Cold Science Meets Hot Weather: Environmental Threats, Emotional Messages and Scientific Storytelling

Computational Psychometrics Meets Hollywood: The Complexity in Emotional Storytelling

Expressions of emotions are pervasive in media, especially in movies. In this article, we focus on the emotional relationships of movie characters in narrative thought and emotional storytelling. Several studies examine emotion elicitation through movies, but there is a gap in scientific literature and in the practice to quantitatively consider emotions among the characters of a movie story, wh...

Influence of environmental temperatures on the concrete compressive strength: simulation of hot and cold weather conditions

This work has as objective to study the influence of mixing hour in the concrete properties such as workability and compressive strength in hot and cold weather conditions from an industrially applied point of view. The foremost studied variable was the concrete mixing hour, having used five mixing hours for every weather conditions. For each mixing hour, were carried out three concrete batches...

Emotional Storytelling

The promise of engaging immersive virtual environments has long been a motivating factor within Virtual Reality (VR). One of the greatest potentials in VR has been in the realm of telling stories and provide new and engaging experiences. Research in Virtual Environments is now shifting its focus to creating structures to enable such stories and experiences. In this paper we present a concept we...

Environmental threats

crops for biofuel are becoming increasingly apparent. Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London recently estimated that it would require the entire production of biofuel crops from 20 hectares to replace the kerosene for just one transatlantic flight from London to New York. Just a few kilometres from Heathrow is Windsor Great Park, a 2,000 hectare former Norman ...

Cold and hot.