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Showing 1 to 20 of 1016 for “"touch"”.
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Stay in Touch
… paper is written support for the STAY IN TOUCH exhibition on display at Special Projects Gallery at York University from April 3rd to April 7th 2017. In this body of work, I use processes of weaving, knitting, crochet, embroidery and photography to touch the past and to feel reciprocally …
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TOUCH-SCREAN MSS
This is a poetry manuscript that examines the epic form, concrete poetic techniques, and science fiction concepts so as to posit a created world of surfaces.
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TOUCH-SCREAN MSS
This is a poetry manuscript that examines the epic form, concrete poetic techniques, and science fiction concepts so as to posit a created world of surfaces.
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Active touch sensing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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3D from 2D touch
… of sensors now allow users to interact through touch, speech, or using their whole body in 3D space. These new interaction modalities are often referred to as "natural user interfaces" or "NUIs." While 2D NUIs have experienced major success on billions of mobile touch devices sold, 3D NUI …
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Interactive Touch for Manipulation
… inevitably make contact with various objects. Touch provides contact geometry and forces information during interactions, which can be challenging to observe from vision due to occlusions or inherent limitations. This thesis will focus on how to let robots leverage touch for manipulation in …
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Slow Touch and Fast Nociception: Exploration of the Interactions Between Noxious and Innocuous Mechanical Touch Sensation
… and led to the recognition of a second ‘slow’ touch pathway, a pathway that has an affective rather than discriminative function (McGlone, Wessberg and Olausson, 2014). Conversely, the recent suggestion that fast-conducting afferent fibres innervating a type of ending previously considered to …
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Resource Allocation Using Touch And Audition
… easily applied to other sensory systems, such as touch, but this is untested. This overlooks the fact that each sensory system has different characteristics that can influence how information processing is allocated in a multiple-task environment. For example, vision requires a directed gaze that …
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Inspirited-dispirited touch: a phenomenological investigation
… of the experience of inspiriting/dispiriting touch was explored. Concepts from phenomenology and the simultaneity paradigm provided the philosophical and theoretical framework. The investigation was approached by employing phenomenological methods. Data were collected by means of tape recorded …
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Extending touch with eye gaze input
Direct touch manipulation with displays has become one of the primary means by which people interact with computers. Exploration of new interaction methods that work in unity with the standard direct manipulation paradigm will be of bene t for the many users of such an input paradigm. In many …
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Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Enter, Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Touch
Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Enter, Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Touch, is an invitation to the viewer to enter the exhibition area and to interact physically with all the components of my installation. By this physical act of involvement, it highlights the questions of fear, vulnerability, courage and connection in relation to my …
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Mental health practitioners' perceptions of touch
<p>Need for touch--Protection of client and practitioner--Appropriateness--Personal boundaries--Client psychopathology--Sexual and legal issues--Interpretation--Practitioner judgement.</p>
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Mental health practitioners' perceptions of touch
<p>Need for touch--Protection of client and practitioner--Appropriateness--Personal boundaries--Client psychopathology--Sexual and legal issues--Interpretation--Practitioner judgement.</p>
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'No-touch' breast-implant insertion device
… through conventional implantation. A 'no-touch' implant insertion technique has therefore been identified as the optimal method in potentially reducing CC rates. This describes an implant delivery without the implant ever touching: gloves (even during post-insertion implant orientation …
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Poetry as a Pedagogy of Touch
… based on ‘sight’ to one that is involved with ‘touch,’ metaphorically and literally speaking. Recent developments in theory and technology, especially quantum physics and post-structuralism, have redefined representation to encompass the necessary reflex of the representer. To be sure, my …
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Contextualizing Remote Touch for Affect Conveyance
Touch is an expressive and powerful modality in affect conveyance. A simple touch like a hug can elicit strong feelings of affection both in the touch initiator and recipient. Therefore delivering touch over a distance to a long-distance family member or significant other has been an appealing …
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Being “in Touch”: The Role of Daily Empathic Accuracy and Affectionate Touch Fulfillment in Shaping Well-Being
The receipt of affectionate touch from a relationship partner has been found to influence one's social, personal, and physical well-being. However, simply receiving a hug or a kiss from a spouse may not be enough, as recent research suggests that the benefits of affectionate touch may only be …
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DOES TOUCH HAVE A PLACE IN INTERPRETATION? RESEARCHING THE ROLE OF APPROPRIATE INTERPERSONAL TOUCH (AIT) IN INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMS
<p>The role of interpersonal touch has been studied in communication fields, demonstrating a handshake or other form of appropriate interpersonal touch (AIT) has rendered favorable results in rapport building with an audience as well as developing audience comfort and receptivity to messaging. This …
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Tailoring Digital Touch: An ethnography of designers' touch practices during garment prototyping and the potential for their digitisation
… documents garment designers’ use of touch and its role in meaning-making and understanding during garment prototyping. A novel diffractive ethnographic attention is utilised to attune to differing aspects of touch and felt experience, revealing the significance of the felt, …
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