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McDonagh Deana, Paul Hekkert, Jeroen van Erp, Diane Gyi. Design and emotion : the experience of everyday things. Publisher/Date: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2004. Description: xvi, 456 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Industrial design --Congresses. Human engineering --Congresses.

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Human communication through Graphic Design

As technology has become more advanced, the ways to communicate are endless. People do not have to be in each others presence to communicate. With new social networking systems emotion is being expressed without body language and human to human contact. This thesis will explore how graphic design can benefit and grow from learning how people are able to express their emotions through technology.

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The main goal of this paper is to identify critical factors that are closely related to the aesthetic fidelity of web pages, which is defined as the degree to which users feel the target impressions intended by designers. In order to achieve our goal, we have conducted three consecutive studies: an exploratory study with web users, a longitudinal experiment with professional web designers, and finally an online survey with web users. The results from the three studies indicated that the variability of user perception and appropriateness of visual elements were closely related to the aesthetic fidelity of web pages, whereas reliability of aesthetic dimensions was not. This paper ends with the limitations and implications of the study results.

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Theory

2.1. Aesthetic fidelity and secondary emotion
2.2. Reliability of aesthetic dimensions
2.3. Variability of user perception
2.4. Appropriateness of visual elements

3. Preliminary study

3.1. Experimental materials
3.2. Survey procedure
3.3. Analysis and results

4. Longitudinal experiment

4.1. Experimental design and procedure
4.2. Data analysis

5. Online survey

5.1. Survey methods and procedure
5.2. Survey data
5.3. Aesthetic fidelity of the web pages

6. Test results of the three hypotheses

6.1. Reliability of aesthetic dimensions
6.2. Variability of user perception
6.3. Appropriateness of graphical elements

7. Conclusion and discussion
Acknowledgements
References


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Expressing emotion in electronic mail
Author(s):
Kevin Curran, Michelle Casey
Journal:
Kybernetes
Year:
2006
Volume:
35
Issue:
5
Page:
616 - 631
ISSN:
0368-492X
10.1108/03684920610662368
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans

The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by... more
Agustin Fuentes
American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), pp. 124-132
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association

his novel "Elizabeth Costello" (2003), J. M. Coetzee's title character espouses philosophical perspectives on cruelty and the human condition in a series of fictionalized lectures. In particular, she takes on the question of human cruelty to animals. As novelist, Coetzee relies on lyrical statements about the nature of cruelty, analogies between the atrocities of fascism and factory farms, and ethical elitism to address these issues.