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Can I Consider the Pong Racket as a Part of My Body?: Toward a Digital Body Literacy

Can I Consider the Pong Racket as a Part of My Body?: Toward a Digital Body Literacy

Stefano Di Tore, Paola Aiello, Pio Alfredo Di Tore, Maurizio Sibilio
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 6
ISSN: 1947-3494|EISSN: 1947-3508|EISBN13: 9781466611689|DOI: 10.4018/jdldc.2012040104
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Di Tore, Stefano, et al. "Can I Consider the Pong Racket as a Part of My Body?: Toward a Digital Body Literacy." IJDLDC vol.3, no.2 2012: pp.58-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012040104

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Di Tore, S., Aiello, P., Di Tore, P. A., & Sibilio, M. (2012). Can I Consider the Pong Racket as a Part of My Body?: Toward a Digital Body Literacy. International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC), 3(2), 58-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012040104

Chicago

Di Tore, Stefano, et al. "Can I Consider the Pong Racket as a Part of My Body?: Toward a Digital Body Literacy," International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC) 3, no.2: 58-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012040104

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Abstract

Up to which point can people consider as part of their body the Pong racket, or an avatar on the screen, on which do people exert direct motor control as well? When individuals move in a virtual environment, do the proprioceptors convey information about the location of which body? In which environment? How will the information contaminate each other? How does the temperature felt on the real environment influence the interaction in the virtual environment? This paper is not intended to answer these questions, it is rather intended to raise fundamental questions of perception and phenomenology in a digital context in which bodies “are not born; they are made” (Haraway, 1991). The work should act as a positio quaestionis, with the aim of affirming the urgent need for a necessarily interdisciplinary reflection on the overall design of the body - perception - cognition - technology perimeter; it also identifies in the Berthoz simplexity and Ginzburg evidential paradigms, and in the Hansen concept of mixed reality, the building blocks of a theoretical framework aimed to the solution of these questions.

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