Stanley Serafin
Biographic Data
| ID | 134849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Serafin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Serafin |
| SIGNATURE | SERAFIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6971-1132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archaeological Perspectives on Confronting Social Change at the Sixteenth-Century Visita Town of Hunacti, Yucatán - Erratum
Archaeological Perspectives on Confronting Social Change at the Sixteenth-Century Visita Town of Hunacti, Yucatán
How did resource use, trade, and patterns of everyday life change at visita mission towns in the early decades of the colonial period in northern Yucatán, Mexico? We consider this question with an analysis of archaeological material assemblages from the site of Hunacti, occupied from 1557 to 1572. Household archaeology performed at three elite residences and investigations at the central plaza and church provide evidence of continuity, change, an…
Postclassic Maya population recovery and rural resilience in the aftermath of collapse in northern Yucatan
This article addresses Postclassic Maya population recovery in the aftermath of the collapse of Terminal Classic period political centers by 1100 CE in northern Yucatan, Mexico. While much has been written about the collapse of northern lowland Classic period Maya civilization by the eleventh century CE, we focus here on longer-term outcomes from a demographic perspective, during the Postclassic period (1150-1500 CE). We analyze survey data from …
Perceptual Relevance of Haptic Feedback during Virtual Plucking, Bowing and Rubbing of Physically-Based Musical Resonators
The physics-based design and realization of a digital musical interface asks for the modeling and implementation of the contact-point interaction with the performer. Musical instruments always include a resonator that converts the input energy into sound, meanwhile feeding part of it back to the performer through the same point. Specifically during plucking or bowing interactions, musicians receive a handful of information from the force feedback…
Design and Evaluation of a Multisensory Concert for Cochlear Implant Users
This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of vibrotactile concert furniture, aiming to improve the live music experience of people with hearing loss using hearing technology such as cochlear implants (CI). The system was the result of a series of participatory design sessions involving CI users with different hearing assistive setups (bi-implant, bimodal, and monoimplant), and it was evaluated in a concert scenario (drums,…
Metalworking at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico: Discoveries From the R-183 Group
This article presents a compositional analysis of metal artifacts from the Postclassic period ( a.d. 1100–1450) city of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. We document metallurgical production at R-183, an elite residential group and one of the most significant archaeological contexts associated with metalworking at Mayapan. Salvage excavations in 1998 recovered a small cache containing 282 copper bells, two miniature ceramic vessels filled with metal, and…
Social Identity and Dental Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan
Dental modification represents one interesting aspect of corporeal adornment in human history that directly reflects personal social identity. Tooth filing choices distinguished certain individuals at the urban, Maya political capital of Mayapan from 1150 to 1450 ad , along with cranial modification, nose and ear piercings, tattoos and body paint. Here we examine how filing teeth, considered a beautification practice for women at Spanish Contact …
Hybridity and Mortuary Patterns at the Colonial Maya Visita Settlement of Yacman, Mexico
Reflections from five years of Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments workshops
For the past five years, the authors have been running at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference a Workshop called Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (SIVE). The main goal of the workshop series has been to increase among the virtual reality community awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing multimodal and immersive virtual environments. Starting from this experience, this paper presents a survey of the main active resear…
A Funerary Cave at Moxviquil, Chiapas, Mexico
This article presents the excavation results of a funerary cave at the site of Moxviquil, located in the Jovel Valley of central highland Chiapas, Mexico. Diagnostic ceramics from funerary offerings suggest that the use of the cave spanned the principal occupation at the site, including Late Classic (a.d. 600–900) and Early Postclassic (a.d. 900–1250) periods. The offerings situate the Moxviquil cave within an extensive tradition of Mesoamerican …
Violence, desecration, and urban collapse at the Postclassic Maya political capital of Mayapán
Restorative Virtual Environment Design for Augmenting Nursing Home Rehabilitation
With increasing age, muscle strength decreases excessively rapidly if physical activity is not maintained. However, physical activity is increasingly difficult with aging. This is due to balance, strength or coordination difficulties, arthritis, etc. Moreover, many nursing home residents become unable to experience natural surroundings. Augmenting a conventional biking exercise with a recreational virtual environment (RVE) has shown to serve as a…
Dental Nonmetric Investigation of Population Dynamics at Mayapan
Bioarchaeological investigation of ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico
This study investigates evidence of changes and continuities in ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico from the Middle Preclassic (600–300 BC) to the Postclassic (AD 1050–1542) through bioarchaeological analysis of cranial and projectile trauma. It is hypothesized that the frequency of violence increases before the Classic Maya collapse and remains high during the Postclassic period. It is also hypothesized that the…
The Context of Ancient American Violence
Violence has become a popular research topic in archaeology. Various types of violenceare now the focus of investigation, such as warfare, ethnic conflict, and violence that doesnot involve bodily harm. The theoretical perspectives of researchers working in this area have diversified as well. From an early and still dominant focus on neo evolutionary approaches, recent works have increasingly come to rely on various postmodernperspectives, as exe…
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Integration of Digital Musical Instruments into Existing Compositional Work Processes
This paper explores a longitudinal approach to the qualitative evaluation of a set of digital musical instruments, which were developed with a focus on creativity and exploration. The instruments were lent to three electronic musicians/composers for a duration of four weeks. Free exploration periods and a compositional task evaluated using semi-structured show and tell sessions revealed that the context of use had a major influence on how the ins…
Dental caries at a late pre-Hispanic regional Maya capital
An Enactive Approach to the Preservation of Musical Instruments Reconstructing Russolo's Intonarumori
In the early twentieth century, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo made a set of instruments called Intonarumori. In each, sound was generated inside a box with a horn, by means such as a wheel scraping on a string, controlled by a crank and one or more levers. The original instruments were all destroyed during the Second World War. This paper describes reconstructions using digital controllers attached to a lever and crank and sound generated by…
Human Sacrificial Rites Among the Maya of Mayapán: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Cyberinstruments via Physical Modeling Synthesis: Compositional Applications
This paper details compositional approaches in music for cyberinstruments by means of physical modeling synthesis. Although the focus is on compositions written with the models simulated by the digital waveguides, modal synthesis and mass-spring-damper algorithms, music written with other modeling techniques is also reviewed
The Exbow MetaSax: Compositional Applications of Bowed String Physical Models Using Instrument Controller Subsititution
Physical models of musical instruments are interesting from different perspectives. The scientist, being able to reproduce the sound of a particular instrument, shows that the physics of that instrument has been understood. The performer can take advantage of the virtual instruments which are often easier to play than real ones. The composer can use physically modelled instruments to obtain sonorities that cannot be created on the physical instru…
Bioarchaeological investigation of ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico
This study investigates evidence of changes and continuities in ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico from the Middle Preclassic (600–300 BC) to the Postclassic (AD 1050–1542) through bioarchaeological analysis of cranial and projectile trauma. It is hypothesized that the frequency of violence increases before the Classic Maya collapse and remains high during the Postclassic period. It is also hypothesized that the…
A Funerary Cave at Moxviquil, Chiapas, Mexico
This article presents the excavation results of a funerary cave at the site of Moxviquil, located in the Jovel Valley of central highland Chiapas, Mexico. Diagnostic ceramics from funerary offerings suggest that the use of the cave spanned the principal occupation at the site, including Late Classic (a.d. 600–900) and Early Postclassic (a.d. 900–1250) periods. The offerings situate the Moxviquil cave within an extensive tradition of Mesoamerican …
Metalworking at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico: Discoveries From the R-183 Group
This article presents a compositional analysis of metal artifacts from the Postclassic period ( a.d. 1100–1450) city of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. We document metallurgical production at R-183, an elite residential group and one of the most significant archaeological contexts associated with metalworking at Mayapan. Salvage excavations in 1998 recovered a small cache containing 282 copper bells, two miniature ceramic vessels filled with metal, and…
Social Identity and Dental Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan
Dental modification represents one interesting aspect of corporeal adornment in human history that directly reflects personal social identity. Tooth filing choices distinguished certain individuals at the urban, Maya political capital of Mayapan from 1150 to 1450 ad , along with cranial modification, nose and ear piercings, tattoos and body paint. Here we examine how filing teeth, considered a beautification practice for women at Spanish Contact …
Postclassic Maya population recovery and rural resilience in the aftermath of collapse in northern Yucatan
This article addresses Postclassic Maya population recovery in the aftermath of the collapse of Terminal Classic period political centers by 1100 CE in northern Yucatan, Mexico. While much has been written about the collapse of northern lowland Classic period Maya civilization by the eleventh century CE, we focus here on longer-term outcomes from a demographic perspective, during the Postclassic period (1150-1500 CE). We analyze survey data from …
Hybridity and Mortuary Patterns at the Colonial Maya Visita Settlement of Yacman, Mexico
The Exbow MetaSax: Compositional Applications of Bowed String Physical Models Using Instrument Controller Subsititution
Physical models of musical instruments are interesting from different perspectives. The scientist, being able to reproduce the sound of a particular instrument, shows that the physics of that instrument has been understood. The performer can take advantage of the virtual instruments which are often easier to play than real ones. The composer can use physically modelled instruments to obtain sonorities that cannot be created on the physical instru…
Human Sacrificial Rites Among the Maya of Mayapán: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Cyberinstruments via Physical Modeling Synthesis: Compositional Applications
This paper details compositional approaches in music for cyberinstruments by means of physical modeling synthesis. Although the focus is on compositions written with the models simulated by the digital waveguides, modal synthesis and mass-spring-damper algorithms, music written with other modeling techniques is also reviewed
An Enactive Approach to the Preservation of Musical Instruments Reconstructing Russolo's Intonarumori
In the early twentieth century, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo made a set of instruments called Intonarumori. In each, sound was generated inside a box with a horn, by means such as a wheel scraping on a string, controlled by a crank and one or more levers. The original instruments were all destroyed during the Second World War. This paper describes reconstructions using digital controllers attached to a lever and crank and sound generated by…
Dental caries at a late pre-Hispanic regional Maya capital
The Context of Ancient American Violence
Violence has become a popular research topic in archaeology. Various types of violenceare now the focus of investigation, such as warfare, ethnic conflict, and violence that doesnot involve bodily harm. The theoretical perspectives of researchers working in this area have diversified as well. From an early and still dominant focus on neo evolutionary approaches, recent works have increasingly come to rely on various postmodernperspectives, as exe…
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Integration of Digital Musical Instruments into Existing Compositional Work Processes
This paper explores a longitudinal approach to the qualitative evaluation of a set of digital musical instruments, which were developed with a focus on creativity and exploration. The instruments were lent to three electronic musicians/composers for a duration of four weeks. Free exploration periods and a compositional task evaluated using semi-structured show and tell sessions revealed that the context of use had a major influence on how the ins…
Bioarchaeological investigation of ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico
This study investigates evidence of changes and continuities in ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico from the Middle Preclassic (600–300 BC) to the Postclassic (AD 1050–1542) through bioarchaeological analysis of cranial and projectile trauma. It is hypothesized that the frequency of violence increases before the Classic Maya collapse and remains high during the Postclassic period. It is also hypothesized that the…
Dental Nonmetric Investigation of Population Dynamics at Mayapan
Restorative Virtual Environment Design for Augmenting Nursing Home Rehabilitation
With increasing age, muscle strength decreases excessively rapidly if physical activity is not maintained. However, physical activity is increasingly difficult with aging. This is due to balance, strength or coordination difficulties, arthritis, etc. Moreover, many nursing home residents become unable to experience natural surroundings. Augmenting a conventional biking exercise with a recreational virtual environment (RVE) has shown to serve as a…
Violence, desecration, and urban collapse at the Postclassic Maya political capital of Mayapán
Reflections from five years of Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments workshops
For the past five years, the authors have been running at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference a Workshop called Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (SIVE). The main goal of the workshop series has been to increase among the virtual reality community awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing multimodal and immersive virtual environments. Starting from this experience, this paper presents a survey of the main active resear…
A Funerary Cave at Moxviquil, Chiapas, Mexico
This article presents the excavation results of a funerary cave at the site of Moxviquil, located in the Jovel Valley of central highland Chiapas, Mexico. Diagnostic ceramics from funerary offerings suggest that the use of the cave spanned the principal occupation at the site, including Late Classic (a.d. 600–900) and Early Postclassic (a.d. 900–1250) periods. The offerings situate the Moxviquil cave within an extensive tradition of Mesoamerican …
Hybridity and Mortuary Patterns at the Colonial Maya Visita Settlement of Yacman, Mexico
Social Identity and Dental Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan
Dental modification represents one interesting aspect of corporeal adornment in human history that directly reflects personal social identity. Tooth filing choices distinguished certain individuals at the urban, Maya political capital of Mayapan from 1150 to 1450 ad , along with cranial modification, nose and ear piercings, tattoos and body paint. Here we examine how filing teeth, considered a beautification practice for women at Spanish Contact …
Perceptual Relevance of Haptic Feedback during Virtual Plucking, Bowing and Rubbing of Physically-Based Musical Resonators
The physics-based design and realization of a digital musical interface asks for the modeling and implementation of the contact-point interaction with the performer. Musical instruments always include a resonator that converts the input energy into sound, meanwhile feeding part of it back to the performer through the same point. Specifically during plucking or bowing interactions, musicians receive a handful of information from the force feedback…
Design and Evaluation of a Multisensory Concert for Cochlear Implant Users
This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of vibrotactile concert furniture, aiming to improve the live music experience of people with hearing loss using hearing technology such as cochlear implants (CI). The system was the result of a series of participatory design sessions involving CI users with different hearing assistive setups (bi-implant, bimodal, and monoimplant), and it was evaluated in a concert scenario (drums,…
Metalworking at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico: Discoveries From the R-183 Group
This article presents a compositional analysis of metal artifacts from the Postclassic period ( a.d. 1100–1450) city of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. We document metallurgical production at R-183, an elite residential group and one of the most significant archaeological contexts associated with metalworking at Mayapan. Salvage excavations in 1998 recovered a small cache containing 282 copper bells, two miniature ceramic vessels filled with metal, and…
Postclassic Maya population recovery and rural resilience in the aftermath of collapse in northern Yucatan
This article addresses Postclassic Maya population recovery in the aftermath of the collapse of Terminal Classic period political centers by 1100 CE in northern Yucatan, Mexico. While much has been written about the collapse of northern lowland Classic period Maya civilization by the eleventh century CE, we focus here on longer-term outcomes from a demographic perspective, during the Postclassic period (1150-1500 CE). We analyze survey data from …
Archaeological Perspectives on Confronting Social Change at the Sixteenth-Century Visita Town of Hunacti, Yucatán - Erratum
Archaeological Perspectives on Confronting Social Change at the Sixteenth-Century Visita Town of Hunacti, Yucatán
How did resource use, trade, and patterns of everyday life change at visita mission towns in the early decades of the colonial period in northern Yucatán, Mexico? We consider this question with an analysis of archaeological material assemblages from the site of Hunacti, occupied from 1557 to 1572. Household archaeology performed at three elite residences and investigations at the central plaza and church provide evidence of continuity, change, an…
Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Maya (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Human–computer interaction (6 works) · Latin American history and culture (6 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (6 works)