This paper will discuss key issues which arose during the creation of Sensuous Geographies, a multi-user interactive/responsive installation created in 2003/4. In particular it will refer to the way in which the design of the installation was intended to draw attention to bodily sensation, facilitate collaborative interactivity between participants and bring about an emergent choreography, and ...

Rickettsial diseases, particularly vector-borne rickettsioses (VBR), have a long history in Taiwan, with studies on scrub typhus and murine typhus dating back over a century. The climatic and geographic diversity of Taiwan’s main island and its offshore islands provide many ecological niches for the diversification and maintenance of rickettsiae alike. In recent decades, scrub typhus has re-eme...