What could it mean to take a designerly perspective of robotic eating aid get more holistic understanding meals as social and embodied experiences? In this article, we provide new bodily experiences assisted feeding. We apply “designerly framing” in the context Human Robot Interaction (HRI) contribute with insights for researchers backgrounds other than design into how can foreground aesthetic ...

This paper argues that the dominant study of the form and structure of games – their poetics – should be complemented by the analysis of their aesthetics (as understood by modern cultural theory): how gamers use their games, what aspects they enjoy and what kinds of pleasures they experience by playing them. The paper outlines a possible aesthetic theory of games based on different aspects of p...

INTRODUCTION: Recent data suggests 42 percent of surgeons report their patients are seeking aesthetic surgery to improve their appearance on Instagram and other social media.1 Despite the rising influence of Instagram in plastic surgery, few academic publications address Instagram, let alone evaluate its utilization in plastic surgery. We thus set out to systematically answer the following two ...

INTRODUCTION: Keloids are a burden for patients due to physical, aesthetic and social complaints. Treatment remains a challenge because of therapy resistance and high recurrence rates. Decision making in keloid treatment is difficult due to heterogeneity of the condition and the lack of comparative studies with informative outcomes. The main goal of treatment is to improve the patients’ quality...

With 225 SNS network users as the subjects, the research focuses on the influence of SNS network users’ motivation on their behavior. Data are collected through questionnaires and the relationship between motivation and behavior is studied with relative analytical methods. As shown in the study, information and instrument motivation, entertainment and aesthetic motivation, social connection mot...

BACKGROUND Elective aesthetic surgeries are increasing in the Iranian population with reasons linked to body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms. This study compared the body image dissatisfaction and psychological symptoms among invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic surgery patients and a control group. METHODS Data from 90 participants (invasive aesthetic surgery=30 ...