Subaltern Architectures: Can Drawing “Tell” a Different Story?

Corpus Simsi: Or Can a Body Tell a Story?

Tell Me a Story

‘‘Daddy, tell me a story. A good one.’’ An engineer pauses at the request. We know how to measure and build many things. But imagining, crafting, and telling a story? That is hard. If you are building or researching any aspect of multimedia, however, then you should be thinking about how your work helps both you and the user experience a story. Telling stories is an important part of how we com...

Health literacy: how visuals can help tell the healthcare story.

Herb, a 66-year old general contractor, had a major heart attack five years ago. His doctor performed an emergency coronary angiography to examine the blood vessels and chambers of his heart. After the procedure, Herb's doctor gave him a simple line drawing of the heart and arteries. She then coloured in where each artery was blocked and wrote alongside how much each was occluded. Seeing so cle...

Blind-Sight vs. Degraded-Sight: Different Measures Tell a Different Story

Blindsight patients can detect, localize, and discriminate visual stimuli in their blind field, despite denying being able to see the stimuli. However, the literature documents the cases of blindsight patients who demonstrated a preserved degree of awareness in their impaired visual field. The aim of this study is to investigate the nature of visual processing within the impaired visual field a...

A Joe Beck story to tell.

Eastern Kentucky University’s (EKU’s) Environmental Health Science (EHS) program and the entire EHS profession suffered a great loss on August 9, 2014, when our colleague and my good friend Professor Joe Beck passed away. I have decided to do my column on one of Joe’s last papers he sent me. Joe was always writing, since that was his second favorite thing to do. His fi rst love was teaching. Jo...