We manipulated the appearance of typefaces' neotenic cues, and measured whether that affects a reader's perception of a story as true. The results indicate that the look and feel of a typeface doesn't change the judgment of the trustworthiness of a message, but that the visual cues influenced the subjective confidence in a reader's judgment.

The first requirement for an online mathematics homework engine is to encourage students to practice and reinforce their mathematics skills in ways that are as good or better than traditional paper homework. The use of the computer and the internet should not limit the kind or quality of the mathematics that we teach and, if possible, it should expand it. Now that much of the homework practice takes place online we have the potential of a new and much better window into how students learn mathematics, but only if we continue to ensure that students are studying the mathematics we want them to learn and not just mathematics that is easily gradable. Learning Management Systems handle mathematics questions poorly in general but when properly combined with specialized mathematics question engines, they can do much better and still retain their own look and feel for managing a course and collecting data. This paper presents an overview of two interoperation mechanisms developed to connect Moodle (an LMS) and WeBWorK (a mathematics question engine) for use in the WEPS (World Educational Portals) Open Online Courses. It provides a preview of the type of data that can be collected using these tools.

Application Programming Interface (API) documents represent one of the most important references for API users. However, it is frequently reported that the documentation is inconsistent with the source code and deviates from the API itself. Such inconsistencies in the documents inevitably confuse the API users hampering considerably their API comprehension and the quality of software built from such APIs. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to detect defects of API documents by leveraging techniques from program comprehension and natural language processing. Particularly, we focus on the directives of the API documents which are related to parameter constraints and exception throwing declarations. A first-order logic based constraint solver is employed to detect such defects based on the obtained analysis results. We evaluate our approach on parts of well documented JDK 1.8 APIs. Experiment results show that, out of around 2000 API usage constraints, our approach can detect 1158 defective document directives, with a precision rate of 81.6%, and a recall rate of 82.0%, which demonstrates its practical feasibility.

Many parts of the world now swim in a sea of complex products that do not necessarily improve the overall quality of our lives. From cell phones to baby strollers, we have overloaded our designed environment with hyper-functional products that often leave us searching for simpler, straighter forward product offerings. In a product landscape that more often than not equates complexity with sophistication; our ever-increasingly complex modern society has allowed faux conveniences to outweigh the tangible realness of our experiences. The look and feel of products has often become complex and complicated – and this is often highlighted as a positive thing. We are less likely to encounter simple, intuitive, and usable products geared toward the individual. To avoid this trap, one would need to apply a filter that would govern the intake of certain products to only those that are seen as adding true value to our lives. It is necessary to appeal to people’s emotions, and carry cultural richness and authenticity back to the forefront while embracing the power of cur-rent and future technologies. Design has tremendous power and the versatility necessary to bring about this positive change.

This year In Practice celebrates its 40th anniversary. We know that it continues to be a much-loved journal among readers and is regarded as the top benefit for BVA members. We decided to mark its birthday with a redesign and give In Practice a more modern look and feel, in keeping with its sister title Vet Record, while retaining its own identity and authority. We’ve refreshed the colour palette and provided signposting for each section (orange for all clinical articles – …