Communication in the Design Process of Web Animation Based on Scripting Language: Programmers’ Perspectives
Jagan Mohan Balakrishnan,
Soumya Manjunath Chavan
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
38-46
Received:
2 May 2021
Accepted:
18 May 2021
Published:
26 May 2021
Abstract: Websites incorporate creative and complex web animations generated through scripting languages such as JavaScript. Programmers are responsible for implementing the web animations envisioned by the designers. The interdisciplinary communication between the designer and the programmer during the design process is a topic seldom studied. This qualitative research is based on an exploratory study primarily focused on the knowledge transfer and visualization of animation ideas. The study aimed to gather insights from professional programmers’ experiences and understand their perspectives on web animation design based on scripting languages. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 12 programmers working with various organizations in South India. The individual interviews used open-ended questions to elicit in-depth information; it is a prevalent data-gathering method for the researchers to gather the participants’ experiences. The researcher used the transcripts of the interview as the primary data for analysis. The results from the thematic analysis revealed imperative themes related to communication issues, the significance of the verbal and visual exchange of information, the new design challenges and the role of individuals in the overall design process. According to the programmers, the visuals are significant in knowledge transfer, and the team’s communication gap has resulted from insufficient graphic representations. The study recommends improving the existing communication methods in web animation based on the scripting language. The study also revealed the significance of stakeholder’s interaction during the design process and the multidisciplinary knowledge of individuals in improving interactions among the team.
Abstract: Websites incorporate creative and complex web animations generated through scripting languages such as JavaScript. Programmers are responsible for implementing the web animations envisioned by the designers. The interdisciplinary communication between the designer and the programmer during the design process is a topic seldom studied. This qualitat...
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Gender and Geocultural Diffrences in Children’s Appreciation of Art
Lilly Kannampuzha Varuthunny,
Sudhakar Venukapalli
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
47-54
Received:
5 May 2021
Accepted:
24 May 2021
Published:
31 May 2021
Abstract: Art has always fascinated humans and the way people experience its beauty is different in different cultures. Children acquire the language of art through a richness of creative visual content. This makes training children to understand and experience art at a young age becoming important. The objective of the present study is to investigate how boys and girls from different geographical backgrounds (cultural values, social practices, life styles, discursive and material expressions, artefacts, human relationships, etc) appreciate art. The quantitative study explores how boys and girls respond to artworks from different artistic genres. Sixty children studying in grade IX participated in the study. The sample included thirty boys and thirty girls from rural and urban backgrounds, and they are in the age group of 13-15 years. The schools are situated in and around Hyderabad city, South India. Children’s expressions of art appreciation are elicited by showing images of nine famous artworks from Western, Middle Eastern and Oriental paintings depicting landscapes. The artworks belonged to representational, semi-representational and abstract genres and are shown randomly to children to obtain their responses. The results of the study showed differences in the appreciation of the three genres of artworks by gender, but no statistically significant differences were observed in the appreciation of representational and semi-representational artworks by boys and girls. On the other hand, there exists a statistically significant difference in the appreciation of abstract artworks by boys and girls. The analysis of appreciation of three genres of artworks with respect to geographical background of children shows statistically significant differences among rural and urban children. The findings of this study can be used by teachers and teacher educators in the designing the right kind of learning experiences in schools.
Abstract: Art has always fascinated humans and the way people experience its beauty is different in different cultures. Children acquire the language of art through a richness of creative visual content. This makes training children to understand and experience art at a young age becoming important. The objective of the present study is to investigate how bo...
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Design in the Spectral Music of Tristan Murail
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
55-59
Received:
28 April 2021
Accepted:
31 May 2021
Published:
15 June 2021
Abstract: This paper wants to highlight the creation process in the spectral music of Tristan Murail that supposes a special sound design. The spectral music uses the sound spectrum, i.e. the sound components (overtones) as material that give to a sound its timbre. The spectrum is based on the frequencies, which can be calculated with the computer. The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of the work of Tristan Murail, which are in connection with the design, notions that himself uses describing his compositions, as material, models, modeling, object, process. The material is the sonority itself. The models are the technological ones taken from the electronic music as echo, reverberation, frequency modulation, etc. and translated in the instrumental (or/and electronic) music. After the analysis of a sound, which is decomposed in sine waves, follows the sound modeling through recombining the sound components, doing distortions or other effects borrowed from the electronic music. In this way new sounds are synthesized, which can be seen as more complex and sophisticated objects. The composer deals with an amount of sounds, therefore the computer is important in the compositional process to calculate a great number of sound combinations. The compositional conception of Murail has changed with the development of the computer technology and music informatics. In this way, I should mention the role of computer in the sound design of Murail. The process is an integral part both of the composing and of the composition. The composition evolves over time as the sound does: it is in a continuous changing. Sound evolution is also a model for Murail to shape the form of his compositions.
Abstract: This paper wants to highlight the creation process in the spectral music of Tristan Murail that supposes a special sound design. The spectral music uses the sound spectrum, i.e. the sound components (overtones) as material that give to a sound its timbre. The spectrum is based on the frequencies, which can be calculated with the computer. The aim o...
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