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Enhancing Bodily Engagements with Manipulatives for Tangible Programming

2020
Tangible User Interfaces are attributed to have a more ‘human-like’ interaction styles that resembles the experience of interacting with real world objects. Digital manipulatives are the TUIs in Tangible programming Environments. The tangibility of the manipulatives is what gives their characteristic appeal of making programming more interactive by ...
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Exploring Bodily Engaging Artifacts Among Golfers, Skaters and Dancers

2011
To reveal qualities for design of interaction that allow for full body experiences three full body movement activities with artifacts (golf, skateboard and an interactive movement companion) were studied. The study revealed interaction qualities for engagement of a rich array of senses and bodily capabilities for being-in and moving-in the world.
Carolina Johansson, Jakob Tholander
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Immigrant Children’s Bodily Engagement in Accessing Their Lived Experiences of Immigration

2012
The phenomenological understanding of the body, which Merleau-Ponty (1963) calls the “living envelope of our actions” (p. 188), is central to the human lifeworld, and thus central to phenomenological method. For him, the body and behavior are bearers of meaning that are known immediately as well as reflectively by the body.
Anna Kirova, Michael Emme
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FOUR ARCHAEOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH PLACE MEDIATING BODILY EXPERIENCE THROUGH PERIPATETIC VIDEO

Visual Anthropology Review, 2004
Through the exploration of a hybrid space between artist and archaeological production, this article discusses the implications of peripatetic video, a form of located media, as a means of moving beyond the limits of conventional representation. While critical of archaeological dealings with issues of bodily experience and place, the article suggests ...
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Skill learning in making and experiencing artworks: technologies that transform detached intellectuals into bodily engaged actors

Adaptive Behavior, 2021
Rietveld discusses three skills that artistic practices have to offer to makers of technologies for embedding such technologies in society. An ecological dynamics model of skill learning empowers the embedding of Rietveld’s described skills in three social domains: technology makers, artworkers, and visitors of such artworks.
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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, Reynier, Véronique, Soulé, Bastien   +2 more
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"The Hands Know": Bodily Engagement and Medical Impasse in Highland Maya Bonesetting

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2002
In southern Middle America, highland Maya bonesetters are called on to treat many cases of bodily injury. While Guatemalan Maya bonesetters vary greatly in their techniques and specialties, they prioritize manual treatment modalities, using their hands to address problems in clients' bodies.
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Embodied Engagements with the Megaliths of Carnac: Somatic Experience, Somatic Imagery, and Bodily Techniques in Contemporary Spiritual Practices

Journal of Religion in Europe, 2021
Abstract This article explores bodily interactions, somatic experiences, and embodiment of New Age and contemporary Paganism practitioners conducting spiritual practices in the megaliths of Carnac in northwest France. Inspired from the sensory ethnography approach and applying a specific methodological framework elaborated for this study, the article ...
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Understanding the Haptic Experience through Bodily Engagement with Sculptural Ceramics

2010
This paper presents an on-going research project undertaken by an artist-researcher who uses both investigation into haptic theory and the creation of ceramic objects to increase our understanding of the experience of touch. It asks the question, "How and in what way can an artist contribute to understanding haptics?" The artistic journey began with an
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From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement: The Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Climbing

2020
This chapter considers three fields closely associated with modernism: mountaineering, architecture and photography. It breaks down the distinction between exploration in natural wildernesses and in urban areas, and considers the shift from Picturesque values in photography to the valorisation of kinetic, embodied photographic practices. It also traces
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