Search for dissertations about: "body parts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 338 swedish dissertations containing the words body parts.

  2. 1. Bring Your Body into Action : Body Gesture Detection, Tracking, and Analysis for Natural Interaction

    Author : Farid Abedan Kondori; Li Liu; Juyang Weng; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Human Well-Being; Bodily Interaction; Natural Interaction; Human Motion Analysis; Active Motion Estimation; Direct Motion Estimation; Head Pose Estimation; Hand Pose Estimation.; signalbehandling; Signal Processing; datoriserad bildanalys; Computerized Image Analysis;

    Abstract : Due to the large influx of computers in our daily lives, human-computer interaction has become crucially important. For a long time, focusing on what users need has been critical for designing interaction methods. READ MORE

  4. 2. Being at home in one's body. Body image in light of identity development

    Author : Johanna Kling; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; body image; identity development; longitudinal development; emerging adulthood; young adulthood; gender role norms;

    Abstract : Although the importance of the body to people’s identities has long been theoretically inferred, research linking body image and identity development is scarce. The objective of this thesis was to address this research gap by exploring body image from an identity perspective. READ MORE

  5. 3. Patient Positioning in Radiotherapy Using Body Surface Scanning

    Author : Kenneth Wikström; Anders Ahnesjö; Sven Bäck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Radiotherapy; positioning; body surface; laser scanning; cancer; SGRT; ITV; lung cancer; surrogate; tumour motion; 4DCT; Medicinsk radiofysik; Medical Radiophysics;

    Abstract : External radiotherapy uses ionising radiation to damage the DNA of the tumour cells and thereby inhibit their uncontrolled proliferation. The technical development regarding imaging and visualisation for radiotherapy has increased considerably during the last decades. READ MORE

  6. 4. Hard & Soft : The Male Detective´s Body in Contemporary European Crime Fiction

    Author : Tiina Mäntymäki; Frank Baasner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : popular culture; crime fiction; gender; masculinity; male body; detektivromaner; manlighet; mansbilden; kropp; litteraturvetenskap; genus; historia; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : In the thesis popular culture is treated as an important site of meaningcreation and crime fiction is studied as a social technology, as producing and reproducing strategies of engendering.The thesis is a comparative study of six crime fiction detectives from fiveEuropean countries: Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Spain, and Italy. READ MORE

  7. 5. Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC

    Author : Åsa Maria Larsson; Anders Kaliff; Jan Storå; Joanna Sofaer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Neolithic; Late Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Corded Ware culture; pottery; pottery technology; craft; chaîne opératoire; mortuary archaeology; mortuary house; burial; ritual; defleshing; cremation; secondary mortuary practice; osteology; ethnoarchaeology; culture; culture change; identity; ethnicity; practice; cognition; body; embodiment; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture. This thesis outlines the history of research of the Middle Neolithic B in general and that of the pottery and burial practices in particular. READ MORE