Seri Dictionary: Body Parts, Bodily Processes, Sickness and Medicine

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...

Quain's Dictionary of Medicine

Measuring dimensions of body connection: body awareness and bodily dissociation.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to test the preliminary psychometric properties of the Scale of Body Connection (SBC), a 20-item self-report measure, designed to assess body awareness and bodily dissociation in mind-body intervention research. METHODS The SBC items were based on common expressions of awareness in body therapy. Content validity was established by a panel of experts. The validity an...

A Dictionary of Medicine

Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine and Surgery

We have already expressed a favourable opinion of this great Encyclopedia and Dictionary, and the seventh volume is equal to any of its predecessors It contains what may well be called monographs on nerves, the nose, paralysis and the peritoneum. Other articles on diseases of the pancreas and on opsonins are also new and valuable. This volume contains 57 articles of over 1,000 words in length, ...