Citation: Kostoulas T, Chanel G, Muszynski M, Lombardo P and Pun T (2017) Films, Affective Computing and Aesthetic Experience: Identifying Emotional and Aesthetic Highlights from Multimodal Signals in a Social Setting. Front. ICT 4:11. doi: 10.3389/fict.2017.00011 Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from Multimodal signals in a soc...

There have been few studies of why some people are frequently involved in aesthetic activities such as going to the theatre, reading or playing musical instruments, whereas others are less involved. This study assesses the broad roles of education, personality and demographic factors such as social class, age and sex. More aesthetic activity was associated with music and art education, whereas ...

The article analyzes the humanistic basis of expo-design in conjunction with the ideological problems of modern design and the causes of their occurrence. It reveals the potential of mobile exhibition for social transformation in terms of its structural and ideological aesthetic content. It substantiates the effectiveness of expo-design expression’s artistic and aesthetic means in viewer person...

Image aesthetics has become an important criterion for visual content curation on social media sites and media content repositories. Previous work on aesthetic prediction models in the computer vision community has focused on aesthetic score prediction or binary image labeling. However, raw aesthetic annotations are in the form of score histograms and provide richer and more precise information...

Objectives. To test applicability of the new surgical concept for labioreduction of the labia minora. Study Design. The observational, prospective, case series study was designed. Subjects. Three consecutive subjects were included. Methods. The application of new surgical intervention was tested. Main Outcome Measures. A primary outcome measured applicability of the fenestration labioplasty and...

This article argues for an aesthetic approach to resisting oppression based on judgments of bodily unattractiveness. Philosophical theories have often suggested that appropriate aesthetic judgments should converge on sets of objects consensually found to be beautiful or ugly. The convergence of judgments about human bodies, however, is a significant source of injustice, because people judged to...