emBody

Dana Abrassart

How do I design an application for motion capture that encourages mindfulness and body awareness with real-time sonic feedback?

https://itp.nyu.edu/thesis2017/project/dana-abrassart

Description

As anyone who has fallen in love understands, the mind can physically affect the body. Reciprocally, there is growing evidence that bodily experiences can shape our cognitive states, an idea known as embodied cognition. emBody is an exploration in encouraging this body-mind connection through the use of movement sonification.

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Thesis

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