Compute in Comfort: Body Awareness Training : A Day-To-Day Guide to Pain-Free Computing - Softcover

Linden, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133099156 ISBN 13: 9780133099157

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1995

Synopsis

Full of practical, simple exercises and techniques for preventing physical and mental stress at the computer, this book gives readers what they need to know about the functioning of the human body to achieve relaxed, efficient, strain-free, safe-and comfortable ways of using their computers. It shows how to choose equipment which will maintain and enhance proper body use and how to set up a workstation for greater comfort.

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About the Author

Paul Linden is a specialist in body and movement awareness education and the director of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies in Columbus, Ohio. Linden is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education, and holds a fourth degree black belt in Aikido as well as a first degree black belt in Karate. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed a systematic approach to body movement and awareness teaching which he calls Being in Movement mind/body training.

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First and foremost, I would like to thank my editor, Paul Becker, for believing in this project from the first. He understood and supported what I was trying to create.

I owe Dawn Costick special thanks for her imagination and skill in doing the photography. She is a massage practitioner as well as a photographer, and her ability to see the body in both ways was invaluable in organizing the visual presentation of the book and shooting the photographs.

Tom Simpson contributed a lot to the book. He coaxed me into getting my first computer, way back when, and he generously took time to serve as a model for the photographs -- in which he demonstrated with great clarity body intelligence in movement.

Raphael Rosado took my jokes and turned them into cartoons which are each worth more than a thousand words.

Nancy Sally prepared the anatomical drawings, and Gail Griffith served as a model in the photographs.

Barbara Braham, an author and public speaker, gave me valuable advice on the book and listened to my ongoing reports on how far the writing had come.

Marilyn Huheey was kind enough to review the chapters on head and eyes.

Barbara Fredin, Jean Pierre Dujardin, Russell Hall, and David Berger all read the manuscript and offered detailed critiques which were immensely helpful.

Aikido gave me my appreciation of the body in movement. I am grateful for the existence of Aikido, and I am grateful to all my practice partners down through the years, and to all the instructors who have helped me progress in the art, especially Robert Nadeau and Yoshimitsu Yamada.

I owe all my students through the years a debt of gratitude. I learned by teaching them.

I appreciate the help that Keri Walker at Apple Computer and Aida Adams at Communication Intelligence Corporation each extended in arranging for me to try out pieces of equipment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133099156
• ISBN 13: 9780133099157
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256