kinesthesia

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  1. noun The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.

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  • Touch, taste, kinesthesia, sight and sound are all recreating the acoustic space which had been abolished by phonetic writing. —  NoahBrier.com
  • The work has none of the show title's fantastc verbosity; instead, it relies on quiet, unpretentious kinesthesia. —  Museum Blogs
  • [28] The relation of our kinesthesia or muscular sense to fanaticism on the one hand and freedom of mind on the other is a matter now beginning to be studied with the promise of highly important results. —  The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
  • ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references. mobile touch ambient phone tactile pressure tangible basic psychology robot theory body spatial visualization critique crossmodal design interruption vibrotactile display hri old peripheral social virtual wearable accelerometer haptic hci input interaction perception philosophy pulse anthropomorphism architecture aware children cognition displays distraction evaluation force hand heartbeat human impact interesting introduction life notification overview prototype sensory society tilt time tui vision airflow anthropomorph awareness bimanual communication eyegaze eyelid feedback fsr gesture haptics history installation learning lifelike memory method mouse phenomenology pointing religion sociocultural software space tobuy unconscious visual animal animation attention auditive behavior being change cognitive computer cursor descartes devices embodied fmri framework fur future gui handy heidegger invisible kinesthesia media mi mind multimodal myself noise olfaction patent peripersonal problem proprioception psychosomatic reality remote review rhythm semiotics sense sensitivity shape tactons tangibles taxonomy technology text theoryofmind ubicomp understanding ungrounded zoom —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Ideophones and the senses Siwu ideophones cover a broad spectrum of meanings pí 'smell of fermenting cocoa', krɔ̃krɔ̃ 'pleasant smell' smell saaa 'cool sensation', suuu 'burning sensation', yululu 'cool', kpiɛkpiɛ 'sizzling hot' temperature kpɛtɛ̀ɛ̀ 'soaking wet', giligili 'round', kpɔrɔkpɔrɔ 'drizzle', nyãdãã 'sensation of stretching out' (crossmodal packets of the above) mɛ̃rɛ̃mɛ̃rɛ̃ 'tasty', buàà 'bland' taste ɣààà 'surprise' emotion bɔrɛ̀ɛ̀ 'dim-witted', berebere 'brimming with intelligence' cognition ɣììì 'vertigo', vɛlɛvɛlɛ 'dizzyness', nyɔ̃kɔ̃tɔ̃ɔ̃ 'feeling weak as if boneless', sàsàsàsà 'emptying one's bladder' interoception kpirì 'brace oneself', kpɔkɔlɔ-kpɔkɔlɔ 'tortoise-walk' kinesthesia gblogblogblo 'bubbling', kpà 'dry hitting sound' hearing fũɛ̃fũɛ̃ 'soft, malleable', fɛfɛrɛ —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Greek kīnein, to move; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots + esthesia.
 

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