"Living as Data"

Collaboration: Heidi Stokes & Arunav Das

About This Project

"Living as Data" began with a genuine desire to understand how AI perceives emotions. In collaboration with Arunav Das, a doctoral researcher at King's College, this project evolved into an effort to document and visually represent AI's growing understanding of human emotions.

Introduction to "Living as Data"

This opening film introduces the central questions driving the project: How can AI comprehend and express human emotions? By blending research insights with visual storytelling, this piece sets the stage for the films and artworks that follow.


Collaborators

Heidi Stokes

Heidi Stokes - Multimedia Artist

Heidi Stokes is a multimedia artist with an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins. Her work spans various media, including film, drawing, collage, animation, interactive touch boards, and more recently explores themes related to technology and society.

Arunav Das

Arunav Das - PhD Researcher

Arunav Das is a PhD researcher in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. Arunav holds an MSc in Data Science (Distinction) from City University, London; an MBA (Distinction) from Warwick Business School; and a B.E. Metallurgical from NIT, India.


Project Pages

Click any image to explore that section of the project.

Investigating AI understanding of emotions
2. Investigating AI's Understanding of Emotions
Investigating AI understanding of emotions
2. Investigating AI's Understanding of Emotions
Developing the multimodal graph
3. Developing the Multimodal Graph
Comparative studies Replika
4. Comparative Studies: Replika vs. Superintelligence
Copilot vs Replika
5. Copilot vs. Replika
EVI exploring AI empathy
6. EVI: Exploring AI Empathy Through Personality
Bridging the gap Woebot Health
7. Bridging the Gap: Woebot Health
Woebot expanded
8. Woebot Health (Expanded)
Navigating the Uncanny Valley
9. Navigating the Uncanny Valley
Dimensional Empathy Framework
10. The Uncanny Valley: Dimensional Empathy
Tactile Thresholds
11. Tactile Thresholds: NFC Integration
AI Information Processing
12. AI Information Processing & Modes of Perception
Embodied Without a Body
13. "Embodied Without a Body"
Let's Read
14. Let's Read