The purpose of this thesis is to explore how a web-based image visualisation interface can be designed to complement an existing product. To achieve this purpose a study was conducted at Narrative, a small independent developer. Their newly released product, the Narrative-clip, is a small automatic camera that takes two pictures every minute. The camera is accompanied by cloud storage functiona...

This article analyzes published news about ‘Paraná 12 Meses’, a project developed for small rural producers, with the purpose of understanding problem space occupied by actors involved, since proposal was joint construction communities. Qualitative research carried out based on discourse analysis in newspapers that cover three historical regions territory Paraná. The objective to verify whether...

From early on in his thinking, Sigmund Freud was attentive to the issue of helplessness in psychic functioning. Whereas Freud linked helplessness primarily to the affect of anxiety, later theoreticians like Edward Bibring conceptualized it as linked to depressive affects. The idea that helplessness is connected to depression is now well established in both psychiatry and psychology. Within a co...

Fundamental frequency (F0) control models for singing voices are required to construct singing-voice synthesis systems that can generate natural singing-voices. This paper describes the development of an F0 control model for singing-voices synthesis. F0 fluctuations are revealed as characteristics that need to control the F0 contour of singing-voices by investigating how much they influence sin...

Across the United States veterans’ writing groups have provided spaces for veterans to write about war and military service, reflect, heal, release stress, create work that they share with family, fellow veterans, sometimes larger audiences, in form of public readings, literary journals, book publications. In this roundtable, a multivoiced narrative includes two civilian group leader voic...

This report captures stories told by key stakeholders involved in the development and current offering of the Change Lab program. It attempts to honor the voices of many (but not all) of those involved in its inception including former and current students who conceived of this form of undergraduate education in the fi rst place. These players (co-authors on this chapter) act either as leaders ...

Manipulations of voice pitch have been shown to alter attractiveness ratings, but whether preferences extend to very low or very high voice pitch is unknown. Here, we manipulated voice pitch in averaged men's and women's voices by 2 Hz intervals to create a range of male and female voices speaking monopthong vowel sounds and spanning a range of frequencies from normal to very low and very high ...

In noisy situations with competing voices, people often find it easier to hear out and recognize what familiar voices say. However, people with hearing loss report difficulties in utilizing this ability in situations with competing voices. This research investigates if hearing devices can learn and utilize voice characteristics to separate voices, and furthermore, if presenting the separated vo...