scholarly journals When constraints of embodied cognition become porous: performances of sensory interactivity in design

REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Abdullah Safa Soidan ◽  
Gabriele Kuzabaviciute ◽  
Roxane Fallah ◽  
Bianca Guimarães De Manuel ◽  
Vera Parlac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Tangible Computing ◽  
Technical Theatre ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Embodied Action ◽  
The University

<p class="p1">Abstract:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3">In design processes, the concept of the embodied mind can be mobilized to consider the ways in which our bodily experiences and actions affect our perception of space. With this focus in mind, what happens when human–environment interactivity ceases to be a utilitarian exchange between an evolving, sensing body and a predetermined object, but becomes conductive, generative, adaptive, and learns to grow? Perhaps in that moment of interaction and touch the space affects embodied action and perception in turn? These questions were pursued in a series of Practice-as-Research experiments by advanced designers in training from four disciplines at the University of Calgary: technical theatre, computational media and design, architecture, and sonic arts. The aim of the group’s work is to make design experientially accessible as an affective process with the ability to render porous the bodily constraints of human cognition. Here, the designers share insights, ideas, and obstacles from their collaborative research process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p4"><span class="s1">K</span>eywords<span class="s1">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Interactive design. Embodied cognition. Agent based modelling. Tangible computing. Collaborative creation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p class="p4"><span class="Apple-converted-space">QUANDO AS LIMITAÇÕES DA COGNIÇÃO CORPORIFICADA SE TORNAM POROSAS: PERFORMANCES DE INTERATIVIDADE SENSORIAL NO DESIGN</span></p><p class="p2"><em>Resumo:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p><p class="p3"><em>Nos processos de design, o conceito de mente corporificada pode ser mobilizado para considerar as maneiras pelas quais nossas experiências e ações corporais afetam nossa percepção do espaço. Com este foco em mente, o que acontece quando a interatividade humano-ambiente deixa de ser uma troca utilitária entre um corpo evolutivo, sensível e um objeto predeterminado, mas se torna condutor, gerador, adaptável e aprende a crescer? Talvez nesse momento de interação e toque, o espaço, por sua vez, afete a ação e a percepção corporificada? Essas questões foram perseguidas em uma série de experimentos de prática-como-pesquisa por designers avançados em treinamento de quatro disciplinas na Universidade de Calgary: técnica em teatro, mídia computacional e design, arquitetura e artes sonoras. O objetivo do trabalho do grupo é tornar o design experiencialmente acessível como um processo afetivo com a capacidade de tornar porosas as restrições corporais da cognição humana. Aqui, os designers compartilham insights, ideias e obstáculos de seu processo de pesquisa colaborativa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p><p class="p4"><span class="s1"><em>P</em></span><em>alavras</em><span class="s1"><em>-</em></span><em>chave</em><span class="s1"><em>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></span><em>Design. Interação performativa. Cognição corporificada. Modelagem baseada em agentes. Computação tangível. Criação colaborativa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>

Combining the Love of Art, Science, Business and Medicine to Innovate and Enhance Patient Health. Highlights from the 7th Annual Leaders in Medicine Symposium of the Cummings School of Medicine, Calgary, AB

2018 ◽  
pp. E51-E54
Author(s):  
Jennifer Beatty ◽  
Michael Peplowski ◽  
Noreen Singh ◽  
Craig Beers ◽  
Evan M Beck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
The University ◽  
Care Costs

The Leader in Medicine (LIM) Program of the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, hosted its 7th Annual LIM Research Symposium on October 30, 2015 and participation grew once again, with a total of six oral and 99 posters presentations! Over 45 of our Faculty members also participated in the symposium. This year’s LIM Symposium theme was “Innovations in Medicine” and the invited guest speaker was our own Dr. Breanne Everett (MD/MBA). She completed her residency in plastic surgery at University of Calgary and holds both a medical degree and an MBA from the University of Calgary. In her inspiring talk, entitled “Marrying Business and Medicine: Toe-ing a Fine Line”, she described how she dealt with a clinical problem (diabetic foot ulcers), came up with an innovation that optimized patient care, started her own company and delivered her product to market to enhance the health of the community. She clearly illustrated how to complete the full circle, from identifying a clinical problem to developing and providing a solution that both enhances clinical care and patient health as well as reduces health care costs and hospital admissions. The research symposium was an outstanding success and the abstracts are included in companion article in CIM.

Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
DENISE HARDESTY SUTTON
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Direct Mail ◽  
Popular Romance ◽  
British Publisher ◽  
Product Standardization ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
Book Publishers

When Harlequin Enterprises acquired British publisher Mills & Boon in 1972, the merged firm became the world’s dominant publisher of popular romance novels. Little is known, however, about the role that innovative marketing strategies played in the growth of these two romance publishing companies, especially their use of product sampling, direct mail, product standardization, and what was known at Mills & Boon as the “personal touch.” Through research in the Mills & Boon company archive at the University of Reading, the Grescoe Archive at the University of Calgary, as well as an analysis of company histories, trade publications, interviews, and marketing techniques, this study reveals how Harlequin and Mills & Boon took a different approach to product promotion than traditional publishers. Their innovation was to incorporate consumer goods marketing strategies, familiar to other industries, that disrupted and redefined standard practices of book publishers.

scholarly journals Nonconscious Cognitive Suffering: Considering Suffering Risks of Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Philosophies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Steven Umbrello ◽  
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Machine Consciousness

Strong arguments have been formulated that the computational limits of disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) will, sooner or later, be a problem that needs to be addressed. Similarly, convincing cases for how embodied forms of AI can exceed these limits makes for worthwhile research avenues. This paper discusses how embodied cognition brings with it other forms of information integration and decision-making consequences that typically involve discussions of machine cognition and similarly, machine consciousness. N. Katherine Hayles’s novel conception of nonconscious cognition in her analysis of the human cognition-consciousness connection is discussed in relation to how nonconscious cognition can be envisioned and exacerbated in embodied AI. Similarly, this paper offers a way of understanding the concept of suffering in a way that is different than the conventional sense of attributing it to either a purely physical state or a conscious state, instead of grounding at least a type of suffering in this form of cognition.

scholarly journals Infectious Diseases Training in Canada: One Size Does Not Fit All

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Craig Lee
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Outpatient Settings ◽  
The University

PURPOSE:To evaluate training in infectious diseases, determining which components of the training program best prepare residents for their career choices and where improvements are needed.METHOD:A cross-sectional survey was mailed to all 14 physicians who had graduated from both the Adult and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Training Program at the University of Calgary from 1985 to 1998. Responses about the adequacy of training were measured using a Likert-type scale and a qualitative questionnaire.RESULTS:Of 14 mailed questionnaires, nine responses were received (64%). Two-thirds of respondents were in an academic setting, and seven (78%) graduates obtained postfellowship training. The specialists in academic settings were all engaged in multiple nonclinical activities. The clinical and diagnostic microbiological components of training received the highest scores in terms of adequacy of training.CONCLUSION:Graduates of the University of Calgary training program indicated an overall satisfaction with their training. However, improvements are needed in career counselling, health administration, antibiotic utilization, infection prevention and specialized outpatient clinics. Potential strategies for addressing these issues include didactic lectures, enhanced exposure to clinical outpatient settings and provision of designated faculty mentors.

Human-Environment Dynamics in the Aeolian Islands during the Bronze Age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Speciale
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Aeolian Islands ◽  
The University ◽  
The Bronze Age

The book is the result of a three-year investigation for a PhD project at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). By comparing archaeological and archaeobotanical data, new paleodemographic estimations are made, reconstructing the use of vegetal resources of Bronze Age communities on the Aeolian Islands.

Arctic Science and Technology Information System

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Jane C. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
North America ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Bibliographic Database ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University

ASTIS offers over 83,000 records that provide freely available access to publications, including research and research projects, about Canada's north. This database is a product of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada which also maintains subsidiary regional, subject, and initiative-based databases. The subsidiary databases are all housed within and accessible through the main ASTIS database. Examples of the smaller databases include: ArcticNet Publications Database, the Nunavik Bibliography, and the Northern Granular Resources Bibliographic Database. ASTIS offers the ability to browse through its access points, including its own thesauri, thus permitting users to select and use a variety of free-text and controlled search terms.

scholarly journals CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass ◽  
Ali Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Life

In Us-Them-Us, several artists affiliated with the University of Calgary, and an invited poet, adopt perspectives, usually associated with that of being agents provocateur. Key themes, issues, images, symbols, and slogans associated with postcoloniality and postmodernity are well illustrated in particularly, vivid ways. Thank you Jennifer Eiserman, for working closely with the contributors, in order to, produce a special issue which highlights well established traditions of the arts and humanities. This CPI Special Issue holds up for scrutiny, central aspects of our troubling contemporary and historical life worlds.

scholarly journals Underwater Cultural Heritage as an Engine for Social, Economic and Cultural Development. State of Research at the University of Cadiz (Andalusia, Spain)

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 2676-2690
Author(s):  
Carlota Pérez-Reverte Pérez-Reverte Mañas ◽  
Felipe Cerezo Cerezo Andreo ◽  
Pablo López López Osorio ◽  
Raúl González González Gallero ◽  
Luis Mariscal Mariscal Rico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Bottom Surface ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Public access to underwater and maritime cultural heritage has proven to have a very positive effect on the local economy. This type of heritage is very attractive for the cultural tourism sector in general and for active and diving tourism. The Nautical and Underwater Archeology Line of the University of Cadiz, within the framework of the TIDE Project (Interreg Atlantic Area) and Herakles Project (FEDER-UCA18-107327) have been working on the enhancement of maritime and underwater heritage through the application of new technologies. In this paper, we will present the advances in the project in the Strait of Gibraltar, based on the first phase of scientific analysis and on the definition of a common working methodology that has resulted in a toolkit for the development of tourism activities linked to the MCH and UCH. Pilot activities under development are focused on accessible underwater heritage routes, VR applications to create Dry Dive experiences and the streaming of underwater archaeological works, thanks to a bottom-surface acoustic communication buoy. Results show that these types of outreach solutions and, by extension, of tourism application, must be preceded by a rigorous archaeological research process, a study of the target audience and the evaluation of the carrying capacity of the sites, to avoid falling into the mercantilisation or deterioration of the UCH. On the other hand, virtual or indirect access solutions are very useful, but always through the correct interpretation of the heritage.

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