There are numerous subfields within visual communication, one of which is new media, alongside conventional practices such as advertising, photography, the web, animation, and signage. Blogs, social video games, email pervasiveness smartphones have all resulted in emergence media that inextricably linked to internet online environment. since first mobile game, "Tetris", 1994 “Snakes" 1997, elem...

in this edge, medical tourism is not a new idea. medical treatment is one of the essential demands of human beings and it requires high quality and intensive care. beside western world, few developing countries are playing key roles as medical tourism destinations. india is one of the leading names among these countries. the purpose of the paper is to find the factors influencing the attractive...

This paper explores a game where sellers of products sell the information concerning what price is charged for their products to an agent trying to find the minimum price in the market. Each seller draws a product price from a different distribution, known to the agent. Sellers know both their competitors’ distributions and the actual competitors’ price. In equilibrium the lowest product price ...

Analysis of attractiveness of faces has long been a topic of research. Literature has identified many different factors that can be related to attractiveness including symmetry, averageness, sexual dimorphism and adherence to the Golden Ratio. In this research we systematically analyze the role of three factors: symmetry, conformance to Neoclassical Canons and the Golden Ratio in the determinat...

Nonverbal behaviour influences to a significant extent our perception of others, especially during the earliest stages of an interaction. This article considers the phenomenon in two zero acquaintance scenarios: the first is the attribution of personality traits to speakers we listen to for the first time, the second is the social attractiveness of unacquainted people with whom we talk on the p...

Recent research has shown facial adiposity (apparent weight in the face) to be a significant predictor of both attractiveness and health, thus making it an important determinant of mate selection. Studies looking at the relationship between attractiveness and health have shown that individuals differentiate between the two by preferring a lower weight for attractiveness than for health in femal...

In this paper we demonstrate how a gamification approach increases the attractiveness of an assessment exercise in the context of expertise profiling. We present an online game, in two difficulty modes, where users have to guess the authors of publications. We analyze the collected data along different dimensions and identify four types of gaming personalities based on behavioral patterns. Furt...