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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"human emotion"”.
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A computational model of human emotion
… have been constructed to express or understand human emotional states. None of these programs can detect a large spectrum of emotions from emotional situations, nor do any of them express emotions over more than one temporal dimension. A number of these programs used representations with domain …
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Human emotion simulation in a dynamic environment
… contribute to the believability of the simulated emotions for virtual entities to allow them display human like features. Endowing virtual entities with such features requires an appropriate architecture and model. For that, a study of emotional models from different perspective is undertaken. The …
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FUNCTIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING METHODS APPLIED TO HUMAN EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM FACIAL VIDEOS
… with automatically analyzing and understanding human behavior has inspired a profound focus on the evolution of facial expressions and the recognition of corresponding emotions. By harnessing functional statistical learning methods, we develop a comprehensive methodology that capitalizes on the …
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Heartbeat for Orchestra
… of the heartbeat in graph form, and also the emotional expressions of humans, which we all share. The heartbeat can be scientifically measured, and represented, which is the opposite of human emotion which is much more ephemeral. The structure of my piece, then, is based on the graphic …
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Lost Fragments: A Therapy Center to cope with grief in Richmond, Virginia
… the relationship between architecture and human emotion. Inspired by a personal story of loss, this thesis began to disseminate the five stages of the Elizabeth Kübler Ross model of grief. Each of the stages was studied in depth to find architectural elements that relate to every stage. …
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Light, Color & Presence
… of what allows for experiences that engage the human emotion, this thesis offers a project which has the power and presence to move the soul.
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The integration of facial and auditory affect: An emotional McGurk effect?
Research investigating human emotion processing has typically studied either auditory (vocal) or visual (facial) information in isolation. However, speech perception literature supports integration of auditory and visual phonetic information by way of the McGurk effect. This study hypothesized an …
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Effloresce
… paintings and charcoal drawings containing the human figure and natural imagery and forms. This pairing represents the intersection of the inner realm of human emotion and spiritual experience with the external realm of nature and the world.</p> <p>Both contemporary and historical painting and …
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Recognizing human emotional states from body movement
An emotion-aware computer system capable of responding to expressive human gestures and movements can significantly change the dynamics of human-computer interaction. This thesis addresses the problem of the creation of a computer model capable of automatically discerning emotion using various …
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Espace de l'Espérance
… space, space that communicates deeply with human emotion and aspiration. The design is meant to provide a 'window to the sacred.' In this way, contemporary religious architecture can act as a catalyst for education and unification in the hopes of the banishment of ignorance and hatred and …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
This thesis examines the physical effects of human emotion and the mind through selected texts written by the Shelley circle, including P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron. Emotion is a significant variable that dominates human existence. For this reason, the concept of emotion continues to …
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Singing Bird Singing Soul: Avian Symbolism in Cross-Cultural Soprano Repertoire
… and cultural origins as a means of expressing human emotion. It analyzes the works by seven composers and in seven languages. Based on the thematic meanings of bird imagery in these works, the document is structured in three chapters. Chapter 1, “Love and Youth,” encompasses “La maja y el …
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Revealing Janacek: On an Overgrown Path--Series I
… of relating all compositional elements to real human emotion and psychological phenomena. On an Overgrown Path is one of his first of his works to reflect this cultivated technique. Each piece in the cycle's first series will be explored by analyzing the features that can be linked to his …
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The influence of music on the emotional interpretation of visual contexts
… and implications of neuroscientific research on human emotion. Two studies follow, one empirical and the other the creation of an intermedia-based analytical tool supporting experimental design.</p> <p>The empirical research is focused on the influence of tonal dissonance, using an invariant …
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Entre a voz e o ouvido: o trabalho emocional e os impactos para a saúde dos trabalhadores do teleatendimento/telemarketing em Salvador
… the general hypothesis that capital appropriates human emotion to transform it in ‘emotional ability’, as instrument and means of producing more work and wealth, and this condition has induced to workers’ increasing condition of sickness. The study of case articulates qualitative and quantitative …
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Impassible and impassioned: Reevaluating the doctrines of divine impassibility and divine relationality
… is both impassible, in the sense of never having emotion wrung from him involuntarily, and supremely passionate in the love of his own glory. Following a survey and rejection of a number of hyper-passibilistic views of divine passibility in modern theology, this proposal turns, in chapter four, to …
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Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
… through anecdotes, folklore, or formal history, humans learn the lessons and expectations of life from stories. If we are to build intelligent programs that learn as humans do, such programs must understand stories as well. Casting narrative text in an information-rich representation affords Al …
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The benefits of viewing sacred versus preferred landscapes
… the observation that landscape mitigates human emotion, mental functioning, and behaviour. Those environments that positively affect these spheres are called "restorative". In recent years, many attempts have been made to quantify restorative landscapes, so that landscape architects and …
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#I'm With Her: An Artistic Exploration of Online Communication and Relationships
… I came across a variety of artists that used human emotion and pain in their work in many different ways. Artists like Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle let their pain from relationships they had experienced out through their work, while artists such as Jessica Todd Harper and Edward Hopper used …
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Spiking Neural Networks for Low-Power Medical Applications
… standard tools for such evaluation. On the SEED human emotion dataset, SNN architectures achieved up to 20x lower energy per inference than an RNN while maintaining similar classification accuracy. SNNs also achieved 30x lower energy consumption on the PTB-XL ECG dataset with similar …
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