17 research outputs found
Embodied Cognition In Auditory Display
Presented at the 19th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2013) on July 6-9, 2013 in Lodz, Poland.This paper makes a case for the use of an embodied cognition
framework, based on embodied schemata and cross-domain
mappings, in the design of auditory display. An overview of
research that relates auditory display with embodied cognition
is provided to support such a framework. It then describes
research efforts towards the development this framework. By
designing to support human cognitive competencies that are
bound up with meaning making, it is hoped to open the door to
the creation of more meaningful and intuitive auditory displays
Using Co-Inquiry to Study Co-Inquiry: Community-University Perspectives on Research
In the context of a rapid development of interest in community-university research partnerships, this article argues for a greater focus on collaborative reflexivity to enhance learning from the research process and contribute toward developing sustainable and ethical research collaborations. Incorporating perspectives of community and university participants, the article offers a case study analysis of a UK-based co-inquiry action research group. This group not only studied examples of community-university research collaborations, but also reflected on its own workings as an example of collaborative research in action—scrutinizing relationships of power, responsibility, and boundaries in the group (collaborative reflexivity). This article argues that research projects might be designed with space designated for co-inquiry action research or similar inquiry groups. These co-inquiry groups would serve as replacements or supplements to more traditional steering or advisory groups
Using co-inquiry to study co-inquiry: community-university perspectives on research collaboration
In the context of a rapid development of interest in community-university research partnerships, this article argues for a greater focus on collaborative reflexivity to enhance learning from the research process and contribute toward developing sustainable and ethical research collaborations. Incorporating perspectives of community and university participants, the article offers a case study analysis of a UK-based co-inquiry action research group. This group not only studied examples of community-university research collaborations, but also reflected on its own workings as an example of collaborative research in action—scrutinizing relationships of power, responsibility, and boundaries in the group (collaborative reflexivity). This article argues that research projects might be designed with space designated for co-inquiry action research or similar inquiry groups. These co-inquiry groups would serve as replacements or supplements to more traditional steering or advisory groups
Sonification listening: An empirical embodied approach
Presented at the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2015), July 6-10, 2015, Graz, Styria, Austria.This paper presents a sonification listening model built from models of embodied cognitive meaning-making faculties.
The aim of such a model is to aid in understanding how meaning is applied to auditory stimuli at the cognitive level.this in trun can aid auditory display designers in creating more effective auditory displays. The concept of
‘scale’ in sonification is considered in relation to the faculties described in the model. An experiment that explores how
embodied auditory cognition, as described by the model, understands and interprets sonifications is then presented.
This examining two speciffic kinds of ‘scale models’ listeners employ to interpret a sonification. The results obtained from this experiment are particularly convincing
showing that a listeners knowledge of the data-set being sonified will determine how they interpret changes in the
auditory stimuli in a sonification. The existence of these scale
models, the impact of a listeners knowledge on their
perception of a sonification and the implications imposed by the embodied nature of auditory cognition suggest a new
avenue for auditory display researchers interested in devloping meaningful sonifications that explit the embodied
nature of auditory cognition
Facial reactions reveal that slim is good but fat is not bad: Implicit and explicit measures of body-size bias
Facial electromyography (EMG) was used to gauge emotional responding towards images of slim and overweight individuals, and
findings were compared with data from a series of alternative measures including two implicit attitudinal procedures, the Implicit
Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and explicit measures of anti-fat prejudice and discriminatory
behavior. Images of slim individuals elicited EMG responses consistent with more positive affect. Data from both the
IRAP and IAT indicated higher levels of bias than were revealed on the explicit measures, and the IRAP also corroborated the
EMG pattern by indicating responses consistent with pro-slim rather than anti-fat bias. The IRAP was moderately correlated with
both EMG and the IAT and was the only measure to predict behavioral intention
Anti-fat, pro-slim, or both? Using two reaction-time based measures to assess implicit attitudes to the slim and overweight
Two measures of implicit attitudes,
the Implicit Relational Assessment
Procedure (IRAP) and the Implicit
Association Test (IAT), were
compared with each other and with a
measure of explicit attitudes in the
assessment of implicit pro-slim/anti-fat
bias. Results from both implicit tests
indicated higher levels of bias than
revealed by the explicit measure. The
IRAP data suggested that it was
participants’ pro-slim rather than anti-fat
bias, which was driving this effect.
Explicit attitudes and feelings towards
the overweight were significant
predictors of behavioural intentions
towards the overweight with the IRAP
offering a greater contribution to
predictive validity than the IA
Underground coal gasification with CCS: A pathway to decarbonising industry
Underground coal gasification (UCG) opens up the prospect of accessing trillions of tonnes of otherwise unmineable coal. When combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS), UCG offers some attractive new low-carbon solutions on a vast scale. This paper has several aims: to review key developments in technologies for UCG, CCS and CO2 storage in coal seam voids; to quantify the scale of the opportunity that these technologies open up; to examine the scope for linking these developments to other more familiar plans for decarbonising the fossil fuel power generation industry and other carbon-intensive industries; to identify the main hurdles to be overcome in taking forward any large-scale UCG–CCS proposition; and to propose a basis on which UCG-CCS can sit at the heart of plans to decarbonise present day industry in a way that dove-tails with longer-term ambitions for an economy based on renewable energy