We analyze how VJs produce visuals to support DJs in dark and noisy club environments, enhancing the overall experience. We suggest that mobile technologies could improve the interaction between the audience and the VJ. As a first step to the generation of new applications, we tease out some characteristics of VJ production and live performance, which might influence the design of such technolo...

People have long strived to augment music sensation with visuals. Throughout history there have been many different ways to achieve this, one of them being the color organ. After seeing some of the more ancient color organs, we felt this could also be done in a digital age, so we set off to create a digital color organ of our own. A quest that would lead us through different styles of combining...

Display environments for presentations are becoming diverse, and it is common to have multiple displays in the same room. We present a system to edit and give presentations using multiple displays. The main idea is to separate the content from the views. The author prepares presentation visuals (text and images) on an infinitely zoomable canvas, and then specifies what is shown in each display ...

One of the most dramatic visuals of the 21st century is the sprawling skyline of a city. Glass-paned buildings as you look up, endless pavement as you look down. Cars honk. Tailpipes leak out pollutants. Lightbulbs buzz as a metropolis works into the night. What you do not necessarily see or hear... but might feel... is the heat. Because of human activities, there is an increase in air temperat...

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent model for analyzing recognition process of advertising information. We selected brand communication in enterprises as our research target and analyzed customer ’s recognition process of TV commercials from the viewpoints of audio-visual rhetoric and cognitive science. And we designed multi-agent model concerned with customer ’s recognition process. The mu...

Visual communication is the essential foundation for the design of IT interfaces but there can be very different understandings of this topic. Different academic traditions have their perspective and their vocabulary through which the topic is conceptualised and understood, Practitioners have other concerns and their specific tools and techniques with which they produce the visuals and the comm...

Visuals remain understudied in health-related framing research. On Instagram, users who have been patients of long-term health conditions, such as type 1 diabetes (T1D), and regularly share their experiences with a wider audience, that is, patient influencers, become an increasingly important source information. Both verbal visual portrayal issues how they frame causal treatment responsibility ...

Les neurociències i les tècniques anomenades de neuromàrketing donen una forma valoració científica paràmetres emotius gustatius difícil mediació amb altres procediments. Conèixer el perquè interpretem determinats estímuls visuals auditius, gustatius, olfactius tàctils, ens ho explica l’evolució humana per mitjà l’estudi neurociències.