Mark Paterson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597672 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Paterson |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Paterson |
| FIRMA | PATERSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2701-4827 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 315 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Data-Driven Art of Moving Bodies
How does the scientific measurement of human movement inform artistic representation? This article focuses on the 19th-century art-science initiative ‘physiological aesthetics’ and its 21st-century legacy. Pioneered by Grant Allen and Charles Henry, physiological aesthetics aimed to derive artistic techniques from physiological measurements using laboratory instruments developed by figures like Étienne-Jules Marey. By organizing shapes, colours, …
Empathy by design? The affective politics of ‘Empathy Theatre’ in human–robot interaction
Why robot embodiment matters
A growing minority of those with disabilities are people of color (POC), with, for example, autism diagnosis rates now higher for children of color than for white children in the USA. This trend underscores the need for assistive technologies, especially socially assistive robots, to be designed with intersectional users in mind. Outside of Japan, most robots are designed with white synthetic skin and able-bodied features, failing to reflect the …
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Designing the Robot Body
Designing and evaluating the affectivity of the robot body has become a frontier topic in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) , with previous studies [ 1 , 2 ] emphasizing the importance of robot embodiment for human-robot communication. In particular, there is growing interest in how the tactile, haptic materiality of the robot influences and mediates users' affective and emotional states. Indeed, the sheer physicality of robotic systems is a crucial …
Inviting Robot Touch (By Design)
What is the role of touch in inviting social interaction with robots? Forms of functional haptics in collaboration and socially assistive robots, for example, indicate one pathway. But what of more naturalistic and affective forms of touch that are more inviting, that encourage pro-social behaviours? This is a tale of three loops. First, the haptic feedback loop, where human–human touch still remains underexplored, and where human–machine touch i…
Automatic
Reviewed by: Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen Mark Paterson (bio) Timothy Wientzen, Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Central to Timothy Wientzen's fascinating, lively, and flawed book is the split he identifies in modernist literature and art between, on the one hand, the discoveries of patterns, grooves, and the habits of organisms observed…
Fatigue as a physiological problem
The period 1873–1947 was productive in fostering ideas about observing, measuring, and quantifying repetitive human movements, prior to the rise of occupational health and ergonomics within industrial psychology. Starting with physiological experimentation in the lab, instruments of graphic inscription were then applied in the industrial workplace, initially as a benevolent measurement for monitoring worker health, but elsewhere as a more invasiv…
Social robots and the futures of affective touch
I focus on the role of touch within human-robot interaction. Because robots are physically embodied, this brings up questions of anthropomorphism and behavioral mimicry in the establishment of trust and rapport, especially between robots and developmentally diverse or elderly human subjects. By examining two recent examples of social robots, SoCoRo and HuggieBot 2.0, I ask: what can historic and current nonverbal communication studies teach us ab…
Stressing the ‘body electric’
This article explores histories of the science of stress and its measurement from the mid 19th century, and brings these into dialogue with critical sociological analysis of emerging responses to work stress in policy and practice. In particular, it shows how the contemporary development of biomedical and consumer devices for stress self-monitoring is based on selectively rediscovering the biological determinants and biomarkers of stress, human f…
Response to Roger Smith
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
Hearing Gloves and Seeing Tongues? Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject
Researchers in post-war industrial laboratories such as Bell Labs and the Smith-Kettlewell Institute pioneered solutions to compensate for sensory loss through so-called sensory substitution systems, premised on an assumption of cortical and sensory plasticity. The article tracks early discussions of plasticity in psychology literature from William James, acknowledged by Wiener, but explicitly developed by Bach-y-Rita and his collaborators. After…
The birth of motion capture
How is the movement of bodies recorded, traced, captured? How is the perception of movement decomposed, analyzed, and then reconstructed through signs, lines, and diagrams? This article traces how, with the help of engineers and collaborators, Etienne-Jules Marey’s self-styled “graphic method” innovated upon existing instruments and photographic apparatuses in order to capture not just the movement of horses’ legs but something of the biomechanic…
Consumption, Youth Culture and
A new breed of teenage and young adult consumers emerged after World War II with the ability to spend allowances or wages. Marketing companies invented the “teenager” to address this newly wealthy and vibrant demographic. As the decades progressed, young consumers had to deal with more complex social mechanisms than their adult forebears had experienced, such as the need to exhibit some form of “authenticity” in identity construction, and the mai…
Seeing, feeling, and showing 'bodies-in-place
This paper considers the challenge of representing embodied, multisensory experience of 'bodies-in-place' through film, an audio-visual medium. The first section, 'Seeing bodies', sets the context within a more general 'return to the senses' in the social sciences, and particularly within ethnographic fieldwork, in order to reconnect place and sense through mobile encounter. 'Feeling bodies', the second section on sensory reflexivity and position…
On Pain as a Distinct Sensation
A recent widely reported study found that some participants would prefer to self-administer a small electric shock than be bored. This flawed study serves as a departure point to diagram pain and sensation beyond the boundaries of the individual body, consisting of four sections. First, in terms of laboratory-based experimentation and auto-experimentation with pain, there is a long history of viewing pain and touch through introspective means. Se…
The Biopolitics of Sensation, Techniques of Quantification, and the Production of a "New" Sensorium
The Biopolitics of Sensation, Techniques of Quantification, and the Production of a "New" Sensorium Mark Paterson (bio) Through rapidly developing and increasingly portable technologies of measurement we have become accustomed to devices that perform biometric data collection, that beam geolocation data via social media platforms and cloud-based services to produce heat maps of metadata. There is even a curious experiential aesthetic involved in …
Consumption and Everyday Life
With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. Engaging case studies describe forms of consumption familiar to the student, provide some historical context, and illustrate how a range of theoretical perspectives – from theories of practice, to semiotics, to psychoanalysis – apply. Written by an experienced tea…
Seeing with the Hands
Consumption and Everyday Life
On haptic media and the possibilities of a more inclusive interactivity
What is the relationship between the ‘haptic’ and the ‘tactile’ when it comes to media? We might question whether there is such a thing as ‘haptic media’; in other words, is there a type of media that invite the attention of one modality rather than another, or that foster certain types of interaction over others? If we were to speak about ‘haptic media’, to what extent does it engage directly (only) with touch, and to what extent does it involve…
Haptic media studies
Architecture of Sensation
Recent social theory that stresses the 'nonrepresentational', the 'more-than visual', and the relationship between affect and sensation have tended to assume some kind of break or rupture from historical antecedents. Especially since the contributions of Crary and Jay in the 1990s, when it comes to perceiving the built environment the complexities of sensation have been partially obscured by the dominance of a static model of vision as the princi…
Seeing with the Hands
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind ‘see’ GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474405317','ISBN:9781474405348','ISBN:9781474405331','ISBN:9781474405324']); The “man born blind restored to light” was one of two foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination with blindness and what the blind ‘see’ …
Seeing with the Hands
The ‘man born blind restored to light’ was one of the foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination by the sighted with blindness and what the blind might ‘see’ after sight restoration remained largely speculative. Was being blind, as Descartes once remarked, like ‘seeing with the hands’? Did evidence from early cataract operations begin to resolve epistemological debates a…
Seeing with the Hands
Haptic geographies
This paper is the first overview of the treatment of haptic knowledges in geography, responding to bodily sensations and responses that arise through the embodied researcher. After Crang’s (2003) article on ‘touchy-feely’ methods identifies the dearth of actual touching and embodied feeling in research methods, this article does three things. First, it clarifies the terminology, which is derived from a number of disciplines. Second, it summarizes…
Feel the Presence
Haptic devices for computers and video-game consoles aim to reproduce touch and to engage the user with 'force feedback'. Although physical touch is often associated with proximity and intimacy, technologies of touch can reproduce such sensations over a distance, allowing intricate and detailed operations to be conducted through a network such as the Internet. The 'virtual handshake' between Boston and London in 2002 is given as an example. This …
Seeing, feeling, and showing 'bodies-in-place
This paper considers the challenge of representing embodied, multisensory experience of 'bodies-in-place' through film, an audio-visual medium. The first section, 'Seeing bodies', sets the context within a more general 'return to the senses' in the social sciences, and particularly within ethnographic fieldwork, in order to reconnect place and sense through mobile encounter. 'Feeling bodies', the second section on sensory reflexivity and position…
More-than visual approaches to architecture. Vision, touch, technique
Geography's relationship with architecture in particular, and the built environment in general, is fraught with tensions concerning the embodied experience of place, and a profoundly visual bias is present. Likewise, previous geographic readings of phenomenology such as humanistic geography are now regarded as retrograde, unable to address the specificities of bodily experiences (gendered bodies, physical impairments, queer bodies etc.) when atte…
Haptic media studies
Introduction
2009). Introduction: Re-mediating Touch. The Senses and Society: Vol. 4, Re-Mediating Touch, pp. 129-140
Seeing with the Hands, Touching with the Eyes
Blindness has been a topic of great interest for philosophers, and the centrality of the so-called Molyneux problem explicitly raises questions concerning visual and tactile experience of the blind. Begun as a purely speculative philosophical exercise before ophthalmic operations could be performed, the debate continues and is examined here in relation to current work in psychology and neuropsychology. From debates and correspondence in the seven…
Caresses, Excesses, Intimacies and Estrangements
Space, in contemporary discourse, has taken on an almost palpable existence. Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny 167 In our progress through the hotel, we walk from outside to inside, from the publi
On haptic media and the possibilities of a more inclusive interactivity
What is the relationship between the ‘haptic’ and the ‘tactile’ when it comes to media? We might question whether there is such a thing as ‘haptic media’; in other words, is there a type of media that invite the attention of one modality rather than another, or that foster certain types of interaction over others? If we were to speak about ‘haptic media’, to what extent does it engage directly (only) with touch, and to what extent does it involve…
The Forgetting of touch
We like Euclidean geometry because we are men [sic], and have eyes and hands, and need to operate a concept of space that will be independent of orientation, distance and size. Lucas, A Treatise on Time and Space
Architecture of Sensation
Recent social theory that stresses the 'nonrepresentational', the 'more-than visual', and the relationship between affect and sensation have tended to assume some kind of break or rupture from historical antecedents. Especially since the contributions of Crary and Jay in the 1990s, when it comes to perceiving the built environment the complexities of sensation have been partially obscured by the dominance of a static model of vision as the princi…
Social robots and the futures of affective touch
I focus on the role of touch within human-robot interaction. Because robots are physically embodied, this brings up questions of anthropomorphism and behavioral mimicry in the establishment of trust and rapport, especially between robots and developmentally diverse or elderly human subjects. By examining two recent examples of social robots, SoCoRo and HuggieBot 2.0, I ask: what can historic and current nonverbal communication studies teach us ab…
The world through Glass
Google Glass was deployed in an Urban Studies field course to gather videographic data for team-based student research projects. We evaluate the potential for wearable computing technology such as Glass, in combination with other mobile computing devices, to enhance reflexive research skills, and videography in particular, during field research. The utility as well as the limitations of Google Glass are discussed, including its actual and potenti…
Hearing Gloves and Seeing Tongues? Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject
Researchers in post-war industrial laboratories such as Bell Labs and the Smith-Kettlewell Institute pioneered solutions to compensate for sensory loss through so-called sensory substitution systems, premised on an assumption of cortical and sensory plasticity. The article tracks early discussions of plasticity in psychology literature from William James, acknowledged by Wiener, but explicitly developed by Bach-y-Rita and his collaborators. After…
On Pain as a Distinct Sensation
A recent widely reported study found that some participants would prefer to self-administer a small electric shock than be bored. This flawed study serves as a departure point to diagram pain and sensation beyond the boundaries of the individual body, consisting of four sections. First, in terms of laboratory-based experimentation and auto-experimentation with pain, there is a long history of viewing pain and touch through introspective means. Se…
Special Issue for GR2P
The introduction sketches the recent development of the 'responsibility to protect' norm and emphasises its African roots, both in terms of its conceptualisation and implementation and with particular respect to two tragedies—the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and the crisis in Darfur since 2003—that have lent urgency to the norm's formulation and widespread international adoption. The number and extent of R2P cases in Africa are outlined and the rol…
The Senses of Modernism
Journal Article The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception and Aesthetics Get access Mark W. D. Paterson Mark W. D. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 43, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 424–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.4.424 Published: 01 October 2003
Stressing the ‘body electric’
This article explores histories of the science of stress and its measurement from the mid 19th century, and brings these into dialogue with critical sociological analysis of emerging responses to work stress in policy and practice. In particular, it shows how the contemporary development of biomedical and consumer devices for stress self-monitoring is based on selectively rediscovering the biological determinants and biomarkers of stress, human f…
Looking on darkness, which the blind do see
There is a critical concern with the underlying fascination by the sighted with what the blind "see." The idea of empathic vision, or "feeling seeing," reveals an allied inquisitiveness concerning what the blind feel, which this essay pursues through a series of authorial voices, persistent myths, and tropes
À propos d'Anna Freud
Paterson Mark. À propos d'Anna Freud. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°134, 1994. Cent ans de psychanalyse. pp. 65-67
The Senses of Modernism
Journal Article The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception and Aesthetics Get access Mark W. D. Paterson Mark W. D. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 43, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 424–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.4.424 Published: 01 October 2003
Skin
Journal Article Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and the World Get access Mark W. D. Paterson Mark W. D. Paterson University of the West of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 208–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/44.2.208 Published: 01 April 2004
Caresses, Excesses, Intimacies and Estrangements
Space, in contemporary discourse, has taken on an almost palpable existence. Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny 167 In our progress through the hotel, we walk from outside to inside, from the publi
Consumption and Everyday Life
Introducing all the key ideas and major theorists of consumption in a lively and engaging manner, this book draws on theories of everyday life and aspects of sociology, cultural geography and cultural studies, and presents a comprehensive exploration of the central themes in consumption and consumer culture. Readily accessible case studies describe familiar forms of consumption from areas of everyday life, grounding the debates and ideas discusse…
The Forgetting of touch
We like Euclidean geometry because we are men [sic], and have eyes and hands, and need to operate a concept of space that will be independent of orientation, distance and size. Lucas, A Treatise on Time and Space
‘Seeing with the hands’
The centrality of the so-called Molyneux problem and its concern with blindness, touch and sight is examined here in relation to some current work in psychology and neuropsychology. From debates and correspondence in the 18th century onwards, sparked by this hypothetical question, first-person accounts from blind people were sought to bolster these philosophical speculations. The question asked by Molyneux is crucial in Enlightenment philosophy, …
Consumption and everyday life
Feel the Presence
Haptic devices for computers and video-game consoles aim to reproduce touch and to engage the user with 'force feedback'. Although physical touch is often associated with proximity and intimacy, technologies of touch can reproduce such sensations over a distance, allowing intricate and detailed operations to be conducted through a network such as the Internet. The 'virtual handshake' between Boston and London in 2002 is given as an example. This …
Seeing with the Hands, Touching with the Eyes
Blindness has been a topic of great interest for philosophers, and the centrality of the so-called Molyneux problem explicitly raises questions concerning visual and tactile experience of the blind. Begun as a purely speculative philosophical exercise before ophthalmic operations could be performed, the debate continues and is examined here in relation to current work in psychology and neuropsychology. From debates and correspondence in the seven…
The Senses of Touch
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book ‘feels’…
Haptic geographies
This paper is the first overview of the treatment of haptic knowledges in geography, responding to bodily sensations and responses that arise through the embodied researcher. After Crang’s (2003) article on ‘touchy-feely’ methods identifies the dearth of actual touching and embodied feeling in research methods, this article does three things. First, it clarifies the terminology, which is derived from a number of disciplines. Second, it summarizes…
Introduction
2009). Introduction: Re-mediating Touch. The Senses and Society: Vol. 4, Re-Mediating Touch, pp. 129-140
Special Issue for GR2P
The introduction sketches the recent development of the 'responsibility to protect' norm and emphasises its African roots, both in terms of its conceptualisation and implementation and with particular respect to two tragedies—the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and the crisis in Darfur since 2003—that have lent urgency to the norm's formulation and widespread international adoption. The number and extent of R2P cases in Africa are outlined and the rol…
More-than visual approaches to architecture. Vision, touch, technique
Geography's relationship with architecture in particular, and the built environment in general, is fraught with tensions concerning the embodied experience of place, and a profoundly visual bias is present. Likewise, previous geographic readings of phenomenology such as humanistic geography are now regarded as retrograde, unable to address the specificities of bodily experiences (gendered bodies, physical impairments, queer bodies etc.) when atte…
On sensory history and contemporary placemaking in the social sciences
Looking on darkness, which the blind do see
There is a critical concern with the underlying fascination by the sighted with what the blind "see." The idea of empathic vision, or "feeling seeing," reveals an allied inquisitiveness concerning what the blind feel, which this essay pursues through a series of authorial voices, persistent myths, and tropes
The world through Glass
Google Glass was deployed in an Urban Studies field course to gather videographic data for team-based student research projects. We evaluate the potential for wearable computing technology such as Glass, in combination with other mobile computing devices, to enhance reflexive research skills, and videography in particular, during field research. The utility as well as the limitations of Google Glass are discussed, including its actual and potenti…
Seeing with the Hands
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind ‘see’ GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474405317','ISBN:9781474405348','ISBN:9781474405331','ISBN:9781474405324']); The “man born blind restored to light” was one of two foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination with blindness and what the blind ‘see’ …
Seeing with the Hands
The ‘man born blind restored to light’ was one of the foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination by the sighted with blindness and what the blind might ‘see’ after sight restoration remained largely speculative. Was being blind, as Descartes once remarked, like ‘seeing with the hands’? Did evidence from early cataract operations begin to resolve epistemological debates a…
Seeing with the Hands
The Testimony of Blind Men
In 1749 Diderot composed his celebrated Letter on the Blind that dealt directly with blindness and what the blind supposedly ‘see’. Diderot sought out the testimony of an actual blind man in the French town of Puiseaux. Referring back to Molyneux’s question, and having considered Cheselden’s post-operative evidence, Diderot’s contribution here is a somewhat wide-ranging and multi-stranded essay that includes the marriage of blind testimony of spa…
Voltaire, Buffon, and Blindness in France
After Voltaire introduced an enthusiastic French readership to Molyneux’s question and Cheselden’s case study, there followed intense interest in blindness in La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot in his Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See (1749), and Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière (1749). To illustrate his ideas Buffon considers a hypothetical neonate who must correlate hands with eyes in order to see, the hand …
Touching Space, Placing Touch
Annihilating any Certainty in Sensation through Language
This ambitious, formidable, and not entirely successful book is Volume 116 in the Peter Lang series “Modern French Identities.” The author has previously published a chapter in an edited collection
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