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Computable bodies : instrumented life and the human somatic niche /
"Data. Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it is about us. The computing revolution has transformed our understanding of nature. Now it is transforming human behaviour. For some, pervasive computing offers a powerful vehicle of introspection and self-improvement. For others it signa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Registers; Instrumentation; Registers; Experience; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Bodies; Boundaries; Configurationality; Dynamism; What is a dyad?; Creatures of movement; Chapter 2 Rhythms; Frameworks; Rhythm; Rhythmic gating; Walking and exploring; We are not REPLs; Chapter 3 Modalities; Putting a face to the raster; What is Data? What are data?; Why is it so difficult to say what Data is? Why did we start with sensory substitution devices?; What does sensory substitution feel like?; Surveillance ecosystems; Smart everything?; Chapter 4 Data
- Cultures of dataHuman displacement; Mobile behavior tracking; Sentiment analysis; Actigraphy: From subjects to users; Chapter 5 Niches; Niche construction; Impedance; Why put niche construction at the center?; Six faculties of interface-making; Big changes; Chapter 6 Clocks; Sleep. Dreaming. Trance; Sleep needs; Freerunning; Catching the beat; From chronotherapeutics to chronoactivism; Delamination; Trance. Splitting; Chapter 7 Faces; Persona; Frontality; Perianthropometric; Face recognition; The frontal niche; Thin slices; The big We; Chapter 8 Plenum; Reduction; Gamification; The animate