Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

In the following by avant guarde poet, Eduardo Kac, one type of haptic listening is defined: " . . . Haptic listening: Implant a self-p...

"Investigating a crime scene at Sleepy Hollow, Constable Ichabod Crane becomes agitated: "You have moved the body ?" he inqui...

Earlier in the development of HIPoeces we did make extensive use of batons. The "problem," of course, with a stick as used by a co...

This article, from PC Magazine, makes the case that something is missing in video-centered learning systems. In the first paragraph, as a ma...

John Sutton explores in dance how patterns become integrated into practice: "These investigations offer a unique opportunity to track t...

According to this study, all you have to do is just stand a bit further away from the mirror if what you see there is "painful!" W...

The article linked above is a review "Constraint-induced Movement Therapy," a process developed for working with loss of body move...

In this study, it was discovered that rhythm, as opposed to melodic overlay, had more impact on haptic anchoring. The implications of that r...

Thorpe and Farrell in "ekleksographia" explore poetry as haptic experience. Haptic-based procedures in pronunciation work easily b...

In both second language and native language reading teaching, in early phases of instruction, the role or value of students being required t...

Although the ultimate goal of HIPoeces work is to do pronunciation work in virtual reality, the thought of coordinating your sound system wi...

And we sometimes wonder why changing a fossilized speech pattern can take time: (From Mark Bull) "In my experience some small improveme...

This from Simon (2000), linked above: "The behavior modeling method—developed in the 1970s for building an individual's skills—is a...

Another study confirming that systematic use of gesture has a place in formal education--at least physics. The fact that the research focuse...

This piece by Adrian Underhill does a good job of illustrating the typical use of movement and touch close in,  in several  mouth-centered ...

Kinesthetic and haptic techniques in the pronunciation class should, in principle, work for several reasons. One is  that movement and touch...

It turns out (not surprisingly) that the brain "runs on rhythm." In relatively new research enabled by remarkable  technological a...

The basic tool or interface of HIPoeces work is a 3-dimensional visualized matrix which fills the visual field of the learner. The vertical ...

There is, as far as I am aware, no published research on recall based on learners having kinesthetically or haptically experienced a text or...

This video has several of the elements: music, dance (total body engagement), speech synchronized gesture, cute--but misses on several other...