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Somaesthetic Design : The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mages, Michael Arnold.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.
Summary:
Over the past twenty-five years, design practice has expanded from making objects to shaping experiences that unfold in-time.As this expansion has accelerated, designers have gained powerful new tools but often without a shared language for shaping embodied experience.
Contents:
Cover
Table Of Contents
Lists of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Experiencing Body - The Soma
2. Unfolding Time
3. Variables for Designed Experiences
4. Designing for Somaesthetic Interaction
5. Attaining the Amplified Experience of the Super Unit
6. Good Flow and the Golden Gesture
7. Desirable Friction
8. Biocost Across Time and Space
9. Considering "An Experience"
Glossary: Universal Principles of Somaesthetic Design
Accent
Aesthetic, Anaesthetic
Agogics
Anacrusis-Crusis-Metacrusis
An Experience
Arc of Experience
Attentional Hierarchy
Authentic Experience
Beat
Biocost
Cadence
Chreodes
Contour Bias
Duration (dureé)
Embodiment
Empathy
Enkinaesthesia
Entrainment
Eurhythmic/Arrhythmic
Experience Design
Flow
Friction
Gait
Gesture
Golden Gesture
Grand Pause
Habitus
In-Time
Inertia
Interoception
Interstitial
Kinaesthesia
Meter
Nudge
Phrase
Poise
Praxis
Range-Vision
Resonant Frequency
Rhythm
Shape of Interactions
Shift-of-Weight
Significant Experience
Soma
Somaesthetics
Somaesthetic Design
Soma Literacy
Superunit
Syncopation
Tempo
Temporal Coherence
Temporal Fit
Temporal Relativity
Tension and Release
Therbligs
Tiers of experience
Time (ancient Greek)
Time-Space-Effort
Umwelt
Uncanny Valley
Unison
Willful Performance
Yearning-Toward
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
3-8394-7565-1

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