Recent studies have shown impressive progress in universal style transfer which can integrate arbitrary styles into content images. However, existing approaches struggle with low aesthetics and disharmonious patterns in the final results. To address this ...

Media (e.g., film) are often designed around cisgender, heternormative logics and are not representative of the multiplicity of identities and identity expressions that exist in the world. Thus, media impedes the identity expression and performance of ...

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in universal style transfer which transfers arbitrary visual styles to content images. However, existing approaches suffer from the aesthetic-unrealistic problem that introduces disharmonious patterns and ...

As of January 2021 there are 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide [39]. Moreover, during the COVID-19 lock downs, people's online traffic increased significantly, to the extent that many are still doing their shopping, banking, learning, working,...

Systematic reviews are the method of choice to synthesize research evidence. To identify main topics (so-called hot spots) relevant to large corpora of original publications in need of a synthesis, one must address the “three Vs” of big data (volume, ...

The emergence of Augmented Reality (AR) in retail to enhance online and offline shopping customer experiences is fueling different opportunities. Mastercard Labs, with ODG and Qualcomm, implemented an AR smart glass with iris authentication and digital ...

The primary challenge at the heart of Visual Effects lies in the ability to translate the director's creative brief into compelling visuals using a combination of art and technology. In the case of Venom a key requirement was to keep the character ...

What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well-to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? Drawing from the unconventional book Artful Design: ...

In the evolution of technical systems, freedom from error and early adoption plays a major role for market success and to maintain competitiveness. In the case of automated driving, we see that faulty systems are put into operation and users trust these ...

The present study aims to contribute to the information systems (IS) literature by developing a new theoretical perspective that integrates three dimensions of artifact visual design quality—namely aesthetic, functional, and symbolic dimensions—in the ...

Recently within HCI, design approaches have appeared, which deviate from traditional ones. Among them critical design introduces deliberate provocations in order to challenge established perceptions and practices. We have engaged ourselves with this ...

In this workshop paper we present our exploration into using different natural materials and digital-fabricated patterns for mobile devices. We present different methods of altering natural materials through digital fabrication that alter their shape, ...

In this paper, we describe two interactive installations designed using eye tracking technology to explore perception and imagination processes in the presence of ambiguous art forms.

This paper proposes a method for simulating human opinions about graphical artistic expressions like calligraphy using computers. Scanned images of handwriting texts from a large database are labeled as "beautiful writing" or "ugly writing" by two ...

Information and communication technology ICT has changed the lives of people at the operative level; it is less clear in what ways and to what extent it has changed the way people feel and develop as human beings. We create excellent means, but are we ...

Previous research in computational aesthetics has led to the identification of multiple image features that, in combination, can be related to the aesthetic quality of images, such as photographs. Moreover, it has been shown that aesthetic artworks ...

Digital simulation is a process of calculation technologies in the goal of modelling real phenomena and proposing some mimetic or theoretical formalizations of them. The computers interfaces make appear some calculated figures that have been ...

Simulations facilitate the construction of increasingly complex theories, which, in turn, suffer three attendant curses. By definition, complex theories have many variables, decreasing the chances that all of them will be clear and measurable. This ...

Computational aesthetics is the study of applying machine learning techniques to identify aesthetically pleasing imagery. Prior work used online datasets scraped from large user communities like Flikr to get labeled data. However, online imagery ...