Experience of Tactile Vision

Perception ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Guarniero
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Underlying Theory ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Substitution System ◽  
Perceptual Aspect ◽  
Insight Into

The accompanying paper was written following a three-week training course with the Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS) under development at the Department of Visual Sciences, University of the Pacific, San Francisco. The instrumentation has been described elsewhere by Collins and Madey (1974) and perceptual studies and underlying theory by Bach-y-Rita et al. (1969), White et al. (1970), and Bach-y-Rita (1972). The present paper is a personal account that provides insight into a perceptual aspect of sensory substitution studies.

scholarly journals Mapping Miguel Covarrubias across Cultures and Disciplines

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-183
Author(s):  
Nathaniel R. Racine
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
Historical Epoch ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper, I explore the Pageant of the Pacific, a sequence of mural-maps painted by the Mexican artist and illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias, for the San Francisco International Exposition of 1939–1940. By placing these mural-maps within the larger context of cultural geography and Covarrubias’s own theories of comparative anthropology, they offer an artistic and poetic explanation of the relationships found among the cultures of the Pacific Rim, drawing connections across historical epoch and geographical region. Within Covarrubias’s own historical context, these maps provide an important visual link that crosses disciplinary boundaries, providing insight into the intellectual conversation of his era and, perhaps, providing a model for interdisciplinarity in the present age as well.

Charles Francis Adams: diary of a young American taxidermist visiting New Zealand, 1884–1887

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Gill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Set Up ◽  
White Island

In December 1884 Charles Francis Adams (1857–1893) left Illinois, USA, by train for San Francisco and crossed the Pacific by ship to work as taxidermist at Auckland Museum, New Zealand, until February 1887. He then went to Borneo via several New Zealand ports, Melbourne and Batavia (Jakarta). This paper concerns a diary by Adams that gives a daily account of his trip to Auckland and the first six months of his employment (from January to July 1885). In this period Adams set up a workshop and diligently prepared specimens (at least 124 birds, fish, reptiles and marine invertebrates). The diary continues with three reports of trips Adams made from Auckland to Cuvier Island (November 1886), Karewa Island (December 1886) and White Island (date not stated), which are important early descriptive accounts of these small offshore islands. Events after leaving Auckland are covered discontinuously and the diary ends with part of the ship's passage through the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), apparently in April 1887. Adams's diary is important in giving a detailed account of a taxidermist's working life, and in helping to document the early years of Auckland Museum's occupation of the Princes Street building.

USE OF KNOTTED STRING ACCOUNTING RECORDS IN OLD HAWAII AND ANCIENT CHINA

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyle E. Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Writing Process ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
East And West ◽  
Insight Into

The use of the “quipu” for accounting purposes has been primarily attributed to the Peruvian Inca culture in the days of old. Documented evidence, however, provides that early Hawaiians and ancient Chinese predated the Incan usage. Studies concentrating on the quipu as an accounting device rather than as an element in the evolution of the writing process might provide valuable contributions to the solution of the mystery surrounding this artifact. Insight into the development of mankind in the Pacific may be gained by understanding the use of the quipu in the East and West, and in Hawaii—the “meeting place” of the Pacific.

The N. E. A. at San Francisco

1939 ◽  
Vol 122 (7) ◽  
pp. 229-231
Author(s):  
Belmont Farley
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
National Education Association ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Education Association

Largely attended and replete with interest was this year's gathering of the National Education Association on the Pacific Coast

scholarly journals Commuter Response to Traffic Information on an Incident

1998 ◽  
Vol 1621 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Koo ◽  
Youngbin Yim
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Traffic Information ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Telephone System ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

How traffic information is obtained and how it affects travel behavior when a major freeway is congested are presented and discussed. Immediately following a major highway incident south of San Francisco that caused congestion, a telephone survey was conducted of commuters who use the affected corridor of the highway. The behavior of commuters before and during their commute at the time of the incident was determined, including obtaining traffic information and how the information influenced changes in route, mode of travel, and departure time. The results of the survey suggest that traveler behavior is largely unaffected by individual incidents of congestion. Furthermore, although a fair proportion of commuters do obtain traffic information, they do not often modify their travel behavior in response. This study is one of several that collectively will provide insight into how travel behavior changes over time and allow the authors to assess the impact of TravInfo Traveler Advisory Telephone System in the San Francisco Bay Area.

scholarly journals REVIEW: 'Embedded' with the invaded Iraqi people

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-224
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The People ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Post War ◽  
Policy Failures ◽  
Insight Into

Wilson's Long drive Through A Short War is a personal account of their time in Iraq during the invasion and a subsequent post-war visit to the country to see the fate of the people he had met.  Hersh's Chain of Command provides many of the missing links to those seeking greater insight into the wider struggle of Iraq's civil war unleashed by the failure of US post-invasion policy, even if this is not officially admitted. His 'muckracking' investigations concentrate on the policy failures, corruptions and abuses of power. 

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