Whether or not we are experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their forms. The EmotiveModeler integrates knowledge about our emotive perception of shapes into a CAD tool that uses descriptive adjectives as an input to aid designers in creating objects that can communicate emotive character. Through inputting words into the Em...

In many auction problems, we consider a selfinterested seller who is allocating item(s) to bidders in exchange for payments. The highly celebrated VCG mechanism provides an auction mechanism in this case that is efficient, strategy-proof, and ex post individually rational (IR). If the seller’s goal is to maximize revenue, alternative mechanisms include the Myerson optimal auction, which maximiz...

Voice quality is recognized to play an important role for the rendering of emotions in verbal communication. In this paper we explore the effectiveness of a sinusoidal modeling processing framework for voice transformations finalized to the analysis and synthesis of emotive speech. A set of acoustic cues is selected to compare the voice quality characteristics of the speech signals on a voice c...

The research project is designed to create new ways of looking at the story of a city; the focus is to present elements of the city as an art gallery space. Mapping technologies are used to present information as an aesthetic image. This project will add the emotional context of the moment and location as part of the information aesthetic. The story of a city is an ongoing timeline of interconn...

In this research we focus on discriminating between emotive (emotionally loaded) and non-emotive sentences. We define the problem from a linguistic point of view assuming that emotive sentences stand out both lexically and grammatically. We verify this assumption experimentally by comparing two sets of such sentences in Japanese. The comparison is based on words, longer n-grams as well as more ...

Notion of normal intensionality and of intensionality preserving negation are introduced. Both these notions apply to intensional sentential operators. When applied to factive operators they allows us to understand the way these operators give rise to presuppositions and their duals, assertions. They allow us also to distinguish semantically emotive factives from non-emotive ones.

Virtual reality use in cognitive rehabilitation of advanced dementia has been sparse. Three residents of a Dementia Ward participated in a feasibility study of the BrightArmTM system. They played custom games targeting several cognitive domains including short-term and working memory. Clinician observation revealed a positive effect on emotive state, with technology well accepted by all partici...

Based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) we tested the hitherto unexplored assumption that irrationality as conceptualized by REBT (demandingness, self evaluation, low frustration tolerance), is associated with erroneous statistical reasoning. We assessed trait irrationality of 216 respondents and individual estimates of future winning probabilities in the context of the Wortman (1975)...

Emotive responses to foods in people with eating disorders are incompletely understood in relation to whether the extent of emotional response is due to the eating disorder or non-specific emotional states. The aims of the present study were to investigate negative and positive emotive responses to food images in adults with an eating disorder, and to compare responses to a (i) healthy and a (i...