scholarly journals Describing the Body in New Terms: An Examination of 3D Body-Scanning Technology and Language Use

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth ASBURY ◽  
Frederick S. COTTLE
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Scanning

scholarly journals From anonymous subject to engaged stakeholder: Enriching participant experience in autistic-language-use research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Louise Williams
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
The Body ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Participant Experience ◽  
The Impact

Please note, this paper has been peer-reviewed and published open acess. You can find the published version at https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=d93cf2fd-5b3f-4193-a437-da1ff89e83d2, and it can be cited Williams, G.L. (2020) ‘From anonymous subject to engaged stakeholder: Enriching participant experience in autistic-language-use research’. Research for All, 4 (2), 314–28. Online. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.04.2.13. Please do not cite this preprint.The Talking Together community-engagement pilot project brought together pairs of autistic and non-autistic strangers to: (1) talk about their experiences of loneliness in their local city; and (2) think about potential, co-produced responses to the problem. The project had evolved as a secondary aim, from an initial need to acquire naturalistic conversation data for my linguistic PhD research investigating a theoretical reframing of autistic language use as ‘different’ rather than ‘deficient’. The desire to make the data collection a meaningful experience for the participants in its own right was central to the research design, and so the Talking Together loneliness project was devised as a way to achieve this. However, it was not until the research was under way that the potential for valuable, immediate impact became apparent. This article reflects on the successes and challenges of the Talking Together pilot as a piece of autistic-led participatory research, and explores how the principles of engaged, participatory research can be applied so as to maximize impact, even where engagement may not be a primary aim. It also explores the ‘participatory’ nature of participatory research where the researcher belongs to the marginalized stakeholder group.Keywords: loneliness, autism, conversations, participatory design, data collectionKey messages • Engaged research can enrich linguistic data collection on multiple levels, not least in making the experience more meaningful for stakeholder research participants. • Facilitating strangers to come together to talk about their experiences of loneliness can generate qualitative data on loneliness, while at the same time contributing to reducing the impact of loneliness, as an act of radical ‘world building’. • Supporting autistic people to access doctoral research opportunities is one way of broadening the body of participatory autism research.

“He Has Created a Schism in Philosophy”

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-343
Author(s):  
Fred Ablondi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Mind

Géraud de Cordemoy (1626–84) was one of the most important Cartesian inheritors of the 1660s and 1670s. He was unique among Descartes’s followers in advocating atomism, and he was one of the first—if not the first—Cartesian occasionalists. Interestingly, he understood both of these positions to follow from Cartesian metaphysics, despite the fact that Descartes never endorsed the latter and explicitly rejected the former. He also accepted, with some modifications, Descartes’s real distinction between and union of the mind and the body, and developed Descartes’s thoughts on language use in significant ways. This chapter examines Cordemoy’s Cartesian-inspired arguments for both atomism and occasionalism, and discusses his thoughts on mind–body dualism and language use.

Before Body Scanning There was Looker

Public ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (60) ◽  
pp. 222-235
Author(s):  
Alana Staiti
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Computer Automation ◽  
3D Computer Model ◽  
Naked Body ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This paper uses the film Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981) to highlight how a group of filmmakers and technologists imagined the sinister side of computer-automated biometrics would unfold in late twentieth century United States. The film depicts a scene in which a young female model gets her naked body scanned for a multinational corporation that will capitalize on the 3D computer model created from her likeness. An analysis of the body scanning scene and behind-the-scenes production processes raise new questions about the legacy of biometric imaginaries in the United States and helps us see in new ways how a set of concerns crystallized around the computerization of personal identifiable information, including physical bodies. While fears of computer automation existed in previous decades, by the early 1980s, the stakes heightened as biometric and photosensing technologies could sense and gather data computationally.

Evaluation of body geometry and symmetry for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with 3D body scanning system

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-292
Author(s):  
Lu Lu ◽  
Kit-Lun Yick ◽  
Sun Pui Ng ◽  
Joanne Yip ◽  
Chi Yung Tse
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis ◽  
Idiopathic Scoliosis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scanning System ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
The Cross

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively assess the three-dimensional (3D) geometry and symmetry of the torso for spinal deformity and the use of orthotic bracewear by using non-invasive 3D body scanning technology. Design/methodology/approach In pursuing greater accuracy of body anthropometric measurements to improve the fit and design of apparel, 3D body scanning technology and image analysis provide many more advantages over the traditional manual methods that use contact measurements. To measure the changes in the torso geometry and profile symmetry of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, five individuals are recruited to undergo body scanning both with and without wearing a rigid brace during a period of six months. The cross-sectional areas and profiles of the reconstructed 3D torso models are examined to evaluate the level of body symmetry. Findings Significant changes in the cross-sectional profile are found amongst four of the patients over the different visits for measurements (p < 0.05), which are consistent with the X-rays results. The 3D body scanning system can reliably evaluate changes in the body geometry of patients with scoliosis. Nevertheless, improvements in the symmetry of the torso are found to be somewhat inconsistent among the patients and across different visits. Originality/value This pilot study demonstrates a practical and safe means to measure and analyse the torso geometry and symmetry so as to allow for more frequent evaluations, which would result in effective and optimal treatment of spinal deformation.

Core Module 4: Awareness of Physical Sensations

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Jill Ehrenreich-May ◽  
Sarah M. Kennedy ◽  
Jamie A. Sherman ◽  
Emily L. Bilek ◽  
Brian A. Buzzella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Distress Tolerance ◽  
High Reactivity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Interoceptive Exposure ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
Core Module

Chapter 4 gives adolescent clients a greater awareness of the body’s reactions during intense and/or distressing emotion states. Principles of interoceptive or “sensational” exposure are introduced and practiced to build the adolescent’s ability to tolerate strong physical sensations. Taking this approach, which involves an acceptance-oriented stance toward uncomfortable physical sensations, is incompatible with taking actions to avoid or suppress these sensations prematurely. The interoceptive exposure techniques in this module were originally developed with panic disorder symptoms in mind. However, the body drawing and body scanning techniques, as well as interoceptive strategies, are presented in a manner broadly applicable to a range of concerns and are especially relevant for adolescents with poor distress tolerance or high reactivity to sensations in their bodies.

scholarly journals Development of Female Torso Classification and Method of Patterns Shaping

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinzhou Wu ◽  
Victor Kuzmichev ◽  
Tian Peng
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
New Method ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Method Of Calculation ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Virtual Avatar

Abstract Our study presents a new pattern-making approach that is composed of three major steps: to establish the new torso classification; to improve the pattern shaping method; to solve the problem of misfit of female dresses. New additional measurements were obtained from full bust, waist and hip circumferences and divided between front and back parts separately from 3D body scanning data. By creating 8 new torso subtypes Y1, Y2, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2, which reflect the body characteristics and torso morphology through distribution of bust girth between the front and the back, we have developed the Chinese female torso classification. On the basis of the new classification and the Japanese method of pattern block drafting, we improved the method of calculation of waist darts and the shaping of two kinds of female dresses: first kind doesn’t have the horizontal waist seam (one-piece dress) and second kind has the waist horizontal seam (two-pieces dress containing from the top and the skirt). The new torso subtypes and new pattern block shaping approach are taken into attention as the body characteristics will significantly improve the quality of clothes. New method of pattern pieces shaping in according with the characteristic features of a 3D virtual avatar allows to integrate this virtual pattern-generating approach into the pattern-making systems.

Describing and Simulating 3D Model of Garment by Scanning Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 20-23 ◽  
pp. 382-388
Author(s):  
Xiao Gang Wang ◽  
V.E. Kuzmichev ◽  
Yun Luo ◽  
Yue Li
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Scanning System ◽  
Standard Type ◽  
Body Scanning ◽  
Cad System ◽  
3D Simulation Model ◽  
Set Up

Body-scanning technology is the most up-to-date technology for achieving the body information. It helps to set up the database of body sizes and some research for very close type of garment. In this article we discuss a new method for describing the 3D shape of garment and set up its mathematic model for simulation, which is by dint of body scanning technology. Experiment was designed for investigating the changing for outside shape as the pattern parameters are changing. Samples were made and scanned by body scanning system, which they were put on the standard type of female model. The scanning point cloud files from Telmat scanning system were transferred into the Imageware software and the 3D scanning models were analyzed in important horizontal and vertical sections to discuss the shape changing. The 2-stage least Square is used to describe the outline of important sections. And the patch approaching is used to simulating complex free curved surface. The result helped to set up the 3D simulation model for woman warm jacket in our designing system. A new describing and simulating method for 3D garment model is discussed for research about garment CAD system. And it opens our mind to utilize body-scanning technology for deeper science research in many fields.

scholarly journals Word use in first-person accounts of schizophrenia

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Fineberg ◽  
S. Deutsch-Link ◽  
M. Ichinose ◽  
T. McGuinness ◽  
A. J. Bessette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorder ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Test Word ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Causal Language

BackgroundLanguage use is often disrupted in patients with schizophrenia; novel computational approaches may provide new insights.AimsTo test word use patterns as markers of the perceptual, cognitive and social experiences characteristic of schizophrenia.MethodWord counting software was applied to first-person accounts of schizophrenia and mood disorder.ResultsMore third-person plural pronouns (‘they’) and fewer first-person singular pronouns (‘I’) were used in schizophrenia than mood disorder accounts. Schizophrenia accounts included fewer words related to the body and ingestion, and more related to religion. Perceptual and causal language were negatively correlated in schizophrenia accounts but positively correlated in mood disorder accounts.ConclusionsDifferences in pronouns suggest decreased self-focus or perhaps even an understanding of self as other in schizophrenia. Differences in how perceptual and causal words are correlated suggest that long-held delusions represent a decreased coupling of explanations with sensory experience over time.

scholarly journals When writer helps his translator

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Zorica Nestorovic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Native Language ◽  
The Body

Andric?s relationship with translators of his stories and novels discovers his dedication to the question of language in his works. The correspondence includes many answers given by writer to translators about semantics and etymology of language use in his books. They upgrade his constantly care for reception of his stories and novels also in native language as in foreign language. This care is represented by explanation of some archaic word or phrase in the footnote in the body of text and by vocabulary associated to the book. All these shown Andric?s high valuating of the mission of translating and his great respect for the translators and they work.

scholarly journals When writer helps his translator

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Zorica Nestorovic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Native Language ◽  
The Body

Andric?s relationship with translators of his stories and novels discovers his dedication to the question of language in his works. The correspondence includes many answers given by writer to translators about semantics and etymology of language use in his books. They upgrade his constantly care for reception of his stories and novels also in native language as in foreign language. This care is represented by explanation of some archaic word or phrase in the footnote in the body of text and by vocabulary associated to the book. All these shown Andric?s high valuating of the mission of translating and his great respect for the translators and they work.

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