Performing magic, performing medicine

Professional education in Performing Arts Medicine.

Performing Surgery: Commonalities with Performers Outside Medicine

This paper argues for the inclusion of surgery within the canon of performance science. The world of medicine presents rich, complex but relatively under-researched sites of performance. Performative aspects of clinical practice are overshadowed by a focus on the processes and outcomes of medical care, such as diagnostic accuracy and the results of treatment. The primacy of this "clinical" view...

Performing Perception

In interaction design for experience-oriented uses of technology, a central facet of aesthetics of interaction is rooted in the user’s experience of herself “performing her perception.” By drawing on performance (theater) theory, phenomenology and sociology and with references to recent HCI-work on the relation between the system and the performer/user and the spectator’s relation to this dynam...

Performing Space

The notion of performance is introduced as a design approach to the creation of interactive digital environments. These environments can ultimately be regarded as user-spaces; a condition which replace the art object with a configuration of interactions. Our understanding of space, as suggested by Lefevbre, defines the “inhabitant” as a full participant, a user, a performer of space. Two intera...

Practices differentiating high-performing from low-performing supported employment programs.

This paper reports on a qualitative study designed to uncover the practices that differentiate programs producing high rates of competitive employment from those with low rates. The study found 13 differentiating practice factors in three areas: building consumer interest in working, getting a job, and maintaining a job. The congruence between these findings and current definitions of "best pra...