Quicker Than the Eye? Sleight of Hand and Cinemas of Scientific Discovery from Chronophotography to Cognitive Film Theory

Leonardo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-427
Author(s):  
Colin Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Optical Devices ◽  
Imaging Technologies ◽  
Visual Processes ◽  
First Case ◽  
Nontheatrical Film

This article explores the topic of scientific discovery in two cases of intersections between imaging technologies and sleight-of-hand magic in the domain of nontheatrical film and media. The first case is the French psychologist Alfred Binet’s use of chronophotography to study magicians in the 1890s. The second is the reanimation of Binet’s study by cognitive (neuro)scientists beginning in the early 2000s using eye-tracking cameras and other digital-imaging devices. The author focuses on how both cases treat the magician as a medium of discovery and how both use optical devices to “see” visual processes related to the experience of wonder.

scholarly journals Media Archaeology: a viable discipline or a valuable symptom?

Artnodes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Elsaesser
Keyword(s):  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Imaging Technologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Opening Up

For nearly one hundred years, the moving image has been discussed primarily from the perspective of photography, by organising our questions and theories around cinema as an ocular dispositif, based on light, projection and transparency, or as a recording dispositif, based on index, imprint and trace. In the age of digital imaging technologies, some of which have little to do with optics, such a history of the moving image seems too narrowly conceived. The broadly based, if loosely defined research field of “media archaeology” not only locates cinema within more comprehensive media histories, it also investigates apparently obsolete, overlooked or poorly understood past media practices. The expectation is that by once more “opening up” these pasts, one can also enable or envisage a different future. The question then arises: is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or also a (valuable) symptom of changes in our ideas of history, causality and contingency?

scholarly journals Reproducibility Validation Study Comparing Analog and Digital Imaging Technologies for the Measurement of Intima-Media Thickness

Stroke ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1104-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damiano Baldassarre ◽  
Elena Tremoli ◽  
Mauro Amato ◽  
Fabrizio Veglia ◽  
Alighiero Bondioli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Validation Study ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Intima Media Thickness ◽  
Imaging Technologies ◽  
Media Thickness

scholarly journals The Transformational Effects of Applying Systems Engineering in Laboratory Scientific Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Niels Bjergstrom ◽  
William G. B. Huish ◽  
Michael J. de C Henshaw ◽  
Vincent M. Dwyer ◽  
Mark Everitt
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
First Case ◽  
Experimental Apparatus

Through case study analysis of physicists working in quantum systems, we establish that knowledge of Systems Engineering (SE) will benefit scientists by ensuring that experimental apparatus is robust and fully meets the experiment requirements. We suggest a paradigm shift in the training of early career research scientists to ensure they have a strong appreciation of the systems approach and experience of applying SE techniques. Two case studies were used: the first was a detailed analysis of increasing levels of SE in the development of a 3D-printer for fabricating superconducting nano-circuitry. Applying SE techniques improved record keeping, reduced the risk of failure modes and took better account of future development through which scientific discovery may be exploited in practical devices. The second case study focused on a group of 30 quantum physics PhD students undertaking a short-course in basic SE, and used their opinions to check and add confidence to the findings of the first case study. A variety of tools were used in both studies and, in both cases, the Functional Failure Means Effects Analysis (FFMEA) technique was considered to be most useful. Recommendations are made for the future training of early career scientists to include some light-weight Systems Engineering.

Digital Imaging: Looking Toward the Future of Manuscript Research

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Carl W. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spectral Imaging ◽  
Standard Medium ◽  
Imaging Technologies ◽  
Conventional Film ◽  
The Future ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Codex Sinaiticus

While microfilm has been the standard medium for manuscript photography since the 1950s, digital imaging is beginning to revolutionize manuscript research by providing broader and lower-cost access to higher-quality manuscript images. New digital imaging technologies like “multi-spectral imaging” are also capable of improving the legibility of damaged texts far beyond that achievable with conventional film. The potential of these new technologies for manuscript research may be seen with digital imaging projects focusing on such important texts as the Codex Sinaiticus and the Herculaneum papyri. For all its advantages, digital imaging poses for us further technological and archival challenges.

scholarly journals (Eye-)Tracking the time-course of the interaction between linguistic and visual processes: the effect of verb-conceptual restrictions

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 308-308
Author(s):  
R. G. Almeida ◽  
C. Velde ◽  
M. W. Grunau ◽  
C. Galera
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Visual Processes
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