Beyond Display: Crafting Emotional Journeys for Belonging and Connectivity

In bustling urban areas like Manhattan, New York, the majority of interactions between individuals occur amidst the whirlwind of daily life. Yet, there is an absence of genuine connections within local communities, particularly among neighbors who are geographically close, creating a sense of detachment, untrusting, and anonymity. This thesis involves exploring innovative interventions with the ultimate goal of uncovering novel possibilities in interactive exhibitions, distinct from traditional displays. All of this is an effort to curate emotional journeys that transcend routine, fostering vibrant community belonging and connectivity. Against the backdrop of the city’s vertical living, where neighbor encounters are often confined to elevators and lobbies, stands Manhattan House, comprising five distinct towers enveloping a shared park. Its rooftop, serving as a horizontal connector, transcends the vertical boundaries of the towers, providing a communal space where residents from disparate units can forge relationships with each other, regardless of their usual elevator and lobby routes – however, these connections seldom form. The following book proposes an innovative concept, that envisions the exhibition as the gathering of individuals, transcending traditional boundaries of static displays. This design strategy will not only provide spaces for introspection through personal artifacts belonging to residents, but also facilitate dynamic communal activities, thereby weaving together the fabric of Manhattan Houses community group through shared experiences and storytelling. The restored roof terrace becomes a public living room and will now also serve as a repository of the building\u27s rich history, transporting residents back to the time when this historic structure was built. By showcasing the building\u27s past, these methods aim to strengthen the connection of residents to their shared heritage. Residents will come together in these shared spaces and curate emotional journeys that foster connectivity, a sense of belonging, and community pride, transforming strangers into familiar faces and enriching the social fabric of urban living

Vehicle emission and atmospheric pollution in China: problems, progress, and prospects

China has been the largest vehicle market in the world since 2009. The stalemate between the rapid development of the vehicle industry and delayed vehicle emission control has become increasingly prominent. Vehicle emission has become a significant source of air pollution in China’s cities. Understanding the current barriers in the vehicle industry is necessary for the development of effective and sustainable measures and policy to manage vehicle-induced air pollution. This review provides insight into the circumstances and causes of vehicle-induced air pollution and outlines recent progress in policy-makers’ long-term strategies and regulations. The development of an integrated mechanism of social participation, technical revolution, and regulatory innovation in vehicles, fuel, and roads is suggested to break the stalemate between air pollution and the automobile boom in China; the implications of this review extend to other countries facing the similar atmospheric pollution problems

Evaluation of electrical capacitance tomography sensors for concentric annulus

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) sensor is commonly used with circular or square pipes or vessels. In this paper, an ECT sensor of concentric annulus shape is presented. To investigate the effect of the configuration of electrodes and the measuring strategy on the quality of reconstructed images, the ECT sensors with internal-external electrodes (IEE) and external electrodes (EE) are investigated. For the IEE sensor, six different measuring strategies are considered. The capacitance between different electrode pairs is calculated for some typical permittivity distributions using a finite element method (FEM). The obtained capacitance data are then used to reconstruct images using Landweber iteration algorithm. The sensitivity distributions for the IEE and EE sensors are analyzed. Simulation results show that the IEE sensor with 12 external electrodes and four internal electrodes combining with an external-opposite strategy can reconstruct good images for most permittivity distributions. © 2001-2012 IEEE

Modeling Empathetic Alignment in Conversation

Empathy requires perspective-taking: empathetic responses require a person to reason about what another has experienced and communicate that understanding in language. However, most NLP approaches to empathy do not explicitly model this alignment process. Here, we introduce a new approach to recognizing alignment in empathetic speech, grounded in Appraisal Theory. We introduce a new dataset of over 9.2K span-level annotations of different types of appraisals of a person's experience and over 3K empathetic alignments between a speaker's and observer's speech. Through computational experiments, we show that these appraisals and alignments can be accurately recognized. In experiments in over 9.2M Reddit conversations, we find that appraisals capture meaningful groupings of behavior but that most responses have minimal alignment. However, we find that mental health professionals engage with substantially more empathetic alignment.Comment: Camera-ready version for NAACL 202

Quantitative Measurement of Two-phase Flow by Electrical Capacitance Tomography Based on 3D Coupling Field Simulation

Measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow parameters such as Gas Void Fraction (GVF) and phase distribution plays a vital role in oil and gas industries. To quantitatively evaluate the performance of Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) for measuring the complex dynamic oil-gas two-phase flows, a three-dimensional fluid dynamics-electrostatic field coupling model (3D-FECM) is proposed in this paper. Coupling simulation are carried out with a 12-electrode ECT sensor. Utilizing the 3D-FECM, the dynamic oil-gas two-phase flows and instantaneous ECT measurements are simultaneously obtained. Two GVF measurement approaches, i.e. the capacitance-based method and the image-based method, are used to calculate GVF. The permittivity distribution is reconstructed by using Linear Back Projection (LBP) and Landweber iteration. The capacitances with signal-noise ratios (SNRs) of 40 and 60 dB are generated for comparison and verification. Evaluation results show that the structural similarity between the ground truth and the reconstructed images using noise-free data by Landweber iteration are better than 0.765, while those by LBP are higher than 0.754, the noise with SNR of 60 dB has no obvious effect on the performance of image reconstruction, and the full-scale error of the image-based GVF prediction using 60 dB noisy data is within -0.82% to +6.09%, slightly better than that of the capacitance-based GVF results (i.e. -1.16% to +7.63%).</p

Global Weinstein Type Theorem on Multiple Rotating Periodic Solutions for Hamiltonian Systems

This paper concerns the existence of multiple rotating periodic solutions for $2n$ dimensional convex Hamiltonian systems. For the symplectic orthogonal matrix $Q$, the rotating periodic solution has the form of $z(t+T)=Qz(t)$, which might be periodic, anti-periodic, subharmonic or quasi-periodic according to the structure of $Q$. It is proved that there exist at least $n$ geometrically distinct rotating periodic solutions on a given convex energy surface under a pinched condition, so our result corresponds to the well known Ekeland and Lasry's theorem on periodic solutions. It seems that this is the first attempt to solve the symmetric quasi-periodic problem on the global energy surface. In order to prove the result, we introduce a new index on rotating periodic orbits.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.0583