Content tagged "emotion"

Posted by Ainsley Sutherland S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: computing, culture, emotion, empathy, empathy machine, virtual reality

Staged Empathy: Empathy and Visual Perception in Virtual Reality Systems

Ainsley Sutherland’s thesis proposes “staged empathy” as a new analytical framework to examine how virtual reality work provokes empathic feeling.
Posted by Julia Duke SM, Science Writing, 2014
Topics: animal welfare, animals, Brookfield Zoo, emotion, technology, zoos

The Beast Within: Measuring the Minds of Zoo Animals

Researchers at Brookfield Zoo have developed a unique tool for studying welfare based on the idea that animals have emotions that can and should be ascertained–and that keepers, those who spend long periods of time with the animals, have the ability to tell how their animals are feeling.