Search results for "Esthetics"

See how it feels to move: Relationships between movement characteristics and perception of emotions in dance

2020

Music makes humans move in ways found to relate to, for instance, musical characteristics, personality, or emotional content of the music. In this study, we investigated associations between embodiments of musical emotions and the perception thereof. After collecting motion capture data of dancers moving to emotionally distinct musical stimuli, silent stick-figure animations were rated by a set of observers regarding perceived discrete emotions, while 10 movement features were computationally extracted from the motion capture data. Results indicate kinematic profiles—emotion-specific sets of movement characteristics—that furthermore conform with dimensional models of valence and arousal, su…

Help! Is my Chatbot Falling into the Uncanny Valley? : An Empirical Study of User Experience in Human-Chatbot Interaction

2019

Original article available at http://dx.doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201902201607 Advances in artificial intelligence strengthen chatbots’ ability to resemble human conversational agents. For some application areas, it may be tempting not to be transparent regarding a conversational agent’s nature as chatbot or human. However, the uncanny valley theory suggests that such lack in transparency may cause uneasy feelings in the user. In this study, we combined quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate this issue. First, we used a 2 x 2 experimental research design (n = 28) to investigate effects of lack in transparency on the perceived pleasantness of the conversation in addition to percei…

Social comparison processes, narrative mapping and their shaping of the cancer experience: a case study of an elite athlete.

2011

Drawing on data generated by life history interviews and fieldwork observations we illuminate the ways in which a young elite athlete named David (a pseudonym) gave meaning to his experiences of cancer that eventually led to his death. Central to this process were the ways in which David utilized both social comparisons and a narrative map provided by the published autobiography of Lance Armstrong (2000). Our analysis reveals the selective manner in which social comparison processes operated around the following key dimensions: mental attitude to treatment; the sporting body; the ageing body; and physical appearance. The manner in which different comparison targets were chosen, the ways in…

Reżyserka jako zawód urojony, czyli o podwójnej polityczności polskiego kina młodego pokolenia tworzonego przez kobiety

2014

Art as being not only exalted vision of the artist, is a subject to the whole series of dependences. Among them there are institutional and non-institutional factors. It is no different in the case of cinema. Within its field representation issues of a social group and its interests may cross. There we may encounter the political of the presented content, but also of the environment in which it arises. Therefore, the reflection on Polish cinema of the younger generation created by women seems reasonable. The purpose of these considerations is therefore examining its political face, both in terms of the content itself and the conditions of its formation.

Reading and company: embodiment and social space in silent reading practices

2017

Reading, even when silent and individual, is a social phenomenon and has often been studied as such. Complementary to this view, research has begun to explore how reading is embodied beyond simply ...

Children with their dreams – what kind of reveries are accepted in school context?

2011

The media and the contemporary consumer culture are central categories in modern childhood. They have opened new kinds of experiences and learning situations for children. In this article we are interested in the role of the media and consumption in schoolchildren's daily life. The data consist of writings and drawings of 7–12-year-old schoolchildren. Children have told us about their dreams, social worlds and doings in the mediated world. By asking children about all these things we are most likely able to find out how modern childhood and the learning situations in the class are influenced by the media and consumer goods. It is important to analyse children's experiences in the virtual en…

Morality in Let’s Play narrations : Moral evaluations of Gothic monsters in gameplay videos of Fallout 3

2018

Performative Let’s Play gaming videos are a part of contemporary Internet culture through which morality becomes shared. Many digital games draw on Gothic traditions to feature human-like monsters who demand morally complex interpretations from players. This study examines what kinds of moral evaluations players form of ambiguous Gothic monsters in Let’s Play videos of the action role-playing game Fallout 3. With a discourse analysis of transcribed speech obtained from 20 Let’s Play series on YouTube, it argues that the moral evaluations that players actively produce impact significantly on the play experience, that players take diverse moral stances whose (in)determinacy varies based on w…

Profesors Uldis Sūna: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs

1990

Biobibliogrāfiskajā rādītājā ietverti filozofijas zinātņu doktora profesora Ulda Sūnas publicētie darbi no 1957. gada līdz 1990.gadam, kā ari uzrādīta literatūra par viņu.

Profesors Uldis Sūna: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs

2001

Saturs: Priekšvārds 5 Habilitētais filozofijas doktors profesors Uldis Sūna 6 Uldis Sūna, Dr.hab.philos.10 Доктор философских наук профессор Улдис Фрицевич Суна 13 Publicētie darbi 16 Rediģētie un recenzētie darbi 33 Raksti par profesoru Uldi Sūnu 36 Profesora Ulda Sūnas vadītās disertācijas 39 Intervijas, sarunas 40 Profesora Ulda Sūnas sastādītie darbi 42 Profesora Ulda Sūnas tulkojumi 43 Profesora Ulda Sūnas darbu alfabētiskais rādītājs 44 Personu rādītājs 50

Il Medium come Habitat. Tecnologia e sensibilità nell'esperienza artistica dell’Expanded Cinema e del Light & Space Movement.

L’intenzione alla base della mia proposta teorica, che ho definito appunto “il medium come habitat”, è quella di riattualizzare la questione della medialità in relazione ad un habitat che non deve essere esclusivamente inteso come ambiente naturale (quello dell’ecologia) o come ambiente sociale (dell’antropologia o della sociologia). L’habitat piuttosto è da considerarsi come un campo esperienziale attraversato e definito da relazioni in continuo divenire, radicate in primo luogo nel rapporto sensibile e affettivo, estetico che mette in comunicazione tra loro i vari elementi, e questi ultimi con l’habitat che essi popolano. Le strategie di organizzazione e attribuzione di senso alla realtà …