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3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention

3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (27) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- When you gaze at a painting, the first thing that catches your eye is usually not an accident. Since the beginning of art, painters have used strategic techniques to guide a viewer’s attention ...





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Effective anti-tobacco ads should either scare or disgust viewers, study reveals

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anti-tobacco public service announcements have been around for decades, designed to encourage people to quit smoking or to refrain from starting. Often these ads try to encourage people to avoid smoking by ...


We’ll Be Back After These Messages -- Will You?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For at least 50 years, television advertisements have been ordered randomly within commercial breaks. But given the spread of digital video recorders (DVR) that allow users to blip-blip past the ads in fast-forward, ...


DVR fast-forwarding may not be fatal to TV advertising

DVR fast-forwarding may not be fatal to TV advertising

Technology / Other

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 9

While digital video recorders and products like TiVo allow television viewers to skip past commercials, Boston College researchers have found that fast-forwarding viewers actually pay more attention and can ...


Epson Develops New High-Resolution LTPS LCD

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Epson today announced the development of a 4-inch high-resolution low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD featuring Photo Fine Premia technology, which boasts both a wide viewing angle and a wide color range. The display ...


The effect of 'in your face' political television on democracy

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Television can encourage awareness of political perspectives among Americans, but the incivility and close-up camera angles that characterize much of today’s “in your face” televised political debate also causes audiences ...


Visual learning study challenges common belief on attention

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A visual learning study by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston indicates that viewers can learn a great deal about objects in their field of vision even without paying attention. The findings ...


Researchers rest their case: TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

People who watch forensic and crime dramas on TV are more likely than non-viewers to have a distorted perception of America's criminal justice system, according to new research from Purdue University.


Washington to get first crack at free mobile TV

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monday.


Sky has launched an iPhone application

New software shows British TV live on iPhone

Technology / Software

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself.


Philips introduces the 3D WOWzone multi-screen wall

Philips introduces the 3D WOWzone multi-screen wall

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 30, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Philips is introducing the 3D WOWzone, a large 132­inch (335 cm) multi-screen 3D wall, designed to grab people's attention with stunning 3D multimedia presentations. By creating a 'spell­binding' 3D experience, ...



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