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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Expressive Movement"”.
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The perception of expressive movement in music performance
… methods which address the issue of body movements in music performance. The closest equivalent work is found in studies which adopt "ecological', methods, based on the theoretical approach of J. J. Gibson. Chapters 1 and 2 present this framework together with a review of related …
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Recognizing expressive movement in arm gestures using Hidden Markov Models
Movement is one of the most basic human skills that used for communicating and interacting with the environment. Although we have an intuitive understanding of our gestures, it is hard to explain their quality. One would describe the human gestures as a collection of various actions for performing …
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A Periodic Table of Movements: Two Reference Frameworks for Quantifiable Emotion, A Practice Based Investigation of Human Expressive Movement and Gesture
… emotion through a multi-layered study of human movement and gesture. It is an elaboration of scientific and artistic research methods, intended to answer the following principal question and related sub-questions:<br/><br/>How can emotions, expressed via whole-body movement be visually …
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Motion transformation by example
… is difficult for artists to define natural and expressive movement. This challenge is compounded by the fact that people are intrinsically sensitive to subtle inaccuracies in human motion. To address this problem, this thesis presents techniques that adjust existing character animations to meet …
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Rethinking the book
… that the use of three dimensional form, expressive movement, visual focus and layering, in harmony with human perceptual abilities, improve navigation and contextual understanding of complex written documents. This thesis shows that graphic displays can be combined with physical …
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Emotion by motion: expression simulation in virtual ballet
… written choreography let alone visualise the movements involved, and this represents a considerable barrier to the utility of choreography in its written form. Real-time computer graphics are ideally suited to bridge the gap between written choreographic notation and performance, via the …