As researchers, we must take the first step of always remaining critical of the degree to which our data represents the ‘public’ and being aware of the conscious or unconscious decisions that have gone into generating the datasets our work
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The Many Faces of the Metropolis: Unsupervised Clustering Of Urban Environments In Mumbai Based On Visual Features As Captured In City-wide Street-view Imagery The larger visual identity of a city is often a blend of smaller and distinct visual character
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The Tourist’s Image of the City: A comparative analysis of the visual features and textual themes of interest across three global metropolises Tourist attractions play a major role in shaping ‘mental images’ of cities. The growing availability of urban big-data
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Note: An updated version of this work has been published by the Cognitive Science Society, and can be accessed here. It’s a jungle out there. But at the end of the day, its just a game of numbers. So here’s
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‘Subjectivity’ and the Designer’s Intuition The emotional or ‘affective’ qualities of space have long been referred to as ‘intangible’ and ‘subjective’ aspects that cannot easily be empirically analyzed. Designers thus rely heavily on their own intuitive processes when dealing with
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The product of a few fleeting moments of creativity on the terrace. Lady in Black Lyrics: Amidst the pretty lil flowers, Bathed in early morning showers, Through the tiny lil frocks And those curly lil locks, She walks through
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For the past couple of months, I’ve been engaged in development of a machine learning driven design assistance framework for the affective analysis of spatial enclosures. The framework relies on data pertaining to emotional response patterns in spatial enclosures which
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The tomb of Nasiruddin Mahmud, eldest son of Iltutmish, is arguably the first monumental islamic tomb to have been constructed on Indian soil. Tucked away from public view, barely a hundred meters off the Mehrauli Mahipalpur Road, this monument is
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In May 2019, I presented a body of research titled “An Empirical Inquiry into the Affective Qualities of Virtual Spatial Enclosures in Head Mounted Display driven VR Systems: The Logic at Work Behind the Magic of Space” at the 7th eCAADe Regional
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My research paper titled: An Empirical Inquiry into the Perceptual Qualities of Spatial Enclosures in Head Mounted Display Driven VR Systems was published at the joint conference of eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in europe) and
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