Computational Paradigm to Elucidate the Effects of Arts-Based Approaches and Interventions

We introduce and present our computational research method for elucidating and analyzing emergent expressive and social behaviors, aiming to understand how arts-based approaches and interventions operate. Our methodology, which centers on the visual language of Statecharts and tools for its execution, enables rigorous qualitative and quantitative tracking, analysis and documentation of the underlying creation and interaction processes. Also, it enables one to carry out exploratory, hypotheses-generating and knowledge discovery investigations, which are empirical-based. Furthermore, we illustrate our method’s use in a proof-of-principle study, applying it to a real-world artwork investigation with human participants. We explore individual and collective emergent behaviors impacted by diverse drawing tasks, yielding significant gender and age hypotheses, which may account for variation factors in response to art use.

This clip is based on our paper:
Sandak, B., Huss, E., Sarid, O. and Harel, D. (2015). Computational Paradigm to Elucidate the Effects of Arts-Based Approaches and Interventions: Individual and Collective Emerging Behaviors in Artwork Construction. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0126467.

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