Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics
dc.contributor.supervisor | Grant, Jane | |
dc.contributor.author | Maranan, Diego Silang | |
dc.contributor.other | School of Art, Design and Architecture | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-16T14:35:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier | 10492994 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10170 | |
dc.description | Portions of chapters 2 and 4 have been previously published in the following article: Maranan, D. S. (2015). Speculative somatics. Technoetic Arts, 13(3), 291–300. https://doi.org/10.1386/tear.13.3.291_1. This thesis expands on the material presented in the publication. This study was carried out in collaboration with industry partner Kin (UK). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract |
How can vibrotactile stimuli be used to create a technology-mediated somatic learning experience? This question motivates this practice-based research, which explores how the Feldenkrais Method and cognate neuroscience research can be applied to technology design. Supported by somaesthetic philosophy, soma-based design theories, and a critical acknowledgement of the socially-inflected body, the research develops a systematic method grounded in first- and third-person accounts of embodied experience to inform the creation and evaluation of design of Haplós, a wearable, user-customisable, remote-controlled technology that plays methodically composed vibrotactile patterns on the skin in order to facilitate body awareness—the major outcome of this research and a significant contribution to soma-based creative work. The research also contributes to design theory and somatic practice by developing the notion of a somatic learning affordance, which emerged during course of the research and which describes the capacity of a material object to facilitate somatic learning. Two interdisciplinary collaborations involving Haplós contribute to additional fields and disciplines. In partnership with experimental psychologists, Haplós was used in a randomised controlled study that contributes to cognitive psychology by showing that vibrotactile compositions can reduce, with statistical significance, intrusive food-related thoughts. Haplós was also used in Bisensorial, an award-winning, collaboratively developed proof-of-concept of a neuroadaptive vibroacoustic therapeutic device that uses music and vibrotactile stimuli to induce desired mental states. Finally, this research contributes to cognitive science and embodied philosophy by advancing a neuroscientific understanding of vibrotactile somaesthetics, a novel extension of somaesthetic philosophy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Plymouth | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Somaesthetics | en_US |
dc.subject | Somatics | en_US |
dc.subject | Soma-based design | en_US |
dc.subject | Transdisciplinary Research | en_US |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinary Research | en_US |
dc.subject | Embodied Cognition | en_US |
dc.subject | Cognitive Science | en_US |
dc.subject | Feldenkrais Method | en_US |
dc.subject | Wearable Computing | en_US |
dc.subject | Wearable technology | en_US |
dc.subject | Body Awareness | en_US |
dc.subject | Body Learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Wellbeing | en_US |
dc.subject | Vibroacoustic Therapy | en_US |
dc.subject | Somatic Learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Sensorimotor | en_US |
dc.subject | Phenomenology | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | PhD | en_US |
dc.title | Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | |
plymouth.version | publishable | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.24382/817 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.24382/817 | |
dc.rights.embargodate | 2018-11-16T14:35:40Z | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | 12 months | en_US |
dc.type.qualification | Doctorate | en_US |
rioxxterms.funder | Seventh Framework Programme | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | CogNovo | en_US |
rioxxterms.version | NA | |
plymouth.orcid.id | 0000-0001-8373-5763 | en_US |
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