In this article I explore a perspective that the philosophical concepts of German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz (*1928) may open up for thinking about the growing practice of wearing textile integrated electronics directly on the body. It is my contention that traditional conceptions of wearing (non-technological) clothing on the body fail to capture the changed situation and I hence suggest a paradigm shift is needed to think about the novel scope of affects that can be related to body-technology communication. Schmitz’s concepts of the perceptive felt body, corporeal communication and emotions as atmospheres perceived as outside, on or close to the ‘material’ body will be elaborated upon to investigate how they may enhance existing notions of bodily perception and human-technology relations. The case study used for this philosophical investigation is found in the Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch, a wearable created by Elitac, HvA and UTwente, which allows sensations of stroking, tapping and touching to be communicated from one person to another across a distance.
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[ENG] Audience reactions such as “Oh, doom is coming” reveal the emotional weight of eco-anxiety and highlight the need for approaches that go beyond fear. During the first year of understanding eco-anxiety, I explored how eco-anxiety manifests in daily life and how it shapes collective processes within a developing neighbourhood. I also explored how integrating qualitative audience research with artistic research can deepen our understanding of eco-anxiety and contribute to the development of artistic coding as a method. The artistic interventions: 1. The Birds, 2. Bring Back the Birds, 3. Omgaan met Water, 4. Stay Safe in the Media Atmospheres, 5. Artist Residency Oba Next Sluisbuurt, 6. Kunstenaarskennis and 7. Participatiewensen, combined with conceptual reflections of them, demonstrated that understanding eco-anxiety involves questioning, prompting and exploring the affect and emotions that emerge in relation to eco-anxiety. [NL] Publieksreacties over doem en verderf laten het emotionele gewicht van klimaatangst zien en benadrukken de noodzaak van benaderingen die verder gaan dan angst alleen. Tijdens het eerste jaar van het onderzoek naar klimaatangst verkende ik hoe klimaatangst zich manifesteert in het dagelijks leven en hoe het collectieve processen vormgeeft binnen een zich ontwikkelende buurt. Ook onderzocht ik hoe het integreren van kwalitatief publieksonderzoek met artistiek onderzoek ons begrip van klimaatangst kan verdiepen en kan bijdragen aan de ontwikkeling van artistieke codering als methode. De artistieke interventies: 1. The Birds, 2. Bring Back the Birds, 3. Omgaan met Water, 4. Stay Safe in the Media Atmospheres, 5. Artist Residency Oba Next Sluisbuurt, 6. Kunstenaarskennis en 7. Participatiewensen, gecombineerd met conceptuele reflecties daarop, toonden aan dat het begrijpen van klimaatangst inhoudt dat we het affect en de emoties die in relatie tot klimaatangst ontstaan, bevragen, activeren en verkennen.
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In their attempts to offer visitors meaningful experiences in historical churches, museums are increasingly experimenting with augmented reality. Arguing that an augmented reality experience should be counted as a material event in its own right, I focus on the aesthetic strategies employed in two augmented reality experiences. The first is an augmented virtuality installation that was presented in the Old Church in Amsterdam (Netherlands). The second concerns a HoloLens experience hosted by St. Peter’s Church in Leuven (Belgium). Drawing on the work of Gernot Böhme (2017) and undertaking a sensory auto-ethnography, I demonstrate how bodily sensations in these augmented reality experiences altered my affective involvement with the church spaces. I found that strategies of defamiliarisation and fragmentation affected my disposition, effectively personalising the perceptional relationship between the church as an authoritative institution and myself in the role as the visitor. Building on recent discussions on museums’ function in society, I also discuss the potential of augmented reality experiences to play on a multitude of meanings, and particularly, in staging dispositions that move away from universal truths.
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Lighting in video games is used to set moods and atmosphere, or can serve as a gameplay tool. This paper examines the effects lighting concepts can have on a virtual game environment on the players’ navigation within the game. Previously known lighting concepts were tested in a virtual environment to determine if they have a similar effect on the perception of the presented virtual space as they do in real life, as well as the effect they have on the navigational behavior of players. In a game-experiment with 50 male participants we show that the previously known lighting concepts apply to the virtual environment in a similar manner as they do in real life, although the effects on the navigational behavior of the participants remain inconclusive.
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We contribute to the hospitality work research agenda by reconsidering the role of outdoor adventure guides as agents of hospitality, set against a conceptual backdrop of deepening ontological insecurity in industrialized societies. We argue that the concepts of dwelling, communitas and hygge have much to offer in the delivery of outdoor hospitality in general, and in outdoor adventure tourism scenarios in particular. Although originating from the Danes and their ideas of 'cosy indoor life', the concept of hygge has recently gained global attention in the debates around creating comfortable atmospheres at home, and in fostering people's emotional well-being on holiday. Moving the concept along, we suggest the stimulation of hygge in the outdoors, along with provision of the space to dwell and the stage management of the communal effervescence of communitas as part of the crucial skill set for the outdoor guide. We opine that such conceptualization can greatly inform our understanding of both the role of the outdoor guide and of the dynamics of deliverable hospitable experience more generally.
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This study employed an exploratory approach by applying practice theory to insights gathered throughthe triangulation of interview, document analysis and observation methodologies to 1) map the SacredHarp Singing practice scope and give a nuanced picture of its performativity in the Netherlands, witha particular focus on the Sacred Harp group from Amsterdam comparing it to one from Bremen and 2)investigate the underlying rise of transformative emotions, the social, secular, and religious meanings, andthe sense of belonging to an international community. The findings suggest that Sacred Harp enthusiastsin the region are keen on retaining the legacies of the traditional singers by establishing similar singingatmospheres and by following the practice’s historical customs and practices, including the communalsinging in the “hollow square” and the affinity towards democratic participation. The findings alsoindicate that while there is a noticeable level of commitment and excitement among local enthusiasts,the growth of the groups’ memberships is hampered by a lack of interest by the general public, possiblyin connection with insufficient strategies for publicizing the practice. Therefore, the existence of thesebarriers could imply that the practice would probably grow at a relatively slow pace in the region.
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Om eerste beelden te verzamelen van het belang van een ontlokkende en vriendelijke inrichting, zijn er in het najaar van 2019 twee spreekkamers van de Jeugdgezondheidszorg opnieuw ingericht. Het team van Social Design Studio Joes + Manon heeft de inrichting ter hand genomen op de locaties De Gravin en F.C. Donderstraat. Het lectoraat schulden & Incasso van de Hogeschool Utrecht heeft vanuit haar ontwerpende rol in de aanpak van het stress-sensitief werken een vragenlijst voor een voor- en nameting ontwikkeld en de ingevulde vragenlijsten geanalyseerd. In het totaal zijn er 58 ouders bevraagd over de oude en 52 ouders over de nieuwe spreekkamer. Het resultaat van het onderzoek is dat de uitstraling van de spreekkamers op beide locaties significant positiever wordt beoordeeld na de herinrichting van de spreekkamers. De uitstraling is de optelsom van hoe vriendelijk, veilig en verwelkomend de spreekkamer op mensen overkomt. Daarbij voelen mensen zich ook significant vrijer om te praten over hetgeen zij belangrijk vinden. Het effect op het vrij voelen is kleiner dan het effect van de ervaren uitstraling. Dat verschil kan wellicht verklaard worden uit het gegeven dat uitstraling alleen over de spreekkamers gaat en hoe vrij je je voelt met meer zaken in het contact samenhangt. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan het gevoel dat de medewerker je geeft in het gesprek of de mate waarin je je schaamt voor wat er speelt. De opzet van het onderzoek was een cross-sectioneel pre-post design. Dit houdt in dat de ouders die bevraagd zijn over de aanvankelijke spreekkamers niet dezelfde mensen zijn als de ouders die bevraagd zijn over de aangepaste spreekkamers. Daarbij is het aantal ouders dat een vragenlijst heeft ingevuld beperkt. De optelsom van deze twee zaken maakt dat de gevonden resultaten beschouwd mogen worden als belangrijke en interessante positieve aanwijzingen. In wetenschappelijke termen is de herinrichting niet onomstotelijk aan te wijzen als de causale veroorzaker van de gevonden positieve verschillen. Daarvoor zou op termijn nog een effectonderzoek uitgevoerd moeten worden. Mocht de gemeente dat voornemens zijn dan laat de in het kader van dit project uitgevoerde powerberekening zien dat er tussen de 46 en 94 ouders moeten worden bevraagd.
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In this mixed methods study, a moderated mediation model predicting effects of leader-member exchange (LMX) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) on innovative work behaviors, with employability as a mediator, has been tested. Multi-source data from 487 pairs of employees and supervisors working in 151 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supported our hypothesized model. The results of structural equation modelling provide support for our model. In particular, the benefits of close relationships and high-quality exchanges between employee and supervisor (LMX), and fostering individual development as a result of employees’ OCB have an indirect effect on innovative work behaviors through positive effects on workers’ employability. Innovative work behaviors depend on employees’ knowledge, skills, and expertise. In other words, enhancing workers’ employability nurtures innovative work behaviors. In addition, we found a moderation effect of organizational politics on the relationship between employability and innovative work behaviors. Secondly, qualitative methods focusing on experiences of the antecedents and outcomes of employability were used to complement our quantitative results. All in all, this study has important consequences for managerial strategies and practices in SMEs and call for an awareness of the dysfunctional effect of perceived organizational politics.
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Introduction: Nowadays the Western mental health system is in transformation to recovery-oriented and trauma informed care in which experiential knowledge becomes incorporated. An important development in this context is that traditional mental health professionals came to the fore with their lived experiences. From 2017 to 2021, a research project was conducted in the Netherlands in three mental health organizations, focussing on how service users perceive the professional use of experiential knowledge. Aims: This paper aims to explore service users’ perspectives regarding their healthcare professionals’ use of experiential knowledge and the users’ perceptions of how this contributes to their personal recovery. Methods: As part of the qualitative research, 22 service users were interviewed. A thematic analysis was employed to derive themes and patterns from the interview transcripts. Results: The use of experiential knowledge manifests in the quality of a compassionate user-professional relationship in which personal disclosures of the professional’s distress and resilience are embedded. This often stimulates users’ recovery process. Conclusions: Findings suggest that the use of experiential knowledge by mental health professionals like social workers, nurses and humanistic counselors, demonstrates an overall positive value as an additional (re)source.
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