Living and working for a month at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, artist’s life was watched observed by group of resident monkeys. This paper is based on notes begun during that studio residency represents critical reflections emerging alongside hands-on sculptural practice. It illustrated with close-up photographs sculpture asks how encounters fabled animals densely populated 21st century u...

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of the interactive installation The Muses of Poetry (MoP). In MoP the user interacts with a virtual character, who in turn recites poetry while manifesting the emotional content of the poem using visual cues (as facial expressions) and an affective voice. The novelty of MoP is that it combines real-time character animation, semantic ...

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...