Designed to Move

2016-11-07 Health & Fitness

Author : Joan Vernikos
Release : 2016-11-07
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Designed to Move by : Joan Vernikos

Download or read book Designed to Move written by Joan Vernikos. This book was released on 2016-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has proven that sitting too much is bad for your health, but what can you do about it if you're stuck at your desk all day? "Designed to Move" gives deskbound professionals a practical, easy-to-follow movement plan to fight the debilitating and life-shortening effects of sitting disease. Dr. Joan Vernikos, former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division, draws on decades of scientific research on astronauts to show readers how to use gravity-based movement to counteract the effects of prolonged sitting and maintain lifelong good health. Written for everyone who spends most of their lives sitting in chairs, "Designed to Move" provides readers with a science-backed health program that helps people stay healthy while at work. Expanding upon her groundbreaking previous book, "Sitting Kills, Moving Heals," Dr. Vernikos shows how developing simple new lifestyle habits at the office can reverse the symptoms of sitting disease and even aging itself, and lead to a life of bountiful health.

How Games Move Us

2017-10-27 Games & Activities

Author : Katherine Isbister
Release : 2017-10-27
Genre : Games & Activities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Games Move Us written by Katherine Isbister. This book was released on 2017-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players—with examples from popular, indie, and art games. This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games, Isbister shows us, can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples—drawn from popular, indie, and art games—that unpack the gamer’s experience. Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players’ emotional experience, and examines long-distance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony’s Little Big Planet to the much-praised indie game Journey to art games like Brenda Romero’s Train. Isbister’s analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human.

Push Turn Move

2017 Electronic musical instruments

Author : Kim Bjørn
Release : 2017
Genre : Electronic musical instruments
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Push Turn Move written by Kim Bjørn. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Move!

2010 Architecture

Author : Braun
Release : 2010
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Move! written by Braun. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable projects from around the globe showing the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design.With health-consciousness on the rise, fitness is a factor that plays an increasingly important role in peoples' lives. In consequence, the demand for up-to-date and sophisticated fitness facilities is growing. The best gyms provide their customers with modern exercise equipment as well as relaxation and wellness areas, whilst also offering a welcoming and refined ambience. Combining gym functionality with a cutting-edge, distinctive and contemporary design is an exciting and challenging task that architects increasingly endeavor to perfect. "Move! Best of Gym Design" presents 40 notable projects from around the globe and shows the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design, ranging everything from spa and wellness centers, high-tech professional sports and leisure complexes to gyms that are stylish compartments of exclusive hotels.

Materials that Move

2018-04-25 Technology & Engineering

Author : Murat Bengisu
Release : 2018-04-25
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 891/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Materials that Move by : Murat Bengisu

Download or read book Materials that Move written by Murat Bengisu. This book was released on 2018-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a design-driven investigation into smart materials developed by chemists, physicists, materials and chemical engineers, and applied by designers to consumer products, buildings, interfaces, or textiles. Introducing a class of smart materials (referred to as stimuli-responsive, morphing or kinetic materials) that move and change their shape in response to stimuli, the book presents their characteristics, advantages, potentials, as well as the difficulties involved in their application. The book also presents a large number of case studies on products, projects, concepts, and experiments employing smart materials, thus mapping out new design territories for these innovative materials. The case studies involve different fields of design, including product, interior, fashion, and communication design. Reflecting the growing demand for sustainable and human-centered design agendas, the book explores and reveals the role and influence of these new materials and technologies on design and human experience, and discusses how they can be used to redefine our objects and spaces so as to promote more resilient environments. The book offers an intriguing and valuable resource for design professionals, engineers, scientists and students alike.

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