Aesthetic Cues Research Articles

Hybrid CNN-transformer based meta-learning approach for personalized image aesthetics assessment

Personalized Image Aesthetics Assessment (PIAA) is highly subjective, as people's aesthetic preferences vary greatly. Traditional generic models struggle to capture the unique preferences of each individual, and PIAA often deals with limited samples from individual users. Furthermore, it requires a holistic consideration of diverse visual features in images, including both local and global features. To address these challenges, we propose an innovative network that combines the power of transformer and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Meta-Learning for PIAA (TCML-PIAA). Firstly, we leverage both Vision Transformer blocks and CNNs to extract long-term and short-term dependencies, mining richer and heterogeneous aesthetic attributes from these two branches. Secondly, to effectively fuse these distinct features, we introduce an Aesthetic Feature Interaction Module (AFIM), designed to seamlessly integrate the aesthetic features extracted from CNNs and ViT, enabling the interaction and fusion of aesthetic information across different modalities. We also incorporate a Channel-Spatial Attention Module (CSAM), embedding it within both the CNNs and the AFIM to enhance the perception of different regions in images, further exploring the aesthetic cues in images. Experimental results demonstrate that our TCML-PIAA outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on benchmark databases.

Committed Commenting and the Virtual Visage: Contextualizing Sorority Social Media Encounters

This article addresses the ways in which collegiate sorority women deploy sorority-specific aesthetic cues to construct socially acceptable and recognizable presentations of themselves online. I suggest that sorority members initiate and invite social media interaction as a means of parlaying their own media posts into discursive sites, thereby participating in a complex and considerably stratified economy of display and recognition. Sorority members also exert social capital through public demonstrations of social network linkages— demonstrations which can only be performed successfully if one maintains legitimacy and good standing within the media economy. I probe the implications of theorizing social media posting (particularly to the digital media platform Instagram) as a communal art creation practice that strengthens group social linkages and reifies communally observed aesthetic guidelines. I also address the stylistic and discursive regimens that shape expectations of media presentation, contrasting these practices with the comparatively candid and informal presentation styles exemplified in Fake Instagram (“finsta”) posting behaviors.

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The impact of atmospheric cues on consumers’ approach and avoidance behavioral intentions in social commerce websites

Approach and avoidance are typical behavioral tendencies of consumers when exposed to a new environment. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, this study investigates the effects of atmospheric cues on consumers' approach and avoidance intentions in social commerce environments. We elucidate the interaction mechanisms between atmospheric cues (task, aesthetic and social cues) and consumers' evaluations through the lens of perceived affordances. Then we investigate how three types of perceived affordances (utilitarian, hedonic and connective) influence consumers’ approach and avoidance behavioral intentions. A three-way factorial experiment provides strong evidence that task cues, aesthetic cues and social cues elicit perceived utilitarian, hedonic and connective affordances, respectively. Approach behavioral intentions were affected by all three types of perceived affordances, yet avoidance intentions were only affected by perceived utilitarian and hedonic affordances. This paper discusses both theoretical and practical implications for social commerce research.

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Announcement| June 01 2016 Announcements American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533494 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Announcements. American Literature 1 June 2016; 88 (2): 439–445. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533494 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search There’s something queer about comics. Whether one looks to the alternative mutant kinships of superhero stories (the epitome of queer worldmaking), the ironic and socially negative narratives of independent comics (the epitome of queer anti-normativity), or the social stigma that makes the medium marginal, juvenile, and outcast from proper art (the epitome of queer identity), comics are rife with the social and aesthetic cues commonly attached to queer life. Moreover, the medium has had a long history as a top reading choice among those “queer” subjects variously called sexual deviants, juvenile delinquents, dropouts, the working class, and minorities of all stripes. Despite this, comics studies and queer theory have remained surprisingly alienated from one another. On the one hand, comics studies’ tendency to analyze the formal codes of sequential art separately from social questions of sexual identity and embodied difference has often led to a disregard for a nuanced queer... You do not currently have access to this content.

Product Attributes' Effects on Perceived Values and Repurchase Intention in Korea, USA, and France

The purposes of this study are 1) to understand the roles of product attributes (i.e., intrinsic cues: aesthetic and functional cues, extrinsic cues: brand image) with regard to perceptions of value and repurchase decisions and 2) to understand the moderating effects of price and consumer nationality on the relationships between product attributes (i.e., aesthetic and functional cues, brand image), perceived values (i.e., psychological value, economical value), and repurchase intention. A sampling plan was developed to ensure that the study included certain types of respondents. Data collection was conducted at three universities located in the Midwestern United States, in Seoul in the Republic of Korea, and in Paris, France. The samples consisted of undergraduate and graduate students who volunteered for the study. This study investigated cross-cultural differences in the consumption of jeans in three countries, the USA, France and Korea. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,000 respondents between January 4 and March 20, 2010. Of the 778 returned, 269 were collected from Seoul, 172 from the US Midwest, and 307 from Paris. For the data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), path analysis for modeling test, mediation analysis, multi-group analysis were estimated using Amos 17.0. The following conclusions have been drawn from the results of this research: First, in postpurchase contexts, the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic cues on repurchase intentions is different. The intrinsic cues (i.e., aesthetics and functionality) affected repurchase intentions indirectly, mediated by perceived psychological and economic value. The extrinsic cues (e.g., brand image) influenced repurchase intentions directly. These results suggest that extrinsic cues such as brand image are more important than intrinsic cues in postpurchase contexts. Second, price plays a significant role in moderating the relationships between product attributes, perceived value and repurchase intentions. Functional cues had a greater impact on perceived economic value for products in the low-price category. Brand image had a greater impact on repurchase intentions for low-price products. These findings suggest that brand image is important to consumers in purchasing low-priced jeans, but that price may be an important determinant for consumers in deciding whether to purchase high-priced jeans. Third, consumers in Korea, the USA, and France differed with regard to the relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic cues, perceived value and repurchase intentions in their purchasing decisions. For Korean consumers, functional cues did not have a strong influence on perceived value and repurchase intentions. Korean consumers may not consider functional cues to be as important as aesthetic cues in their repurchase decision-making process. American consumers infer economic value from aesthetic and functional cues. French consumers infer economic value from functional cues, but Korean consumers infer economic value from emotional aspects such as aesthetic cues. For American consumers, functional cues played a more important role in determining perceived value than other cues, brand image had a more significant influence on perceived economic value, and perceived economic value significantly influenced repurchase intentions. This result may be because brand image influences perceived economic value and repurchase intentions directly for American consumers. This finding is consistent with the research of Chen-Yu et al. (2010), who found that American consumers tended to consider how well-known a brand was to be more important than Korean consumers did. For French consumers, aesthetic cues influenced perceived psychological value and functional cues influenced perceived economic value. They evaluated the psychological value of jeans on the basis of aesthetic cues and their economic value on the basis of functional cues. They formed their repurchase intentions on the basis of perceived psychological value and brand image. This study has suggested that aesthetic cues and brand image are the most important predictor variables in jeans-repurchase decision-making processes for French consumers. Their repurchase intentions with regard to jeans are formed only on the basis of their perceptions of the jeans' psychological value. The results of this study have a number of managerial implications for global jeans-producing companies.

Person–place congruency in the Internet Banking context

This study proposes and empirically validates a model that incorporates the interaction effects of consumer's shopping orientation (utilitarian/recreational) and attitudes towards the online store atmospheric qualities (information related cues, navigation cues, aesthetic cues) on online shopping behavior. The use of an underutilized technique for detecting interaction effects unveils the superiority of interaction effects over direct effects in explaining online shopping behavior. Results reveal significant interaction effects during the information search stage but not during the purchase stage. Furthermore, the interaction effects were significant only for utilitarian shoppers but not for the recreational ones. The results signify the distinctive nature of online shopping compared to the offline one, and the need for retailers to distinguish online and offline store atmosphere management.

Knowledge: a variable in evaluating clothing quality

AbstractThis study was designed to determine the effect knowledge has on the types of information cues used to evaluate clothing quality. Students ranked the importance of 24 product attributes for evaluating clothing quality before beginning a 15‐week university course on evaluation of clothing products and again at the conclusion of the course. Most (64%) of the intrinsic cues were ranked significantly higher on the pretest than post‐test and many of the extrinsic (75%) and aesthetic (67%) cues rated significantly lower. There were no differences in the ranking of the performance cues. However, caution should be taken when interpreting the results of the study. Although all of the cues ranked significantly higher in the post‐test were intrinsic cues, when evaluating the relative ranking of the cues in the pretest and post‐test, there were few differences. The same five aesthetic cues were in the top third on both tests and the same six intrinsic cues were in the bottom third on both tests. The findings of this study suggest that knowledge does influence how consumers evaluate quality and additional research that focuses on the effect of knowledge in consumers’ evaluation of clothing quality is needed.

Multisensory Integration of Visual, Tactile, and Olfactory Aesthetic Cues of Appearance

Integration of olfactory, visual, and tactile aesthetic cues of appearance in the impression formation process was examined. Eighty-nine female college students, each responding to three fragrances, rated 30 fabric swatches on 7-point Likert-type scales as to the fabrics' likeliness to be worn by someone who prefers to wear a particular fragrance. Rank orders of fabrics for the two fragrances with similar olfactory structures were associated (p <. 05) whereas rank orders of fabrics for two pairs of fragrances with dissimilar structures were not associated (p > .05) according to Spearman correlations, suggesting multisensory integration of appearance cues. A priori visual and tactile aesthetic qualities of fabrics ranked high or low for each fragrance were examined for similarities. Similarities of visual and tactile qualities were found within each group of fabrics for each fragrance, suggesting multisensory integration of appearance cues on an aesthetic level.

Is aesthetic judgment impaired by neuroticism?

If aesthetic aspects of art are objective and reside in the art, as Arnheim (1954) argues, then perceiving them may be akin to any other kind of reality testing. Further, if neurosis impairs reality testing, it would also impair aesthetic judgment, especially if aesthetic cues are vital and relevant to the human experience as Arnheim maintains. This hypothesis was investigated by administration of personality tests to measure neuroticism, especially Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), and art judgment tasks, especially Child's slide comparisons, to 105 University of Michigan undergraduates. The hypothesis was supported by a high negative correlation between the 16PF's neuroticism scale and art judgment, r = -.48; t(103) = -.5.61, p less than .0001. The results are discussed in terms of growth versus adjustment models of mental health, and the possible inhibiting role of verbalization over visualization in aesthetic perception.