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Showing 1 to 20 of 844 for “"Senses"”.
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Focusing the Senses
This thesis studies increasing awareness of the connectedness of the body to architecture. The objective is to explore and investigate the levels of attention required by each sense to summon the corporeal nature of the observers, to call us to a quietness of mind, transcending our western pace and …
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Extending the Senses of Ubiquitous Devices
Modern smart devices come equipped with a wide array of sensors, many of which can be repurposed for functionalities beyond their original intent through side-channel sensing. While this technique offers innovative uses without altering hardware, the enhancements it provides are often modest. In …
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Wireless systems that extend our senses
Wireless signals, such as Wi-Fi, are traditionally used for communications. In this thesis, we show that these signals can also be used as sensing tools that enable us to learn about our environment without physically reaching out to the various objects in it. Specifically, as these signals travel …
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Making kin : landscape, material and senses
This project proposes a series of architecture and landscape interventions in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Koreas. The Korean war divided Korea into North and South. It divided their territories, and in doing so it also divided many of its families. During the seventy years since …
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Legitimizing the Senses and Provoking Emotions
… was a study of a structure that legitimized the senses and provoked emotion by creating different experiential conditions.
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
This practice-based research presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early …
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The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires
… Book 2 c. 30 BCE) through a lens of the body’s senses and organs involved in perception (eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hands, and tongues). Horace manipulates a multitude of bodies throughout his poetry, each contributing a different sensory experience, as a medium for representing and …
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Communication via the kinesthetic and tactile senses
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1961.
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WayFinding: A Story Told Through The Senses
Architecture often references the five senses through conveying moments and experiences that someone could have in a specific setting. The purpose of this thesis is to dive deeper into how the senses can be engaged and how they relate to the concept of wayfinding. This thesis explores how engaging …
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A Revelatory Landscape: Wind through the Senses
… off from Reagan National Airport and one's senses as one can hear wind, see wind, feel wind, smell and taste wind. The sensory experience is one that focuses on the overlapping of the senses in a type of synthesia, creating a rich and dynamic fabric for exploration, interpretation and …
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A Neuroethology Approach For Insect Senses And Behavior
Neuroethology is the study of neural basis of natural behavior. I studied learning using sound as a cue in fruit flies and made recordings from the Johnston's organ (JO), I also investigated associative learning in mosquitoes. Finally, I studied Salticid (jumping) spiders to investigate the neural …
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Branch Street Ryokan : relaxation through reactivating human senses
… emphasis is on the idea of reactivating human senses by offering an intimate experience with the surrounding nature through materials. The intention of my thesis is to explore an experience in Ryokan architect~re. The thesis introduces Ryokan architecture as a typology. Incorporating …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
… the sense of touch. Historically, the senses have been ranked and separated, with priority given to vision, the sense most associated with reason. I argue that considering the senses as bundles of interconnected experiences and through imagination rather than as isolated methods of …
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Young Children's Coordination of Label Extension Across the Senses
… same object, they tend not to do so across the senses (Scofield, Hernandez-Reif, & Keith, 2009). In two experiments, 3- and 4-year-olds learned a label for a visual training object, then examined two hidden objects manually. One was the training object while the other was novel. On the critical …
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Felt senses of self and no-self in therapy
… study investigates what happens when felt senses of self are intentionally produced or accessed by focusing. A continuum of experiences is described, ranging from self to no-self, with trauma proving a major block to both self and no-self experiencings. The felt sense is re-defined in two …
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Silent Light, Luminous Noise: Photophonics, Machines and the Senses
… and film practices, cultural histories, the senses, media theory and engineering to address effects and outcomes specific to photophonic sound and its relation to the moving image, and the sculptural and media works devised to produce it. The sonifier, or device engendering the …
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Exploring senses, emotions, and their interconnections throughout literary periods
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Architecture Through the Senses: Navigating a World Without Noise
For this thesis, I engage in a comprehensive study of Deaf culture by learning American Sign Language (ASL) and immersing myself within the Deaf community. My objective is to gain insights into their unique modes of interaction, daily lives, and spatial preferences. The research is motivated by the …
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Contented Architecture - In Search of Delight for All Senses
… Architecture : In search of delight for all senses is an attempt to discover and capture the delightful sensory experiences of the users in the architectural space. Architectural space is seen as an artistic space, that appeals to different senses. The project is a Bike Hotel in Old Town, …
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