Emotional Space Research Articles

Karmella Tsepkolenko’s Concert-Drama for Piano with the Orchestra: Performance and Interpretation Aspect

The author of the study considered the performance and interpretation aspects of the Concerto-drama for piano and orchestra (1987) by the Ukrainian composer Karmella Tsepkolenko. After analyzing the musical form of the given work, it became possible to describe the correspondence of the logic involved in the development of the musical material applied in the Concerto-drama for piano with orchestra to the literary program and scenario designed by the author. The main performance and interpretation means of reflecting the author's idea are singled out, namely: piano texture; techniques of sound production; dynamic construction of musical form; spatio-temporal organization of melodic and intonation lines, etc. The peculiarities of the piano texture, which are characterized by romantically rich complex chordal structures and virtuosic passages, were also determined. It is noted that the lyrical parts of Karmella Tsepkolenko's Concerto-drama for piano and orchestra require subtle linear polyphonic thinking from the pianist, creating a special sound color. The role of interpretative and expressive means for creating a convincing performance and artistic image is clarified. The specificity of the interpretation of five solo piano cadenzas is substantiated. The role of cadences for the manifestation of the unique individual thinking of the pianist in the process of concert and stage interpretation of the specified piano piece by Karmella Tsepkolenko is highlighted. The relationship and influence of the author's scenario development on the emotional creative space of the performer and on the formation of a convincing artistic and performing version have been established. The special role of the piano in the work of Karmella Tsepkolenko as a tool for new compositional searches and innovations is emphasized. It has been proven that the performance style of Karmella Tsepkolenko's piano music requires creativity, artistry, creative imagination, flexibility of thinking, and an emotional response to the script-plot layers of the work. Emphasis is placed on the expediency of establishing empathetic connections between the composer and the performer in the process of live implementation of the author's idea.

Space, Emotion, and Gender

This article examines Kym Ragusa’s The Skin between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging as a gendered transcultural narrative from the standpoint of spatial theory. In order to do so, it contextualizes the text within the framework of memoir writing and subsequently analyzes the representation of varied emotional spaces in the process of recovering one’s identity as displayed by the narrative voice. This research contends that the use of memoir, a genre particularly used by ‘marginal’ voices, is an adequate means to critically reflect on the (de)construction of identity as well as convey alternative patterns of gender relations and cultural negotiations. In addition, it stresses the central role of space and emotions in reflecting the transculturality and intersectionality of the diasporic and gendered subject.

Inherent dimension of the affective space: Analysis using electromyography and machine learning

Among dimensional models of emotions, two- and three-dimensional are most popular, while the true dimension of affective space is a matter of debates. Here we study the inherent dimension of the emotion space represented in facial expressions, along with the mapping of electromyography (EMG) signals recorded from facial muscles to expressed emotions. For this purpose, an experiment was conducted with parallel EMG recording from three facial muscles (Zygomaticus Major, Corrugator Supercilii, and Masseter) and video registration of the face with automated emotion recognition from the video stream. Data analysis based on machine learning methods confirmed the 3D nature of the affective space (at least its part reflected in facial expressions). This result is consistent with the VAD and PAD models. Possibilities of accounting for complex, higher-order, or social emotions without introducing additional dimensions are discussed. The second finding of this study is the ability to reconstruct all three significant principal components of expressed affects using EMG signals recorded from three facial muscles with the help of machine learning.

Keeping pace with innovations in data visualizations: A commentary for mathematics education in times of crisis.

The mathematical medium of data visualization and other data representations (DV) has served as a primary means of communicating about the COVID-19 crisis. DVs about the pandemic are highly visible across news journalism and include an increasingly innovative and diverse set of representational forms. These representational forms employ multimodal, interactive, and narrative elements, among others, that create new possibilities for data storytelling. Building on current efforts to expand the teaching and learning of data practices in K-12 mathematics education, we argue that innovative DVs create new opportunities for teaching and learning mathematics, particularly during times of crisis. We illustrate our argument using three examples of innovative DVs from news journalism. We discuss how these DVs could serve as complementary resources alongside conventional graphs to support students as they use mathematics and mathematical representations to make sense of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Our commentary seeks to bring current trends in data representation to bear in mathematics education. Leveraging such trends offers artifacts useful for teaching and opens up space for elevating emotion and experience as important aspects of mathematics curricula.

Emoji meanings (pleasure-arousal-dominance dimensions) in consumer research: Between-country and interpersonal differences.

In line with the increasing popularity of emoji, the need for methodological research into these pictorial representations of emotion remains. The present research contributes to this goal by continuing to establish the meaning of emoji and exploring these according to between-country and interpersonal differences. The emoji (n=12) were selected to span the valence × arousal emotion space, and the PAD model (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) was used to establish emoji meaning for the three dimensions, operationalized as measurement on 6×3 semantic differentials. Participants in the main study came from three countries-Germany, Singapore, and Malaysia (n=2465), and a supplementary study included the United Kingdom and New Zealand (n=600) (subset of four emoji). The results confirmed that emoji meanings according to the PAD model were largely similar between countries (albeit not identical). There were multiple minor significant differences for individual emoji, and where these existed, they often related to the dimension of Arousal, prompting a need for further investigation. Interpersonal differences were examined for gender (men and women), age group (18-45 and 46-69 years old), and frequency of emoji use. Again, significant differences were smaller rather than larger and supported the notion that emoji are generally applicable for multicountry research. However, caution regarding the participants who use emoji infrequently may be warranted. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: The findings from this research will help academics and practitioners who are interested in using emoji for sensory and consumer research (or are already doing so) with more robust interpretations of their findings. For a set of 12 emoji that provide broad coverage of the valence × arousal emotional space, meanings are provided on the three dimensions of the PAD model. The data is collected in five countries and contributes to increased confidence that emoji meanings are by and large similar in these countries.

MENUMBUHKAN MINAT KEWIRAUSAHAAN PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID - 19 MELALUI STUDI KELAYAKAN BISNIS

This review plans to cultivate understudy business venture interest during the Coronavirus pandemic through a business attainability study joined with issue based learning. The number of inhabitants in this review were all understudies of the Administration S1 concentrate on program at Triatma Mulya University. The example utilized in this review was chosen utilizing a purposive examining technique, utilizing the models of understudies who have gotten a business attainability concentrate on course. The consequences of the review show that in acknowledging understudy interest in becoming business visionaries, it very well may be done in the educating and learning process with learning techniques that underline business achievability considers, albeit this exploration is restricted to Blossom's intellectual area, the emotional space and psychomotor space play a significant part in molding interest in turning into a business person. The after effects of the meeting show that understudies are keen on becoming business visionaries as well as they have run it, both as ambitious innovators and business visionaries through a business attainability concentrate on that was dissected beforehand, and this review understudies' advantage in business through a business possibility study to turn into a pioneering understudy was effectively made.

Supporting caregivers of children with developmental disabilities: Findings from a brief caregiver well-being programme in South Africa.

Young children with developmental disabilities and delays who live in low- and middle-income countries are at significant risk of not reaching their full potential. We know that daily interactions with their caregivers (parents or other people taking care of them) play an important role in promoting their development. However, having a child with developmental disabilities can have a negative impact on carers' mental health and well-being, which in turn can influence their capacity to care for their children. To date, very little attention has been given to the caregivers' capacity to care. The World Health Organization developed a Caregiver Skills Training programme which includes a brief, three-session module that focuses on improving caregivers' well-being and mental health. This well-being programme is based on acceptance and commitment therapy. Acceptance and commitment therapy shows increasing evidence of helping people respond to their stressors, thoughts, feelings and experiences a little differently and commit to small changes that are in line with their personal values. Acceptance and commitment therapy has shown promise in improving feelings of well-being in caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. We adapted the World Health Organization Caregiver Skills Training Caregiver well-being module to suit the South African context. The resultant 'Well Beans for Caregivers' was then delivered to caregivers from a rural, low-resource setting in South Africa. We found the intervention easy to implement, highly acceptable to caregivers and showed promising impacts on caregivers' well-being and mental health. This intervention has the potential to be implemented widely and sustainably to build caregivers' capacity to care for their children.

ANTHROPONYMY: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSION (A CASE STUDY OF THE CLASSICAL AND MODERN UKRAINIAN PROSE)

The paper provides an analysis of formal and informal anthroponyms that act in the classical and modern Ukrainian prose. A case study of the names given to the characters of the prose works of I. Nechui-Levytskyi, Panas Myrnyi, M. Kulish, H. Tarasiuk, S. Protsiuk, M. Hrymych, M. Kidruk etc. shows how the names serve as means of linguistic expressiveness, reveals the thought and emotional space of the character, his/her personal, national, and religious identity. The object of the study are anthroponyms (formal, hypocoristics, nicknames, pseudonyms) used in the classical and modern texts. The subject of the research are the functional and stylistic opportunities of anthroponyms in fiction, and the linguophilosophical and linguopsychological dimension of proper names. The descriptive method and the method of contextual analysis are used toward the selected material – anthroponymical vocabulary of the Ukrainian fiction. The aim of this research is a functional, stylistic, and linguophilosophical analysis of the formal and informal anthroponymy in its relation to the issues raised by the authors in their prose. We raise a question how a name and the author’s attitude to the character (the holder of that name), a name and perceiving its holder by other characters, a name and self-awareness correlate. An emotional intimacy is emphasized as a factor that motivates people to use informal name variants. Some revealed variants symbolize the adulthood, infantilization, renunciation of the past or trying to preserve it. We uncover the reasons for naming of one character with many names and two characters – with the same name. It is shown how can they make ideological conflicts about the names, why a formal name is not required for the character, and what kind of role can the name variant play in the courtship ritual.

Characterizing Physiological Responses to Fear, Frustration, and Insight in Virtual Reality.

Physiological sensing often complements studies of human behavior in virtual reality (VR) to detect users' affective and cognitive states. Some psychological states, such as fear and frustration, can be particularly hard to differentiate from a physiological perspective as they are close in the arousal and valence emotional space. Moreover, it is largely unclear how users' physiological reactions are expressed in response to transient psychological states such as fear, frustration, and insight-especially since these are rich indicators for characterizing users' responses to dynamic systems but are hard to capture in highly interactive settings. We conducted a study ($N=24$) to analyze participants' pulmonary, electrodermal, cardiac, and pupillary responses to moments of fear, frustration, and insight in immersive settings. Participants interacted in five VR environments, throughout which we measured their physiological reactions and analyzed the patterns we observed. We also measured subjective fear and frustration using questionnaires. We found differences between fear and frustration pupillary, respiratory, and electrodermal responses, as well as between the pupillary changes that followed fear in a horror game and those that followed fear in a vertigo experiment. We present the relationships between fear levels, frustration levels, and their physiological responses. To detect these affective events and states, we introduce user-independent binary classification models that achieved an average micro $F_{1}$ score of 71% for detecting fear in a horror game, 75% for fear of vertigo, 76% for frustration, and 75% for insight, showing the promise for detecting these states from passive and objective signals.

Affectivity of New Media Art Based on the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

With the development of both media and technology, new media technology has cast a significant influence on art creation, creating an aesthetic paradigm different from that of traditional art. Meanwhile, owing to the different aesthetic appeals of the new era, basic components of art, such as content and form, are constantly changing. The ultimate goal of art is to express the artist’s emotions and communicate with the spectator in the same aesthetic flow. Additionally, new media art attempts to convey emotions to the appreciators and provide them a multidimensional aesthetic approach by subverting traditions and innovating in artistic expressions and aesthetic experience. This study aims to explore the aesthetic perception and perception-based emotions in new media art from the perspective of aesthetic experience. Specifically, it applies Dufrenne’s phenomenological aesthetic theory to analyze the aesthetic process. Through the analysis of affectivity in aesethics, the creator’s aprroaches of constructing the emotional aesthetic space, as well as the role of emotions in art creation, is reflected upon to inspire the future affective creation of new media art.

Why freebirth in a maternity system with free midwifery care? A qualitative study of Danish women’s motivations and preparations for freebirth

ObjectiveEven in maternity care systems with free midwifery care, some women intentionally choose to birth unattended by any health professional (freebirth). Women who choose freebirth represent an enigma for many, and a provocation to some. However, people who do not conform to dominant medical practices are a source of valuable insights that can reveal shortcomings in the mainstream health care system. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore and understand women's motivations and preparations for freebirth. MethodsThe study was informed by the theoretical lens of the 'undisciplined patient'. Qualitative, in-depth interviews were performed with ten Danish women, who for their most recent birth had planned to freebirth. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. ResultsFour themes were identified. “The standard system is not for me” describes negative experiences during previous births and the desire for more individualised support. “Re-establishing trust in myself” describes the women's quest for recognizing their own needs and re-building autonomy and inner strength. “I do my research” describes how the women sought new ways of knowing and prioritised experiential knowledge. And finally, “I create my safe space” describes the women's efforts to create the best possible physical and emotional space for themselves and their babies in order to have a safe and autonomous birth experience. ConclusionFreebirth is not undertaken lightly or without preparation by women. Improved continuity of care as well as greater flexibility in hospital guidelines could accommodate some of these women's demand for autonomy in birth.

Understanding information-seeking achievement emotions - exploring a cognitive appraisal theory framework

Given the limited body of literature on information-seeking emotions in library and information science research in general and relative to appraisal theories in an educational context, the findings of this paper will make a valuable conceptual and theoretical contribution to the field. The paper explores a proposed appraisal theory framework for understanding the information-seeking emotions of higher education students in learning and achieving information-seeking skills. Studying this process is crucial for academic success and future research-informed practice. The relevance of applying the framework, Scherer's (2005) semantic space of emotions and Pekrun's (2006) control-value theory of achievement emotions, is presented, elucidated and discussed. Concepts, elements, structure and dynamics of the theories are presented. The framework offers an understanding and explanation of the nature of information-seeking emotions and their interplay with cognitive appraisals in the complex constructivist learning process of achieving information-seeking skills. Viewed together, the framework has the potential to be an appropriate analytical tool to investigate information-seeking emotions in the process of learning and achieving information-seeking skills.

마을교육공동체가 청소년의 학습과 성장에 주는 의미 분석

Objectives This study is to present and explore the impact and meaning of the village education community's activities, which are being carried out beyond schools to villages in the context of educational innovation, on the learning and growth of adolescents, and then attempts to provide implications for the direction of educational innovation. Methods By reviewing preceding researches, this study explores the meaning of the village education community in the context of educational innovation and conducts purposive sampling on Mongsil School, which was judged to be suitable for the purpose of the study, the adolescent self-governing learning place located in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do through study in advance. For about 2 years, participatory observation, ethnographic approach, semi-structured depth interview(39 people including adolescents, young adults and adult activists etc.) and surveys for basic research were conducted simultaneously and the data collected thereby were analyzed with various documents related to the subject of study. Results First, the village education community has become an emotional space where adolescents can rest and be cared for after school. Second, adolescents have formed relationships with the world around them by working with various members other than the school, and through this, they were newly aware of the world and community in which they live, and formed a sense of ownership of the village. Third, the adolescents have been discovering their talents anew and their motivation for learning has been growing, experiencing ‘real learning’ through various challenges and experimental activities in the village education community. And a positive transfer has been taking place in their school life. Conclusions Adolescents have been growing up as subjects of their own lives by experiencing various independent and challenging experiences at the village school, a village education community. This means that the village education community should cooperate and support the whole development of adolescents along with school education, as the saying goes, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. Schools also need to play the role of lifelong education institutions in the local community through spatial restructuring. The results of this study imply a lot to the direction of education innovation after.

Image analysis of educational space for the 5-year-old through the painting of the early childhood teacher

본 연구는 유아교사의 그림 그리기에 나타난 만 5세 유아의 교육 공간 이미지를 알아보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 이를 위해 19명의 유아교사를 대상으로 만 5세 유아의 교육 공간에 대한 그림 그리기와 집단 면담 자료를 수집하였고, 자료에 대한 내용분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 유아교사들이 가지고 있는 만 5세 유아의 교육 공간에 대한 이미지는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 개방적인 물리적 공간으로 나타났다. 둘째, 온화하고 사랑이 넘치는 정서적 공간으로 나타났다. 셋째, 민주적인 분위기의 사회적 공간으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 교육현장에서 만 5세를 담당해 본 유아교사의 만 5세 유아의 교육 공간 이미지를 분석함으로써 만 5세 유아에게 교육기관의 공간이 갖는 중요성을 고찰해 보았다는 데 의의가 있다.The purpose of this study was to find out the image of the educational space of a 5-year-old children in the painting of an early childhood teacher. To this extend, 19 early childhood teachers collected drawing and group interview data on the educational space of 5-year-old children, and analyzed the contents of the data. As a result of the analysis, the image of the educational space for 5-year-old children held by early childhood teachers is as follows. Firstly, it appeared as an open physical space. Secondly, it conveyed as a gentle and loving emotional space. Thirdly, it suggested as a social space with a democratic atmosphere. This study is meaningful in that it examines the importance of educational space for 5-year-old children in institutions by analyzing the image of educational space of early childhood teachers in the educational field.

HOW TO STUDY EMOTIONS IN THE (POLISH) ENLIGHTENMENT?

The affective turn is one of the well-visible so-called twists in contemporary cultural research, which also has clear repercussions for literary research. The literature discussing the phenomenon itself, especially using the methodological solutions introduced by this phrase, is extensive. These methodological solutions are particularly willingly applied to new and newest phenomena, emerging and taking place since the middle of the 20th century. However, contemporary affective research largely grows out of an interest in the emotions of old times, to refer to the works of Barbara Rosenwein. Thus, it seems fully justified to look at the broadly understood emotional phenomena in the 18th century using methods falling within the framework of the affective turn. Of course, the affective turn will not contribute to discovering the existence of new emotions in the Enlightenment Age, because research into the emotionality of this period has a long tradition, especially in the study of sentimentalism. This term prompts reflection on the network of concepts and terms in the field of emotions concerning various cultures and literature of the 18th century. The essential part of this paper is an attempt to answer the questions about what testimonies of Polish 18th-century emotionality are at our disposal today and with what methods they can be interpreted. In other words, it will be an attempt to consider what we can see – thanks to the sensitivity to emotions, also related to the methods of affective turn – in the emotional (mainly textual, but also, for example, iconic) Polish space of the second half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Abstract I offer a reading of the opening chapter of Julia Alvarez’s novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) through Bill Ashcroft’s approach to “transcultural presence.” I argue that Alvarez’s opening chapter casts the experience of transcultural presence as a complex and conflicted emotional space that challenges the reader’s appreciation of belonging beyond received interpretative frameworks. I further draw on Sten Pulz Moslund’s theoretical engagement with the “presencing” of place through a “topopoetic mode of reading.” I propose that the presencing of place in the opening chapter of Alvarez’s novel encourages a located, embodied way of reading transformative moments of transcultural presence. Finally, I suggest that Alvarez’s ethics of postcolonial, transcultural writing encourages what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has referred to as “reparative reading.” “Reparative reading” is illustrated in terms of the literary text’s opening up toward the “volume” of transcultural complexity, an opening up that calls for self-reflexive interpretative caution and care for locative particularity when engaging with transcultural literature.

Insurgency and Migration: Examining the Experiences of Home and Belonging among Non-Migrant Kashmiri Pandits Living in Indian Administered Kashmir

ABSTRACT This study examines how non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits from the upper caste Hindu community construct the meaning of home and belonging via their lived experiences in relation to the insurgency of 1989 in Kashmir which led to the migration of their community. Literature indicates the meaning of the loss of home and belonging migrant Kashmiri Pandits construct while living in the host places yet the least scholarship is available for non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits. An interpretative phenomenological approach was used to explore the experiences of the participants. A total of 19 participants were selected purposively for the present study. Participants described their experiences pre- and post-insurgency period of 1989. The analysis of the data resulted in two subordinate themes: home and belonging as an emotional space and home and belonging as a socio-political space. These findings, which are based on a phenomenological approach, help to better comprehend the feeling of being a non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit and the anguish that comes with conflict-induced migration.

The Role of Journalism Teachers in the Media Literacy Development

The study aimed to test the effectiveness of the introduction of mediatized materials and methods for developing teachers’ media literacy in advanced training courses. The methodological background of the work involved the ideas of systemic, culturological, environmental, and learner-centered approaches. The data was collected through a questionnaire to identify teachers’ preference for media technologies. The questionnaire questions were divided into blocks according to the criteria for assessing the teacher’s media culture level. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used for data analysis. The study allows concluding that media culture is a determinant of the teacher’s qualification portrait at the current stage of education. It is determined that the high level of media culture allows the teacher to navigate in the media environment as a specifically organized symbolic visual and emotional space; design their professional activities in the field of media education by creating new information and knowledge with the help of available tools and media formats; choose effective strategies for students self-learning in the media space.

Investigation of Relationships between Discrete and Dimensional Emotion Models in Affective Picture Databases Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

Digital documents created to evoke emotional responses are intentionally stored in special affective multimedia databases, along with metadata describing their semantics and emotional content. These databases are routinely used in multidisciplinary research on emotion, attention, and related phenomena. Affective dimensions and emotion norms are the most common emotion data models in the field of affective computing, but they are considered separable and not interchangeable. The goal of this study was to determine whether it is possible to statistically infer values of emotionally annotated pictures using the discrete emotion model when the values of the dimensional model are available and vice versa. A positive answer would greatly facilitate stimuli retrieval from affective multimedia databases and the integration of heterogeneous and differently structured affective data sources. In the experiment, we built a statistical model to describe dependencies between discrete and dimensional ratings using the affective picture databases NAPS and NAPS BE with standardized annotations for 1356 and 510 pictures, respectively. Our results show the following: (1) there is a statistically significant correlation between certain pairs of discrete and dimensional emotions in picture stimuli, and (2) robust transformation of picture ratings from the discrete emotion space to well-defined clusters in the dimensional space is possible for some discrete-dimensional emotion pairs. Based on our findings, we conclude that a feasible recommender system for affective dataset retrieval can be developed. The software tool developed for the experiment and the results are freely available for scientific and non-commercial purposes.

Assessment of the Patient's Emotional Response with the RobHand Rehabilitation Platform: A Case Series Study.

Cerebrovascular accidents have physical, cognitive and emotional effects. During rehabilitation, the main focus is placed on motor recovery, yet the patient’s emotional state should also be considered. For this reason, validating robotic rehabilitation systems should not only focus on their effectiveness related to the physical recovery but also on the patient’s emotional response. A case series study has been conducted with five stroke patients to assess their emotional response towards therapies using RobHand, a robotic hand rehabilitation platform. Emotional state was evaluated in three dimensions (arousal, valence and dominance) using a computer-based Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) test. It was verified that the emotions induced by the RobHand platform were successfully distributed in the three-dimensional emotional space. The increase in dominance and the decrease in arousal during sessions reflects that patients had become familiar with the rehabilitation platform, resulting in an increased feeling of control and finding the platform less attractive. The results also reflect that patients found a therapy based on a virtual environment with a realistic scenario more pleasant and attractive.