Bill Acton's Embodiment Blog

Clip art: Clker Well . . . the application of the use of visual-haptic systems in "drilling down into" data of various kinds ...

clip art: Clker Although the link is only to an abstract (I couldn't afford to pay the gut wrenching fee to read the full article ....

clip art: Clker Interpersonal physical contact in public in many cultures among "normal" people is by varying degrees prohibi...

image credit: yvonbonenfant.com When contemporary vocal artists, in this case Yvon Bonenfant , create in multi-senses, the interplay be...

clip art: Clker Here is an announcement of a 2010 workshop that I am sorry I missed on "Social Haptic Communication. " Althou...

The hormone oxytocin has been associated with a range of social functions such as trust, facial recognition, massage technique and lactatin...

clip art: Clker I am asked repeatedly, how to apply haptic thinking and technology to more detailed articulatory work with vowels and c...

Clip art: Clker The "ancient" Taoists and Lessac had it right, when it came to rehabilitation --among other things. The centr...

clip art: Clker In this 2009  study of modality dominance , by Hecht and Reiner, when visual is paired one-on-one with either haptic or...

Clip art: Clker Autotelic need-for-touch subjects in this 2007 study by Krishna and Morrin were better at distinguishing "diagnos...

Image credit: www. pmos.org.uk To get an idea of what a haptic-based, computer-mediated, near virtual reality system for pronunciation ...

Clip art: Clker In this 2000 paper, Design of Haptic and Tactile Interfaces for Blind Users , Christian makes an important observation...

Clip art: Clker In this fascinating paper by Kilbourn and Isaksson (2007) the case is made for the place of some types or phases of non...

There have been many relatively recent studies of synaesthetic metaphor (combing senses, e.g., a moving speech, a sharp flavor) in variou...

Adding touch to movement, tactile to kinesthetic, has proven to be very powerful, especially in getting learners to anchor sounds or sound ...

Clip art: Clker Any pronunciation teaching method text will recommend kinaesthetic techniques for practicing rhythm, such as clapping h...

As reported in this article by Hecht and Reiner, field dependence/independence cognitive style may have an impact on how readily one is ...

Clip art: Clker Clip art: Clker As noted in earlier posts, EHIEP "touch-i-namis" (wave-like gestures associated with sou...

Clip art: Clker Here is a document showing essential K-5 outcomes in Art, Music, and Physical Education . Careful examination (with yo...

Clip art: CLker Here is an interesting description of what is termed, "gesture drawing" which seems quite analogous to what a...