This study examined the utility of the concept of expressive aesthetics by testing websites that did or did not match this concept. A website scoring highly on this concept was created and was then compared to websites that either was non-aesthetic or corresponded to the concept of classical aesthetics. 60 website users of a broad age range (18 60 yrs) were allocated to three experimental group...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: that Heavy Metal a genre popular music simply given, so the author begins by exploring some aporia should one attempt to research such form in an academic context. Making claim (and includes heavy metal) involves multiple aspects are outside aesthetics music, yet conceding (following Deena Weinstein) follows ‘code’ which much informs more submerged facets s...

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...

The project discussed in this article focuses on the creation of web genre benchmarks (a.k.a. web genre reference corpora or web genre test collections), i.e. newly conceived test collections against which it will be possible to judge the performance of future genre-enabled web applications. The creation of web genre benchmarks is of key importance for the next generation of web applications be...

While the problem of image aesthetics has been well explored, the study of 3D shape aesthetics has focused on specific manually defined features. In this paper, we learn an aesthetics measure for 3D shapes autonomously from raw voxel data and without manually-crafted features by leveraging the strength of deep learning. We collect data from humans on their aesthetics preferences for various 3D ...

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, modern rhetorical genre studies has used classical Darwinian adaptation as a key analogy, if not model, study of evolution. While analogy obvious strengths, it also produces blind spots. As rapidly evolving social media genres presented this article suggest, all genre’s formal features are result purposeful to an existing exigence. Some repeat and intensify be...

This paper presents an analysis of the trailers a telefiction series originally produced in English and simultaneously distributed Spanish Latin America. Looking (aired between 2014 2016 by HBO) was contemporary dramedy series, hybrid genre typical quality TV promoted HBO, whose plot dealt with life three gay friends living San Francisco. The aesthetics reveals auteur cinematic work Andrew Haig...

Aesthetics is advocated as a key factor influencing consumer judgment and preference; however, research in IS and HCI has paid limited attention to it until recently. This study investigated the effects of website aesthetics, along with website usability, on users’ online purchase intention. Additionally, the moderator of task involvement was introduced to explain how aesthetics influences util...