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Showing 1 to 20 of 302 for “"mindful"”.
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Mindful documentary
… goal of story construction. This thesis presents mindful documentary, a model of a videographer's cyclical process of thinking and constructing during a documentary production. The purpose of this model is to better support documentary creation through systems that assist the documentary …
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Towards Mindful Consumption
… and lead to behavioral shifts towards more mindfully consumerist lifestyles. Ultimately, this thesis uses a dialogue with itself to plant a seed challenging the status quo of overconsumption, catalyzing meaningful discussion about our responsibilities, behaviors, and concerns in a …
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Mindful Teachers: Case Studies of Intermediate Teachers and Their Mindful Teaching Practices
… of mindlessness, schools should be a place where mindful individuals can flourish. Langer (1989, 1997) described mindful individuals as displaying the following characteristics: (a) openness to novelty, (b) alertness to distinction, (c) sensitivity to different contexts, (d) awareness of multiple …
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Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay
This project is a synthesis of, on the one hand, the interventionist architect curiously and deliberately plotting form and visualising construction and, on the other hand, the human being often wilfully retreated and joyfully observing the uninterrupted and the conflicting. It is this dialectic - …
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Experiencing Architecture through Active and Mindful Spaces
… In turn, architecture can encourage active and mindfullness in a person's everyday life. The architectural project is a mixed-use development consisting of a multi-family residence, hotel, coffee shop, and spa located off of 14th Street in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington DC. The …
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Designing personal systems for mindful decision making
… technologies are generally seen as reducing mindfulness. Users are so absorbed in their devices that they behave in more distracted ways, are less engaged in face-to-face social interactions and increase their sedentary behaviors. This often results in behaviors and habits that are misaligned …
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Mindful Acting: Freeing the Comfortable Self on Stage
This thesis will explore how I can reduce the impact of anxiety on my stage performance and how I can be more comfortable, while finding ways to be unique as an actor. For this effect, a range of methodologies will be applied so that my self-awareness, self-respect and self-confidence as a …
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Educational Technology and Mindful Learning in the Classroom
… research study explored the connection between mindful learning theory and educational technologies in the public elementary school classroom. The purpose of this study was to investigate both how and why instructional technologies are being used, as a possible route to understanding how …
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Mindful and Positive Relationships as Foundational to Student Support
… can be developed through implementation of mindfulness as a pervasive practice and holistic value throughout the whole school in tandem with the creation of community groups acting as the home base for students across grade levels to connect with specific school staff and develop effective …
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MINDFUL INQUIRY - A DEWEYAN ASSESSMENT OF MINDFULNESS AND EDUCATION
<p>Mindfulness-based interventions are becoming an increasingly popular means for helpingstudents deal with the multidimensional challenges they face in contemporary educational settings. While potentially helpful, an uncritical employment of mindfulness in education can paradoxically function to …
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Proposing the mindful check-in: a brief mindfulness exercise
… the effectiveness and adherence rate of the mindful check-in compared to a traditional mindfulness exercise. This study compared the effects of a traditional mindful breathing exercise and a no-treatment control condition to the mindful check-in on measures of mindfulness, psychological …
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Toward a Deeper Awareness: Becoming a Mindful Educational Leader
… practice and non-meditative process of mindfulness and its application to educational leadership. The definition of mindfulness that guided this research was – being attentive and aware in the present moment. Mindfulness was viewed as being more than meditation; it was seen as clear …
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Transformational design : a mindful practice for experience-driven design
… I call this Transformational Design-a mindful, hands-on, and collaborative practice that allows designers to bring forth their own experiences within their creative process (designer's experience) and then talk and think about the experiences of others (user's experience) in terms of …
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HeartBit : mindful control of heart rate using haptic biofeedback
The following thesis lies where mindfulness and technology meet, in particular, in the design, implementation, and testing of HeartBit. HeartBit is a device designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weight, and movement of a hidden …
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A Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception
… emerged from the data - a "Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception" - depicts library administrators as active producers of new service concepts. More specifically, the model posits that the innovative library administrator continuously identifies new customer …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
… what I term "cognitive-agentic repair" as the mindful mending of agentic skills/autonomy competency by way of those constitutive cognitive processes that are extended/situated in objects and arrangements of objects that constitute particular material spaces and places (home, workplace). As …
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Using mindful mandala making to ground and center military spouses
… that allows military spouses a chance to be mindful and present in the moment resulting in grounding and centering. This Internet based research design used subjective units of distress (SUDS) scale to measure self-reported levels of distress before making the mandala, after making the …
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Escape to recovery. Discovering architectural innovations for mindful meditation with landscapes
The expansion and exploration of the interplay between architecture and landscape seeks to heal the disconnect between these two disciplines. The dissertation focuses on how the two aspects’ integration can provide tranquillity and solace amidst the modern urban environment. Existing as two …
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Wandering minds, restless brains and mindful thinking : a network-based perspective
… individual differences in working memory and mindfulness in relation to connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The DLPFC is a major component of the executive control network that increased in activation during tasks involving …
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