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Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetic experience. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound them to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic viewing of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance.

Art, Renaissance --- Florentine art. --- Medici patronage. --- Political persuasion. --- Renaissance viewers. --- Somaesthetics.

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Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in which it has been represented and understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in premodern conceptualizations of selfhood.Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments. Stripped from their devotional context and presented simply as brutal acts, these portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus describes as “visual aggressions.” Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger cultural concerns about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the conceptualization of early modern personhood.Innovative and convincing, this study heralds a fundamental shift in the scholarly conversation about premodern violence, moving from a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem in an ethical system. Scholars of medieval and early modern art, history, and literature will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research for years to come.

Violence in art. --- Gothic painting. --- Gothic sculpture. --- courtly literature. --- gender. --- legal and juridical history. --- martyrdom. --- materiality. --- philosophy. --- response theory. --- rites of punishment. --- somaesthetics. --- theology. --- tortures. --- violence. --- visual culture.

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Many sensors are currently available at prices lower than USD 100 and cover a wide range of biological signals: motion, muscle activity, heart rate, etc. Such low-cost sensors have metrological features allowing them to be used in everyday life and clinical applications, where gold-standard material is both too expensive and time-consuming to be used. The selected papers present current applications of low-cost sensors in domains such as physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and affective technologies. The results cover various aspects of low-cost sensor technology from hardware design to software optimization.

Technology: general issues --- inertial sensor --- gait --- validity --- functional calibration --- accuracy --- wearable electronic devices --- kinematics --- head rotation --- ecological research --- gait analysis --- characterization --- smart insole --- vertical ground reaction forces --- force sensitive resistors --- piezoelectric sensors --- sensor calibration --- heart rate --- photoplethysmography --- PPG --- time-domain --- wearable device --- concurrent validity --- outcome assessment --- feasibility --- rehabilitation --- data fusion --- MARG --- IMU --- eye tracker --- self-contained --- head motion measurement --- motor variability --- actigraphy --- triaxial accelerometers --- jumping --- human-computer interaction --- affective technologies --- interaction design --- biosensing --- actuation --- somaesthetics --- design toolkits --- serious videogames --- motion capture --- upper limbs --- physical rehabilitation --- telerehabilitation --- inertial sensors --- inertial measurement unit (IMU) --- state of the art --- inertial sensor measurement systems --- motion accuracy --- Baduanjin --- physical education --- physiotherapy --- e-health --- motion sensing --- wireless charging --- wireless connectivity --- low power --- trunk --- upper extremity --- compensation --- reaching --- Kinect --- video motion capture --- reliability --- n/a

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Many sensors are currently available at prices lower than USD 100 and cover a wide range of biological signals: motion, muscle activity, heart rate, etc. Such low-cost sensors have metrological features allowing them to be used in everyday life and clinical applications, where gold-standard material is both too expensive and time-consuming to be used. The selected papers present current applications of low-cost sensors in domains such as physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and affective technologies. The results cover various aspects of low-cost sensor technology from hardware design to software optimization.

Technology: general issues --- inertial sensor --- gait --- validity --- functional calibration --- accuracy --- wearable electronic devices --- kinematics --- head rotation --- ecological research --- gait analysis --- characterization --- smart insole --- vertical ground reaction forces --- force sensitive resistors --- piezoelectric sensors --- sensor calibration --- heart rate --- photoplethysmography --- PPG --- time-domain --- wearable device --- concurrent validity --- outcome assessment --- feasibility --- rehabilitation --- data fusion --- MARG --- IMU --- eye tracker --- self-contained --- head motion measurement --- motor variability --- actigraphy --- triaxial accelerometers --- jumping --- human-computer interaction --- affective technologies --- interaction design --- biosensing --- actuation --- somaesthetics --- design toolkits --- serious videogames --- motion capture --- upper limbs --- physical rehabilitation --- telerehabilitation --- inertial sensors --- inertial measurement unit (IMU) --- state of the art --- inertial sensor measurement systems --- motion accuracy --- Baduanjin --- physical education --- physiotherapy --- e-health --- motion sensing --- wireless charging --- wireless connectivity --- low power --- trunk --- upper extremity --- compensation --- reaching --- Kinect --- video motion capture --- reliability