ERCIM News No. 130 Special Theme: "Assistive Technologies for a More Accessible and Inclusive Society"

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Assistive Technologies for a More Accessible and Inclusive Society is the special theme of ERCIM News No.130, just published at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ 

ERCIM NEWS 130

This issue's Special Theme presents numerous contributions with studies in the field of assistive technology with different and complementary approaches. This special theme has been coordinated by our guest editors Christine Azevedo Coste (Inria) and Barbara Leporini (ISTI-CNR). 

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Doubles or Quads in < perspective >

Bruno Latour describes the double role of perspective as a tool of realism and illusion as the "four-way freeway" of representation: perspective does not only allow us to realistically represent a scene (one-way freeway) or to pragmatically act upon an external reality (two-way freeway); not only can we "displace cities, landscapes, or natives and go back and forth to and from them along avenues through space, but we can also reach saints, gods, heavens, palaces, or dreams with the same two-way avenues and look at them through the same 'windowpane' on the same two-dimensional surface. The two ways become a four lane freeway! Impossible palaces can be drawn realistically, but it is also possible to draw possible objects as if they were utopian ones."* p.26.

*Latour, B. (1986) Visualisation and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands. In H. Kuklick (editor) Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present , Jai Press vol. 6, pp. 1-40.

My source:
Sheil, B. & Pearce, T. (2014) Digital doubles, colliding in mid-air prototyping a post-human scenography, In P.E.A.R. Paper for Emerging Architectural Research, ISSN 2041-2878 (print) Issue 7, pp. 26-31.

Book: "Touch" - Line of sight, light touch, looking for (care) assurance if not truth

Sometimes things become clearer
- resolved -
when they touch,
even if as lines they cross
and all is rendered more complex...

individual

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

Learning of self and other	Book: Touch
greetings, friendship, relationships, intimacy	the POLITICS of touch power

See also:
Reading between the lines...

2011... looking ahead: Line of sight - Lines of insight

Image source:
http://davidlinden.org

Health care and handedness

The word legerdomain featured on Wordsmith's Word.A.Day as listed below:

PRONUNCIATION:
(lej-uhr-duh-MAYN)

MEANING:
noun:
1. Sleight of hand.
2. A display of skill.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French leger de main (light of hand), from leger (light) + de (of) + main (hand). Ultimately the from Indo-European root man- (hand) that's also the source of manage, maintain, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, and command.

It is a shame and a matter debated at large that specialists - whether medical or of other disciplines - are not held in the high esteem that they once were. And yet when you come across a leader and specialist in their field the way they deploy their knowledge, insight and skills remains something to greatly admire and respect. I mean knowledge and experience that transcends sole reliance on interpersonal skills and blinding people with jargon and 'science'. Such are the outcomes of what the specialist brings to the (operating?) table, that it may even seem like a sleight of hand. Not in the sense that it is a trick, but there is an effortless transparency to not only what they achieve, but how they make people - their patients, clients feel. Not just feel, but how these people react and may find themselves.

If there is a sleight of hand it is in how while a specialist, they can and do cross boundaries. They see and can count the important numbers (evidence) in their discipline, but they know (from some no doubt hard-won lessons) that frequently some of the numbers in the very sequence they need lie outside their comfort zone.

RIGHT-handed (mechanistic)

or

(humanistic) LEFT-handed

- they know there is a

middle

and they cross it, without anyone noticing.

Nursing (Health) Art or Science...?

Is nursing an art or science?
It is simply and complexly both ...

"Warp. Weft. Woof! are terms from weaving: the threads or yarns that run lengthwise on the loom are called the warp; the crosswise threads or yarns are called the woof or weft. The web is the name given the completed woven fabric, and it also has wide figurative use: What a tangled web* of circumstance you've woven.
All these are Standard."
(http://warpweftwoof.com/)

*Also known as the care plan!

Original image source:
http://www.wovenwire.co.uk/plainweave.htm

Additional links:
http://www.africancrafts.com/