Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment

An experiment was carried out to examine the impact on electrodermal activity of people when approached by groups of one or four virtual characters at varying distances. It was premised on the basis of proxemics theory that the closer the approach of the virtual characters to the participant, the greater the level of physiological arousal. Physiological arousal was measured by the number of skin conductance responses within a short time period after the approach, and the maximum change in skin conductance level 5 s after the approach. The virtual characters were each either female or a cylinder of human size, and one or four characters approached each subject a total of 12 times. Twelve male subjects were recruited for the experiment. The results suggest that the number of skin conductance responses after the approach and the change in skin conductance level increased the closer the virtual characters approached toward the participants. Moreover, these response variables were inversely correlated with the number of visits, showing a typical adaptation effect. There was some evidence to suggest that the number of characters who simultaneously approached (one or four) was positively associated with the responses. Surprisingly there was no evidence of a difference in response between the humanoid characters and cylinders on the basis of this physiological data. It is suggested that the similarity in this quantitative arousal response to virtual characters and virtual objects might mask a profound difference in qualitative response, an interpretation supported by questionnaire and interview results. Overall the experiment supported the premise that people exhibit heightened physiological arousal the closer they are approached by virtual characters.

Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment

An experiment was carried out to examine the impact on electrodermal activity of people when approached by groups of one or four virtual characters at varying distances. It was premised on the basis of proxemics theory that the closer the approach of the virtual characters to the participant, the greater the level of physiological arousal. Physiological arousal was measured by the number of skin conductance responses within a short time period after the approach, and the maximum change in skin conductance level 5 s after the approach. The virtual characters were each either female or a cylinder of human size, and one or four characters approached each subject a total of 12 times. Twelve male subjects were recruited for the experiment. The results suggest that the number of skin conductance responses after the approach and the change in skin conductance level increased the closer the virtual characters approached toward the participants. Moreover, these response variables were inversely correlated with the number of visits, showing a typical adaptation effect. There was some evidence to suggest that the number of characters who simultaneously approached (one or four) was positively associated with the responses. Surprisingly there was no evidence of a difference in response between the humanoid characters and cylinders on the basis of this physiological data. It is suggested that the similarity in this quantitative arousal response to virtual characters and virtual objects might mask a profound difference in qualitative response, an interpretation supported by questionnaire and interview results. Overall the experiment supported the premise that people exhibit heightened physiological arousal the closer they are approached by virtual characters.

Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment

An experiment was carried out to examine the impact on electrodermal activity of people when approached by groups of one or four virtual characters at varying distances. It was premised on the basis of proxemics theory that the closer the approach of the virtual characters to the participant, the greater the level of physiological arousal. Physiological arousal was measured by the number of skin conductance responses within a short time period after the approach, and the maximum change in skin conductance level 5 s after the approach. The virtual characters were each either female or a cylinder of human size, and one or four characters approached each subject a total of 12 times. Twelve male subjects were recruited for the experiment. The results suggest that the number of skin conductance responses after the approach and the change in skin conductance level increased the closer the virtual characters approached toward the participants. Moreover, these response variables were inversely correlated with the number of visits, showing a typical adaptation effect. There was some evidence to suggest that the number of characters who simultaneously approached (one or four) was positively associated with the responses. Surprisingly there was no evidence of a difference in response between the humanoid characters and cylinders on the basis of this physiological data. It is suggested that the similarity in this quantitative arousal response to virtual characters and virtual objects might mask a profound difference in qualitative response, an interpretation supported by questionnaire and interview results. Overall the experiment supported the premise that people exhibit heightened physiological arousal the closer they are approached by virtual characters.

La mujer que no es sólo metáfora de la nación

En este artículo se ofrece una lectura de las viudas de vivos de Rosalía de Castro como una metáfora compleja de la nación y nada complaciente con los relatos nacionales estereotipados del XIX. Frente a lecturas que han confinado a la viuda en el estereotipo de nación sufriente por la emigración, siguiendo la lectura del libro completo la viuda de vivo se muestra una representación femenina no prevista ni en los discursos de la nación ni de la vindicación del XIX.

Sherlock Holmes, Agente 007

Londres, 1891, Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. Watson evitan el asesinato de una niña por parte de lord Blackwood (Marc Strong), un asesino místico al que perseguía desde hacía mucho tiempo. Tres meses más tarde, Holmes está sin un nuevo caso y se aburre. Watson pretende irse del 221 de Baker Street para independizarse y casarse con María Morstan. La película no es la adaptación de ninguna novela de Conan Doyle. Está basada es una historia escrita por Lionel Wigram, luego adaptada a un cómic con dibujos de John Watkiss.

Rosalía de Castro, sombra que se fai teoría

A figura auroral de Rosalía de Castro autorizou a aparición de novas poetas a finais do século XX mais, paradoxalmente, a partir da publicación dos seus libros fundacionais non xurdiu unha lexión de autoras que desde Cantares gallegos (1863) e Follas novas (1880) escribisen incesantemente a nación, ou simplemente, escribisen incesantemente en galego e tivesen por iso un recoñecemento canónico. Sen dúbida a intervención do patriarcadogaleguista provocou esa interrupción, que se entende mellor cando se teñenen conta os condicionantes socioliterarios que coutaban as mulleres escritoras (González Fernández, 2005: 15-19). Porque a finais do século XIX, e malia excepcións rechamantes, o pensamento hexemónicoconsideraba que as literatas eran unhas sabias ridículas, tal como sesancionara desde o coñecido capítulo V do Émile, ou l’Education (1762) deJean Jacques Rousseau en diante, aínda que houbese, por suposto, vocesdisidentes entre os seus contemporáneos, como Benito Jerónimo Feijoo noseu moi lido discurso XVI, Defensa de las mujeres, do seu Teatro crítico universal(1726). Nese sentido depreciativo do termo debe lerse o coñecido artigo deRosalía de Castro, Las literatas. Carta a Eduarda (1865). Por outra banda, noemerxente discurso nacionalista que vai do XIX ao primeiro terzo do XXopérase unha corrección misóxina que afecta á concepción sexuada danación. Se Murguía seguira a Renan na súa defensa do carácter esencialmente feminino dos pobos celtas, unha idea moi espallada naquela...

La mujer que no es sólo metáfora de la nación

En este artículo se ofrece una lectura de las viudas de vivos de Rosalía de Castro como una metáfora compleja de la nación y nada complaciente con los relatos nacionales estereotipados del XIX. Frente a lecturas que han confinado a la viuda en el estereotipo de nación sufriente por la emigración, siguiendo la lectura del libro completo la viuda de vivo se muestra una representación femenina no prevista ni en los discursos de la nación ni de la vindicación del XIX.

Rosalía de Castro, sombra que se fai teoría

A figura auroral de Rosalía de Castro autorizou a aparición de novas poetas a finais do século XX mais, paradoxalmente, a partir da publicación dos seus libros fundacionais non xurdiu unha lexión de autoras que desde Cantares gallegos (1863) e Follas novas (1880) escribisen incesantemente a nación, ou simplemente, escribisen incesantemente en galego e tivesen por iso un recoñecemento canónico. Sen dúbida a intervención do patriarcadogaleguista provocou esa interrupción, que se entende mellor cando se teñenen conta os condicionantes socioliterarios que coutaban as mulleres escritoras (González Fernández, 2005: 15-19). Porque a finais do século XIX, e malia excepcións rechamantes, o pensamento hexemónicoconsideraba que as literatas eran unhas sabias ridículas, tal como sesancionara desde o coñecido capítulo V do Émile, ou l’Education (1762) deJean Jacques Rousseau en diante, aínda que houbese, por suposto, vocesdisidentes entre os seus contemporáneos, como Benito Jerónimo Feijoo noseu moi lido discurso XVI, Defensa de las mujeres, do seu Teatro crítico universal(1726). Nese sentido depreciativo do termo debe lerse o coñecido artigo deRosalía de Castro, Las literatas. Carta a Eduarda (1865). Por outra banda, noemerxente discurso nacionalista que vai do XIX ao primeiro terzo do XXopérase unha corrección misóxina que afecta á concepción sexuada danación. Se Murguía seguira a Renan na súa defensa do carácter esencialmente feminino dos pobos celtas, unha idea moi espallada naquela...

Altisidora no hizo mención de los camellos

Altisidora es una joven atrevida, graciosa y desenvuielta; y por si ahora no caen en quién es, diré que es la ingeniosa doncella de la duquesa, personajes las dos de la Segunda Parte del ingenioso caballero de Don Quijote de la Mancha...

The Next Step: Darwin, Brontë, Fowles

The present article proposes Heathcliff and Sarah Woodruff as monstrous beings who reclaim their desire to be agent subjects in a society and a narrative which deny such a possibility. It would be possible to argue, however, that their monstrosity might be that of the unique specimen, the potential first stage towards the improvement of species through natural selection as theorized by Charles Darwin in 1859. The multiple references to Darwin’s study in the novel by JohnFowles demonstrate that such a theory could clarify what Sarah represents in the novel. In a retroactive manner, Darwinian theory might be used to understand what Heathcliff is, who Heathcliff is, and why he is the object of general animosity. It might be concluded that what is really monstrous about these twocharacters is that both are new specimens, avant la lèttre, and they occupy a space to which language has no access.

¿Tenemos imágenes literarias de cine?

El cine bebe de la literatura y la tiene en cuenta para desarrollar su versión de unos relatos que antes fueron escritos en forma de novela, poema, obra teatral o cuento. Los personajes literarios se materializan por medio de unos avatares1 humanos o por los que un artista crea en forma de dibujos animados. Se han visto y se ven en las pantallas multitud de versiones de relatos populares o modernos que espectadores de todas las edades reciben expectantes.

A survey on voltage sag events in power systems

This paper aims to survey the techniques and methods described in literature to analyse and characterise voltage sags and the corresponding objectives of these works. The study has been performed from a data mining point of view

Fiscal foresight, forecast revisions and the effects of government spending in the open economy

This paper investigates the effects of government spending on the real exchange rate and the trade balance in the US using a new VAR identification procedure based on spending forecast revisions. I find that the real exchange rate appreciates and the trade balance deteriorates after a government spending shock, although the effects are quantitatively small. The findings broadly match the theoretical predictions of the standard Mundell-Fleming model and differ substantially from those existing in literature. Differences are attributable to the fact that, because of fiscal foresight, the government spending is non-fundamental for the variables typically used in open economy VARs. Here, on the contrary, the estimated shock is fundamental.

New insights on the crystalline forms in binary systems of n-alkanes: Characterization of the solid ordered phases in the phase diagram tricosane + pentacosane

X-ray diffraction analyses of the pure components n-tricosane and n-pentacosane and of their binary mixed samples have enabled us to characterize the crystalline phases observed at low temperature. On the contrary to what was announced in literature on the structural behavior of mixed samples in odd-odd binary systems with D n = 2, the three domains are not all orthorhombic. This work has enabled us to show that two of the domains are, in fact, monoclinic, (Aa, Z = 4) and the other one is orthorhombic (Pca21, Z = 4). The conclusions drawn in this work can be easily transposed to other binary systems of n-alkanes.

Nuclear incompressibility in the quasilocal density functional theory

We explore the ability of the recently established quasilocal density functional theory for describing the isoscalar giant monopole resonance. Within this theory we use the scaling approach and perform constrained calculations for obtaining the cubic and inverse energy weighted moments (sum rules) of the RPA strength. The meaning of the sum rule approach in this case is discussed. Numerical calculations are carried out using Gogny forces and an excellent agreement is found with HF+RPA results previously reported in literature. The nuclear matter compression modulus predicted in our model lies in the range 210230 MeV which agrees with earlier findings. The information provided by the sum rule approach in the case of nuclei near the neutron drip line is also discussed.