This paper describes preliminary research work aimed at obtaining a multi-level iconic representation of 3D objects from geometric meshes. A single-level iconic model describes an object through parts of different dimensions connected to form a hypergraph. The multi-level iconic model, called Non-manifold Multi-Tessellation, incorporates decompositions of an object into parts at different level...

The subject of the review is monograph “Peter I in Media Memory” by Denis S. Artamonov and Sophia V. Tikhonova. Like their previous study on historical memory, scientists rely a variety empirical material, including microformatted Internet content, cinema, animation, video games. One central concepts book, mediatization, explored through its application to legendary figure Peter First. analysis...

ARIS is an iconic interface that enables users to relocate applications and redirect input in an interactive workspace. We compared the use of ARIS to a text-based and virtual paths (VP) interface for relocating applications and redirecting input. Results showed that the iconic interface was more effective than the text-based interface and almost as effective as the VP interface. Since the use ...

This exploratory study examines the impact of iconic graphics on the domain understanding developed by participants when reading entityrelationship diagrams (ERDs). Cognitive Load Theory and the related Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning are used to hypothesize that iconic graphics provide additional visual information resulting in more complete mental models for knowledge construction of ...

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

Most of the time, humans use texts to exchange information and more recently they can add iconic faces (or smiley) to introduce emotional content. What emotions can be conveyed by iconic faces? To understand better this question we conducted an experimentation in which we asked participants to interpret a set of iconic faces by selecting an emotion in a proposed list of faces. Results indicated...