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Sopravvivenze del mimetismo animale: lo sguardo, l’aptico e il postumano
2022
La ricerca di Roger Caillois sul mimetismo animale, avviata in ambito surrealista già negli anni Trenta, si fondava su alcuni interessi per l’entomologia e le società primitive, su solidi studi sul mito e alcune incursioni nella psicopatologia, mentre le spiegazioni fornite riconducevano il fenomeno a una necessità di assimilazione allo spazio e a una inerzia dello slancio di vita, in aperto contrasto con le teorie darwiniane della selezione naturale. Una interpretazione non utilitaristica faceva del mimetismo un “lusso dispendioso” di alcune specie animali che, per ragioni non adattive, mettono in campo alcune tipologie precise di comportamenti: l’invisibilità, il travestimento e l’initimi…
La meta e il percorso. Sguardi e menti di viaggiatori nella Grecia antica
2022
L’articolo indaga alcuni regimi scopici e ‘menti’ degli antichi viaggiatori greci. Esso prende in considerazione: gli sguardi omerici, vari ma tutti legati tra loro dall’essere rivolti verso specifici punti, singoli o, nel quadro di una conoscenza cumulativa, ‘sommati’ gli uni agli altri; il modo di guardare del sapiente, che riflette sulla relazione tra tutto ciò che vede durante il percorso; quello del turista, che concentra l’osservazione sulla meta scelta – a volte anche soltanto per potere raccontare di esservi stato; quello del lettore, che ‘si sposta’ attraverso i libri di viaggio o di storia; e altri sguardi che costituiscono intrecci o variazioni di quelli precedenti, presentandosi…
Mentalizing eye contact with a face on a video : Gaze direction does not influence autonomic arousal
2018
Recent research has revealed enhanced autonomic and subjective responses to eye contact only when perceiving another live person. However, these enhanced responses to eye contact are abolished if the viewer believes that the other person is not able to look back at the viewer. We purported to investigate whether this “genuine” eye contact effect can be reproduced with pre‐recorded videos of stimulus persons. Autonomic responses, gaze behavior, and subjective self‐assessments were measured while participants viewed pre‐recorded video persons with direct or averted gaze, imagined that the video person was real, and mentalized that the person could see them or not. Pre‐recorded videos did not …
Estimating Stress in Online Meetings by Remote Physiological Signal and Behavioral Features
2022
Work stress impacts people’s daily lives. Their well-being can be improved if the stress is monitored and addressed in time. Attaching physiological sensors are used for such stress monitoring and analysis. Such approach is feasible only when the person is physically presented. Due to the transfer of the life from offline to online, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, remote stress measurement is of high importance. This study investigated the feasibility of estimating participants’ stress levels based on remote physiological signal features (rPPG) and behavioral features (facial expression and motion) obtained from facial videos recorded during online video meetings. Remote physiological sign…
The Use of Multimodal Resources by Technical Managers and Their Peers in Meetings Using English as the Business Lingua Franca
2020
Background: Engineers increasingly work and advance their careers in international business settings. As technical managers, they need management and technical skills when working with different stakeholders with whom they may not share a common first language. Studies have revealed that informal oral communication skills are of prime importance for global engineers who face challenges in building shared meaning and formulating clear messages in meetings with non-native speakers of English. This article proposes that studying the use of multimodal resources (spoken language, gaze, gestures, and objects) in meetings can unpack how work tasks are accomplished in business through different com…
Lo sguardo in seconda persona. Verecundia in Seneca, ad Lucilium 11
2021
Where does verecundia stand in the ancient Rome? As Robert Kaster said, it stands close to the pudor, working in face-to-face relations “between respect and shame”. How the verecundia concept took part as a moral feeling is clearly explained in Seneca’s Letter 11 to Lucilius. In this text the philosopher offers a complex, concise portrait of verecundia, allowing to see that it is, to all intents and purposes, a social emotion, as well as an useful behavior to explain the birth of a moral gaze in “second person”.