Sensing And Making Sense

Author : Graziele Lautenschlaeger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839453315

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Sensing and Making Sense by Graziele Lautenschlaeger Pdf

Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.

Author : Riel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351047982

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Transforming the Future (Open Access) by Riel Miller Pdf

People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life. This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of ‘Futures Literacy’ as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory systems and processes – also known as the Discipline of Anticipation. This innovative title explores: • new topics such as Futures Literacy and the Discipline of Anticipation; • the evidence collected from over 30 Futures Literacy Laboratories and presented in 14 full case studies; • the need and opportunity for significant innovation in human decision-making systems. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, policy-makers and students, as well as activists working on sustainability issues and innovation, future studies and anticipation studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351047999, has been made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license.

Author : Omesh Tickoo,Ravi Iyer
Publisher : Apress
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430265931

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Making Sense of Sensors by Omesh Tickoo,Ravi Iyer Pdf

Make the most of the common architectures used for deriving meaningful data from sensors. This book provides you with the tools to understand how sensor data is converted into actionable knowledge and provides tips for in-depth work in this field. Making Sense of Sensors starts with an overview of the general pipeline to extract meaningful data from sensors. It then dives deeper into some commonly used sensors and algorithms designed for knowledge extraction. Practical examples and pointers to more information are used to outline the key aspects of Multimodal recognition. The book concludes with a discussion on relationship extraction, knowledge representation, and management. In today’s world we are surrounded by sensors collecting various types of data about us and our environments. These sensors are the primary input devices for wearable computers, IoT, and other mobile devices. The information is presented in way that allows readers to associate the examples with their daily lives for better understanding of the concepts. What You'll Learn Look at the general architecture for sensor based data Understand how data from common domains such as inertial, visual and audio is processed Master multi-modal recognition using multiple heterogeneous sensors Transition from recognition to knowledge through relationship understanding between entities Leverage different methods and tools for knowledge representation and management Who This Book Is For New college graduates and professionals interested in acquiring knowledge and the skills to develop innovative solutions around today's sensor-rich devices.

Author : David Howes,Constance Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317929475

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Ways of Sensing by David Howes,Constance Classen Pdf

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.

Author : Joy Parr
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859189

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Sensing Changes by Joy Parr Pdf

Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past where state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and technological changes forced ordinary people to cope with transformations that were so radical that they no longer recognized their home and workplaces or, by implication, who they were. In concert with a ground-breaking, creative, and analytical website, megaprojects.uwo.ca, this timely study offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.

Author : Dimitra Babalis
Publisher : Alinea Editrice
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788860556189

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Chronocity by Dimitra Babalis Pdf

Author : Madeline Schwartzman
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1907317295

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See Yourself Sensing by Madeline Schwartzman Pdf

" ... Is the first book to survey the intersection between design, the body, science and the senses, from the utopian pods and head gear of the 1960s, to the high-tech prostheses, wearable computing, implants, and interfaces between computers and humans of the past decade ..."--Introduction, p. 6.

Author : Tobias Wibble
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811246319

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Making Sense Of The Senses by Tobias Wibble Pdf

Making Sense of the Senses provides an easily understandable and engaging overview of the senses. The book allows readers insights into how humans and other animals perceive the world, reflecting a level of knowledge similar to that acquired by studying neuroscience at an undergraduate level. In order to offer an accessible introduction to the science, it uses relatable examples to uncover the history, evolution, and biological principles of the way we see, smell, hear, taste, touch and more.Rather than only focusing on the five primary senses you can see on the cover, Making Sense of the Senses dives deep into the various methods through which life across the planet surveys the world, and guides the reader through the lesser-known methods through which we humans interpret our surroundings. In this way, we come across some amazing abilities that we often forget we possess.Humans are nevertheless rather average creatures compared to many sensory specialists. So when we compare our relatively modest capabilities to those of other species across the animal kingdom, we are forced to yield our anthropocentric sense of supremacy. This book will introduce how biological life developed the capacity to detect magnetic fields, radioactivity, and many more phenomena that until recently were inaccessible to humans.By contextualising and comparing how the senses operate, this book covers the sensory systems in a way no popular science book has previously done. If you are starting your career in neuroscience, or simply want to learn more about the ways our biology guides us through life, Making Sense of the Senses will change the way you think about our perception of the world.

Author : Sara B. Savage
Publisher : Church House Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780715142424

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Making Sense of Generation Y by Sara B. Savage Pdf

For Generation Y, born after 1982, relationships happen over the Internet and music marks their territory. How does this generation think about the world? What does their spirituality look like? And what implications does this have for the Church? This book addresses the need for the Church to reconnect and communicate with young people.

Author : Sara Savage
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780715146705

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Making Sense of Generation Y by Sara Savage Pdf

For Generation Y, born after 1982, relationships happen over the Internet and music marks their territory. How does this generation think about the world? What does their spirituality look like? And what implications does this have for the Church? This book addresses the need for the Church to reconnect and communicate with young people.

Author : Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781452962160

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How to Do Things with Sensors by Jennifer Gabrys Pdf

An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Author : Matthew Fuller,Eyal Weizman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781788739108

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Investigative Aesthetics by Matthew Fuller,Eyal Weizman Pdf

Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call "investigative aesthetics": mobilising sensibilities often associated with art, architecture and other such practices to find new ways of speaking truth to power. This book draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology, evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art, and examines radical practices such as those of Wikileaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. Investigative Aesthetics takes place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new 'common sensing'. The book is an inspiring introduction to a new field that brings together investigation and aesthetics to change how we understand and confront power today. To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.

Author : Jillian Paragg
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800710481

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Mixed Race Life Stories by Jillian Paragg Pdf

Framing a new theoretical analysis in a field with limited data, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canada builds an understanding of the affective lived experiences of mixed race people, the different ways they are racialized and how that may impact a politics of mixed race moving forward.

Author : Susanna Lindberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438492599

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From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence by Susanna Lindberg Pdf

From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of the present. It starts from the current epoch, an era increasingly marked not only by technology but also by technics in the most general sense, and asks how this affects human existence. The book asks what is called technics, what is called humanity, how these relate to one another, and how changes in these notions oblige us to revise the philosophical notion of existence. It investigates how the idea of technological humanity—of technology as an extension and instrument of the human—is discovered and deconstructed by Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Giorgio Agamben. Finally, the book presents a new idea of bio-technical existence, one that underlies these philosophers' works without being fully elaborated. This idea—of technics as a condition of humanity that humans share with other living and technical beings—is the author's own philosophical proposition and the final result of the book.

Author : Rosalind Driver,Peter Rushworth,Ann Squires,Valerie Wood-Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134860753

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Making Sense of Secondary Science by Rosalind Driver,Peter Rushworth,Ann Squires,Valerie Wood-Robinson Pdf

When children begin secondary school, they already have knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world from their experiences both in primary classes and outside school. This collection of support materials is designed especially for teachers of the early years in secondary school to give guidance both on the ideas which children are likely to bring with them and also on using these ideas to help pupils to make sense of their experiences in science lessons. The materials are in 24 sections, structured around three themes - life and living processes, materials and their properties and physical processes. Included in each section is a science map identifying key science ideas and also a set of learning guides which give detailed advice on helping children to develop these ideas. Written in collaboration with teachers, field-tested in schools and suitable for use with any published science scheme, these materials will be an essential resource for all science teachers who are planning teaching schemes and developing science lessons within the National Curriculum. A separate paperback, Making Sense of Secondary Science: Research into Children's Ideas comes with the file and is also available separately. This provides a summary of research in the area and a detailed bibliography for those who want to pursue certain aspects further.