Design Visualization: A Media Effects Approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bimal Balakrishnan ◽  
Loukas N. Kalisperis
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Psychophysiological Measures ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Measurement Strategies

This paper proposes an integrative approach in the evaluative phase of the design process, incorporating concepts, methodologies and measurement strategies that are well established in media psychology. The paper suggests a variable-centered approach for conceptualizing visualization technologies and to evaluate their potential to simulate architectural experience. Psychophysiological measures are introduced to capture the affective component of the architectural experience facilitated by visualization tools such as virtual reality. These are important in order to empirically evaluate the experiential aspects of an architectural space through visualization. Ideas are illustrated with examples drawn from prior and ongoing research collaboration between an architectural visualization lab and a media effects research lab.

User Experiences and Differences in Viewing Architectural Images with Various Interfaces

2012 ◽  
pp. 268-290
Author(s):  
David Fonseca ◽  
Oscar García ◽  
Marc Pifarré ◽  
Eva Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Psychophysiological Measures ◽  
User Centered

This paper proposes an empirical approach to the visualization phase of architectural images, employing established concepts, methodologies, and measurement techniques found in media psychology and user-centered studies. The paper proposes a human-centered approach for conceptualizing visualization technologies and evaluating the quality concept of images to simulate a satisfactory architectural experience. The authors use psychophysiological measures to capture the affective component of image quality experience facilitated by different displays, including immersive and nonimmersive displays. These types of visualizations are important for empirically evaluating the experiential aspects of an architectural space and other types of images.

User Experiences and Differences in Viewing Architectural Images with Various Interfaces

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fonseca ◽  
Oscar García ◽  
Marc Pifarré ◽  
Eva Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Psychophysiological Measures ◽  
User Centered

This paper proposes an empirical approach to the visualization phase of architectural images, employing established concepts, methodologies, and measurement techniques found in media psychology and user-centered studies. The paper proposes a human-centered approach for conceptualizing visualization technologies and evaluating the quality concept of images to simulate a satisfactory architectural experience. The authors use psychophysiological measures to capture the affective component of image quality experience facilitated by different displays, including immersive and nonimmersive displays. These types of visualizations are important for empirically evaluating the experiential aspects of an architectural space and other types of images.

scholarly journals Integrating Media Selection and Media Effects Using Decision Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob T. Fisher ◽  
Kristy Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Media Selection ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
Technological Developments

Media psychology researchers seek to understand both why people choose certain media over others and how media influence cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological processes. A burgeoning body of literature has emerged in recent years describing media selection and media effects as reciprocally-linked dynamic processes, but research approaches empirically investigating them as such have been sparse. In parallel, technological developments like algorithmic personalization and mobile computing have served to blur the lines between media selection and media effects, highlighting novel problems at their intersection. Herein, we propose an integrative approach for building an understanding of these processes rooted in decision theory, a formal framework describing how organisms (and non-biological agents) select and optimize behaviors in response to their environment.

scholarly journals Integrating Media Selection and Media Effects Using Decision Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Jacob T. Fisher ◽  
Kristy A. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Media Selection ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
Technological Developments

Abstract. Media psychology researchers seek to understand both why people choose certain media over others and how media influence cognitive, emotional, social, and psychological processes. A burgeoning body of literature has emerged in recent years describing media selection and media effects as reciprocally linked dynamic processes, but research approaches empirically investigating them as such have been sparse. In parallel, technological developments like algorithmic personalization and mobile computing have served to blur the lines between media selection and media effects, highlighting novel problems at their intersection. Herein, we propose an integrative approach for building an understanding of these processes rooted in decision theory, a formal framework describing how organisms (and nonbiological agents) select and optimize behaviors in response to their environment.

VALLEY OF THE MASTODONS: CASE STUDY OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO RESEARCH COLLABORATION, OUTREACH, AND EXHIBITS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alton C. Dooley ◽  
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Kathlyn M. Smith ◽  
Brittney Stoneburg ◽  
Darla Radford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Integrative Approach

scholarly journals The Secret of the Copper Box: public experiments and the prospects of living archives of Swedish nuclear waste

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 197-198
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Keating ◽  
Anna Storm
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Waste Storage

Abstract. This paper approaches the question of nuclear safety in relation to the prospects of living archives, and in particular, it explores two public events where sociocultural aspects of nuclear waste management in Sweden were enacted. Drawing on an ongoing research collaboration with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), the paper examines (1) a grass-roots play entitled Kopparkistans hemlighet (or The Secret of the Copper Box), and (2) a drawing competition hosted by schools located near a nuclear waste storage facility in the Östhammar municipality, considering how these events help reproduce certain kinds of social and cultural responsibility. Contributing to critical debates in the social sciences and humanities intersecting questions of memory preservation, nuclear waste, and post-nuclear natures, we consider how the forms of responsibility produced through these public experiments inform important, albeit unconventional, modes of nuclear waste management insofar as they suggest how long-lived nuclear waste sites might become living archives without assuming a narrow notion of heritage and human memory preservation for all time and space. To conclude, we evaluate how the legacy of the two events might be incorporated into wider strategies of nuclear waste management.

Testing Measurement Invariance in Media Psychological Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinaldo Kühne
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Invariant Measures ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Methodological Issue ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Research Questions

Media psychology increasingly focuses on comparative research questions by comparing media use and media effects across different populations and across time. Such comparisons require that the constructs of interest be measured in the same way across populations – that is, invariant measures are required. However, this methodological issue has rarely been addressed in media psychology. In this article, we explain the concept of measurement invariance and illustrate how measurement invariance can be established to compare media use and media effects across populations and over time.

scholarly journals A-me and BrainCloud: Art-Science Interrogations of Localization in Neuroscience

Leonardo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
Jordi Puig ◽  
Annamaria Carusi ◽  
Alvaro Cassinelli ◽  
Philippe Pinel ◽  
Aud Sissel Hoel
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Brain Atlas ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Science Application ◽  
The Brain

This article reports on two art-science collaborations, A-me: Augmented Memories and BrainCloud, that interrogate the central role of localization in neuroscience—including the use of technologies that augment sociability using localization as a central reference point. The two projects result from a series of interactions where a science/technology development fostered art, which in turn led to a science application, which potentially may lead to further artistic activity. A-me is an art installation that repurposes navigation and visualization tools normally reserved for medical clinicians and scientists, inviting reflection on the ongoing endeavor of neuroscience to explain and map cognitive functions such as memory. BrainCloud is a software prototype that provides neuroscientists with an interface for interacting with existing data and knowledge about the brain. Organized visually as a brain atlas, it forms a social network that allows neuroscientists to connect and share their ongoing research and ideas.

scholarly journals An integrative approach to infer systematic relationships and define species groups in the shrub frog genus Raorchestes, with description of five new species from the Western Ghats, India

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e10791
Author(s):  
Sonali Garg ◽  
Robin Suyesh ◽  
Sandeep Das ◽  
Mark A. Bee ◽  
S. D. Biju
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
The Western Ghats

The genus Raorchestes is a large radiation of Old World tree frogs for which the Western Ghats in Peninsular India is the major center for origin and diversification. Extensive studies on this group during the past two decades have resolved long-standing taxonomic confusions and uncovered several new species, resulting in a four-fold increase in the number of known Raorchestes frogs from this region. Our ongoing research has revealed another five new species in the genus, formally described as Raorchestes drutaahu sp. nov., Raorchestes kakkayamensis sp. nov., Raorchestes keirasabinae sp. nov., Raorchestes sanjappai sp. nov., and Raorchestes vellikkannan sp. nov., all from the State of Kerala in southern Western Ghats. Based on new collections, we also provide insights on the taxonomic identity of three previously known taxa. Furthermore, since attempts for an up-to-date comprehensive study of this taxonomically challenging genus using multiple integrative taxonomic approaches have been lacking, here we review the systematic affinities of all known Raorchestes species and define 16 species groups based on evidence from multi-gene (2,327 bp) phylogenetic analyses, several morphological characters (including eye colouration and pattern), and acoustic parameters (temporal and spectral properties, as well as calling height). The results of our study present novel insights to facilitate a better working taxonomy for this rather speciose and morphologically conserved radiation of shrub frogs. This will further enable proper field identification, provide momentum for multi-disciplinary studies, as well as assist conservation of one of the most colourful and acoustically diverse frog groups of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration as a Community of Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boryung Ju ◽  
Tao Jin ◽  
Brenton Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Scientific Collaboration ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Scientific Collaborations

We present an ongoing research project, which takes a qualitative approach using in-depth interview methodology to explore interdisciplinary scientific collaboration activities at a computation and technology research center. The purpose of this research is to understand how a team of scientists and engineers use physical artifacts and social practices to collaborate. We attempt to identify communities of practice that were involved in those scientific collaborations; specific social practices that both scientists and engineers developed and engaged in, as well as those shared artifacts that were used to facilitate interaction among inter- and intra-group members.

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