It was he who started dissecting in solitude the stinking corpses of executed criminals and indigent hospital patients, so that he might better comprehend the body’s mysteries, even before the era of Renaissance. Born in 1452, he was at once a painter, architect, mathematician, city planner, biologist and researcher in optics, while at the same time a civil, military and hydraulic engineer. He ...

Irwin Altman’s popular theory of privacy as a normalizing, dynamic, dialectic process regulating self-environment interactions is integrated with observations and conceptions of privacy drawn from ubicomp, law, architecture, sociology, and psychology. The result is a unified, holistic and comprehensive vocabulary for discussing privacy issues in the design of ubicomp systems, specifically ubiqu...

This analysis breaks down the congestion levels experienced during specific parts of a wilderness canoe trip. By explicitly addressing the heterogeneity in preferences for congestion during a trip, we are able to determine the relative value canoeists place on solitude at different points of a trip. Our econometric model utilizes a random effects probit framework to efficiently estimate the wel...

This paper is the second in a sequence of two papers that report on descriptive and prescriptive research undertaken at Isle Royale National Park to support development of a new wilderness management plan at the Park. The first paper reports on the initial phase of study aimed at developing descriptive information on backcountry camping at Isle Royale using computer simulation modeling. The pre...

The COVID-19 outbreak has been shown to have had a negative impact on mental health: furthermore, lockdown measures may increased levels of loneliness and addiction. Preliminary studies indicated an frequency gaming social media use during this time augmented likely account for the increase in addiction lockdown. We conducted longitudinal study administering battery self-report questionnaires a...

Social isolation and inactivity have a profound effect on one’s quality of life. In recent times, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted social life many. When it comes to disabled populations, emotional well-being is greatly affected by an increasing trend isolation. Research shows that people with disabilities perceive loneliness as unbelonging in childhood disaffiliation normative institutions a...

And for 20 minutes or so after arriving, despite the usual nerves, I did just that. But small talk with stiffbacked strangers at a swanky cocktail party is by far my least favorite part of my job. Send me to a famine or a flood and I'm comfortable. A few rounds of the room at a social event, however, leave me exhausted. So now and then I retreat into the solitude of the bathroom, watching the m...