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Showing 1 to 20 of 227 for “"the 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
… 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 contrast, incorporating new hardware can dramatically expand a device's …
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Legitimizing the Senses and Provoking Emotions
This thesis 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
… 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
… BCE, and 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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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
… creating problems. Now we have become the tools for our tools. It is the reaction to this technology that has led our society to become more and more mechanized and engineered, detaching us from the natural processes and the natural phenomena that make up our interesting world. However, …
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Young Children's Coordination of Label Extension Across the Senses
… children usually avoid extending two labels to the 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 …
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Silent Light, Luminous Noise: Photophonics, Machines and the Senses
This research takes the basic physical premise that sound can be synthesized using light, explores how this has historically been, and still is achieved, and how it can still be a fertile area for creative, theoretical and critical exploration in sound and the arts. Through the author's own …
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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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Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema
This thesis proposes to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US). These cinemas are bound together through the hyperbolic application of the long take, which promotes a …
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Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons
… Civil War historians assume that people in the past experienced the world through their senses, they rarely give explicit attention to nonvisual senses such as hearing and smell. This thesis takes nonvisual senses seriously. Unlike vision, hearing cannot be turned off, making sound and the …
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Natural phenomena and the senses : linking memory and corporeal experience
How could the experience of our rituals be made more meaningful? Our experience of ritual exists as an exchange between our memory and natural phenomena in a place over time. These place specific phenomena are filtered by our senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight and balance before becoming …
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Eating Ethnic: Cross-Racial Encounters, Cosmopolitan Whiteness and the Senses, 1964-present
… Encounters, Cosmopolitan Whiteness and the Senses, 1964-present" explores links between ethnic food, sensory experience and space to reveal how white Americans have used the act of eating to articulated privileged transnational subjectivities in the second half of the twentieth and early …
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Timing the senses and sensing the time: Individual differences in subjective duration
Although the experimental investigation of the perception of time dates back to around 1864 (Lejeune & Wearden, 2009) the reasons for variation between individuals are still poorly understood. Advancing in this area has been identified as one of the most important issues for the modern …
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Gamma and the senses : explorations of multisensory cognitive approaches in Alzheimer's disease
We experience the world through our senses. Our consciousness is the culmination of our recalled perceptual associations. Stimulating the senses can yield remarkable biological effects for cognitive recovery; this is the cornerstone of my thesis. Alzheimer's is currently the 6th leading cause of …
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Hateful and Heartwarming Bonds: The Senses as Strategy in the South Korean Family
… investigates women’s strategizing around the senses in South Korea, tracing the ways that women move between sensory experience as an ideal and as an object to put into motion. I argue that the language of the sensory is invoked to stand up to state or societal pressures regarding …
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The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility
This thesis examines Shelley’s art of sensuous imagery, or poetics of sensibility. To elucidate Shelley’s concept of sensibility which links his poetry to its ethical and aesthetic concerns, I combine close textual readings of Shelley’s imagery of the senses with his intellectual and cultural …
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
<p>The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism offers a new historical narrative about the rise of fundamentalism. I argue that sensing bodies laid the foundation of fundamentalism. New kinds of Christian sensory practices …
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