Arts: Feel the photons

'It makes me feel happy and joyful': the evaluation of arts-based social interventions in public health.

We have spent the past 2 years evaluating Sistema Scotland’s ‘Big Noise’ programme, an arts-based social intervention targeted at socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods in Scotland. Drawing inspiration from Venezuela’s decades-old ‘El Sistema’ movement, Sistema Scotland’s first programme was established in Raploch, Stirling in 2008, with their second intervention site at Govanhill, Glasgow e...

The Feel of Java

Kinetochores feel the pull

S uzuki et al. (1) take a close look at how kinetochores change shape when spindle microtubules tug on them. They fi nd that only part of the kinetochore stretches and identify a protein that might confer this ability. Kinetochores, which hook the fi bers of the mitotic spindle to chromosomes, are more than passive fasteners. Fashioned from more than 100 proteins, the structures are dynamic and...

activities for people with dementia ' ' It makes me feel like myself ' ' : Person - centered versus traditional visual arts

During a 15-month period between February 2010 and April 2011, video data on (n1⁄4 38) people with dementia were collected during a person-centered and intergenerational arts activity program called Opening Minds through Art (OMA) at three different long-term care facilities in Ohio. A subsample of the OMA participants (n1⁄4 10) were also video recorded during traditional visual arts activities...

FEEL Thesis

If we are to learn the effects of the environment and our day-to-day actions, and choices on our physiology, we must develop systems that will label biophysiological senor data with contextual information. In this thesis I first present an architecture and implementation of FEEL: a system for the acquisition, processing and visualization of biophysiological signals and contextual information. T...