Visual Perspective Research Articles

Construction of Personality and Temperament of Chinese Male Homosexuality in the Social Media Environment

Social media is a double-edged sword. It shapes a universal standard, which can be used to encourage or eliminate “beauty” through traffic. With the standard of “beauty”, guiding the public to make efforts towards the standard to generate motivation and behavior. Under the influence of social media, the character and temperament of Chinese male homosexuality mainly tend to be masculine. This paper analyzes the construction of their gender temperament from the visual and psychological perspectives, reflecting the top and bottom in the character and temperament of Chinese male homosexuality. At the same time, it is also found that the introverted temperament is easier to be accepted and welcomed, which is closely related to Chinese traditional culture.

Mental time travel for self and others in individuals with a high level of schizotypy.

Mental time travel (MTT) is the ability to project oneself to the past or future through mental simulation. Moreover, MTT can involve self-related or other-related information. This study aimed to compare MTT in individuals with high levels of schizotypy and that in their counterparts with low levels of schizotypy. Participants with high (n=37) and low (n=37) levels of schizotypy completed an MTT task with four conditions [2 (Condition: self vs. other) × 2 (Time orientation: past vs. future)]. They were required to recall past events that had happened to themselves or to a non-intimate person, and to imagine possible future events that might happen to themselves or to a non-intimate person, related to cue words. Outcome measures included specificity, vividness, sense of experience, emotional valence, emotional intensity, proportion of first-person visual perspective in events, and difficulty in event generation. A 2 (Group: high vs. low levels of schizotypy) × 2 (Condition) × 2 (Time orientation) mixed analysis of variance was conducted on each index. Results showed that self-related MTT was more specific than other-related MTT inlow levels of schizotypy participants but not in high levels of schizotypy participants. Participants with a high levelof schizotypy reported fewer specific events, and reported events with lower vividness and positive emotion than did those with a low levelof schizotypy. Self-related MTT showed higher levels of phenomenological characteristics than did other-related MTT. In conclusion, individuals with a high level of schizotypy have altered MTT, and cannot benefit from the self-advantage effect on the specificity of MTT.

The Parallax View between Merleau-Ponty and Lacan

Since Narcissus sees himself seeing himself, i.e., comes to self-consciousness and plunges into self-destruction under the gaze, thinkers have problematized the Delphic maxim of “knowing thyself” from a visual perspective. In this trend, psychoanalysis joins the self-criticism of phenomenology in subverting the “myth” of the self-reflective consciousness. Whereas Lacan relegates the mirror stage to the Imaginary and interprets the gaze as objet a to account for the split in the subject, Merleau-Ponty overcomes the narcissistic enclosure of the tacit cogito by appealing to the self’s abandonment to the gaze of the other in an open-circuit of the reversible flesh. Through the lens of the topological concept of parallax, this study illuminates the fundamental distinctions between these two perspectives and proposes a promising future of psychoanalytic phenomenology.

The Interior Topography of the Picturesque: Level Changes and Stepped Floors in James Wyatt’s Dodington Park and Ashridge House

ABSTRACTThe picturesque aesthetic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, as manifested in country house architecture, often involved moving the principal floor from an elevated piano nobile down to ground level, lowering one’s visual perspective and facilitating more direct movement between house and garden. While these developments are well recognised in the literature, one repercussion for architects has been largely overlooked: how to deal, in both practical and aesthetic terms, with the vertical challenges posed for a groundlevel principal floor by uneven terrain or pre-existing fabric. A particularly interesting case study is provided by the work of James Wyatt at two very different houses, the classical Dodington Park (1796–1813) and gothic Ashridge House (1807–13), through his carefully conceived and implemented use of small interior level changes, or stepped floors. Although the initial problems were similar, Wyatt’s solutions differed markedly in response to the demands of each commission; they also contrasted with the various approaches adopted by contemporaries such as Humphry Repton, John Nash and John Soane. Overall, this article suggests both the scholarly challenges, and the importance, of devoting enhanced attention to the interior topography of the picturesque experience.

Self-Supervised Video-Based Action Recognition With Disturbances.

Self-supervised video-based action recognition is a challenging task, which needs to extract the principal information characterizing the action from content-diversified videos over large unlabeled datasets. However, most existing methods choose to exploit the natural spatio-temporal properties of video to obtain effective action representations from a visual perspective, while ignoring the exploration of the semantic that is closer to human cognition. For that, a self-supervised Video-based Action Recognition method with Disturbances called VARD, which extracts the principal information of the action in terms of the visual and semantic, is proposed. Specifically, according to cognitive neuroscience research, the recognition ability of humans is activated by visual and semantic attributes. An intuitive impression is that minor changes of the actor or scene in video do not affect one person's recognition of the action. On the other hand, different humans always make consistent opinions when they recognize the same action video. In other words, for an action video, the necessary information that remains constant despite the disturbances in the visual video or the semantic encoding process is sufficient to represent the action. Therefore, to learn such information, we construct a positive clip/embedding for each action video. Compared to the original video clip/embedding, the positive clip/embedding is disturbed visually/semantically by Video Disturbance and Embedding Disturbance. Our objective is to pull the positive closer to the original clip/embedding in the latent space. In this way, the network is driven to focus on the principal information of the action while the impact of sophisticated details and inconsequential variations is weakened. It is worthwhile to mention that the proposed VARD does not require optical flow, negative samples, and pretext tasks. Extensive experiments conducted on the UCF101 and HMDB51 datasets demonstrate that the proposed VARD effectively improves the strong baseline and outperforms multiple classical and advanced self-supervised action recognition methods.

Visual Perspectives in Holocaust Memory Culture: Transition of Lived to Imagined Memory

Visual Perspectives in Holocaust Memory Culture: Transition of Lived to Imagined Memory

User Flow Visual Analysis for Climate Action Project Proposal in Navigating NDA GCF Website

The management of funds from the Global Climate Fund for the Indonesian government is managed by the Fiscal Policy Agency as part of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. Website has become a crucial medium to communicate the message and objectives of the climate fund program. This study will analyze the flow of the NDA GCF website using visual communication design principles and elements perspective to find aspects of the website that can be improved so that users who enter the website can navigate the information comfortably and understand the vision and participate in the program by submitting climate action related project idea proposals. In this research, a study of user experience flow analysis will be carried out in using a website with the John Bower Branching approach to design an easy-to-understand user flow, while still paying attention to the experience of interacting with institutions as a brand. By conducting internal and external interviews, it is hoped that a guide will be found on how this website can convey its message clearly and make navigation easier for users.

An Analysis of the Causes of Facial Anxiety in the Visual Cultural Perspective

An Analysis of the Causes of Facial Anxiety in the Visual Cultural Perspective

The Role of Network Slicing and Edge Computing in the Metaverse Realization

Metaverse is the latest technological hype in the modern world due to its potential for revolutionizing the digital visual perspective. With the COVID-19 pandemic, most industries have moved towards digitization, and the metaverse is identified as one of the most promising platforms for such a transition, as it provides a three-dimensional (3D) immersive experience for the users. Currently, most digital service providers and organizations are actively working on metaverse- based applications. In addition, there has been a rapid increase on research work involving metaverse realization. Launching a large scale metaverse in the real world is a challenging task. However, fifth-generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) technologies are envisioned to improve the feasibility of pragmatic deployments. Although, there are several conceptual designs available, actual adaptations of the concepts are still limited. This survey focuses on providing a practical approach for metaverse realization using 5G and B5G technologies. Specifically, We discuss the importance of network slicing (NS) and multi-access edge computing (MEC) as emerging 5G technologies for enabling the realization of the metaverse. We first introduce the motivation behind metaverse for future envisaged technologies. Next, we present a holistic high-level framework for metaverse realization based on network slicing and edge computing. Moreover, we discuss the futuristic metaverse applications, their technical requirements, and methods to satisfy the requirements. Finally, we highlight the deployment challenges and possible approaches to overcome them for an actual metaverse realization.

Research Topics and Hotspots of Complex Network in Marketing: A Visual Perspective of Knowledge Graph Based on CiteSpace

Research Topics and Hotspots of Complex Network in Marketing: A Visual Perspective of Knowledge Graph Based on CiteSpace

ChartWalk: Navigating large collections of text notes in electronic health records for clinical chart review.

Before seeing a patient for the first time, healthcare workers will typically conduct a comprehensive clinical chart review of the patient's electronic health record (EHR). Within the diverse documentation pieces included there, text notes are among the most important and thoroughly perused segments for this task; and yet they are among the least supported medium in terms of content navigation and overview. In this work, we delve deeper into the task of clinical chart review from a data visualization perspective and propose a hybrid graphics+text approach via ChartWalk, an interactive tool to support the review of text notes in EHRs. We report on our iterative design process grounded in input provided by a diverse range of healthcare professionals, with steps including: (a) initial requirements distilled from interviews and the literature, (b) an interim evaluation to validate design decisions, and (c) a task-based qualitative evaluation of our final design. We contribute lessons learned to better support the design of tools not only for clinical chart reviews but also other healthcare-related tasks around medical text analysis.

현대 조형사진에서 나타나는 초현실적 공간에 관한 연구

This research aims to study the surreal space that appears in modern plastic photography by analyzing its surreality, which is a spatial characteristic of plastic photography, from a visual, figurative, and interactive perspective. Marey's chronophotographie expands the concept of space according to the superpositioning process of real space, showing a surreal space from a visual perspective through superimposed images. The surrealism of photomontage, created by Krauss' redundant process of spacing, extends images separated by the concept of desublimation in writing into unconscious acts of connection, creating a surreal space from a figurative perspective. Mitchell’s thinking about post-photography is to recognize the place and space in the photograph as a complex of interactions, centering on digital images and editing techniques performed in online networks and computer programs. Based on this way of thinking, the works of Andreas Gursky and Shinichi Maruyama, which show non-placed, non-material absent landscapes, appear as surreal spaces with a reciprocal perspective created by digital images. This study is thus significant in that it connects the surreal elements inherent in modern plastic photography with the concept of space.

Modern Javanese Canned Gudeg Viewed from Cultural, Food Safety, and Visual Design Perspectives

Gudeg, a traditional culinary dish from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is prepared by cooking young jackfruit with coconut milk and spices. It is commonly served with rice, eggs, chicken, and sambal goreng krecek, which is a spicy blended chili cooked with savory edible soft cowhide. Gudeg is interesting to discuss as it holds a rich history and is a cultural legacy that has been passed down through generations in Indonesia. Over time, gudeg producers have introduced an innovation of providing a visually attractive label on canned packages. This gives reason for research on gudeg using a cultural, food safety, and visual design perspective. The research found that culturally gudeg was the staple for the Mataram Kingdom army to survive the battle against enemies who wanted to colonialize the area. Next, the food safety test revealed that canned Gudeg Bagong had a microbial count of 1.3 x 10-1 CFU/ml, while canned Gudeg Andrawina Loka had a count of 2.4 x 10-2 CFU/ml. The findings demonstrated that the microbiological analysis met the standards set by Ministry of Health Regulation No. 416/MENKES/PER/IX/1990 and Indonesian Food and Drug Authority Regulation No. HK.00.06.1.S2.4011. Lastly, through visual design research, it was found among others that local and foreign tourists prefer to see the actual photo display of gudeg set with its jackfruit, egg, chicken, and sambal goreng krecek contents.

Study on the Application of Elastic Wave CT Technique to Detect the Effect of Post-Grouting of Pile Foundation

The post-grouting technology can effectively improve the bearing capacity and reliability of foundation piles, and it is of great academic and economic significance to evaluate the effect of post-grouting. However, in general, the evaluation of the effect of post-grouting slurry on foundation piles is still relatively single, and most researchers only test the improvement of the bearing characteristics of post-grouting piles, but there are few research results on the distribution state of slurry consolidation and the range of the reinforced soil. In this paper, elastic wave CT was used to detect the bridge piles of Taizhou Bay Du Xiaipu Bridge, and elastic wave CT technology was applied to the detection of the post-grouting effect of foundation piles experimentally. The spatial distribution characteristics of the underground grouting reinforcement area were revealed from the perspective of visualization, and the influencing factors of the elastic wave inversion results were analyzed. The conclusions obtained from elastic wave CT detection were similar to those of electromagnetic wave CT, and the laws are basically consistent with the current engineering experience, reflecting the applicability of using elastic wave CT to detect the effect of post-grouting of pile foundation.

Product information and green consumption: An integrated perspective of regulatory focus, self-construal, and temporal distance

Understanding consumer information processing is fundamental. Previous studies investigated the effect of message framing and self-construal in green consumption using self-reported measures and obtaining contrasting results. This study used the eye-tracking method across two studies to examine the effect of promotion- vs. prevention-framed messages on green consumption. Study 1 confirms that promotion (vs. prevention)-framed information attracts more attention from independent (vs. interdependent) individuals. Moreover, temporal distance strengthens this matching effect (Study 2). Overall, this study uncovers consumers’ processing of messages with different regulatory frames from a visual attention perspective and offers valuable insights about the three-way interaction to promote green consumption.

Visual extensions and anomaly detection in the pNEUMA experiment with a swarm of drones

The usage of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in traffic monitoring has advantages such as broader vision, flexibility, privacy, and cost-efficiency compared to other traffic monitoring sensors like loop detectors or fixed surveillance cameras. UAS has been instrumental in the recent pNEUMA experiment, where a swarm of drones collected a large-scale urban traffic dataset containing vehicle trajectories. These trajectory data are subject to challenges such as noise due to visual restrictions, perspective distortions, and human-induced errors. While the pNEUMA dataset is missing its imagery part, we present an extended version of it named pNEUMA Vision, which incorporates imagery data and annotations of vehicles in the form of image coordinates along with newly added vehicle trajectory features like azimuth. Moreover, we demonstrate that visually restricted trajectories are also highly prone to become anomalies, and vice-versa, through novel anomaly detection proposed in this literature. Specifically, we distinguish between stationary and non-stationary errors and argue that the latter account for the largest part of the noise. Furthermore, we analyze the new visual dataset with two different computer vision methods for estimating the number of vehicles on the roads from the input images. Particularly, we show that using a density map to count vehicles from drone images achieves comparable results to conventional vehicle counting methods via detection. Results show that the time–space diagrams plotted from density map predictions could identify the congested urban roads’ queues better than a widely used vehicle detection method.

Optical Solitons for a Concatenation Model by Trial Equation Approach

This paper addresses the newly proposed concatenation model by the usage of trial equation approach. The concatenation is a chain model that is a combination of the nonlinear Schrodinger’s equation, Lakshmanan–Porsezian–Daniel model as well as the Sasa–Satsuma equation. The recovered solutions are displayed in terms of dark solitons, singular solitons, cnoidal waves and singular periodic waves. The trial equation approach enables to recover a wide spectrum of solutions to the governing model. The numerical schemes give a visual perspective to the solutions derived analytically.

Two systems of mind reading? A critical analysis of the two-systems theory

Apperly and Butterfill's (2009) hold that there are two cognitive mind-reading systems. System 1(S1) is fast, automatic and inflexible, whereas system 2 (S2) is reflective, flexible and slow. This paper presents and discusses two central assumptions of this theory: the independence of S1 and S2 and the encapsulation of S1. It is argued that findings on longitudinal trajectories in infancy on the false belief test and visual perspective taking undermine the two-system theory in three respects: (1) S1 is not encapsulated, (2) S1 is not entirely automatic processing, and (3) S2 cognitive processes can be fast and efficient. The paper concludes that mindreading operates through different socio-cognitive processes that are gradually and continuously enriched during development, which eliminates the need for a two-system characterization.

I can see my virtual body in a mirror: The role of visual perspective in changing implicit racial attitudes using virtual reality.

Recent studies showed that VR is a valid tool to change implicit attitudes toward outgroup members. Here, we extended this work by investigating conditions under which virtual reality (VR) is effective in changing implicit racial attitudes. To this end, participants were embodied in a Black or White avatar and we manipulated the perspective through which they could see their virtual body. Participants in one condition, could see their virtual body both from a first-person perspective (i.e., by looking down toward themselves) and reflected in a mirror placed in front of them in the VR environment. Participants in another condition could instead see their virtual body only from a first-person perspective (i.e., by looking down toward themselves) as no mirror was placed in the VR environment. Implicit racial attitudes were assessed using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) before and immediately after the VR intervention. Results showed that when White participants were embodied in a Black avatar compared to a White avatar, they showed a decrease in their implicit pro-White attitudes but only when they could see their virtual body both from a first-person perspective and in a mirror. These results suggest that, in immersive virtual reality interventions, the possibility for participants to see their body also reflected in a mirror, might be a critical factor in changing their implicit racial attitudes.

The video review system in association football: implementation and effectiveness for match officials and referee education

ABSTRACT Rationale There has been continued debate in the world of sport over the effectiveness and merits of video technology as a decision aid for sports officials. In 2018, the video assistant referee (VAR) was introduced in association football. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence and effectiveness of a video review system for match officials and their education in association football. Design Using an online video test, qualified football referees (N = 109) categorized contentious penalty decisions across 48 short videos. Manipulating the number of viewings, playback speed and visual perspectives, referee decision accuracy and decision confidence were assessed. Findings The results show an overall decision accuracy of 65.69%. Additionally, the results reveal significant differences between the different review conditions; particularly, improvements in accuracy for an increased number of viewings, a slowed playback speed and alternate visual perspectives. Practical implications The results provide a greater understanding of the effects a decision review system in association football has on the decision accuracy and confidence of referees and further contribute to the use of video review for referee education. Research contribution The current study extends research on the effects of different viewing perspectives, repeated viewings, and slower video speed on visual accuracy and the quality of cognitive-evaluative processes.