Once More, with Feeling: Design Thinking and Embodied Cognition

Once More With Feeling

Design and Craft Thinking Analysed as Embodied Cognition

Through the concept of design thinking the act of designing is presented as an intellectual activity, and the act of planning the design is elevated over the making process. However, the importance of materiality and the embodied sense-making that occurs in this context should not be forgotten. In this study, embodied cognition in design and craft practices was investigated through three case s...

High self-esteem buffers negative feedback: Once more with feeling

In this article, I report three studies showing that global self-esteem influences people’s emotional reactions to negative outcomes. Using social outcomes as well as personal ones (Study 1), naturally occurring outcomes as well as experimentally induced ones (Study 2), and implicit self-feelings as well as self-reported ones (Study 3), I show that high-self-esteem people suffer less emotional ...

kant on the embodied cognition

Embodied Cognition and Learning Environment Design

content and the comprehension of learned concepts. Based on this body of research, Segal, Black, and Tversky (2010) showed that gestural interfaces that incorporate the haptic aspect of touching the interface and manipulating the objects by using sensori-motor input could benefit users‟ comprehension of learned concepts. They hypothesized that by touching the objects on a screen directly with a...