Entangled bodily planning. Developing bodily workshop design for kindergarten teachers’ bodily professional knowledge through somatic dance

Design Processes for Bodily Interaction ?

Designing interactive systems that have illusive interaction qualities, such as suppleness or pliability, is challenging. In several design projects aiming for bodily and emotional interaction, we have aimed to find concepts, methods or processes that can capture the essence of the sought experience and steer the design process in a successful and efficient direction. Our attempts include using...

Bodily Deformities

This covers a series of lectures delivered by the late Mr. Chance in the j^ear 1852 and subsequently at the City Orthopaedic Hospital, including many illustrations drawn by the late author "on the wood" from casts of cases, and brought up to date by the editor. It is written in a pleasant scientific style, and we note quotations from the late Dr. J. C. Prichard, of Bristol, on Researches into t...

Developing a sense of bodily self

The development and expression of higher cognitive functions, such as imitation, spatial perception, and tool-use rely on a body schema. Up to date, no general methodology exists about how a robot could learn its body representation. We propose a developmental approach to build the bodily self from the robot own multimodal sensorimotor experiences of self-observation and active interaction with...

Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness.

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency