Short Movie Research Articles

Contactless Electrostatic Piloerection for Haptic Sensations.

In this project, we create artificial piloerection using contactless electrostatics to induce tactile sensations in a contactless way. Firstly, we design various high-voltage generators and evaluate them in terms of their static charge, safety and frequency response with different electrodes as well as grounding strategies. Secondly, a psychophysics user study revealed which parts of the upper body are more sensitive to electrostatic piloerection and what adjectives are associated with them. Finally, we combine an electrostatic generator to produce artificial piloerection on the nape with a head-mounted display, this device provides an augmented virtual experience related to fear. We hope that work encourages designers to explore contactless piloerection for enhancing experiences such as music, short movies, video games, or exhibitions.

Short Movies and Narrative Assessment in English Lessons

This study investigates the educational impact of short films on students' understanding of story elements, vocabulary acquisition, and cultural nuances in English classes. Short films, characterized by their concise narratives and visual storytelling, serve as valuable tools in enhancing language-learning experiences. By exploring the interplay between visual media and language acquisition, this research sheds light on the effectiveness of short films as pedagogical resources. The study examines how short films facilitate comprehension of complex story elements such as plot structures, character development, and dialogue, offering students tangible examples of literary concepts. Additionally, the research delves into the role of short films in expanding students' vocabulary through context-based learning, enabling them to grasp new words and phrases in a meaningful context. Furthermore, the study explores short films as windows into diverse cultures, fostering cultural awareness and understanding among students. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses, this research elucidates the multifaceted ways in which short films contribute to a comprehensive and engaging English learning environment. The findings highlight the significance of incorporating visual media like short films into English classes, emphasizing their potential to enhance students' language skills, cultural competence, and overall educational experience.

High task demand in dual-target paradigm redirects experimentally increased anxiety to uphold goal-directed attention.

Previous research has shown that state anxiety facilitates stimulus-driven attentional capture and impairs goal-directed attentional control by increasing sensitivity to salient distractors or threat cues or narrowing spatial attention. However, recent findings in this area have been mixed, and less is known about how state-dependent anxiety may affect attentional performance. Here, we employed a novel dual-target search paradigm to investigate this relationship. This paradigm allowed us to investigate attentional control and how focus narrows under different anxiety states. Participants watched a short movie-either anxiety-inducing or neutral-before engaging in the dual-target visual search task. We found that they performed faster and more accurately in trials without the salient distractor compared to those with distractors, and they performed better in tasks presented on the center than the periphery. However, despite a significant increase in self-reported anxiety in the anxiety-inducing session, participants' performance in terms of speed and accuracy remain comparable across both anxious and neutral sessions. This resilience is likely due to compensatory mechanisms that offset anxiety, a result of the high demands and working memory load inherent in the dual-target task.

Illocutionary Speech Acts in The Short Movie “The Translator”: Pragmatic Study

Speech acts are a rich category with several pragmatic phenomena that can be studied. The aims of this research are (i) to investigate the types of illocutionary acts and (ii) its functions of illocutionary acts in the short movie “The Translator”. This study used Searle's theory to classified the types of illocutionary act and Leech’s theory to classified the functions of illocutinary. The research method that researchers used was a qualitative descriptive method, because this research seeks to describe data objectively based on the data or facts found. The findings of this study indicated that (i) found 5 types of illocutionary speech acts in inter-player conversations in The Translator short movie, There are 4 assertive illocutionary data, 9 directive data, 13 expressive data, and 1 declarative data, so that the total number of data in the illocutionary type short film “The Translator” is 27 data, (ii) found 4 illocutionary functions in inter-player conversations in The Translator short movie, there are competitive functions is 5 data, convivial is 4 data, collaborative is 1 data and conflictive is 2 data.

Self-perception evolution among university student TikTok users: evidence from China.

The effects of short movies on social media platforms are gaining worldwide popularity and are now attracting global academic attention. Employing self-perception theory and qualitative research methodology, the study examines the influence of short video applications (TikTok) on app-user engagement and evaluates the self-perceived cognitive psychological understanding of Chinese university students. The findings show that identity, attitude change, emotional perception, and civic engagement are the most influential aspects of Chinese youths' self-perceptions. Furthermore, the positive and negative correlated components influence the distribution of short video values. Such tactical use of personality construction contributes to the present psychological research of Chinese university students.

Aespa's Virtual Member Existence in the SMCU Episode 1 "Black Mamba" Short Movie

This qualitative study analyses the phenomenon of virtual characters in "Black Mamba" a short film from SM Entertainment's SMCU (SM Culture Universe) series featuring the girl group Aespa on YouTube, in order to examine the dynamics of communication in new media. The analysis uses Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic framework to explore how signs, objects, and interpretations interact in the film. The findings emphasise SM Entertainment's skilled integration of virtual and physical realms with the SMCU concept. Virtual personas appear to transcend digital boundaries, creating a captivating aura of mystery. Humans form strong emotional connections with these virtual characters, most likely in the real world, giving rise to a feeling of wanting to live together with the virtual characters. In addition, the research highlights the importance of virtual character's interaction in the real-world environment, prompting reflection on technology-mediated human engagement. Incorporating philosophical quotations, particularly those of Jean-Paul Sartre, adds to the philosophical consideration of the narrative. In conclusion, this study offers a profound insight into the role of new media, such as YouTube, in the creation of a distinct narrative experience. It encourages a scholarly discussion of the intersections of semiotics, identity, and technology in today's popular culture.

Unraveling the developmental dynamic of visual exploration of social interactions in autism.

Atypical deployment of social gaze is present early on in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Yet, studies characterizing the developmental dynamic behind it are scarce. Here, we used a data-driven method to delineate the developmental change in visual exploration of social interaction over childhood years in autism. Longitudinal eye-tracking data were acquired as children with ASD and their typically developing (TD) peers freely explored a short cartoon movie. We found divergent moment-to-moment gaze patterns in children with ASD compared to their TD peers. This divergence was particularly evident in sequences that displayed social interactions between characters and even more so in children with lower developmental and functional levels. The basic visual properties of the animated scene did not account for the enhanced divergence. Over childhood years, these differences dramatically increased to become more idiosyncratic. These findings suggest that social attention should be targeted early in clinical treatments.

Postcolonial performativity analysis and its relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Southeast Asian BL-themed short movies

This study looks at how sex, love, and gender are portrayed in Southeast Asian boys-love (BL)-themed short films. In the popular Japanese subgenre known as “boys love,” male characters are explored in their romantic and frequently sexual interactions. But Southeast Asia, where the genre has a devoted following, has seen a substantial increase in its appeal. Understanding how sex, love, and gender are portrayed within this cultural framework is the main goal of this study. To evaluate a variety of Southeast Asian boys who enjoy short films, the research draws on a multimodal analysis which conforms multidisciplinary model of analysis. Departing from queer studies and postcolonial performativity, this study employs careful analysis on the issues of sex, love, and gender between young men in different contexts of region such as Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The results of this study add to the body of knowledge on boys’ love and shed light on the distinctive cultural characteristics of Southeast Asian countries. This research offers insight into the negotiating of cultural norms and expectations within the setting of romantic and sexual interactions by looking at how sex, love, and gender are represented in these short films. The study also looks at how these films could contradict or support regional gender norms and conventional roles. In the end, this study seeks to deepen a comprehension of the relationship between sex, love, and gender in Southeast Asian boys’ short movies and its possible ramifications for more general understanding on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The effectiveness of short film to reduce students bullying behavior in junior high school

The phenomenon of bullying behavior is behavior that is very close to students. Prevention of bullying is one of the tasks of guidance and counseling teachers through classical guidance services. One of the media that can be used by guidance and counseling teachers is a short movie. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of short movie to reduce bullying behavior. This research is quantitative research with experimental methods. The research design uses a one-group design with a random sampling subjects. There are 36 subjects for class VIII junior high school students in Sleman. Researchers distributed anti-bullying questionnaires for the pre-test and post-test and analyzed them using the T test. The result is an increased understanding of bullying behavior in students after watching a short movie, so the use of a short movie is considered effective to reduce bullying behavior because of the influence of vicarious learning theory. Based on the results of the T-test, there is a 30.200 difference in the pretest and posttest scores, which indicates effectiveness. The N-Gain test results also yielded a score of 63%, which is in the quite effective category.

THE EFFECTS OF VAK TECHNIQUES IN EFL CLASSROOM

The aim of this research was to scrutinize the usage of VAK techniques used in EFL classroom, considering their effects on students’ learning process. In order to reach this aim, three main research questions were raised at the beginning: 1. Which is the most applied VAK technique in EFL classroom?, 2. Does the use of the VAK techniques impact students’motivation?, 3. Which VAK technique is the most favorable for students? This research was conducted using quantitative research method, whereas the data collection instrument was a questionnaire consisting of 8 questions. These questions were focused on the VAK teaching techniques used nowadays in EFL classrooms, trying to identify which technique is the most favorable one for learners. Participants of the study were 160 learners selected from two primary schools located in Prizren: “Emin Duraku” and “Mati Logoreci”. Findings have shown that generally the most applied VAK technique in most of the EFL classrooms nowadays is the visual one, since teachers include mostly verbal elements during the class such as taking notes, writing sentences, reading instructions. In addition, this study showed that the usage of VAK techniques during the learning process increases students’ motivation and encourages them to be more involved in the learning process. Since teachers pay less attention on kinesthetic and auditory teaching techniques, learners have presented their demands on increasing the number of the activities that allow them to learn through listening and movement. Related to students’ preference, the study has shown that games, short movies, and songs are the most favorable VAK activities for learners. If teachers include VAK techniques while teaching, the number of learners that are going to be engaged will be higher. It happens because through VAK techniques learners with different learning styles will find something that fit them the most.

Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) Categories and Translation Procedures of Wang Sinawang Short Movie

Translating culture-specific items is not easy because it requires knowledge and understanding of a particular culture related to the word. Despite many studies that have been conducted related to translation procedures of culture-specific items (CSIs), there is still a lack in the literature, particularly the procedures in the Javanese to English translations of CSIs in films and short movies. This study used CSIs classification and translation procedures based on Newmark’s (1988). The object of this study was Wang Sinawang, a Javanese short movie which was produced by Dinas Perpustakaan dan Arsip Daerah D.I Yogyakarta and was released on its YouTube channel. This research attempts to find the types and the dominant used procedure that was used by the subtitler of Wang Sinawang short movie to translate the culture-specific items. This study employed a qualitative descriptive methodology. The result revealed that the most CSIs that appeared in the short movie was “Material Culture” which includes foods, clothes, houses and towns, and transportation, while the least CSIs appeared was “Social Culture” which includes work and leisure. The Most used procedure was “Recognized Translation” while the least used procedure was “Naturalization” and “Descriptive Equivalent”. The implication of this study is discussed.

DAHNA-An integrated innovative mobile application for the screening and personalised management of the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk

Abstract Background DAHNA (Diet According to the Healthy Heart Nutritional Approach) is an integrated and innovative mobile app that allows for: 1. Screening of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk; 2. A personalized healthy diet (macro- and micronutrients) based on cardiometabolic screening; 3. Long-term management of major risk factors; 4. Highly incentivizing rewards within the app. Objective To present the functionalities, mode of operation, and initial results of DAHNA through public implementation. Methods DAHNA can be downloaded on mobile phones (iOS and Android). Firstly, the app assesses the user's ASCVD risk score based on their country of residence using a "one-size-fits-all" risk calculator that combines the 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) SCORE2/SCORE2-OP scores and the American Heart Association (AHA) Framingham score. For Europe, the calculation is based on the four SCORE2/SCORE2-OP tables for the four risk regions. DAHNA is not limited to healthy individuals and allows the user to indicate if they have diabetes, chronic kidney disease, or ASCVD. Secondly, based on the individual ASCVD risk score, DAHNA offers the following features: 1. Personalized healthy menus (Mediterranean diet) based on the only macro- and micronutrients proven to reduce individual ASCVD risk and in the recommended daily dose, with an automatically generated ingredient list and quantities; the user can choose to purchase the ingredients personally or order the list from suppliers; 2. Periodic follow-up of ASCVD risk outcomes; 3. Display of healthy life minutes gained by the user; 4. Notifications, reminders, rewards within the app, personalized weight loss plans, PDF reports to share with healthcare teams, and nutritional education; 5. A recommendation for a medical examination for those with high or very high risk; 6. Short movies to introduce physical activity and up-to-date medical information; 7. All data is collected in a central database. Results Between August 10th, 2022 and February 12th, 2023, 19,780 users downloaded DAHNA (mean age 48 +/- 10 years, 58% females, 11.13% with diabetes, 15.16% smokers, 16.4% with hypertension; 14% had low-to-moderate risk, 40% had high risk, and 46% had very high risk). A 100% correspondence was confirmed between the results of the DAHNA calculator and the ESC tables. Conclusion 1. DAHNA self-screening showed that 86% of users belong to the high or very high ASCVD risk group, which is consistent with statistical data showing Romania among the countries with a very high ASCVD risk. 2. This app is the first to assign a personalized healthy diet based on specific micronutrients to control ASCVD risk, provide medical recommendations for a healthy lifestyle, and allow for real-time management of major risk factors and ASCVD risk in large populations. These data should be important for adjusting health policies.

TEACHING LISTENING TO YOUNG LEARNERS THROUGH SHORT ANIMATION MOVIE

This research used a mixed method (explanatory sequence). This study aimed to find out the significant effect of short animation movies on the listening skills of sixth-grade students in SDIT Al-Ihsan, to know how short animation movies affect teaching listening, and to find out the students' responses and the strengths and weaknesses of using this media in teaching listening. The researcher conducted a quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Data collecting techniques were tests, questionnaires, and interviews. Meanwhile, quantitative data was analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics 23, and qualitative data were described from interview and questionnaire analysis. The findings significantly affect the students' listening skills using short animated videos. The test hypothesis (2-tailed) indicated that the significance value of 0.001 was less than 0.005, so teaching listening using short animated films affected students' listening skills. The findings of questionnaire data and interviews supported these results. Based on the students' opinions, the short animation movie contains expressions, intonation, motion, and narration that help them easily understand the subject. According to students, the advantages of using short animated videos in teaching listening were that they were fun to watch, easy to understand, and participatory; watching short animated videos could increase student motivation; and being used as a medium for direct depiction of subject matter. According to them, the weakness of using short animated videos to learn to listen was that some pronunciations need to be faster in short animated videos. It needs to be clarified for students and make it easier for them to understand the meaning of the words they hear. The study implies that short animated movies are needed to teach listening.

Effect of perfectionism on self-other blame in driving situations

Previous studies have reported mixed findings regarding the associations between perfectionism and self-other-blame. We used an online survey to investigate the association between perfectionism and self-other-blame in driving situations. We evaluated the perfectionism traits of drivers (N = 4681) by utilizing the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS). This scale comprises three subscales: self-oriented perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, and socially prescribed perfectionism. The participants also watched short movie clips depicting near-miss traffic incidents. We instructed them to imagine themselves as the drivers in the movies and rate their own and the other driver's culpability. The results revealed that individuals with high levels of socially prescribed perfectionism and low levels of other-oriented perfectionism are more prone to experiencing more self-blame. Additionally, individuals with high levels of other-oriented perfectionism tend to blame others more. These results align with previous research and suggest that perfectionism is linked not only to the personality trait of self-other-blame but also to self-other-blame as acute responses to specific situations, including those encountered while driving. We suggest further investigating acute responses and personality traits related to self-other-blame to explain the association between perfectionism and self-other-blame better.

ADHD and anxiety symptom comorbidity from an event segmentation lens

ADHD and anxiety present high comorbidity, including symptom overlap and related diagnostic and treatment challenges. The current study aimed to extend this area of research by investigating the event segmentation patterns of those with ADHD and anxiety symptoms. Event segmentation is the process of parsing a continuous flow of information into meaningful events, providing the opportunity to examine similarities and differences in how these groups organize their perception of daily experiences. Participants performed an event segmentation task consisting of watching four short movies and identifying large and small events. We used the total number of button presses and segmentation agreement scores in a multivariate analysis, and results indicated that the High ADHD group identified significantly more events in the large condition than the High Anxiety group and had significantly higher agreement scores than the Comorbid group. This study furthers our understanding of the cognitive overlap of ADHD and anxiety symptoms.

Combination of Digital and Conventional Intervention for Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevention among Female Sex Workers.

Female sex workers (FSWs) are at a high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infection (STI). Mobile health (m-health) is one intervention that is easily accessible to everyone online and offline, allowing two-way communication through the program. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of m-health on STI prevention behavior among FSW. The study was conducted using quasi-experimental design. It included the treatment group and the control group, each of which included fifty-four (54) FSWs selected by purposive sampling. The m-health intervention was conducted in the form of a short comedy movie on YouTube, combined with offline assertive communication training to improve skills in negotiating the use of condoms to the intervention group. Meanwhile, the control group received regular counseling from the local community health center. The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare the knowledge, attitudes, motivation, and behavior among the two study groups. Intervention for six months in the treatment group increased FSWs knowledge score by 4.0 (p=0.00), attitude by 3.9 (p=0.00), and motivation by 12 (p=0.00). The median knowledge, attitude, and motivation scores were 17.38 and 46, respectively. The model is effective onSTI-prevention behavior through motivational mediator variables with a p-value of 0.00. The condom consistency has the highest outer loading value in the STI-prevention behavior construct of 0.71 ≥ 0.4. A combination of digital and conventional health promotion can improve STI prevention behavior by raising knowledge, attitudes, motivation, and condom consistency behavior.

Russian Literature in Japanese Film: Cross-cultural Adaptations in the Silent Era

Since the beginning of the film industry in Japan, many short films and movies based on Western literary works were made, especially during the 1910s and 1920s. Several of those films were based on fashionable Russian literary works that had been staged in Shingeki (new drama) theaters. This study examines the adaptations of Russian literature produced from the early 1910s until the end of the silent-film era in the 1930s, focusing specifically on films based on Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection, the drama The Living Corpse, and Gorky’s play The Lower Depths. It is shown that the early adaptations, filmed in the 1910s, aimed to closely adhere to the original literary works by maintaining key plot events and recreating the cultural milieu through sets, costumes, and staging. However, starting from the 1920s, adaptations followed intercultural and intertextual processes, freely modifying the works to suit the Japanese cultural context. This shift in the approach to adapting Western literary works was influenced by the social, political, and cultural changes experienced by the country during those decades.

TEACHERS’ STRATEGY TO OVERCOMING STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT SMA ISLAM SULTAN AGUNG 1 SEMARANG

There are four abilities that are crucial to master when studying English. As English teacher, you have to master affective strategies if you hope to succeed in the learning process. This researcher is aimed to describe the teachers strategies in teaching learning English for senior high school students. This study used descriptive qualitative method. English teachers at SMA Islam Sultan Agung 1 Semarang were used as the sample in interviews, which served as the data source. The result, the two teachers used almost the same strategy given to the students. The first teacher used brainstorming, game, movie, song, and translation strategies. The other teacher used brainstorming, game, realia, motivation, activities (see, hear, and analyze), short movie, and song strategies. Those strategies was applied by teachers to solve problems faced by students in learning English at SMA Islam Sultan Agung 1 Semarang. The use of all of the above strategies provides positive changes indicated by the students when the English learning process takes place.

The Use of TikTok as a Learning Resource for Dialogue Text in Junior High School

The impact of social media platforms on pedagogical practises has been significant, leading to the emergence of novel theoretical frameworks that prioritise connected learning in order to enhance educational outcomes. The proliferation of social media platforms has significantly contributed to the popularity of short movies, which were first designed based on micro-learning concepts. The social media platform TikTok has the potential to serve as an instructional tool in the future. The purpose of this study is to describe how and why students use the TikTok application to learn dialogue text in Javanese language classes. A detailed descriptive study is what this one is. This study was done at a private middle school in Semarang, Indonesia. Observation, structured interviews, and documentation are employed to collect data for this qualitative descriptive study's design. Using the Miles and Huberman model, data analysis was conducted through the steps of data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The findings of this study are as follows: (1) the Tiktok application makes students more familiar with the material being taught; (2) the Tiktok application receives a positive response from students; and (3) the TikTok application is an effective learning medium, effective strategies for learning Javanese.

An open-access dataset of naturalistic viewing using simultaneous EEG-fMRI

In this work, we present a dataset that combines functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to use as a resource for understanding human brain function in these two imaging modalities. The dataset can also be used for optimizing preprocessing methods for simultaneously collected imaging data. The dataset includes simultaneously collected recordings from 22 individuals (ages: 23–51) across various visual and naturalistic stimuli. In addition, physiological, eye tracking, electrocardiography, and cognitive and behavioral data were collected along with this neuroimaging data. Visual tasks include a flickering checkerboard collected outside and inside the MRI scanner (EEG-only) and simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings. Simultaneous recordings include rest, the visual paradigm Inscapes, and several short video movies representing naturalistic stimuli. Raw and preprocessed data are openly available to download. We present this dataset as part of an effort to provide open-access data to increase the opportunity for discoveries and understanding of the human brain and evaluate the correlation between electrical brain activity and blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals.