Shifting the Gaze, Shifting the Agenda: Sustainable livelihoods in urban Honiara

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a form of high-functioning autism characterized by qualitative impairment in social interaction. People afflicted with AS typically have abnormal nonverbal behaviors which are often manifested by avoiding eye contact. Gaze constitutes an important interactional resource, and an AS person’s tendency to avoid eye contact may affect the fluidity of conversations and cause misunderstandings. For this reason, it is important to know the precise ways in which this avoidance is done, and in what ways it affects the interaction. The objective of this article is to describe the gaze behavior of preadolescent AS children in institutional multiparty conversations. Methodologically, the study is based on conversation analysis and a multimodal study of interaction. The findings show that three main patterns are used for avoiding eye contact: 1) fixing one’s gaze straight ahead; 2) letting one’s gaze wander around; and 3) looking at one’s own hands when speaking. The informants of this study do not look at the interlocutors at all in the beginning or the middle of their turn. However, sometimes they turn to look at the interlocutors at the end of their turn. This proves that these children are able to use gaze as a source of feedback. When listening, looking at the speaker also seems to be easier for them than looking at the listeners when speaking.

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Cairo’s informal waste collectors: a multi-scale and conflict sensitive perspective on sustainable livelihoods

Erdkunde ◽

10.3112/erdkunde.2012.01.03 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 27-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Maike Didero

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Livelihoods ◽

Multi Scale

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Flâneur or Choraster: A Review of the Travel Narrator In the Formation of the Tourist Experience

Tourism Analysis ◽

10.3727/108354219x15652651367415 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 551-562

Author(s):

Stephen Wearing ◽

Stephen Schweinsberg ◽

Patricia Johnson

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Review Article ◽

Media Representations ◽

The Gaze ◽

The People ◽

Tourist Experience

Media representations of destinations play a powerful role in tourism appeal. The narrator assumes a role infused with knowledge and power, employing discourse to describe and interpret places and people to entice armchair audiences to not only travel vicariously alongside them, but to follow in their footsteps. This review article uses the English actor and writer Michael Palin to examine this phenomenon through the lens of the flâneur and choraster. Palin's travels have traditionally been viewed based on their ability to create space from the perspective of a representational voice of authority. In the present article, we wish to ask whether the power of the travel narrator for tourism is perhaps better expressed in their ability to develop a counter (or chora discourse), one where we are able to see space as locally contested. Palin's narrator expresses appreciation of his reliance on the people (chora) that inhabit the spaces he visits. His narrations of travel evidence how the flâneur perspective is influenced (and/or disrupted) by a chora in two ways—that which influences the perspective before travel and directs the gaze, and those that occupy and inscribe meaning on the spaces that are traveled to, that influences and/or forms experience.

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NON-INTRUSIVE SYSTEM TO DETECT THE GAZE DIRECTION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

10.21528/cbrn2009-148 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Helton M. Peixoto ◽

Ana M. G. Guerreiro ◽

Adrião D. D. Neto

Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Artificial Neural Networks ◽

Gaze Direction ◽

The Gaze ◽

Artificial Neural

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Medicinal plants and sustainable livelihood in Pauri district of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India.

International Journal of Bioassays ◽

10.21746/ijbio.2016.06.001 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (06) ◽

pp. 4589 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vardan Singh Rawat

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Medicinal Plants ◽

Plant Species ◽

Skin Diseases ◽

Sustainable Livelihoods ◽

Vital Role ◽

Local Communities ◽

Sustainable Livelihood ◽

Plant Parts ◽

Total Plant

The present study was conducted in the Thalisain block of Pauri Garhwal to document the medicinal plants used by the local communities. 53 plant species distributed in 38 families were documented. Of the total plant species 49% were herbs, 26% trees, 23% shrubs and 2% climbers. 16 different plant parts were used by local communities for different ailments. Medicinal plants were widely used by major sections of the community against common colds, cough, skin diseases, snake bite, fever, joint pains, bronchitis etc. Women and local healers called vaids have a vital role in environmental management due to traditional knowledge and use of plants as medicine with undocumented knowledge. It has been observed as one of the best option of sustainable livelihoods for the residents of the area.

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