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Kenning, Gail Joy Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Pattern as process: an aesthetic exploration of the digital possibilities for conventional, physical lace patterns." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/39898.
O'Connor, Zena. "Facade colour and aesthetic response: Examining patterns of response within the context of urban design and planning policy in Sydney." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4093.
The overall aim of this research was to examine aesthetic response to façade colour. Drawing on a range of theories and studies from environment-behaviour studies (EBS), Nasar’s (1994) probabilistic model of aesthetic response to building attributes provided a theoretical framework within which to examine patterns of response. Prompted by the Development Control Plan for Sydney Regional Environmental Plan: Sydney Harbour Catchment (NSWDOP, 2005), this research also linked its aims and methods to planning policy in Sydney. The main research questions focussed on whether changes in aesthetic response are associated with variations in façade colour; and whether changes in judgements about building size, congruity and preference are associated with differences in façade colour. A quasi-experimental research design was used to examine patterns of aesthetic response. The independent variable was represented by four façade colours in two classifications. An existing process, environmental colour mapping, was augmented with digital technology and used to isolate, identify and manipulate the independent variable and for preparation of visual stimuli (Foote, 1983; Iijima, 1995; Lenclos, 1977; Porter, 1997). Façade colour classifications were created from extant colour theories (including those of Albers, 1963; Hard & Sivik, 2001 and Itten, 1961). The façade colour classifications were further developed using F-sort and Q-sort methodology (Amin, 2000; Miller, Wiley & Wolfe, 1986; Stephenson, 1953). Ten dependent variables, linked to overall aesthetic response, were drawn from studies relating to environmental evaluation, building congruity and preference (Groat, 1992; Janssens, 2001; Russell, 1988; Russell, 2003; Russell, Ward & Pratt, 1981; Wohlwill & Harris, 1980). The dependent variables were presented in the form of a semantic differential rating scale and a sample group of 288 evaluated the visual stimuli. The Latin-square technique was used for the controlled presentation of visual stimuli. Factor analysis, correlation analysis and analysis of variance were applied to the data. The findings indicate that variations in aesthetic response are associated with differences in façade colour. Judgements about building size varied by up to 5% and buildings featuring contrasting façade colours were judged to be larger and more dominant. Judgements about a building’s congruity varied by up to 13% and buildings that featured harmonious colours were considered to be more congruous. Preference varied and harmonious façade colours were not necessarily preferred over contrasting façade colours. The outcomes from this research suggest that a new approach to façade colour within the context of planning policy may be appropriate. A model of façade colour evaluation is presented and, unlike current planning guidelines, the model allows for a participatory approach to façade colour evaluation and specification. The model allows for factors that may influence aesthetic response to façade colour (such as contextual, perceptual and idiographic factors) as well as variation in architectural expression with respect to façade colour.
O'Connor, Zena. "Façade colour and aesthetic response: Examining patterns of response within the context of urban design and planning policy in Sydney." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4093.
O'Connor, Zena. "Façade colour and aesthetic response examining patterns of response within the context of urban design and planning policy in Sydney /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4093.
Includes tables and questionnaire. Includes list of publications. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. Title from title screen (viewed May 5, 2009) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
Andersson, Susanne. "Walk : En tapetkollektion för Eco-Boråstapeter." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Design, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5617.
Arbetet handlar om att skapa en mönsterkollektion för Eco-Boråstapeter. Kollektionen består av fem mönster som behandlar struktur, volym, rörelse och rytm. Tapeterna trycks med djuptrycksmetod på slätt bestruket non woven-papper. Målgruppen är unga designintresserade människor. En designprocess utifrån en inspirationsfas redovisas som består av experimentella filmer (Grey Gardens, Gummo och The Brown Bunny) och av fotografier tagna under promenader i Växjö. Hemmiljöer och synen på tapeter behandlas utifrån målgruppens, inredningsarkitektens och designerns perspektiv. Arbetet fokuserar också på Eco-Boråstapeters industri, produktion och miljökrav.
The project is about creating a wallpaper collection of five patterns for Eco-Boråstapeter. The collection consists of five patterns dealing with structure, volume, movement and rhythm. Printing method of the wallpapers is deep print on plain coated non woven paper. The target group is young people interested in design. The design process is based on an inspiration phase which consisted of watching experimental films (Grey Gardens, Gummo and The Brown Bunny) and photographs that were taken during walks around Växjö Lake. Home environments and the perceptions of wallpapers are treated from the target group, the designer and the interior arcitect’s perspective. The project also focuses on the industry, production and environmental issues of Eco-Boråstapeter.
Nixon, David J. "Infinitude: Investigating the Aesthetics of Complex Patterns through Printmaking." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396520.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Höfel, Lea. "Behavioral and electrophysiological indices of processing aesthetics of graphic patterns and human faces." [Leipzig] Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990812529/04.
Kafaru, Abiodun Babatunde. "An exploration of painting aesthetics, signs, symbols, motifs and patterns of coastal Yoruba land of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2014. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8864/.
Zappulla, Carmelo. "Per una scienza architettonica del pattern?" Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/232456.
Couturier, Louise. "Motifs esthétiques et imaginaires ancestraux : le cinéma des frères Dardenne et l'imaginaire social de Cornelius Castoriadis." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 10, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA100013.
The Dardenne Brothers’ cinematography takes place in a very changing society. The economic crisis, the fading of industrial template, the beginning of the postindustrial area drive to a lake of landmarks. The Dardenne’s fiction films react against this loss of social significations. We can find in aesthetic patterns filled with ancient imaginary values. Those patterns are bound to a network of social and ancestral meanings. Those meaning values exceed their functional dimension. They carry meanings and uses coming from yore. They act like bridges toward their previous occurrences, which are myths, tales, holy scriptures, etc. We assume that those patterns are a way to resist disillusioning. Ancestral imagination comes in order to overcome the vanishing of social imagination. At this point, we can say that the Dardenne’s filmography deals with Cornelius Castoriadis’ socio-philosophy. The Greek philosopher of the twentieth century’s work is about social imagination and how societies exist thanks to a structural imagination. This preoccupation seems to reemerge in the Dardenne’s aesthesis as a guideline. Their images carry fictions bound to foundation stories. Which are able to federate people as a community. This cinematography revives ancestral imaginary. This collective memory strengthens the feeling of membership to the human community. The aesthesis pattern engages the imagination process. It joins the narration. As a matter of fact, those stories lead to the main characters’ consciousness as other people are human too
Koken, Eser. "Processes And Strategies Of New Central Business District Development And Public Space Patterns: Leventbuyukdere Avenue." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609945/index.pdf.
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kdere Avenue. Critically concentrating on its design and the planning process and future strategies in a comparative study with other global city examples of Paris, Berlin and Singapore, which have been giving specialized priority to the planning phase and future strategies for their new central business district developments, it is aimed to develop a substantial basis for the conceptualization of how the new central business district can be implemented in Istanbul.
Pinheiro, Clara Silva. "Corpo-encaixe ao corpo-molde: a constru??o de um corpo de modelo." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2017. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/621.
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Models are professionals who structure themselves as molds to depict and present products and services of the fashion, beauty and aesthetics world. Within the peculiarities and repercussions of the modelling profession, thoughtfulness over the body and its imagery projected and perceived in society are aspired. This Master?s degree dissertation presents the outcome of a field research regarding models performed from 2014 to 2016 in a Salvador modeling agency. Through oral narratives and semi-structured interviews, the present study aims to understand which body image insights models have from themselves, in the transition of the construction of model?s body in the dynamic of the body-fitting to body-mold. The delimited goal was to comprehend aesthetic pattern changes in the female body image of models, with the purpose of contextualizing the survey?s phenomenon. Analyzing the model?s narratives of theirs imagery perceptions of the transition from body-fitting to body-mold with photographs and grasp the paradox of the hip in that dynamic. The field gathered data highlights the strict relation of the body with model?s profession.
Modelos s?o profissionais que se estruturam como moldes para representar e apresentar produtos e servi?os no mundo moda, da beleza e da est?tica. Dentro das peculiaridades e repercuss?es da profiss?o de modelo, pautam reflex?es sobre o corpo e a imagem corporal projetada e percebida na sociedade. O presente estudo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa de campo, descritiva, explorat?ria e qualitativa sobre modelos, realizada no per?odo de 2014 a 2016 em uma ag?ncia da cidade de Salvador. As jovens que abra?am o desejo de um ?corpo perfeito? carregam consigo a fun??o de ser espelho, molde ou modelo. Ao longo desta pesquisa, nota-se a transforma??o das modelos, suas conquistas e supera??es. Com as entrevistas semiestruturadas e as narrativas orais, este trabalho busca compreender as percep??es da imagem corporal que as modelos t?m de si, na transi??o do corpo-encaixe (a se adequar) ao corpo-molde (a ser alcan?ado). Al?m disso, s?o enfocadas as mudan?as no padr?o est?tico feminino ao longo do tempo. Atrav?s da an?lise das narrativas, o paradoxo do quadril surge como fator importante na din?mica do corpo-encaixe ao corpo-molde, sendo crit?rio primordial na carreira de modelo. Diante de um campo intenso de investiga??o, verificam-se as possibilidades que o corpo de uma modelo pode alcan?ar, tanto na concretiza??o do sonho profissional como no tracejar de novos caminhos em outras esferas.
Kavas, Kemal Reha. "Environmental Aesthetics Of The Rural Architectural Tradition In The Mediterranean Highlander Settlement: The Case Study Of Urunlu." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610938/index.pdf.
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, a Mediterranean highland settlement in Southwestern Turkey. The thesis'
basic assumption is the environmental coherence of the traditional rural culture. Environmental aesthetics provides the conceptual basis through which architectural elements of the environmental coherence are investigated. Environmental aesthetics enhances the inclusive conceptions of "
environment"
as an integral whole merging nature with culture and "
aesthetics"
as an integrated realm of perceptual engagement with environment. The integrative perspectives of environmental aesthetics unify the phenomenological approach with the concepts of "
tectonic syntax"
and "
pattern language,"
which have been raised by previous studies of the traditional built environment. This integral conceptual framework is used to derive the conceptual tools. Environmental coherence between the various scale levels of the rural settlement ranging from architectural detail to settlement pattern defines "
aesthetics of continuity."
The conceptual tools, which are the "
tectonic joint,"
the organic interface and the environmental armature, serve as the successive scale levels on which the architectural elements of the "
aesthetics of continuity"
are analyzed. This framework is applied to Ü
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for identifying the spatial articulations of environment as multileveled patterns illustrating culture-specific solutions to contextual problems. Hence, the patterns are reconsidered as the aspects of architectural enculturation. The thesis'
proposal for an environmental representation of the settlement concretizes the patterns of integration between the rural architectural tradition and environment and explains the aesthetics of continuity between nature and culture. The intended contribution of the case study is a new theoretical approach generally applicable to the rural settlements.
Homlong, Siri. "The Language of Textiles : Description and Judgement on Textile Pattern Composition." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis (AUU), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7216.
Isaacs, Allison Jean. "Self-Organizing Architecture: Design Through Form Finding Methods." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22603.
Shuqair, Noura. "Islamic Patterns as an Allegory for an F-1 Student's Experience in the Context of Global Capitalism: The Aesthetics of Cognitive Mapping as an Approach to Art-Based Research." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703421/.
Grimpe, Martineau Marc-André. "How mobility networks have been dealt with socially and how they can better be dealt with in the future." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-107864.
Stumpo, Gordon. "Design Iterations Through Fusion of Additive and Subtractive Design." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461602511.
Barbosa, Rafaela Chagas. "Padrão tecno-estético e mercado televisivo: um estudo sobre a Rede Record de Televisão." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2011. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4561.
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Esta pesquisa investigou o posicionamento estratégico da Rede Record de Televisão no mercado brasileiro de TV aberta, tendo como aporte teórico-metodológico basilar a Economia Política da Comunicação (EPC), que foi articulada com outras teorias do âmbito comunicacional ao longo do texto dissertativo. Esta análise permitiu observar que o grupo estudado compete com o Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) pelo segundo lugar no cenário televisivo; no entanto, na faixa do prime time, a Record manteve a vice-liderança no período da pesquisa. Tal projeção foi sustentada pela retomada produtiva da cabeça de rede na esfera jornalística e de teleficção. Outra circunstância que interveio no processo estratégico da Rede Record foi o investimento extramídia, com repasse de verba não convencional ao do mercado publicitário, feito pela Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Segundo informações avaliadas nesta pesquisa, tal investimento corresponderia a aproximadamente R$ 400 milhões por ano, referentes à compra de horários no período da madrugada. Ainda foi observado que o padrão produtivo do objeto estudado entende o telejornalismo como o principal produto para desenhar sua ascensão nacional. A rede realiza ao todo seis telejornais, e as praças produzem de quatro a cinco produtos jornalísticos por dia. Dada essa importância do telejornalismo para a emissora, a investigação se propôs a caracterizar o padrão tecno-estético da Rede Record por meio do seu principal produto jornalístico, o Jornal da Record (JR), e do atual conceito editorial do jornalismo da rede, jornalismo verdade. Assim, foi possível apreender que as “verdades jornalísticas” contidas no JR são construídas, por exemplo, através da utilização da passagem ao vivo com certa frequência em eventos convencionais e o predomínio da editoria de Polícia/Segurança Pública nos fatos noticiados pelo JR.
The present research investigated Rede Record de Televisão’s (Record Television Network) strategic positioning in the public-access TV Brazilian market. The basic theoretical-methodological contribution to this work was the Political Economy of Communication (PEC), which was connected to other communication theories throughout the expository text. This analysis revealed that the group studied competes with SBT, standing for Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão ( Brazilian Television System), for the second place in the television scenario. However, Record TV Network maintained the second position in primetime viewership during the research. This projection is supported by the network head’s resumption of production in the television fiction and journalistic spheres. Another circumstance which influenced on Record Network strategic process was the investment derived from outside the media. This investment came from funds not common to the advertising market, transferred by Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God). According to information assessed herein, the mentioned investment would be equivalent to about R$ 400 million per year, and it is related to the purchase of predawn airtime. It has also been observed that the production pattern of the object of study considers telejournalism as the main product to shape its rising nationally. The TV network broadcasts six news programmes altogether, and the affiliates produce 4 to 5 journalistic products a day. Due to the importance of telejournalism to the network, the present investigation proposes to characterize Record TV Network’s aesthetic and technical pattern through its main journalistic product, O Jornal da Record (Record News), and through the current network’s journalism editorial concept, a factual journalism rather than a more reflective or analytical one. Thus, it could be apprehended that the ‘journalistic truths/facts’ in the news programme are based on, for instance, frequent live broadcasting parts in conventional events; and, also, on the predominance of reports on the Police and Public Safety events.
Rascle, Floriane. "Écritures dramatiques et romanesques des XXe et XXIe siècles à l’épreuve des arts non verbaux. Modèles et dispositifs." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA110.
The observation of the presence of non verbal arts within the works of Marguerite Duras, Lawrence Durrell, Elfriede Jelinek and Péter Nádas leads us to examine the musicality and the iconicity of contemporary dramatic and novelistic writings in terms of model, pattern and devices. Dialogue, hybridization, polyphony, dialogism, intermediality, and what Jacques Rancière calls “impurification” within the “Aesthetic Regime of Art”, display the dreams, desires and longings of verbal art for other arts, but also for representations whose artistic content is arguable. The fact that contemporary writings produce an organic, sexual, erotic, even pornographic body invites us to focus on the interactions between arts and non-arts with regard to their performative devices and to propose a queer reading of the works. In Postmodernism, the fact that writings draw on non verbal forms can be understood as the expression of the failure of Logos – both language and reason – and of representation. Moreover, what is also at stake is an aesthetic and political reform of literature. Whether they tend to impose new verbal models or break into them, non verbal arts contribute not only to reshape literary forms but also to emphasize their political substance and renew their fictional content. This dissertation aims to investigate the crossroads between aesthetics and politics that the various relationships between verbal and non-verbal arts display, from mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, within Literature, the verbal art par excellence
Flint, Susanna Pendleton. "Performance, politics and patterns the musical aesthetic in Amiri Baraka's poetry /." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/15133.
Ho, Pao-lan, and 何寶籃. "Looking Interface: The transformation of aesthetic politics and visual patterns in Taiwan's film (1980-2010)." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66230681707918434170.
世新大學
傳播研究所(含博士班)
99
With the modern picture developing of tendency and visualize existence, film becomes the most important medium for widespread transmission art and popular images. By the recovering of film topics and the appreciations of the modern film, it is appearing the structure transforming of political aesthetic and visual pattern. Through the unique views of methodology and eclectic research habits of Jacques Ranci?嫫e, merging subjectivity, objectivity, structure and dynamic, view and actions antagonistic relationship are understood since Taiwan film developing history after 1980s. In a word, the article is summery of the film surface characteristics which have classified five image forms: stare reality, innovative and reflective, dialectical reality, trans- boundary, subjective participation. The five forms show the transformation of visual pattern and sensible of the particular community, furthermore reveal as flow, overlapping status. It also reflects on three layers: from configuration of the ‘framing’, serious conversion ‘folding’ breaking with the ‘flowing’ pattern includes the political process. In the other words, “non-consensus” is not only a symbol of the discourse and image but also concretes proposals to reconfiguration of meaning, spirit and substance. As a result, the corresponding sense of community from consciousness of the ‘pursuit of reality’ into a diverse sense of ‘multi-reality’ and ‘de-differentiation’. Base on the analysis, the article explains the more derails of the social construction transformation and material hierarchy through a variety of databases and statistics to be demonstrated which including speech rights, life and time sensitivity, economic structure, media access and new technique, supplemented with relevant policies and discourses configuration of the order, that kind of pseudo-quality phenomenon of de-differentiation. Although Ranci?嫫e’s ‘distribution of the sensible’ provided practical perspective, the article has to take local appropriate into account when the theory involves with West Art history and an ideal of radicalism, so translating subject’s work is a historical practice that always takes place within a social framework needing to consider the cultural capital, technical conditions and the desire as well. Final, reviewing of the Taiwan film since 1980s provide the relationship of the ‘image surface’--‘the distribution of sensible of the community’ from Ranci?嫫e, it also revised the relationship between ‘soical structure/ material hierarchy’ and ‘translating subject’. It is a multiple review and confirm. Meanwhile, the article offers contributions from the two levels, used Ranci?嫫e’s thoery to investigate Taiwan film since 1980s, and, based on Taiwan film to study and discussion about visuality, aesthetic politics and audience.
Bienias, Barbara. "Literature as a Store of Patterns for Creative Imitation - Aesthetic Mimesis and Social Mimicry in England in the Years 1586-1603." Doctoral thesis, 2014. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/698.
Praca ukazuje sposób, w jaki sposób angielski Renesans przekładał wzorce literackie na osobowe modele zachowań. Doktorat skonstruowany jest wokół zagadnienia kreatywnej imitacji i sposobu, w jaki realizowane są prezentowane w literaturze wzorce. Rozważania poparte są teoriami z zakresu mimesis i tożsamości jednostki, pokazując w ten sposób uniwersalny aspekt fenomenu imitacji w Renesansie. Praca przedstawia Renesans jako okres, w którym indywidualizm rodzi się dzięki kreatywnemu powielaniu istniejących wzorców.
"Aesthetic surface pattern generation using L-system." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5884349.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-75).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Burnett, Richard Leslie George. "Salience strategy: connectivity, aesthetics and the learning mind." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7002.
Cheadle, Josephine Cornelia. "A cybernetic approach to grief : an application of the cybernetic paradigm in the field of parental loss of a child." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16412.
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M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))
Chao, Shun-Liang, and 趙順良. "The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry: Renaissance Pattern Poems and Cumming''s Visual Poems." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08688485160043266141.
國立政治大學
英國語文學系
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In this thesis I am to proffer an aesthetic knowledge of visual poetry by illustrating Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems, through which to rectify the conventional view of visual poetry as insignificant or "aesthetically irrelevant." My thesis is composed of five parts. In Inthoduction I outline the stakes of visual poetry, present its brief history, and bring forth three aesthetic issues abstracted from Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems. These three issues occupy respeictively one chapter of my thesis. The first issue is the mimetic relation of visual poetry to nature. In their visual shapes which are the faithful representation of natural objects, I find an epistemological difference between Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems. The second issue is concerned with the interaction between poetry and painting. Now that visual poetry is hightly mimetic, its linkage with painting (or visual arts) is all the more intimate. I concentrate upon, in consequence, how Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems cross respectively the border G.E. Lessing builds between poetry, the temporal art, and painting, the spatial art. The former two issues focus on the writing mode of visual poetry;then, the third one attends to how this writing--which is called by John Hollander as "aberrant"--poses a challenge to the reader''s conventional response to poetry. And there are two contrasts in this discussion:one is the distinction between the reading of conventional poetry and that of visual poetry; the other the distinction between the reading of Renaissance pattern poems and that of cummings'' visual poems. The process from the first to the third issue is, we can find, an interconnection between from and content. Such a development brings out what I asserts in Conclusion:in order to prevent visual poetry from being nothing but a world play--i.e., to be not only visual poetry but visual poetry--visual poets have to secure the compatibility between its form and content.
Segalin, Cristina. "A Social Signal Processing Perspective on Computational Aesthetics: Theories and Applications." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/941657.
Everyday, we are exposed to various images and videos thanks to the social media, like Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Instagram and others.In this scenario, the use of expressing preferences for a given multimedia content (for example by the use of liking mechanisms) has become pervasive and massive, becoming a social mass phenomenon.One of the main findings of cognitive sciences is that automatic processes of which we are unaware shape, to a significant extent, our perception of the environment. The phenomenon applies not only to the real world, but also to multimedia data we consume every day. Whenever we look at pictures, watch a video or listen to audio recordings, our conscious attention efforts focus on the observable content, but our cognition spontaneously perceives intentions, beliefs, values, attitudes and other constructs that, while being outside of our conscious awareness, still shape our reactions and behavior. So far, multimedia technologies have neglected such a phenomenon to a large extent. This thesis argues that taking into account cognitive effects is possible and it can also improve multimedia approaches. For this purpose we take into account Computational Aesthetics and Social Signal Processing principles under a computational point of view. On one side Computational Aesthetics makes applicable aesthetic decision in a similar fashion as human can allowing to multimedia technologies to learn, model and evaluate a common sense of beauty. On the other side,Social Signal Processing field has the aim of modeling with algorithms cognitive processes that codify social signal and that lead us to interact with a particular way with people or to prefer a particular image or video. This represents an invaluable opportunity for CA because human aesthetic response is formed by a combination of genetic predisposition, cultural assimilation, and unique individual experience and indeed it can be learned from online pictures using the wisdom of crowds.The thesis focuses on images as a first attempt in this direction.The motivation of why focusing on pictures are many: from one side, taking pictures is the action most commonly performed with mobile phones, on the other side, users either post online original images or videos or share and redistribute those posted by others. To this aim the thesis presents a study on personal aesthetics, where the goal is to recognize people and their characteristics by considering the images they like by developing several hybrid approaches using generative models and regressors.The general idea assumes that, given a set of preferred images, it is possible to extract a set of features individuating discriminative visual patterns, that can be used to infer personal characteristics of the subject that preferred them.As first contribution we propose a soft biometric system, that allows to discriminate an individual from another using the images he/she likes. The study and development of biometric system have become of paramount importance for both identification of individual and security applications and recommendation systems. On a dataset of 200 users and 40K images, the developed frameworks gives 97\% of probability of guessing the correct user using 5 preferred images as biometric template; as for the verification capability, the equal error rate is 0.11.Furthermore, we developed a system able to infer the personality of a subject using the images preferred by him/her. The motivation is that whenever we meet a person for the first time, but also when we observe her in video recordings, or we interact with an artifact displaying human-like behavior or with the multimedia material she shares online, we tend to attribute personality traits to her. The process is spontaneous and unconscious. While not necessarily accurate, the process still influences significantly our behavior towards others, especially when in comes to social interactions. As a supporting proof-of-concept, the thesis shows that there are visual patterns correlated with the personality traits of Flickr users to a statistically significant extent, and that the personality traits (both self-assessed and attributed by others) of those users can be inferred from the images these latter mark as ``favorite''. One of the most important part of the thesis has been the collection of the PsychoFlickr corpus, composed of 60K images of 300 Flickr users annotated in terms of personality traits both self and attributed by 22 assessors. The prediction are performed using multiple approaches (multiple instance regression approach and a deep learning framework), reaching a correlation up to 0.68 and an accuracy up to 0.69 between actual and predicted traits.The prediction of traits attributed from others achieve higher results compared to the self-assessed ones: the reason is that pictures dominate the personality impressions that the judges develop and the consensus across the judges is statistically significant. These two conditions help the regression approaches to achieve higher performances. When the users self-assess their personality, they take into account information that is not available in the favorite pictures like, e.g., personal history, inner state, education,etc.. Therefore, this does not allow the regression approaches to achieve high performances. This is an important finding as it can help to better understand the social behavior of people, to design artificial agents capable of eliciting the perception of predefined desirable traits and providing suggestions on how to manage online impressions using favorite pictures.
Tang, Yuen Ha. "The Aesthetics of Chinese Classical Theatre - A Performer’s View." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109246.
Maçãs, Catarina Sofia Henriques. "Time-Series Visualization: Highlighting Patterns and Deviations." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96432.
Information Visualization is usually perceived as an analytical tool with its roots in scientific reasoning. However, with the creation of programming languages directed to the design communities, along with the democratisation of data, Information Visualization expanded its conceptual boundaries to explorative and user-oriented areas. Nowadays, Information Visualization is used in different scientific and social domains, and works with different types of data, being time-based datasets common. The analysis of time-series implies understanding the evolution of data attributes over time. To achieve this, approaches from data mining and statistical areas, or even from visual design, are adopted to represent trends and patterns. The visual analysis of these temporal patterns and their disruptions is important in several fields of knowledge and are often an enticing and revealing output for the interested user. Given the relevance of the representation of trends and patterns in time-varying data, we focus our research on the development of visual mechanisms to map and synthesise complex data and enable the user to gather more information with less effort. Our visual explorations are an integral part of the design practice and will be embraced as a necessary aid to improve the understanding and accessibility of information. This thesis aims to explore the use of time-series visualization tools to allow the user to explore the data and answer specific problems in business domains, more specifically, in the retail, banking, and online shopping domains. Overall, our investigation includes: the application of existing principles of time-series visualization in business; the development of visualization models capable of highlighting temporal patterns intrinsic to the datasets; and, the development of visual models able to adapt to the user's aesthetic preferences. Different visualization tools were developed to enable the visualization of time-series data from the business domain. Firstly, we explored the representation of deviations to facilitate the analysis of the Portuguese consumption over time. This research project was developed in collaboration with SONAE, one of the most important Portuguese retail companies. With their data, we developed a set of visualization models to optimise their operations by improving the understanding of how the consumption values are distributed along time within their product hierarchy. Secondly, we explored the representation of fraudulent actions in finance. The visualization models were developed in collaboration with Feedzai, an important company in the fraud prevention domain. We developed two visualization tools to enable Feedzai's analysts to study the evolution over time of a set of transactions and detect possible cases of fraud more efficiently. Finally, we developed two visualization models to investigate the aesthetic dimension of the Portuguese consumption. These works aim to highlight the temporal patterns and rhythms in a simple and pleasing way. Also, these works aim to be a step towards captivating the big public through aesthetic experiences, luring them to further explore the data in a more analytical form. Overall, our visualization tools and models enabled us to (i) represent the deviations in consumption over time; (ii) represent suspicious and fraudulent activities in the finance domain; (iii) investigate the aesthetic domain in time-oriented data and represent visually the rhythms of consumption. Through our work, we demonstrated the feasibility of representing temporal patterns and their disruptions to enhance the understanding of the data and increase the knowledge available for business intelligence.
A Visualização de Informação é normalmente vista como uma ferramenta analítica com raízes no raciocínio científico. No entanto, com a criação de linguagens de programação direccionadas para as comunidades de design, bem como a democratização dos dados, a Visualização de Informação expandiu os seus limites conceptuais para áreas mais exploratórias e orientadas para o utilizador. Hoje em dia, a Visualização de Informação é usada em diferentes domínios científicos e sociais e trabalha com diferentes tipos de dados, sendo os dados temporais comuns. A análise de dados temporais, requer conhecimento sobre a evolução de um conjunto de dados ao longo do tempo e adquirir este conhecimento implica adoptar abordagens tais como da análise exploratória de dados, análise estatística, ou até design, de forma a promover a representação de tendências e padrões. A análise visual destes padrões temporais e respectivas perturbações pode ser, simultaneamente, cativante e reveladora para o utilizador interessado e, por isso, deve ser aplicada em várias áreas do conhecimento. Dada a relevância da representação de tendências e padrões em dados temporais, focamos a nossa investigação no desenvolvimento de mecanismos visuais para mapear e sintetizar dados complexos que permitam ao utilizador adquirir mais informação com menos esforço. As explorações visuais resultantes da nossa investigação são uma parte integral da prática do design e serão adoptadas como uma ajuda necessária para melhorar a compreensão e acessibilidade dos dados. Assim, pretendemos usar ferramentas de visualização de dados temporais de forma a permitir ao utilizador explorar os mesmos e obter respostas a problemas específicos no domínio empresarial, mais especificamente, nos sub-domínios da venda ao retalho, da banca e das compras online. Em termos gerais, a presente investigação inclui: a aplicação de conhecimento já existente sobre visualização de dados temporais ao domínio empresarial; o desenvolvimento de modelos capazes de enfatizar padrões temporais intrínsecos aos dados; e o desenvolvimento de modelos visuais capazes de se adaptar às preferências do utilizador. No contexto desta tese, foram desenvolvidas diferentes ferramentas de visualização de forma a permitir a visualização de dados temporais. Inicialmente, foi explorada a representação de desvios por forma a facilitar a análise dos consumos dos Portugueses ao longo do tempo. Este primeiro projecto de investigação foi financiado pela SONAE, uma das mais importantes empresas Portuguesas de venda a retalho. Com estes dados, desenvolvemos um conjunto de modelos de visualização para optimizar as operações da empresa através da melhoria do conhecimento interno sobre como os valores de consumo estão distribuídos no tempo. Numa segunda fase, foi explorada a representação de actividades financeiras fraudulentas. Este estudo foi financiado pela Feedzai, uma das mais importantes empresas no âmbito da prevenção de fraude. Foram desenvolvidas duas ferramentas de visualização de forma a permitir aos analistas da Feedzai o estudo da evolução temporal de um conjunto de transacções financeiras e a detecção mais eficiente de possíveis casos de fraude. Finalmente, foram desenvolvidos dois modelos de visualização de forma a investigar a dimensão estética dos consumos dos Portugueses. Com estes modelos, pretendemos enfatizar os padrões temporais e ritmos de forma simples e apelativa. Pretendemos dar um passo no sentido de capturar o interesse do grande público através de experiências estéticas, incentivando-os a explorarem, posteriormente, os dados de forma analítica. De forma geral, através das nossas ferramentas de visualização e modelos de visualização conseguimos: (i) representar os desvios no consumo ao longo do tempo; (ii) representar actividades financeiras suspeitas ou fraudulentas; e (iii) investigar o lado estético dos dados temporais, representando visualmente o ritmo dos consumos. Através do nosso trabalho demonstramos a viabilidade da representação de padrões temporais e respectivas perturbações de forma a melhorar o conhecimento dos dados e a aumentar o conhecimento disponível em inteligência de negócio.
Berteau, Stefan André. "Modeling biophysical and neural circuit bases for core cognitive abilities evident in neuroimaging patterns: hippocampal mismatch, mismatch negativity, repetition positivity, and alpha suppression of distractors." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27671.
Barclay, Vaughn. "Patterns Perceptible: Awakening to Community." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3656.
Shepherdson, Kerry Anne. "The nature of nature : an exploration of botanical themes, growth patterns and ornamental traditions, and the operation of metaphor and visual interpretations of life and growth as a means to abstraction in painting." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150189.
FLEISCHMANN, Dan. "Objektivní a subjektivní poznání krásy v díle Tomáše Akvinského." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-252328.