Det här examensarbetet handlar om hur interaktion i en historisk utställningsmiljö upplevs av besökarna och hur man med hjälp av symboler av sinnena kan kommunicera de interaktiva möjligheterna. Arbetet lyfter även fram hur symbolerna kan förtydliga en redan formgiven utställning så att det rumsliga syftet framhävs. Denna studie är skriven inom ämnet informationsdesign med inriktning mot rumslig gestaltning. Besökarnas missförståelse för vad de ska interagera med i utställningarna på Västmanlands läns museum är det praktiska problemet som ligger till grund för studien. Syftet med studien är att studera vilka faktorer som ligger till grund för hur man som besökare läser av en miljö och förstår dess interaktiva möjligheter samt hur man med hjälp av symboler för sinnena kan kommunicera möjligheterna för att bidra till en ökad förståelse hos besökarna för vad de kan göra i utställningarna. Problemet har undersökts med hjälp av teorier om synintryck och den mentala bilden, interaktion och affordance, samt kommunikation. De metoder som har använts för att samla in empiri är via rumslig analys, innefattande platsanalys, observation och intervju. Andra metoder som används är en intervju med museipersonal samt ett användartest. Platsanalysen visade att museet varierade i sitt sätt att kommunicera de olika interaktionsmöjligheterna vilket observationen bekräftade i och med att besökare inte uppfattade alla delar i utställningen. Studien har resulterat i ett designförslag på hur kommunikationen genom symboler av våra sinnen kan öka förståelsen för vilka möjligheter en besökare har i interaktionerna. / This study is about how interaction in a historical exhibition is experienced by the visitors and how to communicate the interactive possibilities with the help of symbols of the senses. It will also focus om how the symbols can clarify an already designed exhibition so that the spatial purpose is featured. The study is written in the subject information design with a focus on spatial design. The practical problem the study is based on is the exhibitions at Västmanlands läns museum, where the visitors misunderstand what they can and can´t interact with. The purpose of the study is to examine what factors are the basis for how visitors read an environment and understand their interactive possibilities. The study also examines how to use the symbols of the senses to communicate these opportunities to contribute to increased understanding of the visitors for what they can do in the exhibitions. The theories that are used in the study are centered on visual perception and the mental image, interaction and affordance, as well as communication. The methods used to collect empirically are spatial analysis, including analysis of the place, observation and interview. Other methods used are an interview with museum staff and a user test. The location analysis showed that the museum varied in its way of communicating the various interaction possibilities which the observation confirmed as visitors did not perceive all parts of the exhibition. The study has resulted in a design proposal on how communication through symbols of our senses can increase understanding of what possible interactions a visitor has.

O objetivo da pesquisa é compreender os significados e os sentidos do trabalho e da carreira de trabalhadores de seis países das Américas (Argentina, Brasil, Colômbia, Chile, México e Peru) e sua relação com discursos e práticas discursivas presentes nas narrativas de sujeitos trabalhadores. Através de uma pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva, se obteve informações de duas fontes: textos e notícias de jornais e blogs dos países pesquisados durante um período de três semanas e entrevistas a 5 pessoas de cada país analisado, com idade limite de até 28 anos. As narrativas e práticas discursivas dos textos e das entrevistas mostram uma presença significativa de valores liberais como a autonomia, independência e a individualidade tanto na sugestão de modelos privilegiados de sujeito (nos textos de jornais e páginas de internet encontrados) como de constituição da carreira das pessoas entrevistadas. A primeira definição de trabalho dos participantes regularmente refere a condições concretas da atividade, elemento que também aparece na imagem que os textos de jornais passam sobre o que é considerado trabalho. No caso de alguns participantes, a exploração da trajetória permite ampliar a referência sobre trabalho e a consideração das implicações dessa atividade na própria vida. O trabalho é considerado importante para os participantes, mas ao mesmo tempo são narradas outras dimensões da vida do sujeito que ajudam na configuração do sentido e o significado do trabalho e carreira. Na configuração de carreiras, os referentes de família e pessoas consideradas importantes pelos participantes, constituem referentes importantes nas escolhas de carreira e nas aproximações ao mundo do trabalho. Discursos de empreendimento ligados a valores liberais aparecem como desejo de realização de carreira e imagem do trabalhador modelo a seguir. São discutidas a presença destes discursos nas narrativas como elementos que participam no desenvolvimento de subjetividades de trabalhadores na contemporaneidade / The research aim is to understand the meanings and senses of the work and career of workers from six countries in the Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru) and their relation with discursive and discursive practices in the narratives of working subjects. Through a qualitative and descriptive research, information for the analysis was used from two sources: texts and news from newspapers and blogs of the countries analyzed, during a period of three weeks, and interviews with five people from each analyzed country, with age limit of up to 28 years. The narratives and discursive practices of texts and interviews show a significant presence of liberal values such as autonomy, independence and individuality both in the suggestion of privileged models of subject (in the texts of newspapers and Internet pages found) and in the constitution of the career of people interviewed. The first definition of work of the participants commonly refers to concrete conditions of the activity; this also appears in the image that the texts of newspapers show on what work is considered. In the case of some participants, the exploration of the careers allows to increase the reference on work and the consideration of the implications of this activity in the own life. Work is considered important to the participants, but at the same time other dimensions of the subject\'s life are narrated which help in shaping the meaning and senses of work and career. In the career construction, the family and people considered important by the participants are important references in career choices and approaches to the world of work. Entrepreneurial discourses linked to liberal values appear as a desire to realize a career and image of the model of worker to follow. The presence of these discourses in the narratives are discussed as elements that participate in the development of the subjectivities of workers in contemporary times

Response characteristics and tactile coding capacities of single neurons of the dorsal column nuclei (DCN), and the dorsal horn, in particular, neurons of the spinocervical tract (SCT), were investigated in anaesthetized cats. Purely dynamically-sensitive tactile neurons of the DCN could be divided into two classes, one associated with hair follicle afferent (HFA) input, the other with Pacinian corpuscle (PC) input. The HFA-related class was most sensitive to low-frequency (&lt50 Hz) vibration, had phaselocked responses to vibration frequencies up to ~75 Hz and had a graded response output as a function of vibrotactile intensity changes. PC-related neurons had broader vibrotactile sensitivity, extending to ~300 Hz with tightest phaselocking between 50 and 200 Hz. The SCT neurons in the lumbar dorsal horn had tactile receptive fields on the hairy skin of the hindlimb and a very limited capacity to signal, in a graded way, the intensity parameter of the vibrotactile stimulus. Furthermore, because of their inability to respond on a cycle-by-cycle pattern at vibration frequencies above 5-10 Hz, these neurons were unable to provide any useful signal of vibration frequency beyond ~5-10 Hz, in contrast to DCN neurons. In the parallel human psychophysical study, the capacity for vibrotactile frequency detection and discrimination was examined in five subjects in glabrous and hairy skin. The vibrotactile detection threshold values obtained at four standard frequencies of 20, 50, 100 and 200 Hz were markedly higher on the hairy skin than on the glabrous skin. The discrimination task was examined by means of a two-alternative, forced-choice psychophysical procedure. Measures of the discriminable frequency increment (?????) and the Weber Fraction (????? / ??), revealed similar capacities for frequency discrimination at the two different skin sites at the standard frequencies of 20, 100 and 200 Hz, but an equivocal difference at 50 Hz. Cutaneous local anaesthesia in the dorsal forearm produced a marked impairment in vibrotactile detection and discrimination at the low frequencies of 20 and 50 Hz but little effect at higher frequencies, confirming that vibrotactile detection and discrimination in hairy skin depend upon superficial receptors at low vibrotactile frequencies, but depend on deep, probably Pacinian corpuscle receptors for high frequencies.

Consists of twenty nine papers previously published in various journals. / Includes bibliographical references. / 1 v. (various pagings) : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Physical, chemical, and neurophysiological processes responsible for fabric-evoked discomfort, itch and prickle sensation, and skin rash are defined. / Thesis (M.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physiology, 1995?

I live in a society where a state of multi-tasking and over-stimulation is common. I am inundated with excessive information and seemingly addicted to distraction. My love affair with hi speed digital devices devours all sense of time and space. But in the process of making all information available to everyone, all the time, we are losing our connection with the value of direct experience. What I can see, feel, taste, smell, touch and hear is losing significance and with this loss I am becoming isolated from my own nature and perhaps even my own body. In response to this contemporary condition this thesis proposes a place dedicated to rediscovering our innate sense of rhythm and to re-connecting with our place in the cosmos. This is not intended as a rejection of current technologies, but rather a place that examines the potential of architecture to bring us into the present moment. In doing so we are able to attend to the experience of being in our body and moving from moment to moment in the world; we learn to slow down and enjoy the incremental life of our senses. The site for this exploration is an island in the rocky landscape of the Canadian Shield. Known as Twin Island, this place is the site of my family's cabin where I spend each summer. The journey to the island and the place itself are both a physical and spiritual symbol of transformation; of disconnecting then re-connecting. Architecture is used as an instrument to heighten one’s awareness of the primordial power of water, stone, fire and darkness to spark the cosmological imagination. Sinking deeply into her bed she penetrates earth, rock and ancient memory. Here, she finds her place. This is ‘architecture minimum’; we are simply sheltered within the expanse of the universe.

This study argues that the sensory order employed during everyday activities deepens our understanding of local people’s relations with the environment. This study was conducted in Larabanga, Ghana, employing anthropology of the senses and phenomenology. The study reveals that people acquire ways of doing things and organizing their lives through their sensory engagement with their environment. Their engagement is further highlighted by the way they make themselves a home in their environment which informs about these sensory orders.

ABSTRACT Although the title of William Faulkner’s famous novel The Sound and the Fury overtly references the senses, most critics have focused on the fury rather than on the sound. However, Faulkner’s stories, vividly and descriptively set in the U.S. South, contain not only characters and plot, but also depict a rich sensory world. To neglect the way Faulkner’s characters employ their senses is to miss subtle but important clues regarding societal codes that structure hierarchies of class, gender, queerness, and race in his novels. Thus, a more complete examination of the sensory world in Faulkner’s fiction across multiple texts seems necessary to explore how Faulkner’s characters interpret the sensory stimuli in their fictional landscape and how their actions in this regard reveal the larger social constructs functioning in the novels. In particular, this dissertation seeks to borrow the theoretical approach known in fields such as history, anthropology, and sociology as sensory studies to examine nine Faulkner novels: Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Go Down, Moses, The Hamlet, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms), Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, The Town, and The Unvanquished. Such an approach requires moving away from examining sensory stimuli as symbols that are read the same way by everyone; instead, the way Faulkner’s characters use the senses is examined as a biased act, an act that is committed and interpreted differently depending on who is doing the sensing. Using this type of sensory studies framework can transform close readings of Faulkner’s texts, particularly since such an approach helps us understand the way the senses are constantly interwoven with characters’ attempts to define (and sometimes confine) the other characters. In fact, exploring the way characters actively use their senses to categorize others can reveal a hidden discourse, one where the language of the senses illuminates belief-systems in ways that are not otherwise obvious.

Boundaries and Matter - The intangible and the corporeal A space dedicated to contemplation in a public realm With a philosophical approach to the topics I aim to absorb the dynamics in the meeting between the intangible and the physical. In the urban contemporary environment that we live in I see a need for a physical context that contrasts the flow of information and inputs that we are exposed to.From this point of view I have created a concept of a space for contemplation, as a reply for both visual as well as mental boundaries that connects both the abstraction of the mind to the corporeal. The perception of our surroundings is an acknowledgment and a consciousness of our senses. In our everyday life we are constantly surrounded by a flow of impressions. To contrast this I have created a space where you can calmly travel inward & outwards without being disturbed by the constant flow of information. This project departs as a statement towards the intense frequency of information inputs in our contemporary surrounding, the stressful act to manage our mental boundaries for what we let in and what we leave out. Through this project I wanted to define the abstract spectra of inspirations in the design-process of how I relate to form and the surroundings. Mapping it, formulate and gestalt it. Defining the boundaries to what I see as the scenery of the project. Taking the broad turns of the process leading me to collect bits and pieces from various sources and apply these thoughts in a secondary phase to the actually form-giving. Turning the abstract ideas to a space and an object, interpret in two different manners to a pavilion for contemplation and an idea of seating furniture. Throughout the process I balance the two poles through reflection from a philosophical angle that I follow up with the sensibility for the tactile sensors in how one perceive a physical object. Leading through historical values and ideas tied towards the spatial dimensions and the various scales in handling space and object. Using the materiality to create a connection to the body and wrapping up to embrace as a protective shield around the body. With the gestalt of a boundless space within given dimensions that are not obvious or sharply defined, to instead become an extension of your mind and body. As you become the centre of the space, your thoughts are the boundaries and the spatial dimensions are framing the action.

The purpose is to outline and discuss how natural cosmetics companies succeed in creating desire for their products by implementing sensory marketing in their outlets in France and how the sensory marketing impacts differently on French women depending on their generation.Theory: The concept of branding and especially sensory branding introduces the strategy based on sensory marketing. A detailed description is given for each human sense about their characteristics, their importance in the buying process and their role to attract customers.Method: Our research consists in the elaboration and the administration of a questionnaire for French women between 15 and 50. After using secondary data and assuming hypotheses, the questionnaire enables to revise or not the theory and was built according to observations that have been made in natural cosmetics shops.Conclusion: Sensory marketing impacts consumers differently whether they belong to the generation X or to the generation Y. The same stimulus leads to different behaviours and different levels of sensitiveness. The generation X is greatly sensitive to touch while the smell impacts significantly the generation Y. Overall, both generations are influenced by a pleasant environment in which they spend more time and which increases their desire to purchase.Some companies can take advantage of these findings to implement efficient sensory practices in their outlet, affecting accurately the target generation.

Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Bibliography: p. 79-81.