This study investigated whether positive human emotion can be set as a goal through the lighting design process. The first used model of – circumplex affect to characterise four different states (liveliness, relaxation, tense and gloom). Second, five professional designers were recruited asked devise concepts each lively relaxing workspace lit environment. A total fifteen scenarios with intenti...

We propose a new approach to check whether a given UML class diagram with its OCL integrity constraints satisfies a set of desirable properties such as schema satisfiability, class liveliness, redundancy of integrity constraints or reachability of partially specified states. Our approach is based on translating both the class diagram and the OCL constraints into a logic representation. Then, we...

We conducted an experiment in which we measured the the impressions of artificial listening agents. Two different listening characters were modeled, using effects of head tilt and gaze-behaviour found in previous work. The impressions of these two characters were rated by users. Most of the modeled effects, such as unfriendlyness, dominance and liveliness were observed as modeled. Our study als...

Walkability has become an important theme of urban design research and practice. Evidence suggests that environmental attractiveness can have a significant impact on the amount walking activities take place, but relatively little exists which features linked to increase walkability. Using virtual reality experiment, present study examined effects walkability three key features, as defined by Ja...

This work is an example of the interplay between computergenerated art work by a computer scientist and traditional paintings on canvas by an artist. We show that computer-generated swarm constructions can obtain great expressiveness and exhibit liveliness, rhythm, movement, tension, contrasts, organic looks, and rigid forms. These characteristics lend themselves to complement traditional paint...

Standard advice to people preparing to speak in public is to use a “lively” voice. A lively voice is described as one that varies in intonation, rhythm and loudness: qualities that can be analyzed using speech analysis software. This paper reports on a study analyzing pitch variation as a measure of speaker liveliness. A potential application of this approach for analysis would be for rehearsin...

In the context of learning through educational videos, the material chosen for a given topic must not only be relevant but also engaging to the consumer—ensuring better understanding and retention of content. This paper focuses on the speaking style of instructors, which is an important aspect driving student engagement. We present StyleX, a corpus of 450 1-minute video clips featuring 50 instr...