Although it is well established that viewing nature can help individuals recover from a stressful experience, the dose-response curve describing the relationship between tree cover density and stress ...recovery is totally unclear. A total of 160 participants engaged in a standard Trier Social Stress Test to induce stress. Participants were then randomly assigned to watch 1 of 10 three-dimensional videos of street scenes that varied in the density of tree cover (from 2% to 62%). Participants completed a Visual Analog Scale questionnaire at three points in the experiment. Analysis revealed a positive, linear association between the density of urban street trees and self-reported stress recovery, adjusted R2 = .05, F(1, 149) = 8.53, p < .01. This relationship holds after controlling for gender, age, and baseline stress levels. A content analysis of participants’ written narratives revealed a similar but even stronger association. These findings suggest that viewing tree canopy in communities can significantly aid stress recovery and that every tree matters.
Bedingt durch die heutige Zunahme der Bilderflut im Alltag unserer Schülerinnen und Schüler muss – zur bewussten Auseinandersetzung mit Inhalten – die Aufmerksamkeit auf selektierte Bilder gefördert ...und unterstützt werden. Hierfür eignen sich besonders Kunstbilder, die durch ihre vielfältigen Interpretationsmöglichkeiten zum genauen Hinsehen auffordern. Sie verhelfen unterschiedlichen Schülerpersönlichkeiten mit heterogenem Vorwissen zu individuellen Wahrnehmungsempfindungen. Dadurch entsteht ein erhöhter Bedarf an verbalem Austausch mit authentischen Emotionen und Werturteilen. In diesem Beitrag wird anhand von originalen Schüleräußerungen aus einem bilingualen Kunstunterricht in der Zielsprache Französisch gezeigt, wie die Verbindung von Kunstbildern mit einer Fremdsprache zu einem imaginativen, emotionalen und ganzheitlichen Lernen einlädt und darüber hinaus das Eintauchen in eine fiktionale Welt über diese Bildmedien möglich wird.
This research note introduces gender and feminist theory as important tools for understanding international relations (IR), and uses snapshots from my ongoing research project on gender and ...disarmament in Swedish security policy during the post-Cold War period to exemplify what feminist contributions to the field can look like. Analyzing media visuals about Sweden’s relationship with NATO during 2022–2023, I argue that such sources draw on well-known societal stereotypes about, for example, gender to make sense to their audiences. The visuals included in this study contribute to destabilize associations between security policy, national identity and masculinity from Cold War Sweden by portraying Swedish politicians as female brides ready to marry male NATO representatives and thereby gain protection within what has previously been conceptualized as a gendered NATO family. Both human bodies and emotions related to fear contribute to make meaning about such representations.
Visual media plays a significant role in the marketing and promotion of several international tourism services in today's connected marketplace, in particular here, international tertiary education. ...This study was developed to examine how visual media influence potential audiences' perception towards a specific educational tourism destination through the theoretical framework of Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty and Cacioppo, 1986). Researchers compare central and peripheral routes of individual persuasion via visual media and this aids marketers' understanding of how visual media impact consumers' purchase decisions. This study confirms a positive relationship between argument quality, audience engagement, source credibility, audience involvement and international students as tourists' perceived destination image. The findings suggest that peripheral routes of persuasion have stronger effects on individual adoption of information than central routes of persuasion. The study provides useful insight for tertiary education agents who promote international studies, destination marketers, and other users of visual media communicators.
This study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of motion techniques learning using audio visual media. This research was an experimental research. The population of this study was grade VIII ...students. The sampling process used purposive sampling technique. The samples consisted of 32 students of grade VIII. The instruments used were FCE sheets, observation sheets, assessment of student motor ability, and motor educability tests. The results of the research concluded that audio visual media is an effective solution for learning and teaching motor ability. The visual experience and short term memory storage can be used in correcting movement due to the influence of visualization received by the sense of sight and the sense of hearing. The results of this study can be used as references in teaching motor ability. Moreover, audio visual media can be used for learning a movement skill that requires a complex movement combination. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektifitas pembelajaran gerak dengan menggunakan media audio visual. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimen. Populasi penelitian ini seluruh siswa kelas VIII. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling pada kelas VIII yang berjumlah 32 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah lembar FCE, lembar observasi, penilaian kemampuan gerak siswa dan tes motor educability. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dapat disimpulkan bahwa media audio visual menjadi solusi efektif dalam mempelajari dan mengajarkan kemampuan gerak. Pengalaman pandangan dan penyimpanan memori dalam jangka pendek memori dapat digunakan dalam memperbaiki olah gerak yang dikarenakan pengaruh visualisasi yang diterima oleh indera penglihatan dan indera pendengaran. Implikasi dari hasil penelitian ini dapat digunakan rujukan dalam mengajarkan kemampuan gerak yang memerlukan gerakan kombinasi yang kompleks dapat menggunakan media audio visual.
Social media platforms and news organisations alike are struggling with identifying and combating visual mis/disinformation presented to their audiences. Such processes are complicated due to the ...enormous number of media items being produced, how quickly media items spread, and the often-subtle or sometimes invisible-to-the-naked-eye nature of deceptive edits. Despite knowing little about the provenance and veracity of the visual content they encounter, journalists have to quickly determine whether to re-publish or amplify this content, with few tools and little time available to assist them in such an evaluation. With the goal of equipping journalists with the mechanisms, skills, and knowledge to be effective gatekeepers and stewards of the public trust, this study reviews current journalistic image verification practices, examines a number of existing and emerging image verification technologies that could be deployed or adapted to aid in this endeavour, and identifies the strengths and limitations of the most promising extant technical approaches. While oriented towards practical and achievable steps in combating visual mis/disinformation, the study also contributes to discussions on fact-checking, source-checking, verification, debunking and journalism training and education.
Audio-visual or film is one of the strategic means of intercultural communication. Films are often used as a medium of propaganda for partisan and partial political interests, leading to ...misunderstandings of a culture. The destruction of a nation's cultural meanings and values always involves audio-visual media to create psychological effects in building opinion and mobilizing the masses. Iran and its culture are the victims of world misunderstanding. However, the films directed by Iranian filmmakers have opened a ‘cultural dialogue’ with dignity and in an artistic manner. This study aimed to examine Iranian cultural communication patterns through cinema and identify Iranian cultural symbols that influence cultural communication. This research used Symbol and Value Theory. Symbols and values influence political and cultural campaigns. This research employed the Gestalt method that involved descriptive coding of sentences and images and recording of contents. Through Gestalt, we can interpret the meaning and behavior displayed by humans in certain situations. The films ‘Children of Heaven’, ‘Color of Paradise,’ and ‘Baran' directed by Majid Majidi, communicate essential aspects of Iranian culture, showing the spirit of resilience of Iranian society today, which is rarely included in the news due to global politics. The representation of Iranian culture is presented in very natural and simple ways without using visual effects. The reproduction of Iranian culture in the three films above uses a measured, intense, and substantive approach and shooting angle. The spirit of Sufism was reflected in the production process and the Iranian cinematic contents.
Menjaga kebersihan diri selama Pandemi Covid-19 seperti mencuci tangan merupakan salah satu langkah yang perlu dilakukan, Tangan merupakan bagian tubuh yang paling banyak tercemar kotoran ...dan bibit penyakit. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui Bagaimana Pengaruh penyuluhan dengan media audio visual terhadap pengetahuan dan sikap anak sekolah tentang Cuci Tangan Pakai Sabun (CTPS) pada masa pandemi covid-19. Metode penelitian ini adalah penelitia n kuantitatif dengan desain eksperimen semu (Quasi experiment), dan rancangan non-equivalent control group design. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah Seluruh Siswa Kelas 5 SDN I sebanyak 88 siswa, dan seluruh siswakelas 5 SDN 5 sebanyak 59 orang. Untuk melihat pengaruh pengetahuan dan sikap anak dengan perlakuan atau tanpa perlakuan penyuluhan dengan media audio visual, maka peneliti pengambil sampel sebanding (1:1) sehingga SDN I sebanyak 59 orang dan SDN 5 sebanyak 59 orang. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa penyuluhan dengan media audio visual terhadap pengetahuan anak sekolah lebih berpengaruh dengan p = 0,042 serta penyuluhan dengan media audio visual lebih berpengaruh terhadap sikap anak dengan p=0.031. maka disarankan agar sekolah dapat meningkatkan penyuluhan dengan menggunakan media audiovisual.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly altered peoples’ daily lives. Teachers and students were found quite unprepared for the emergence of the first COVID-19 wave. So, improving the ...knowledge of students about COVID-19 is an important issue.
In this study, 240 high students attended. Two interventions with the same contents, but in different ways, were delivered. A structured questionnaire was utilized to collect data on demographic information, and information about the behavioral intention toward COVID-19 before and after the educational interventions as well as a control group that received no educational intervention.
students in all arms had similar baseline knowledge of COVID-19. The results of the post-analysis showed the efficiency of educational techniques in increasing students' knowledge about COVID-19. So the audio-visual training method performed significantly better than the visual training method (p = 0.03). Both approaches achieved better scores than the control group (P < 0.001).
During the outbreak of COVID-19, multimedia-based learning is a more effective educational approach and can improve the learning outcomes related to COVID-19 and achieve learning goals without close contact than written materials.
•Online video may become an innovative and effective way to deliver education requiring complex and long-term health behaviors.
Hearing-impaired students are visual learners. That’s why the visual media selection will be the most appropriate media assistance for teachers, especially in teaching vocabulary. This research ...aimed to investigate the use of visual media and teacher challenges in developing English vocabulary for hearing-impaired students. This research used a qualitative descriptive approach. The participants of the research were an English teacher and eight hearing-impaired students in the 8th grade of SMPLB N Banjarnegara. The data were obtained through observation, interviews, and students’ self-reports. The researchers found that the teacher used limited visual media at around the combination of a whiteboard, images, picture dictionary, and realia. The teacher used a whiteboard to write and draw the material. Images and picture dictionary were used to give an overview and insight to the students and sign language was used as language instruction in the teaching process. Less practice pronouncing the words and misunderstanding on reading the lips movements became the challenges for the teacher. Furthermore, the teacher has less technical skills to utilize technological-based media in delivering the materials.
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