Experimental Studio 2019. Drawing – a Tactile Approaches

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atanas Totlyakov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Active Touch ◽  
The Body ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Visual Contact ◽  
Sensory Field ◽  
Current Article

The current article are discussed the problem of significant importance of the tactile feelings in the context of the ways in which they are used in drawing creation.The basis of the study is the theoretical and practical experience gained in the conditions of creative experimentation, derived as a specific artistic practice.The relationship between visual and mental images and their comparison with the sensory field of the active touch is analyzed.There are summarized a four experimental plans: Mastering practical tactil experience and its creativity interpretation; Comparison of the tactil execution of a creative act and optical perception of drawings obtained without visual contact; Reflection of a participation of the body in the creative process; Focusing attention on feeling and their emotional coloring as interpersonal interaction in the frame of the working environment.

scholarly journals A Practical Experience on the Amazon Alexa Integration in Smart Offices

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 734
Author(s):  
Răzvan Bogdan ◽  
Alin Tatu ◽  
Mihaela Marcella Crisan-Vida ◽  
Mircea Popa ◽  
Lăcrămioara Stoicu-Tivadar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Business World ◽  
Office Environment ◽  
The Voice

Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees’ efficiency, but also to create a healthy and proactive working environment. In a competitive business world, the challenge of providing a balance between the efficiency and wellbeing of employees may be supported with new technologies. This paper presents the work undertaken to build the architecture needed to integrate voice assistants into smart offices in order to support employees in their daily activities, like ambient control, attendance system and reporting, but also interacting with project management services used for planning, issue tracking, and reporting. Our research tries to understand what are the most accepted tasks to be performed with the help of voice assistants in a smart office environment, by analyzing the system based on task completion and sentiment analysis. For the experimental setup, different test cases were developed in order to interact with the office environment formed by specific devices, as well as with the project management tool tasks. The obtained results demonstrated that the interaction with the voice assistant is reasonable, especially for easy and moderate utterances.

scholarly journals Selecting informative biomarkers for early diagnosis of occupational neurological diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 953-958
Author(s):  
Inna V. Lapko
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Carbohydrate Metabolism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Total Testosterone ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Lumbosacral Radiculopathy ◽  
Vibration Disease ◽  
Neurohumoral Regulation ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. At present, the patterns of changes in the levels of biomarkers and the relationship of changes in their values with the pathogenesis of diseases caused by the impact of adverse factors of labour activity are not sufficiently studied. The most unresolved issues are the choice of informative laboratory indicators and diagnostic test systems in investigating the impact of physical factors on the working environment (vibration and physical overload) neurohumoral regulation: pituitary-adrenal pituitary-thyroid, pituitary-gonadal system and hormonal indicators of carbohydrate metabolism. The aim of the study was to determine diagnostic hormonal markers and integral indices to identify early changes in the neurohumoral status in the body of workers under the influence of working environment factors. Materials and methods. 330 workers of mining and machine-building enterprises were examined. Of these, 128 people with vibration disease, 45 people - with lumbosacral radiculopathy, combined pathology (vibration disease and lumbosacral radiculopathy) was detected in 60 persons. The preclinical stage (initial signs of diseases) was noted in 97 workers. Laboratory studies included hormones and integral indices of the pituitary-adrenal, pituitary-thyroid, pituitary-gonadal system, carbohydrate metabolism. To select the diagnostic significance of laboratory biomarkers, diagnostic sensitivity, prenosological value, pathognomonicity, direction, severity, and selectivity of changes in biomarker levels were evaluated. Results. The combined effect of vibration and physical overload on the body of workers was found to have a unidirectional and systemic impact on the levels of hormones of the pituitary-adrenal, pituitary-thyroid and pituitary-gonadal systems, increases insulin resistance. The severity of changes in neurohumoral regulation indicators depends on the nature and severity of the occupational neurological disease. The highest diagnostic sensitivity (Df = 72-74%) in vibration disease and its combination with lumbosacral radiculopathy was obtained for pituitary-gonadal hormones and indicators of insulin resistance. The lowest values of Dh are typical for the hormones of the pituitary-thyroid system (no more than 14%). To identify early changes in neurohumoral regulation in the body under the influence of vibration and physical exertion, it is most informative to determine the concentration of total testosterone, luteinizing hormone and insulin, as well as the integral pituitary-adrenal index, insulin resistance indices. To identify hidden disorders of the pituitary-thyroid system, the definition of the essential thyroid index can be used. Discussion. The results obtained allowed us to assess the nature of changes in the levels of hormones of the pituitary-adrenal, pituitary-thyroid and pituitary-gonadal systems and carbohydrate metabolism and to propose informative laboratory biomarkers reflecting early changes in neurohumoral regulation under the influence of physical factors of the working environment. Conclusions. To identify early changes in neurohumoral regulation in the body of workers under the influence of vibration and physical exertion, the most informative is the determination of the concentration of total testosterone, luteinizing hormone and insulin, the integral pituitary-adrenal index, and insulin resistance indices. To identify hidden disorders of the pituitary-thyroid system, the definition of the integral thyroid index can be used.

scholarly journals Determining the musculoskeletal disorders as the most common work-related injuries, especially in the crafts using the OCRA evaluation method

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gh Halvani ◽  
H Fallah ◽  
R Jafari Nodoushan ◽  
A Haji hosseini ◽  
H Fallah zadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
The Body ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Ergonomic Risk Factors

Introduction: The condition of work in handloom weaving industries cause musculoskeletal (MSDS) disorders which are the most prevailing professional problem among weavers. The aim of this research was to determine ergonomic risk factors in the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders. Method: The present study was done through descriptive cross-section method to assess the risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the weavers. Our data collection tools were: demographic questionnaire, job Nordic questionnaire and body map prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders to decide the rate of symptoms. Then, we took film from handloom weavers while wearing to know the condition of their bodies. After reviewing the films, the posture marks was assigned to each duty using the Ergo Intelligence software. At the end, data were analyzed via one-way ANOVA and T-test using SPSS ver.20. Results: The results showed that the most frequent incidence of pain in different organs of the body during last year belonged to neck and shoulder. The average OCRA was 3.65.This indicated that most of the handloom weavers (64.4%) are at high risk. Conclusion: According to the re According to the results of OCRA indices, weavers are at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries, indicating their poor working environment and working conditions, indicating the need for corrective actions.

Does the Body Image Exist in Three Dimensions? The Study of Visual Mental Representation of a Body and a Nonbody Object

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-233
Author(s):  
D. P. McCabe ◽  
D. I. Ben-Tovim ◽  
M. K. Walker ◽  
D. Pomeroy
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
3 Dimensional

Do the mental Images of 3-dimensional objects recreate the depth characteristics of the original objects' This investigation of the characteristics of mental images utilized a novel boundary-detection task that required participants to relate a pair of crosses to the boundary of an image mentally projected onto a computer screen. 48 female participants with body attitudes within expected normal range were asked to image their own body and a familiar object from the front and the side. When the visual mental image was derived purely from long-term memory, accuracy was better than chance for the front (64%) and side (63%) of the body and also for the front (55%) and side (68%) of the familiar nonbody object. This suggests that mental images containing depth and spatial information may be generated from information held in long-term memory. Pictorial exposure to views of the front or side of the objects was used to investigate the representations from which this 3-dimensional shape and size information is derived. The results are discussed in terms of three possible representational formats and argue that a front-view 2½-dimensional representation mediates the transfer of information from long-term memory when depth information about the body is required.

scholarly journals Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Kristina Höök ◽  
Steve Benford ◽  
Paul Tennent ◽  
Vasiliki Tsaknaki ◽  
Miquel Alfaras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
First Person ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Design Case ◽  
Design Stance

We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. However, as we will uncover through a detailed account of our process, these first-person engagements are deeply entangled with second- and third-person perspectives, sometimes even overlapping. The analysis furthermore reveals some strategies for bridging the body-mind divide by attending to our inner universe and dissolving or traversing dichotomies between inside and outside ; individual and social ; body and technology . By detailing the creative process, we show how soma design becomes a process of designing with and through kinesthetic experience, in turn letting us confront several dualisms that run like fault lines through HCI’s engagement with embodied interaction.

From Sustainability to Flourishing

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
James Miller
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The World

An ecological civilization is one in which the social, cultural, and political order is rooted in the capacity of nature to promote the flourishing of the human species. The Daoist tradition offers four insights that can help promote this: (1) an aesthetics of flourishing founded on the practical experience of the world in the body; (2) an ethic of flourishing founded on the mutual porosity and vulnerability of the world and the body; (3) a politics of flourishing founded on a democracy of local contexts; (4) a spirituality of flourishing founded on religious themes of consumption, violence, death, and transcendence. Altogether this produces a vision of flourishing based on overcoming the modern dichotomies of self and world, matter and spirit, nature and culture.

Insights into digestion and absorption of major nutrients in humans

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Blood Stream ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transepithelial Transport ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Gi Tract ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Major Nutrients ◽  
Living Organisms

Nutrient digestion and absorption is necessary for the survival of living organisms and has evolved into the complex and specific task of the gastrointestinal (GI) system. While most people simply assume that their GI tract will work properly to use nutrients, provide energy, and release wastes, few nonscientists know the details about how various nutrients are digested and how the breakdown products traverse the cells lining the small intestine to reach the blood stream and to be used by the other cells of the body. There have been several recent discoveries of new transporters that likely contribute to the absorption of oligopeptides and fatty acids. In addition, details are being clarified about how transporters work and in what forms nutrients can be absorbed. The enzymes that digest basic carbohydrates, proteins, and fats have been identified in various segments of the GI tract, and details are becoming clearer about what types of bonds they hydrolyze. Usually, detailed information about the digestion of basic nutrients is presented and learned in biochemistry courses and detailed information about absorption via transepithelial transport of the breakdown products of digestion is studied in physiology courses. The goal of this Staying Current article is to combine the details of the biochemistry of digestion with the updated information about the physiology of nutrient absorption into one source for teachers of physiology. Insights are included about some of the diseases and conditions that can bring about malabsorption of food in the GI tract and their consequences.

scholarly journals DESIGN AND CFD ANALYSIS OF CEILING FAN FOR REGULAR ROOM SIZE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pushpesh Singh ◽  
Gajendra Vasantrao Patil
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
The Body ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Cfd Analysis ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Room Size ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Sweat Evaporation

Fans are playing a major role around the globe for effective and pocket friendly cooling, especially in the region of Asia where humidity is high. Thermal comfort being one of the most important factors for improvement in working environment for better quality of work. Moving of air around the body helps sweat evaporation and makes body feel comfortable. Mixing of air from top to bottom of the area so as to neutralize the change in temperature is done by fans effectively than any other means. Destratification of air is the biggest problem faced in any enclosed area which can be rectified by using fans. CFD Analysis is performed on the designed ceiling fan to analyze the airflow around the area of interest

scholarly journals Job satisfaction and its relationship with organisational commitment: A Democratic Republic of Congo organisational perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Mitonga-Monga ◽  
Aden-Paul Flotman ◽  
Frans Cilliers
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Relationship

Orientation: The modern workplace, which is characterised by increasing turbulence and debilitating uncertainty, has led to renewed focus on whether employees experience satisfaction and how they commit themselves to the organisation.Research purpose: The aim of this study was to measure the nature of the relationship between employees’ levels of job satisfaction (JS) and organisational commitment (OC) in a public railway organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Motivation for the study: Although previous researchers have found evidence of the relationship between JS and OC in Western countries, there seems to be a paucity of research on the relationship between JS and OC in a developing country context such as that of the DRC. The results could make a valuable contribution to the current literature debate on these two constructs (JS and OC) and possibly employees’ intention to stay in their present organisation.Research design, approach and method: A cross-sectional survey design was used employing the Job Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Organisational Commitment Scale. The sample (n = 839) comprised permanently employed staff. Correlations and regression analyses were conducted. The results indicated that employees’ JS related positively to their level of OC and that JS predicted OC.Practical and managerial implications: The results should also have interesting implications for top management and human resource practitioners. They could use this information to study how organisational psychological attachment is fostered in order to potentially master other organisational dynamics. The information could also be used to create positive working conditions with a view to reinforcing OC. JS manifested as a critical driver of OC, which could result in superior business performance. Management could use the results to create a working environment that actively fosters satisfaction and boosts employees’ level of commitment.Contribution or value-add: The results should contribute to the body of knowledge on the relationship between JS and OC in the context of a developing economy and highlight the practical implications for line managers and behavioural and wellness practitioners.

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