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The bodily engagement of snow park freestylers: A study in three French winter sports resorts

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2016
Snow parks constitute an essential part of the drawing power of winter sports resorts. However, epidemiological studies have highlighted the increased risk of snow park accidents when compared with those of traditional piste runs. In the light of such findings, the aim has been to understand why and how freestyle enthusiasts deal with the particular ...
Pabion-Mouriès, Johanne   +2 more
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Map Making as Bodily Engagement

Reti, saperi, linguaggi, 2019
Our response to Nicosia’s Geography and Neuroscience. A New Representation of Cerebral Territories consists in focusing on the convergence between geography and the whole embodied cognitive science approach. We start by giving a naturalistic hint about the practice of mapping, because we believe that this could provide a fruitful and common ground of ...
Alessandro Capodici, Graziana Russo
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Learning abstract concepts through bodily engagement

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2009
The emergent discussion about embodiment offers new perspectives in Human-Computer-Interaction and needs further fundamental research in particular for its usefulness in the field of education. With our approach we want to use the concept to foster children's motivation to gain insight into the secrets of "intelligent" behavior of computer-generated ...
Anja Hashagen   +2 more
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Facial and Bodily Expressions of Emotional Engagement

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
Users' emotional engagement in a task is important for performance and motivation. Non-intrusive, computerized process measures of engagement have the potential to provide fine-grained access to underlying affective states and processes. Thus, the current work brings together subjective measures (questionnaires) and objective process measures (facial ...
Greipl, Simon   +2 more
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Instilling cultural values through bodily engagement with human rights

Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI, 2013
The paper presents vision, approach and outcomes of "Light through Culture", an international design school that aims at weaving, through design, innovative technologies and culture into a new canvas for making and thinking [6]. In this paper we present in particular the second edition of the school that explored the theme of human rights and designed ...
Marti, Patrizia   +3 more
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Bodily Engagement in Multimodal Interaction

2010
The creative processes of interaction design operate in terms we generally use for conceptualising human-computer interaction (HCI). Therefore the prevailing design paradigm provides a framework that essentially affects and guides the design process. We argue that the current mainstream design paradigm for multimodal user-interfaces takes human sensory-
Kai Tuuri   +2 more
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