Dance lessons on a personal health budget

A dance of empowerment - lessons for the NHI?

Dance for your health.

In the primitive societies dancing was as essential as eating or sleeping. Dancing was the mode of individual and group expression, and communication with others or even with the nature. The major changes over the history were accompanied with changes in the dancing rituals of every society [1]. According to Keogh and collaborators (2009) dancing is a mode of physical activity that may allow pe...

Lessons Learned from a Personal Sensing Architecture

For the past two years we’ve been using a personal sensing system we call SPEC. Because it has different goals it has a different design philosophy, and thus its architecture is quite different from the more common environmental sensing system. It was designed to monitor a user’s activities for their own purposes, in order to support everyday information processing activities. In other words, i...

Invitation to the dance: lessons from Susan Sontag's death.

The standard model for end-of-life decision-making gives roles to two parties--the physician, who explains the medical options, and the patient, who selects from among those options. The model can be harmful not only for individuals but also for the state, if the patient's right to control her own choices is understood as a positive right of access to whatever is available.

Creating Integrated Music and Video for Dance: Lessons Learned and Lessons Ignored

In his demonstration, the author discusses the sequential progress of his technical and aesthetic decisions as composer and videographer for four large-scale works for dance through annotated video examples of live performances and PowerPoint slides. In addition, he discusses his current real-time dance work with wireless sensor interfaces using sewable LilyPad Arduino modules and Xbee radio ha...