Digital Visual Communication Research Articles

Can a Digital Tool Improve the Understanding of Treatment Option for Patients With Head/Neck Cancer and Increase Providers’ Self-perceived Ability to Communicate With Patients?

A digital visual communication tool was recently developed by MyCareGorithm that incorporates explanations of treatments and procedures for cancer patients. This study evaluated if this novel tool can enhance both patient and provider satisfaction. In an IRB approved, prospective, pilot study, patients and caregivers at a single institution receiving head and neck cancer radiation underwent an initial consult using this digital tool and completed a survey of 6 questions to evaluate their understanding of their disease. Providers completed a 7-question survey to rate their satisfaction. Patients and caregivers with 4 or more “Yes” answers and providers with 5 or more “Yes” answers were defined as “Satisfied.” To obtain 90% power to detect that the proportion of “Satisfied” patients (assumed 75%) is greater than 50% with a significance level 5% using a 1-sided Z test, we planned to enroll 30 patients. Thirty patients enrolled and completed all surveys. Most patients were male (66%), White (60%), and spoke English as a primary language (93%). Patients most commonly had oropharyngeal cancer (23%). Overall, 27 of the 30 patients (90%; 1-sided 95% CI, 76.1%) were satisfied (z = 4.38, P < .05), 16 of the 17 caregivers (94%; 1-sided 95% CI, 74.8%) were satisfied, and 100% of providers were satisfied with the digital tool. Most patients (90%) and caregivers (94%) felt that the tool improved their understanding of the disease. One man answered “No” for all 6 questions, commenting that it was only marginally helpful. One woman also answered “No” for all questions, commenting that she did not find it helpful on its own without the provider's explanation. Of the 30 patients, 26 (87%) stayed at our institution to receive treatment. These findings showed high rates of patient, caregiver, and provider satisfaction with their initial consult when incorporating a digital visual tool. Its routine use in clinical practice should be strongly considered.

Research on Optimization Strategies of Algorithmic Models for Digital Visual Communication in Cultural Heritage Protection

Abstract With the development of digital technology, digital visual communication has more diversified forms in cultural heritage protection. This paper proposes to design a series of digital commemorative collection tickets for the Dong painting based on the theme. In the visual aesthetic evaluation, the optimization strategy of the digital visual communication algorithms model for cultural heritage protection is evaluated. In the optimization of image enhancement, based on the Retinex algorithm, we propose a single-scale algorithm that achieves the edge enhancement and dynamic range compression of the image and a multi-scale algorithm that meets the requirements of enhancing the details of the image and preserving the color at the same time and introduces the color recovery factor C to avoid the phenomenon of color distortion of the picture. Based on the K-means algorithm and Gaussian mixture model, the optimization of the way of selecting the initial clustering center and determining the number of class clusters is done to improve the efficiency of color feature extraction. Based on the optimized algorithmic model, the evaluation score of the Dong painting product of intangible cultural heritage designed in this paper is 6.95, which is better than the other comparative products. And the total evaluation value of all design elements in the product is more than 80.

3D animation stereo space design based on digital visual communication technology

Abstract With the rapid development of science and technology, digital visual communication technology has become an important tool for 3D animation stereo space design. The study constructs a 3D animation stereo space design framework model using NURBS-based surface modeling and texture mapping algorithms. It compares it with the traditional 3D modeling algorithm to explore the authenticity and reliability of the stereo space design framework model for 3D animation. Finally, by comparing the differences in user experience between the 3D animated stereo spatial design framework model proposed in this paper and the spatial design of the traditional 3D modeling model, the user experience effect and superiority of the 3D animated stereo spatial design framework model are explored. After comparison, the detection time of the 3D stereo spatial design framework model in three-time indicators is 307ms, 324ms, and 318ms, respectively, which is significantly faster than the traditional 3D modeling algorithm. Its detection accuracy is 17% higher than that of the conventional 3D modeling algorithm, and the number of delays, scene stutters, and black screen flashes of the 3D stereo spatial design framework model and the traditional 3D modeling algorithm increase with the extension of detection time, but the former is always better than the latter. The 3D stereo spatial design framework model has a higher mean score than the traditional 3D modeling algorithm by 8.12 to 9.82 points in terms of user experience.

46‐1: Invited Paper: Large Scale Outdoor Display Systems: Applications and Technology Trends

Applications for Large Scale Outdoor Display Systems continue to expand and enable digital visual communication to an audience in more physical spaces than ever before. These displays can range in size from one to hundreds of square meters and must perform in challenging environmental conditions while meeting expectations for image quality and minimizing environmental impact. This paper will explore LED technologies that support today's applications and the technologies that may support future applications. LED and reflective technologies will be presented with the advantages and limitations highlighted by application

Everest, Everestland, #Everest: A Case for a Composite Visual Ethnographic Approach

Arguably Mount Everest has always been mediatized: its appeal as an idea has existed in part through technologies of visual cultures. Exploring the digital media practices of tourists and the tourism workers, this article considers how imaginaries of Mount Everest that appear through technologies of visual culture relate to experiences of Everest in Nepal. I argue for a composite visual ethnographic approach that entails examining experiences on site in relation to cumulative media and visual texts, both historically and on digital media platforms. The article contributes to an anthropology of mobility through its focus on how digital visual communication becomes constitutive of work and practices in tourism.

Digital Visual Communication for Public Health: Design Proposal for a Vaccinated Emoji.

In the 21st century, the internet and particularly social media have become essential platforms for the spread of health information (including misinformation and disinformation). One of the distinguishing features of communication on these platforms is the widespread use of emojis. Though seemingly trivial emojis are now used by many if not most public health figures and organizations alongside important health updates. Much of that information has had to do with vaccination. Vaccines are a critical public health tool but one surrounded by falsehoods, phobias, and misinformation fueling vaccine hesitancy. Part of that has to do with their lack of positive representation on social media (eg, the syringe emoji is a plain needle, which for many people is an uncomfortable image). We thus argue that vaccination deserves an entirely new emoji to communicate vaccine confidence and discuss a design proposal for a vaccinated emoji that has gained traction in the global public health community.

Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan

Through the smartphone, the production and circulation of digital visual media have become as costless and accessible as audio and text-based communication. It would be challenging to be a contemporary ethnographer without engaging with digital practices which in Japan and China at least, tend towards being highly visual. Digital visual communication is recognised in literature as an effective and accessible form of communication, with an increasing number of studies in the field of digital anthropology, media studies and Internet studies exploring the consequences of digital images on social media. There is a pressing need to understand local forms of visual communication in the digital age, where the visual has become an essential part of daily communication. This article deals particularly with the rise of visual digital communication among older adults in China and Japan. Drawing on 16-month ethnographies conducted simultaneously between 2018 and 2019 in China and Japan, this article contributes to the discussion of visual communication in light of this semiotic shift happening online, which is then contextualised within people’s offline lives. The ethnographies in both China and Japan find that, first of all, visual communication via digital media enables more effective and efficient phatic communication and emotion work. In addition, the ethnographies point to a question about ‘authenticity’ in interpersonal communication. The ethnographies show that in some cases, the deployment of visual communication via the smartphone is not so much about being able to express ‘authentic’ personal feelings but rather, in being able to effectively establish a digital public façade according to social norms.

A Brief of Review: Multimedia Authoring Tool Attributes

Multimedia authoring is the process of assembling various types of media content such as audio, video, text, images, and animation into a multimedia presentation using tools. Multimedia Authoring Tool is a useful tool that helps authors to create multimedia presentations. Multimedia presentations are very widely used in various fields, such as broadcast digital information delivery, digital visual communication in smart cars, and others. The Multimedia Authoring tool attributes are the factors that determine the quality of a multimedia authoring tool. A multimedia authoring tool needs to have several attributes so that these tools can be used properly. The purpose of this literature review study is to find the advantages of the multimedia authoring tool attribute in each of the existing studies to produce knowledge on how to create a good quality multimedia authoring tool. These attributes are Editing, Services, Performance, and the Formal Verification Model. Editing attribute is an attribute for interfacing with the author. Followed by Service attribute and performance attribute to check and achieve proper multimedia documents. Since 1998, a multimedia modeling tool has been studied, and up to now, there have been many studies that have focused on one or more of these attributes. This article discusses the existing studies to examine the attributes generated from the studies. Multimedia authoring attributes are very important to study because they are the benchmarks of the software requirement specifications of Multimedia Authoring tools. The use of the Petri net model, the Hoare Logic, and the Simple Interactive Multimedia Model as a formal verification model can improve the performance of the Multimedia Authoring Tool. In the questionnaire that was submitted to the users, it was assessed positively by the users with the improvements in the Multimedia Authoring Tool.

‘I shared the joy’: sport-related social support and communality on Instagram

The popularity of sharing photographs on digital platforms has increased significantly due to the communicative affordances of mobile media and the emergence of photo-sharing applications, such as Instagram. In this paper, we examine how social support and communality can be built and reinforced through digital visual communication. We focus especially on photo sharing in the context of recreational climbing and trail running. In a qualitative study with Finnish climbers and runners, we asked what meanings sports practitioners ascribe to the practice of sharing and observed how they communicate these meanings through photographs. The results indicate that different types of visual content build and reinforce communality in distinct ways. Whereas inspirational photographs drive practitioners to explore, motivational photographs pull practitioners to keep going through goal setting and peer support. We conclude that visual communication on Instagram mediates a stream of momentary encounters between practitioners that merge into communally meaningful experiences. Thus, we assert that in the context of recreational sport subcultures, photo sharing not only facilitates social relationships but can be perceived as a meaningful social practice that is integral to reinforcing physical activity.

Master of Ibero American virtual environment education

&lt;p&gt;Metaverse is an immersive, three-dimensional, virtual and online multi-user environment that allows people to communicate with each other socially and economically, regardless of location, using computing tools as personalized agents and simulations. In order to build the system, we define the guide as a free distributed application integration product, Spanish, IP voice system in metaverse, and integrated LMS (learning management system). The main tools to support this work are: 3D metaverse second life simulator, Moodle LMS, object-oriented dynamic link interface simulation, sloodle. Although the best example of metacosmic second life is an integrated world that can be accessed online. Academic experience is a master’s degree in Ibero American virtual environment management education from the University of Granada. It ended in the first quarter of 2010. It was developed in the temporary place of second life and carried out some tests and data collection. The Ibero American network ecaeva (digital visual communication strategy driven by virtual flow in the Latin American Caribbean European Union academic free trade area) promotes video conference experiments and meta poetry teaching. Epistemological strategies are case studies.&lt;/p&gt;

Master of Ibero American virtual environment education

&lt;p&gt;Metaverse is an immersive, three-dimensional, virtual and online multi-user environment that allows people to communicate with each other socially and economically, regardless of location, using computing tools as personalized agents and simulations. In order to build the system, we define the guide as a free distributed application integration product, Spanish, IP voice system in metaverse, and integrated LMS (learning management system). The main tools to support this work are: 3D metaverse second life simulator, Moodle LMS, object-oriented dynamic link interface simulation, sloodle. Although the best example of metacosmic second life is an integrated world that can be accessed online. Academic experience is a master’s degree in Ibero American virtual environment management education from the University of Granada. It ended in the first quarter of 2010. It was developed in the temporary place of second life and carried out some tests and data collection. The Ibero American network ecaeva (digital visual communication strategy driven by virtual flow in the Latin American Caribbean European Union academic free trade area) promotes video conference experiments and meta poetry teaching. Epistemological strategies are case studies.&lt;/p&gt;

Digital Transformation in Marketing Mobile Phones Industry: Evaluating Marketers Strategies for Cross-Cultural Advertisements

In upcoming time, media science will be more rapidly growing and developing than today in almost every field whether it will be communication, marketing, advertising, finance or arts. These developments and advancements in technologies make things much easier, cheaper and effective for the people. In present time, the marketing and advertising of products, goods and services has become necessity for everybody’s daily life whether it be the customer, producer or trader but in near future, the standard way of product advertising will be transformed from visual communication to digital visual communication. This digital visual communication will have great impact on marketing and advertising and would have many beneficiaries for the marketers and advertisers. Nowadays, the key elements used in visual communication for advertising of products are line, color, shapes, images, typography, space, size and scale. The latest trends of visual communication are composed of combination of images and text. As in visual communication, images are more powerful communicator than text so, the trends of today’s advertisement design are composed with more images and short text. The evolution of digital visual culture has all the aspects of visual culture but with higher quality and improved level of communication. With the help of improved visual content quality and short texts, advertisers gain more publicity, attraction and acceptance of wider audience toward the product advertisement. Currently the main problem that marketers and advertisers are facing in communication process at international level in marketing and advertising of products are cross cultural effects like language, literacy, religion, arts etc. This research is conducted for the purpose to analyze the effect of digital culture on visual communication through qualitative content analysis. Here the question arises in almost everyone’s mind that can digital visual culture overcome cross cultural effects on marketing and advertising of products?

Visualising intimacies: The circulation of digital images in the Trinidadian context

This article examines images circulated through mobile media to emphasise the emotion work invested into familial relationships that are defined by place. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Trinidad, the article contributes a cross-cultural perspective to literature in digital visual communication and digital media in family relationships that has typically focused on peer-to-peer relationships between youth or that has focused on nuclear households in predominantly Western contexts. The consequences of uses of digital media platforms are strongly intertwined with the category of relationship (mother and daughter, or couples for example), their cultural inflections, relationship hierarchies and the life-stages of individuals. Digital visual communication functions to navigate, maintain and acknowledge relationships that varies across different platforms. The more public uses of images over Facebook to the more private circulation of images over WhatsApp provide examples that illustrate positive aspects of intimacy through constant contact as well as ambivalent feelings of obligation to reciprocate communication compelled by the availability afforded by mobile media. This article advances the understanding of the relationship between emotions, intimacy and mobile media by revealing how norms, ideals and expectations of familyhood and digital practices that are often essentialised are context-driven and specific.

Overcoming barriers to sustainability by combining conceptual, visual, and networking systems

Sustainability challenges rarely align with the conventional boundaries of our disciplines, institutions and means of communication. To address these challenges amid real-world complexity, we need to think holistically and collaborate across disciplines. In this paper, we synthesise three themes: (1) more integrated conceptual frameworks; (2) digital visual communication which provides fluid expression of complex ideas and perceptions; and (3) online networks which can empower sustainability initiatives and communicate them across social and institutional barriers at a global scale. Each of these tools can help to overcome persistent barriers to sustainability. When used together, they provide a strategic basis for the design of digital collaboration platforms for addressing sustainability challenges. Using design thinking, we developed a Synergy Map which identifies relationships among a number of barriers to sustainability and conceptual and digital tools which help to address them. The Map identifies the potential for synthesising these tools into effective digital artefacts. We provide several examples and identify characteristics of particular value for overcoming barriers to sustainability. Combining new theoretical developments in sustainability sciences with recent advances in communication and networking technologies offers substantial potential for advancing sustainability on multiple fronts.

The Effects of Digital Communication in Cinema: ‘A New Film Language’

Delving into the digital world and technical development beneath it, the applications on communication have appeared as a promising source for transformation. Rapid progressing internet technology has turned the previously underdeveloped visual communication into an important domain as it is a needed practice to consider the means of communication in conjunction with the content and as far as the image in visual media is concerned, the question of how digital visual communication process is effected emerges. Beginning in 2000s, developments in digital communication technologies have led to a change in the perception of the film language in cinema. Processes dedicated to film-making such as dramatization, visualization, editing and distribution have gone through significant transition. A major contributing fact, DV (Digital Video), has made filmmaking available to amateur shooters which had before been dominated solely by professionals. Amateur filmmakers have begun shooting films of reasonably low costs and sharing them through internet platforms such as Youtube and Vimeo . The unexpected recognition by the audience and considerably high box office earnings have drawn attention to the language used in those films. The experiences and developments in digital communication require academics to correctly interpret the recent changes in filmmaking. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to discuss the characteristics of the somewhat revolutionary ‘new film language’ introduced by amateur filmmakers and the effects of digital communication technologies in cinema.

Cinematic Meeting Facilities Using Large Displays

Alias Visualization Studio (the VizStudio) is a unique meeting facility that makes use of large-display technology to support digital visual communication and collaboration with corporate clients, future customers, employees, and corporate partners. We discovered that using large displays in this type of corporate meeting facility produces its own unique set of challenges and solutions. In this article, we highlight the subtle but important interplay between large-display technologies, interior design, and social and corporate dynamics.