Designed to Move
Designed to Move

Author: Joan Vernikos

Publisher: Linden Publishing

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1610353013

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Science has proven that sitting too much is bad for your health, but what can you do about it if you're stuck at your desk all day? "Designed to Move" gives deskbound professionals a practical, easy-to-follow movement plan to fight the debilitating and life-shortening effects of sitting disease. Dr. Joan Vernikos, former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division, draws on decades of scientific research on astronauts to show readers how to use gravity-based movement to counteract the effects of prolonged sitting and maintain lifelong good health. Written for everyone who spends most of their lives sitting in chairs, "Designed to Move" provides readers with a science-backed health program that helps people stay healthy while at work. Expanding upon her groundbreaking previous book, "Sitting Kills, Moving Heals," Dr. Vernikos shows how developing simple new lifestyle habits at the office can reverse the symptoms of sitting disease and even aging itself, and lead to a life of bountiful health.

How Games Move Us
How Games Move Us

Author: Katherine Isbister

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0262534452

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An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players—with examples from popular, indie, and art games. This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games, Isbister shows us, can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples—drawn from popular, indie, and art games—that unpack the gamer’s experience. Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players’ emotional experience, and examines long-distance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony’s Little Big Planet to the much-praised indie game Journey to art games like Brenda Romero’s Train. Isbister’s analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human.

Designed For Movement
Designed For Movement

Author: Rosemary Mendoza

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Exercise is the foundation of fitness, as we've heard over and over again - 150 minutes per week, checked. However, the exercise advice falls apart and the movement ceases for anyone who experiences pain, has difficulty running, is unable to make progress, feels daily dread of working out, or is simply stuck in a rut. We have our priorities backward, which is the problem. The entire focus of this book is on helping you remain active well into old age. You'll fare even better if you incorporate regular exercise into the mix. The main point we want to make is that you must move now or continue to move if you want to be able to continue moving as you age. Numerous individuals have staked their reputations on the notion that we should move more throughout the day, in small increments, to achieve our healthiest lifestyles. However, how exactly does this appear in more detail? The book "Designed for Movement" is more than just a call to action to get moving; it's also a densely packed, simple-to-follow manual that's full of wise and pragmatist advice. It includes practical sidebars and wonderful, relatable personal anecdotes, as well as everything you'd expect from a good fitness book. We purchase fitness books for a reason, after all. As a result of the fact that we are seeking inspiration, motivation, and a cause to change. This book offers fundamental physical change, and it does so for all the right reasons, for once. GET A COPY NOW

Move!
Move!

Author: Lolly Hopwood

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761187332

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***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner Don’t read this book—play it! Introducing an ingenious way to help kids get the 60 minutes of active play they need each day. Move! is a book that combines imaginative play with movement. Hold it up to your face like a big pair of jaws and ROAR and STOMP like a dinosaur. Hold it by the die-cut handles to swing in a hip-to-hip motion while ROWING like a canoe. Or hold on tight and SPIN like a flying saucer. This inventive format will excite the imaginations of kids and parents alike. Lively rhyming text and colorful, spirited illustrations prompt young readers to perform physical activities utilizing the book’s die-cut holes and handles. Move! is a book that will foster a love for reading and a love for physical activity—a book designed to keep kids healthy, happy, and having fun.

Move!
Move!

Author: Braun

Publisher: Verlagshaus Braun

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9783037680469

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Notable projects from around the globe showing the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design.With health-consciousness on the rise, fitness is a factor that plays an increasingly important role in peoples' lives. In consequence, the demand for up-to-date and sophisticated fitness facilities is growing. The best gyms provide their customers with modern exercise equipment as well as relaxation and wellness areas, whilst also offering a welcoming and refined ambience. Combining gym functionality with a cutting-edge, distinctive and contemporary design is an exciting and challenging task that architects increasingly endeavor to perfect. "Move! Best of Gym Design" presents 40 notable projects from around the globe and shows the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design, ranging everything from spa and wellness centers, high-tech professional sports and leisure complexes to gyms that are stylish compartments of exclusive hotels.

Materials that Move
Materials that Move

Author: Murat Bengisu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 3319768891

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This book presents a design-driven investigation into smart materials developed by chemists, physicists, materials and chemical engineers, and applied by designers to consumer products, buildings, interfaces, or textiles. Introducing a class of smart materials (referred to as stimuli-responsive, morphing or kinetic materials) that move and change their shape in response to stimuli, the book presents their characteristics, advantages, potentials, as well as the difficulties involved in their application. The book also presents a large number of case studies on products, projects, concepts, and experiments employing smart materials, thus mapping out new design territories for these innovative materials. The case studies involve different fields of design, including product, interior, fashion, and communication design. Reflecting the growing demand for sustainable and human-centered design agendas, the book explores and reveals the role and influence of these new materials and technologies on design and human experience, and discusses how they can be used to redefine our objects and spaces so as to promote more resilient environments. The book offers an intriguing and valuable resource for design professionals, engineers, scientists and students alike.

Stories that Move Mountains
Stories that Move Mountains

Author: Martin Sykes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 111842400X

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Learn how to use stories and visuals to make top–notch presentations It′s called CAST (Content, Audience, Story, & Tell) and it′s been a quiet success, until now. Developed over a twelve year period as a presentation method to help Enterprise Architects, it was adopted by Microsoft Enterprise Architecture teams and filtered from IT managers to Sales, and beyond to major organizations around the world. Now, thanks to this unique book from an expert author team that includes two Microsoft presentation experts, you can learn how to use this amazing process to create and make high–impact presentations in your own organization. The book helps you build complete visual stories, step by step, by using the CAST method to first create a Story Map and from there, a compelling presentation. It includes sample Story Maps, templates, practical success stories, and more. You′ll discover how to go beyond PowerPoint slides to create presentations that influence your peers and effect change. Explains the secrets of making presentations and effecting change using CAST to create Story Maps and from there, high–impact and visual presentations that tell a story Covers how to apply a range of techniques and what the results look like, using screenshots of presentations, one page hand outs, and basic delivery with whiteboards Coauthored by Microsoft experts and a visual design guru who have years of experience training professionals in these methods Includes sample Story Maps, templates, practical success stories, and more Learn how to sell your ideas and trigger change in your company with Stories That Move Mountains: Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations.

Move to a Great Body
Move to a Great Body

Author: Joseph C. Kvedar

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1497635292

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Move to a Great Body, the first book in Wellocracy’s cutting-edge ebook series, introduces the smart tools called activity trackers, wearable biosensors that monitor your activity levels throughout the day. Activity trackers can tell you how many steps you take, how much time you spend sitting, and how many calories you burn. Some can even measure the length and quality of your sleep. They send data to your computer, tablet, or smartphone, where you can access them anytime. The Wellocracy team will show you how to “listen” to your tracking information to make simple and incremental changes that can be incorporated into your life—your way to grow slimmer, stronger, fitter, and happier. Do you know which tracker you need and the best brands to meet your health and wellness objectives? In Move to a Great Body, our experts explain how to pick the tracker that’s right for you, based on your personal goals and budget. Moreover, the Wellocracy team shows you how to use tracking information to customize a personalized fitness plan that will get you up and moving in no time. And in our books and companion website, Wellocracy.com, we will help you find your “stickiness factor,” the term experts use to describe the particular motivational strategies that will inspire you to stay on track to achieve your goals. Identifying and understanding your own stickiness factor will enable you to stick to a fitness program even if you have never been able to do that before. Future books in the Wellocracy series will feature health devices and apps that can help you lose weight and maintain weight goals, cope with stress, improve your sleep, rev up your sex life, monitor your pregnancy, boost your productivity, and manage chronic conditions like high blood pressure. Wellocracy is a community dedicated to empowering and motivating people to simply—and effectively—track and manage their health and wellness in ways that have never before possible until now, whether at home or on the go. Join us at Wellocracy.com.