Debates on media competency and media literacy are going on now for a few decades. Many concepts have been developed in various disciplines. Along with that, discourses on visual literacy have been intensified, too, although visuals have been used in educational contexts throughout history. But only recently, after almost three thousand years of historiography, turns like iconic turn, pictorial...

One goal of computer graphics is to create compelling visuals indistinguishable from actual photographs. Ideally, these visuals would be generated in real time. Once these goals are achieved, computer graphics technology could be used to immerse users within compelling interactive environments. Thus, expanding the applications of these methods beyond the mere presentation of information to comm...

This paper 1) provides reasons why graphics should be effective aids to communicate risk; 2) reviews the use of visuals, especially graphical displays, to communicate risk; 3) discusses issues to consider when designing graphs to communicate risk; and 4) provides suggestions for future research. Key articles and materials were obtained from MEDLINE(R) and PsychInfo(R) databases, from reference ...

Current paradigms of interacting with computers are predominantly visuals-centric. However, the data end-users are expected to deal with are ever-increasing, and making full use of other senses can alleviate the burden of representing the entirety of data via visuals alone. Research into the auditory perspective of interfaces is a fairly new field, with strong focus on psychoacoustics, paramete...

The prevalence of online instruction highlights the importance videos in education. Pedagogies that include elements actively engage students are accepted as an improvement over more passive modes instruction. How can we transfer advantages active engagement to via video? Previous research on instructional has shown there a number principles, adherence which benefit student learning by maximizi...

This text discusses how the Live Visuals of three dimensional online virtual worlds may be leading us into participatory and collaborative ‘Play’ states during which we appear to become the creators as well as the actors of what may also be described as our own real-time cinematic output. The paper will not be built upon a personal creative project but instead will be based upon a literature re...

The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that the properties of X server screens might need to change dynamically, as occurs frequently with desktops, laptops and hand held computers not envisioned in the 1980’s. The Resize and Rotate extension (RandR) is a very ...

BACKGROUND Mutations that cause learning and memory defects in Drosophila melanogaster have been found to also compromise visual responsiveness and attention. A better understanding of attention-like defects in such Drosophila mutants therefore requires a more detailed characterization of visual responsiveness across a range of visual parameters. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We designed an ...

The visualization system of large-scale crowd simulations should scale up with both the number of visuals (views of the virtual world) and the number of agents displayed in each visual. Otherwise, we could have large scale crowd simulations where only a small percentage of the population is displayed. Several approaches have been proposed in order to efficiently render crowds of animated charac...