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1	Influence of Torque on Visual Heaviness Perception Bachus, Laura E. 26 September 2011 (has links) No description available. Psychology Heaviness Perception Embodied Cognition
2	Heaviness Perception Dynamics in the Leg and Arm January 2016 (has links) abstract: Perceived heaviness of lifted objects has been shown to scale to a ratio of muscle activity and movement during elbow lifts. This scaling reflects the importance of the forces applied to an object and the resulting kinematics for this perception. The current study determined whether these perceived heaviness dynamics are similar in other lifting conditions. Anatomically sourced context-conditioned variability has implications for motor control. The current study investigated whether these implications also hold for heaviness perception. In two experiments participants lifted objects with knee extension lifts and with several arm lifts and reported perceived heaviness. The resulting psychophysiological functions revealed the hypothesized muscle activity and movement ratio in both leg and arms lifts. Further, principal component regressions showed that the forearm flexors and corresponding joint angular accelerations were most relevant for perceived heaviness during arm lifts. Perceived heaviness dynamics are similar in the arms and legs. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2016 Psychology EMG Heaviness Perception Lifting Kinematics Psychophysics
3	Visual Perception of Heaviness: Influence of Kinematic Information STREIT, MATTHEW S. 25 August 2008 (has links) No description available. Psychology vision haptic kinematic perception heaviness
4	Do You Even Lift? An Exploratory Study of Heaviness Perception in Virtual Reality / En explorativ studie av tyngduppfattning i virtuell verklighet Bäckström, Emma January 2018 (has links) This exploratory study investigated how perception of heaviness and presence in the virtual reality experience is affected by limitations in the velocity with which a virtual object is lifted. An interaction method aiming to urge the user to lift certain objects at a certain velocity was designed, developed and evaluated in an iterative manner. Two cycles of user tests were conducted to explore and refine the interaction method. Subsequently, based upon the proposed interaction method, a room scale virtual reality puzzle game was developed and evaluated with a between-subject user test. Results indicated that the proposed interaction method bear potential to give users a notion regarding the heaviness of virtual objects, without affecting the presence of the VR experience. However, the results did not show clear signs in regard to limiting the participants' lift velocity. Ultimately, the interaction method needs further research. / Denna undersökande studie studerade hur uppfattningen av tyngd och sinnesnärvaro i den virtuella verkligheten påverkas av begränsningar i hastigheten med vilken ett virtuellt objekt lyfts. En interaktionsmetod som syftade till att uppmana användaren att lyfta vissa objekt med en viss hastighet utformades, utvecklades och utvärderades på ett iterativt sätt. Två cykler av användartester genomfördes för att utforska och förfina interaktionsmetoden. Därefter, baserat på den föreslagna interaktionsmetoden, utvecklades och utvärderades ett virtuellt verklighetspusselspel med ett användartest. Resultaten indikerade att den föreslagna interaktionsmetoden har potential att ge användarna en uppfattning om tyngden hos virtuella objekt utan att negativt påverka sinnesnärvaron i VR-upplevelsen. Resultaten visade emellertid inte tydliga tecken när det gäller att begränsa deltagarnas lyfthastighet. I slutändan behöver interaktionsmetoden ytterligare forskning. Heaviness perception weight perception virtual reality heaviness Human Computer Interaction
5	THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF VISUAL ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS AND INERTIA ON THE PERCEPTION OF HEAVINESS STREIT, MATTHEW S. 02 October 2006 (has links) No description available. Psychology, Experimental inertia rotational kinematics heaviness perception specification
6	Méthodologie d'Ibn Ğinnî (392/1002) dans l'explication des phénomènes morpho-phonologiques / Methodology of Ibn Ğinnî (392/1002) in the explanation of the morpho-phonological phenomena Fall, Cheikh 22 June 2010 (has links) Cette thèse qui se veut une contribution à l’étude des textes des grammairiens arabes portera sur l’orientation explicative qui caractérisait les grammairiens du 4ème/ 10ème siècle. Étant donné que notre intervention se limitera à la morpho-phonologie, nous avons choisi comme auteur Ibn Ğinnî ; considéré comme le grammairien le plus versé dans cette discipline. Nous tenterons d’explorer les principes qui régissent selon Ibn Ğinnî la morpho-phonologie. Une étude détaillée sera consacrée à la notion de lourdeur comme principe fondamental chez Ibn Ğinnî qui explique, d’une forme ou d’une autre, tout phénomène morpho-phonologique. Un recours à d’autres disciplines voisines où la méthodologie adoptée est plus explicite permettra de décoder le langage d’Ibn Ğinnî dans al-H et d’exploiter les implicites de son texte. Ce travail sur l’histoire de la langue mettra en exergue l’aspect interdisciplinaire comme perspective de recherche sur la grammaire arabe. / This thesis whose aim is to contribute to the study of the texts of the Arabic grammarian will deal with the explanatory orientation which characterised the grammarians of the 4th/10th century. Given that our intervention focuses on morph phonology, we chose as author Ibn Ğinnî, who is considered to be the most well-learned grammarian in this field. We will try to explore the principles, which according to him, governs morph phonology. A more detailed chapter will deal with the notion of heaviness which is a fundamental principle in Ibn Ğinnî and which explains somehow or other any phonological phenomenon. A study of other related subjects where the methodology adopted is more explicit will enable to understand the language of Ibn Ğinnî in Hasâ’is, and to make use of the implicits of314his texts. This work on the language history will highlight the interdisciplinary aspects as a research perspective in the Arabic grammar. Morpho-phonologie Méthodologie Explication Lourdeur Logique Cause Morpho-phonologie Methodology Explanation Heaviness Logic Cause 492.7
7	Advocating Silence Forth, Stephen 12 June 2013 (has links) The buildings people inhabit everyday frame their existence and provide a backdrop for life. This relationship is inextricable and, as such, begs the question as to whether buildings can function as more than mere containers for life or whether they, at some point or in some capacity, can begin to bare influence over the life or quality of life of their patrons. This project is an intention to explore this qualitative, unquantifiable aspect of building. Through a manipulation of volume and mass, constriction and expansion, solid and void, light and shadow, and the qualities of interiority and exteriority an occupied space will begin to impress itself upon the user. The main objective of this project is to use these architectural properties to create a place that fosters introspection through self awareness. By choosing presence over practicality and content over convention, the construct proposed in this thesis attempts to create spaces that are imposing and unfamiliar yet somehow emotionally reminiscent. Confronted by these contradictions and juxtapositions, this building will stand as an object, in opposition to the occupant, and through that opposition inspire and promote a greater awareness of, and possibly a reflection upon, normally unconscious thought processes. / Master of Architecture Architecture silence stone masonry dry-stack self consciousness physicality mass heaviness ruins mountain pavilion
8	I'm an Alien in New York : How Capitalism Creates Alienation in Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer Thorén, Anna January 2016 (has links) This essay investigates how capitalism affects the characters in John Dos Passos’ novel Manhattan Transfer. It argues how capitalism in many instances leads to alienation in various ways. In order to understand the historical context of the novel and to perform this character study, the concepts of modernism, modernity, Marxism, capitalism and alienation are put forward in the theoretical framework as the foundation of the essay. The main theories used are Georg Lukács’ definition of heaviness, Ferdinand Tönnies’ discussion on community and society and Melvin Seeman’s presentation of the ways in which the term alienation has been used and explained over the years. Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos Alienation Capitalism Marxism Modernism Modernity Georg Lukács Heaviness Ferdinand Tönnies Community Society Melvin Seeman
9	Stávání se tíhou: Filozofie diference a metalová hudba / Becoming Heaviness: Philosophy of Difference and Metal Music Volák, Vojtěch January 2021 (has links) Metal music is a term that currently serves as a designation for a plethora of different subgenres. The main goal of this work is to find a process that is shared between given subgenres of metal music. The search is based on the non-essentialist position of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference. For this reason, the first focus of the work is extensive excursion into this philosophy, to which it devotes it's first chapter. In it, through analysis of Difference and Repetition, it creates a thought and conceptual basis for the processual perception of ideas as multiplicities, a position that makes it possible to examine the process of becoming. From this position, the second chapter focuses on metal music and it's main characteristic quality - heaviness, and examines the ways in which music can become heavy. Keywords: Gilles Deleuze, metal music, heaviness, difference, becoming, multiplicity, intensity
10	Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery Hart, M J Alexandra January 2010 (has links) This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science. The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do. Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process. It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact. The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail. A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported. It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact. On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment. The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency. Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches. 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