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“Revisiting and Reinventing the Technique of Kevin Gemin.” I am presenting a creative project to develop a short animation based on the work of Kevin Gemin, a French animator. The main purpose of this creative project proposal is to understand the animating technique of Kevin Gemin, and how he uses the somewhat unusual program of Flipnote Studio1 for his work. The impact of this technique is defined by its frame-by-frame method, and how the work of this artist can be applied today to Nintendo 3DS, 3D animation and gamin consoles. A fundamental goal of this project is to implement Gemin’s animation technique in the narrative of the short animation sequential process and how this process will help me to craft my own style of storyboarding and concept art. The goals of my project are to: ● Develop a character based on his animations in 2D and 3D, and how he is multifaceted for multiple media: video games, cinematic, and Virtual Reality. ● Study transition effects in the video animations, and how they help to enhance the animation narrative. ● Study and apply Kevin Gemin’s visual effects in his animated sequences and cinematic videos, such as Fade In Fade Out, Blinds, Dissolve, etc. The project will help me expand my knowledge and skill set as an artist and animator. 1 Flipnote Studio allows the user to create both word and picture-based notes with the stylus, add sound, and put them together to create frame-by-frame flipbook-style animations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipnote_Studiohttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1012/thumbnail.jp

Kyler Hudson is a junior at IPFW, majoring in history and political science. His historical interests include WWI, presidential politics, and the Supreme Court. He plans on completing his undergraduate degrees next spring and is currently contemplating law school. He hopes to remain in the Fort Wayne area, ideally finding a position at a law office or local television station

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23 and 7/8u22 x 27 and ¾u22. Diapositives, paper, Plexiglas, hex bolts with washers, and cap screws mounted on Gatorfoam. German silver frame.http://opus.ipfw.edu/haecceities_facgallery/1086/thumbnail.jp

Social networks play an important role in connecting people and facilitating human social interaction. Influence can spread through a social network. “Word-of-mouth” and “viral marketing” effects have been widely exploited to promote new products and technological innovations. For example, when an individual adopts a new product and finds it useful, she or he would recommend it to her or his friends and colleagues. One of this individual’s friends takes the advice, and may also feel excited about the product and spread the words about it to her or his own friends. In such a way, social influence can help diffuse new products or ideas. Modeling the spread of influence in social networks is valuable to computer science because of its relevance to digital networks (e.g., online social networks), but this research also holds importance in other fields, such as epidemiology, physics, and social sciences. The goal of this work is to derive a mathematical model that can accurately predict the influence of individuals in social networks. Such an accurate model can help computer scientists in designing new network protocols, structures, and policies to facilitate the spread of influence or information. Previous works on modeling the spread of influence assume the status of a single node in the network is independent of the status of other nodes in the network. In social networks, this is not true. For example, two friends in a social network tend to both either favor a product or reject it, meaning that the two individuals are spatially related to each other. In our work, we investigate the spread of influence in social networks using a Markov model, which assumes that neighboring nodes are spatially dependent on each other. To simulate the spread of influence in a social network, we use several generated network topologies and a real co-authorship network of scientists working on network theory, where the relationship between nodes is that author X wrote a joint work with author Y. We develop simulation tools in C++ to replicate influence diffusion through these networks. Our results show that our proposed Markov model predicts the spread of influence in a social network better than previously proposed models. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in studying the spatial dependence among nodes to describe influence dissemination.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1042/thumbnail.jp

During the Rwandan genocide, over 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives over the course of just 100 days. From early April to early July 1994, the Rwandan government, headed by extremist Hutu military leaders, ordered the extermination of Rwandan Tutsis along with moderate Hutus. In addition to mass extermination, the government ordered a campaign of terror and violence; victims faced unimaginable atrocities such as torture, rape, and witnessing the deaths of people they knew. Only after the Rwandan Patriotic Front seized control of Rwanda did the genocide stop. Despite its short duration, the genocide continued to affect the survivors, even after many years had passed. Organizations such as the United Nations conducted interviews of the survivors in the years following the genocide. Numerous survivors had their interviews recorded in order to have a more complete perspective of what transpired during the Rwandan Genocide, in the hope of seeing perpetrators brought to justice. The experiences repeatedly recounted in the testimonies--seeing the murders of fellow Rwandans, the uncertainty regarding the murders, exposure to other violent acts, such as genocidal rape caused survivors excruciating psychological trauma. Research conducted found that survivors’ mental health was negatively affected by the genocide. In particular, gender played a role in survivors’ mental health; female survivors had a higher probability of developing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder than male survivors. In the testimonies, survivors of both genders referenced the negative impact mass violence and rape had on women. But while female survivors described their experiences during the genocide, such as genocidal rape, male survivors lamented on witnessing the effects of the genocide on their female family members. Female survivors have suffered the greatest long term physical and psychological trauma, that until recently has not been looked at. This finding potentially impacts the way that survivors of a genocide receive treatment.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1003/thumbnail.jp

In the child developmental literature, parental mind-mindedness (or parentsu27 tendency to represent their child in terms of their mental processes) has been found to predict differences in attachment security (e.g., Laranjo, Bernier u26 Meins, 2008; Lundy, 2003). Secure infant attachment relationships appear to be associated with their parentsu27 ability to consider their childu27s mental processes. Research looking at adults use of mind-mindedness in relation to their attachment representations of their significant other has not yet been conducted. It is plausible that, secure attachment representations in adults may be similarly linked to their ability to describe their significant others in terms of mental characteristics (compared to behavioral or physical characteristics). The present research examines the relationship between adultsu27 attachment representations and the use of mental attributes to describe their current romantic partner. We hypothesized that individuals with secure attachments would provide more mental descriptors of their current romantic partners, while those with insecure representations were expected to use fewer mental (and more physical and behavioral) descriptors. We found a significant association between secure representations and the use of mental attributes to describe participant’s current romantic partner. Adults with fearful and preoccupied representations provided fewer mental comments and more behavioral descriptors. Adultsu27 descriptions of romantic partners (mental versus behavioral or physical attributes) are significantly associated with attachment representations. This study suggests that mind-mindedness, interpreting the behavior of one’s significant other in terms of their mental states, is related to attachment representations. The findings suggest that adultsu27 ability to connect with their romantic partneru27s mental processes may facilitate or be facilitated by their attachment representations.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1010/thumbnail.jp

Identity deception is common online; however, most people (both college students and MTurkers, N = 262) believed an online confederate posing as a 13-year-old in a chat room. A well-developed online persona that uses both content and stylistic cues to portray age and gender may be effective for category deception

Newton’s Constant of Universal Gravitation is used in the calculation of gravitational attraction between any two or more objects. In this experiment, we use a rotating torsional pendulum, different sized masses, and an optical lever to determine the value of this constant. After accounting for additional forces acting on our masses and various sources of error, we determined our most precise measurement for the constant of universal gravitation to be 6.4110-11 ± 5.1610-13 m3kg−1s−2. This measurement, given the NIST CODATA value of 6.6740810-11 m3kg−1s−2, was 5.1 times our uncertainty

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I call the key cognitive move in processing allegory “gist projection”: the reader extracts a “gist” from the literal level of the text and projects that meaning to an outside target domain. Because the text includes no language directly referring to that target, a reader’s ability to recognize the presence of allegory occurs through an intuitive flash of understanding. In typical allegorical texts, authors spark this allegorical intuition in readers by including disruptive details—for example, references that allude to a situation outside the text, that undermine the reader’s expectations, or that create noticeable discontinuities within the text. Once the allegorical intuition has been activated, the reader begins problem-solving, summarizing the gist of the text and testing its application to hypothesized target domains. But to the extent that authors grasp how allegory works cognitively, they can play with these readerly expectations, as we see in two recent novels that undermine the traditional literary uses of allegorical intuition. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel avoids activating the allegorical intuition by providing naturalistic explanations for details such as the presence of animals on the boat with Pi. Therefore, the reader, who ordinarily might interpret animal characters with reference to allegorical beast fable, instead reads this as a non-allegorical narrative, until the end of the book, when Pi provides an allegorical reading in which the animal characters represent humans. In contrast, in The City and the City, China Mieville plays with the reader’s allegorical intuition by activating it with strange details and then offering no clear target domain for projection. The strangeness of the story, of two cities inhabiting the same space, suggests political allegory, but the novel resists allegorical interpretation. The “weird” experience of reading these books derives in part from the unusual ways the authors manipulate their readers’ allegorical intuitions

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Creative project abstract: “Compositional Comic Book. Exploring Roy Lichtenstein’s style through a sequential and storyboarding graphic format.” I am presenting Creative project allowing me to research and understand Roy Lichtenstein’s use of lines, colors, and design to create a comic book while allowing myself to experiment and design my own story based on his use of different emotional effects between pieces. The goals of my project: 1. Develop character(s) based on one piece of his work and apply the technique that he uses within that piece. 2. Study and illustrate use of his strokes while allowing myself to possibly understand his work in another medium 3. Study and use the visual effects that Lichtenstein is able to replicate in animation and motion graphics. The conclusion of this creative project will greatly impact in my future professional work as, not only an animator, but an illustrator as well to better understand how to become successful at telling a story while having a muse for a jumping point and, in the future, allowing me to create works through inspiration

Theory of mind (ToM, or the tendency to consider the mental processes of others; Astington, 2003) has been linked to important social-relationship skills within the developmental literature (Hughes u26 Dunn, 1998; Keenan, 2003; Lalonde u26 Chandler, 1995; Peterson u26 Siegal, 2002; Slaughter, Dennis, u26 Pritchard, 2002; Watson, Nixon, Wilson, u26 Capage, 1999). The findings of a recent study suggest, however, that childrenu27s ToM may also be linked to more negative social characteristics (Sutton, Smith u26 Swettenham, 1999). Few studies have examined links between adult ToM and various types of social-personality characteristics. Given the recent findings of the link between childrenu27s ToM and manipulation, adultsu27 ToM was explored in relation to negative attributes (i.e., machiavellianism). The purpose of the present research was to examine adultsu27 level of engagement in ToM in relation to negative social-personality characteristics in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). It was hypothesized that individuals with higher levels of ToM would be more likely to engage in negative personality characteristics, while those who reported lower levels of ToM would not. The relations among adultsu27 ToM and negative (e.g., machiavellianism) social-personality characteristics were assessed using a sample of 123 undergraduate students (80 males and 43 females). Participants completed the Imposing Memories Task (IMT, a measure of ToM) and the Dirty Dozen (DD; Jonason u26 Webster, 2010), two tasks that have been used in previous literature. Unlike some of the recent developmental research which we used to construct our hypothesis, we found that adultsu27 ToM scores were inversely related to negative personality characteristics, such as manipulation (machiavellianism, r =-.22, pu3c.01), narcissism (r=-.16, pu3c.05) and psychopathy (r=.26, pu3c.005). In other words, adults who scored higher on the ToM tasks were less likely to engage in negative personality characteristics (machiavellianism and narcissism). This suggests a positive link between childrenu27s ToM and negative characteristics (e.g., machiavellianism). The present findings contribute to the understanding of adult ToM in relation to social-personality characteristics. This is important because the use of ToM can help understand and predict bullying. Further research is needed to study the relations among these variables in real life situations.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1001/thumbnail.jp

From Felix the Cat to Judy Hopps, the animation industry is full of anthropomorphic animal characters. For my poster presentation, I will make a comprehensive study that explores both the history of these characters and the success of their designs. In doing this, I will be putting a spotlight on why these types of characters exist, as well as the influence they’ve had on their audience. Here is what I’ll need to do to achieve that goal: z 1. Study the origins and history of these characters.2. Analyze several different characters’ personality and design.3. Compare and contrast anthropomorphic characters to similar human characters in how they exchange behavioral, psychological, and acting performances. 4. Replicate analytic findings with one or more example characters. This project will help me grow as an animator in a professional setting, as so many large animation companies use these characters for their projects. Additionally, the conclusion of this project will be applied to other creative endeavors outside of animation such as character design for animal-based costumes and animal characters in comics and graphic novels.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1026/thumbnail.jp

Flow has been conceptualized as an intrinsically rewarding state of optimal experience that is enjoyable and uplifting. People who experience flow become so absorbed in what they are doing they lose temporal and self-awareness. Flow has been associated with a host of positive emotional and behavioral outcomes. In an effort to understand the determinants of flow, much research has focused on personality traits. For example, several studies have shown that people who are extraverted tend to exhibit high flow propensity, while introverts tend to exhibit relatively less flow propensity. We think this extraversion-flow link is potentially misguided because it does not consider the powerful role that situations can play in determining a wide-range of psychological states, including the extent to which introverts and extraverts experience flow. Our main proposition is that extraverts will tend to experience greater flow in group situations and less flow in solitary situations, while introverts will tend to experience greater flow in solitary situations, and less flow in group situations. We also explored several other potential personality-situation interactions on flow propensity. To test our predictions, we asked participants (N = 195) to complete an online questionnaire. They completed a measure of introversion-extraversion and other personality traits. They then completed two measures of flow (The Flow Questionnaire, the Flow Proneness Questionnaire). Finally, participants indicated the extent to which they had experienced flow in 25 different situations, including social group situations (e.g., attending a concert with friends, going to a party), and solitary situations (e.g., reading an enjoyable book, writing a research paper). Our primary hypotheses were supported. Extraverts were significantly more likely to experience flow in social group situations than in solitary situations, while introverts were significantly more likely to experience flow in solitary situation than in social group situations. We also identified several other interesting personalitysituation interactions on flow propensity. Research suggests that flow is psychologically healthy state. It is therefore useful to identify the variables that determine or predict flow. Rather than emphasizing the role of personality characteristics, which is the dominant focus amongst flow scholars, our research suggests that a concurrent consideration of both personality and situational forces is necessary to fully understand the dynamics of flow.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1005/thumbnail.jp

A pseudoholomorphic curve, or J-holomorphic curve, is a differentiable map from a Riemann surface to a manifold with almost complex structure J, that satisfies an analogue of the Cauchy-Riemann equations. When J is smooth, pseudoholomorphic curves have well-known regularity and uniqueness properties. I will survey what can happen when J is only continuous or satisfies a Hölder condition

It has been established that the personality traits of openness and agreeableness are inversely associated with prejudice. We propose that these personality traits also influence group-based memories. In general, people have better memories for a person’s traits when those traits fit a stereotype (e.g., Linda the librarian was quiet). This is called the stereotype-consistency effect. Because people high in openness are less likely to rely on heuristic processing of information (quick, automatic thinking), we hypothesized that they would be less prone to the stereotype-consistency effect. In addition, because highly agreeable people tend to be interpersonally sensitive and non-judgmental, we hypothesized that they also would be less prone to the stereotype consistency effect. To test our predictions, we asked 282 participants to complete established measures of openness and agreeableness. They were then presented with a story about a White American, African American, or Hispanic American person (randomly determined). The person exhibited multiple positive and negative attributes that were stereotypical and non-stereotypical of each ethnic group. Lastly, participants were asked to recall the person’s traits. Our primary hypotheses were supported. Both openness and agreeableness were significant predictors of accurate recall of positive traits associated with outgroup members, and fewer errors when assigning negative stereotypic “decoy” attributes to the target person. Our research demonstrates that some basic personality traits may play a significant role in understanding memory biases associated with social stereotypes. Our research contributes to recent efforts to integrate personality and situational factors that influence intergroup relations