Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, this paper addresses how narrative research and portraiture methods originating from, and commonly used in social sciences can be beneficial for HCI and design research communities. Narrative research takes stories as a basis for data collection and analysis, while portraiture can be used to create written narratives about interview participants. Draw...

The art world uses the tradition of portraiture to semantically compress relevant information about their subjects into a single art work. We believe this tradition can be extended into the digital realm by the use of topic modeling to compress individuals’ information into generative data portraits. Data portraiture has strong implications for navigating large social spaces, collaborative syst...

Human bodily experience is characterized by the immediate feeling that our body is localized at a certain position in space and that the self is localized within these body borders (embodiment). Recent research from cognitive neuroscience and neurology suggests that embodiment is of major importance for neuroscientific models of self and self-consciousness. This is suggested by illusory own bod...

In this paper, we present an example-based approach for automatically generating a life-like portrait from a frontal face image. Based on an inhomogeneous Markov Random Field Model, an inhomogeneous non-parametric sampling scheme is used to capture the complex statistical characteristics of face image and corresponding portrait. In our approach, only those pixels corresponding to a portrait poi...

SOME evidence has come to light which makes it possible to relate three familiar portraits of Dr William Harvey more closely to one another and to suggest a common point of origin from an important branch of the Harvey family. These are the Kent and Canterbury Hospital portrait, the King's Weston version, and the SurrendenDering portrait. Anyone venturing into the field of Harvey portraiture mu...

This paper re-examines the relationship between eighteenth-century portraiture and antique where women adopt postures of floating female figures from Pompeiian wall paintings in portraiture. I argue that portraits afforded their sitters an opportunity to assert classical knowledge while adhering typical conventions femininity.