If your interest is more about the social or historical side of "amateurs," these academic papers are highly regarded:
There is also a significant research project called .
This research focuses on building "smart" voice assistants that encourage people to save energy or live more sustainably at home. It looks at how these bots can use emotional connections and "personification" to persuade users toward better habits. 3. The "Amateur" in Craft and Culture amateur candi
If you literally meant interesting physical paper featuring candy designs for a project:
This paper explores how to better handle data that is both discrete (like text tokens) and continuous (like images) using a single AI model. It introduces a framework to understand why standard AI models sometimes struggle with discrete data and how to fix that "temporal dissonance". 2. Sustainability & Smart Homes (The "CANDY" Framework) If your interest is more about the social
: A scientific paper detailing the nutritional and physical changes when turning citrus fruit into candy.
: A sociological study on how the "amateur" aesthetic is intentionally used in digital media to create a sense of authenticity. 4. Food Science & "R-Candy" For something more hands-on or scientific: amateur candi
: This explores how amateur crafting (like making your own candy or paper art) can be a form of "quiet activism" and a way for people to resist mainstream culture.