Entrepreneurs commonly engage in discursive activities to pursue the legitimacy of their new organizations. Previous studies on this pursuit have essentially been focused verbal language and there is limited understanding how other communication modes, such as visual, offer specific potentials for influencing legitimation audiences. With contemporary pervasiveness digital documents online envir...

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...

Two experiments compared the effects of learning by drawing to studying instructor-provided visuals on outcomes, time, and cognitive load. College students studied a text human circulatory system completed comprehension transfer tests. In Experiment 1 (N = 107), with provided (provided visuals) or generated their own drawings from text-based support (verbally-supported drawing) without (unsuppo...

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...

In the early days of Covid-19 pandemic, images virus molecule and ‘flatten-the-curve’ line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth maps both bar charts. These ‘generic visuals’ circulate widely news media and, however unremarkable, play an important role representing crisis particular ways. We argue that...

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...

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 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 ...

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...