I thought this article by Edward S. Katkin of the Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, is an interesting review of G. Ádám (1998). Visceral Perception: Understanding Internal Cognition. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 232. Edward Katkin titles his review, The last … Read More →
Author Archives: Garth Paine
New Book – ‘Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction’
Thought this might be of interest to the group ‘Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction’, a book edited by Christian Peter and Russell Beale is now available online from Springer [view contents] About this book Affect and emotion play an important role in our everyday … Read More →
Thinking Through The Body
Hi everyone, I was thinking that it would be very useful if everyone were to write a definition of what Thinking Through The Body means to each of us. What do you think? Cheers, Garth
experience — cybernetics
a diagramatic representation of some of the discussion on video cued recall. Cheers, Garth
Fabulous
Main Entry: fabulous Part of Speech: adjective Definition: So remarkable as to elicit disbelief. Synonyms: amazing, astonishing, astounding, fantastic, fantastical, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, prodigious, stupendous, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous Cheers, Garth
critique
I enjoyed working with Lizzie’s methodology today – seeking to better understand the process of audience engagement. It was interesting to think about why interactive New Media Art requires so much information about the artists intention? Why is it necessary to prescribe the manner of … Read More →
thermographic of a tarantula
thermographic image of a cold blooded tarantula on a warm human arm! enjoy…. garth
thermographic photography
I would be quite interested to explore the use of thermal imaging as one way of gathering somatic responses in a public installation. Possible sources for such technologies include: Infratech cameras for medicine Wikipedia on Thermography cheers, garth
Experience and the future
Three foci: Resonances: Experience Desires: how do we get at physical experience? How is experience represented in physiology? Offerings: An experience of Sonic Gesture; knowledge about sensing systems and the qualities and limitations of the resulting data. I am very interested in delving deeper into … Read More →
Bio-Feedback Apparel
Thought this report on BioFeedback apparel might be of interest. Interfaces for biological sensing in art. The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded at the recent Last HOPE conference where Mr. Montgomery exhibited his line of ‘Vital Threads’ projects. I have also been … Read More →
Links to some MoCAP technologies
I thought this links might be of interest: Here is a new MoCAP system that does not use markers on the body – this seems to me to be a revolution in unencumbered motion capture. I saw this system at the Organic Motion HQ in NYC … Read More →
words … communication ………..
One of the challenges we face (often a factor in communicating experience ) is the imprecision of language. It seem then that one of the first steps is a glossary – a common understanding of what the terms being used actually refer to – the … Read More →
The journal of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The journal of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Volume 4, number 4 has a very interesting collection of papers of relevance to this project