Impression Space Research Articles

Senses and Emotion Experience at Aceh Tsunami Museum

The purpose of this research is to find out how exhibitions in museums that use various senses can evoke the emotions of visitors and provide visitors with a more memorable spatial experience. In 2004 there was a very powerful Tsunami in Aceh. This incident is remembered in one of the museums designed by Ridwan Kamil, located in Aceh. This museum captures the moment Aceh Tsunami and also tries to present these past events as an exhibition area in a simulation room. This simulation room uses a multisensory delivery method involving several senses. This simulation room is known as the Tsunami Alley. The article discusses what feelings are involved in conveying messages from this space, and the spatial and emotional experience visitors feel. The method used is descriptive qualitative, and the object of this research is the Tsunami Alley of Aceh Tsunami Museum. According to the analysis results, sensory and emotional processes are inseparable and support one another. The application of integrated senses in the museum space will further evoke visitors' emotions and strengthen the message's memory. The results of this study are expected to be the development of design references regarding the delivery of news and information using multisensory methods to provide an impressive space experience in exhibition halls.

Geometric morphometric analysis of Japanese female facial shape in relation to psychological impression space

Facial appearance has essential consequences in various social interactions. Previous studies have shown that although people can perceive a variety of impressions from a face, these impressions may form from a relatively small number of core dimensions in the psychological impression space (e.g., valence and dominance). However, few studies have thus far examined which facial shape features contribute to perceptions of the core trait impression dimensions for Asian female faces. This study aimed to identify the commonalities between various facial impressions of Japanese female faces and determine the facial shape components associated with such impressions by applying geometric morphometric (GMM) analysis. In Experiment 1 (Modeling study), Japanese female faces were evaluated in terms of 18 trait adjectives that are frequently used to describe facial appearance in daily life. We found that Japanese female facial appearance is indeed evaluated mainly on the valence and dominance dimensions. In Experiment 2 (Validation study), we confirmed that all the trait impressions were quantitatively manipulated by transforming the facial shape features associated with valence and dominance. Our results provide evidence that various facial impressions derived from these two underlying dimensions can be quantitatively manipulated by transforming facial shape using the GMM techniques.

Impression space model for the evaluation of Internet advertising effectiveness

SummaryThe evaluation of Internet advertising effectiveness plays an important role in network marketing at this stage. The evaluation criteria of Internet advertising effectiveness mostly use proceeds as an indicator, ignoring the brand effect generated by Internet advertising, making it difficult for researchers to further study the effect of Internet advertising. With the updating and iteration of technical theory, it is an urgent task to find a new criteria to measure Internet advertising effectiveness. At present, the research on Internet advertising effectiveness research is based on the analysis of nondifferentiation category. The research on user click behavior is a holistic analysis of the whole web page. This global coverage research is difficult to present the behavior characteristics of users in the web page. In response to the above problems, the impression space is proposed to measure Internet advertising effectiveness. Firstly, the fuzzy classification theory is used to digitize the user category data, the user type is divided by probability distribution, and the distribution of web page interest regions is divided by gaze time and page layout to further study the click‐and‐effect relationship of different users and the user browsing time series.Then, establish multimodal multifactors to build an impression space model to measure Internet advertising effectiveness. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the constructed impression space model for the evaluation of Internet advertising effectiveness reaches 92.4%, and the impression space is more effective as the evaluation of Internet advertising effectiveness.

Impression Space Analysis of Local Mascot Characters for Regional Promotion

Recently, local mascot characters called “Yurukyara” have been active in various places. They play an important role in raising a region’s image and exciting the region to promote regional development. It is important to understand the impression given by the characters, since each character’s image leads to the promotion and recognition of the region. In this study, we analyze the impression of local mascot characters to provide useful information for regional promotions, etc. First, we extract the Kansei factors from the characters’ appearances and classify the characters within the factor space. Next, we analyze the differences in impressions when adding character-profile and video information.

Reenacting Migration, Past and Present

Located at the old harbor of the city of Genoa, the modern Galata Museo del Mare was inaugurated as part of the commemoration of Genoa as the 2004 European Capital of Culture. Only twelve years later, the museum proudly welcomes 200,000 visitors annually into its twenty-eight galleries, organized in an impressive exhibition space of 10,000 square meters, showcasing 4,300 objects. While the aim of the museum is to tell the maritime history of Genoa—ranging from Christopher Columbus to an open-air space showcasing the story of the Genoese shipyard—it is the exhibition on migration to and from Italy that will truly impress the visitor.

Application of FDM three-dimensional printing technology in the digital manufacture of custom edentulous mandible trays.

The objective was to establish and evaluate a method for manufacture of custom trays for edentulous jaws using computer aided design and fused deposition modeling (FDM) technologies. A digital method for design the custom trays for edentulous jaws was established. The tissue surface data of ten standard mandibular edentulous plaster models, which was used to design the digital custom tray in a reverse engineering software, were obtained using a 3D scanner. The designed tray was printed by a 3D FDM printing device. Another ten hand-made custom trays were produced as control. The 3-dimentional surface data of models and custom trays was scanned to evaluate the accuracy of reserved impression space, while the difference between digitally made trays and hand-made trays were analyzed. The digitally made custom trays achieved a good matching with the mandibular model, showing higher accuracy than the hand-made ones. There was no significant difference of the reserved space between different models and its matched digitally made trays. With 3D scanning, CAD and FDM technology, an efficient method of custom tray production was established, which achieved a high reproducibility and accuracy.

Switzerland's Maison de l'écriture

outpost I n the summer of 2013, after four years of construction , the Jan Michalski Foundation opened the Maison de l’Écriture, its new international center devoted to writing and literature. The center is spectacularly set in Montricher, Switzerland, at the foot of the Jura and the edge of a forest facing the Alps across Lake Geneva. Swiss architects V. Mangeat and P. Wahlen designed the center and library. The ambitious structure, in perfect harmony with nature and the calm setting, includes several buildings for the foundation’s many activities. Accommodation for writers’ retreats in the form of huts suspended from the canopy, giving panoramic views, will be completed later. The library is an impressive space: built in solid oak, its five stories of galleries are crossed by passageways with separate, peaceful reading spaces. Reflecting the literary tastes of Jan Michalski and the foundation, the library will eventually hold more than eighty thousand books and magazines , both in their original languages and in translation. The collection is in eight main languages—German, English , Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Polish—and will include works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and nonfiction, many about politics and history, as well as books devoted to contemporary art, architecture, and photography. The building also houses a gallery devoted to temporary exhibitions about literature and writing. The gallery started its activity this June with an exhibition devoted to Sławomir Mrożek, a recently deceased Polish dramatist and writer whose archives the foundation acquired this year. Vera Michalski created the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature in 2004 in memory of her husband , Jan Michalski (1953–2002), a publisher, in order to continue their joint endeavor of fostering literature. The foundation provides support for writing through activities such as funding various literary projects, organizing literary events and encounters, hosting writers in residence, and awarding an annual international literary prize, currently in its fourth year. Tasja Dorkofikis is the editor of the English PEN Atlas and a freelance editor and publicist. She shares her time between London and a small Swiss village. Switzerland’s Maison de l’Écriture Tasja Dorkofikis photos : leo fabrizio 80 worldliteraturetoday.org ...

Analysis on paralinguistic prosody control in perceptual impression space using multiple dimensional scaling

A multi-dimensional perceptual space for communicative speech prosodies was derived using a psychometric method from multi-dimensional expressions of impressions to characterize paralinguistic information conveyed by prosody in communication. Single word utterances of “n” were employed to allow freedom from lexical effects and to cover communicative prosodic variations as much as possible. The analysis of daily conversations showed that conversational speech impressions were manifested in the global F0 control of “n” as differences of average height (high–low) and dynamic patterns (rise, fall, gradual fall, and rise&fall). Using controlled single utterances of “n”, multiple dimensional scaling analysis was applied to a mutual distance matrix obtained by 26 dimensional vectors expressing perceptual impressions. The result showed the three-dimensional structure of a perceptual impression space, and each dimension corresponded to different F0 control characteristics. The positive–negative impression can be controlled by average F0 height while confident–doubtful or allowable–unacceptable impressions can be controlled by F0 dynamic patterns. Unlike conventional categorical classification of prosodic patterns frequently observed in studies of emotional prosody, this control characterization enables us to flexibly and quantitatively describe prosodic impressions. These experimental results allow the possibility of input specifications for communicative prosody generation using impression vectors and control through average F0 height and F0 dynamic patterns. Instead of the generation of speech with categorical prototypical prosody, more adequate communicative speech synthesis can be approached through input specification and its correspondence with control characteristics.

Music reproducing apparatus and music reproducing method

A candidate piece specifying unit 6 specifies, as a first candidate piece, a musical piece whose musical piece parameter includes a first factor that is larger than a first factor of a musical piece currently being played from among musical pieces, and specifies, as a second candidate piece, a musical piece whose first factor is smaller than the first factor of the musical piece currently being played from among the musical pieces. When data of a musical piece is reproduced by a playback unit 4, a display control unit 8 causes musical piece information regarding the first candidate piece and the second candidate piece to be displayed at positions on a display screen that reflect coordinate positions in an impression space formed by the factors of the musical piece parameter. Upon receiving an input from a user of specifying a musical piece indicated by musical piece information displayed on a display device 10, a playback control unit 5 controls data of the specified musical piece so that the data of the specified musical piece is reproduced by the playback unit.

Media Converter with Impression Preservation Using a Neuro-Genetic Approach

We propose a media converter framework which takes images, music, and other media as input and outputs different media while preserving the same impression for humans. The media converter is realized by combining multiple media database (DB) retrieval systems that use a common psychological impression space. Each of the media DB retrieval systems consists of a physical media feature extraction part, a physical feature space for the extracted features, an impression space where the psychological impressions of media are expressed as their coordinates, a neural network (NN), and a genetic algorithm (GA). The NN maps the coordinates of the media in the physical feature space to those in the impression space, and the GA search the coordinates of media in the physical feature space using the target coordinate in the impression space and the NN mapping. A user specifies a coordinate in the impression space that corresponds to his or her target impression. The media DB retrieval system extracts features of the images, music, or other media on the Internet or a commercial packaged media DB and stores them inside as physical feature space coordinates. Media whose impression is similar to the user-specified target impression are searched by a NN and GA. The media converter is realized by combining multiple media DB retrieval systems. A medium, medium A, is converted as follows: (1) it is mapped from a physical feature space A to an impression space by NN$_A$ and (2) medium B is searched for in a physical feature space B from the impression space using GA$_B$. Prototypes of an image DB retrieval system and a music DB retrieval system are made and evaluated for their mapping and searching performance. Finally, we make a prototype of a media converter by combining the media DB retrieval systems and show the potential of its realization.

Space structures and configuration processing

AbstractMany thousands of impressive space structures have been built all over the world for covering sports stadiums, gymnasiums, leisure centres, aircraft hangars, railway stations and many other purposes. A number of these structures have spans of well over 200 m. The objective of this article is to present an overview of space structure forms with an emphasis on lattice grids, barrel vaults and domes. Also included is a brief discussion of the use of conceptual tools for computer‐aided processing of space structure configurations.

The USSR's prudent space policy

Soviet space policy has long been viewed in the West as militaristic and aimed at achieving superiority, a situation which is abetted by the secrecy in which Soviet space activities are shrouded. This article argues, however, that Soviet space policy is essentially prudent and conservative, and based on exploiting existing technology to the maximum. Whilst it has provided the USSR with an impressive space potential, it does not mean that the USSR is ahead of the USA in space. Nevertheless, in the future the USSR is likely to undertake more international cooperation and offer commercial launch services.

Gross Transport of Suspended Sediments over Continental Shelves as Analyzed from Gemini and Apollo Space Photography: ABSTRACT

From the manned flights conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, about 3,500 color photographs were taken which show features of geologic, oceanographic, or meteorologic interest. The distribution of suspended sediments is apparent in amazing detail, in photographs over areas of 2,000-8,000 sq km of waters off major river deltas, such as those of the Orinoco, Mississippi, and Irrawaddy Rivers, where great volumes are introduced into the sea from the streams. Photographs of coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Persian Gulf, and southwest Africa show suspended sediments distributed by small eddies and rip currents to distances of 30 km from shore. Where tidal exchange and/or strong offshore winds result in nonperiodic flows from estuaries and lagoons, suspended sediments are visible to distances of 150 km from the shore. As along the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico, the distribution of these sediments portray the turbulent water motion in eddy configurations having diameters of 30-90 km. Impressive space photographs indicate that photo scales of 1:1,000,000-1:4,000,000 have an unmatched utility in surveillance of (1) major nearshore sedimentation, (2) patterns of coastal currents, and (3) the magnitude of deviations from normal conditions. End_of_Article - Last_Page 1970------------