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Showing 1 to 20 of 602 for “"Gestures"”.
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Gestures in Machine Interaction
… (VGI) describes the use of unrestricted gestures in machine interaction. The development of such technology will enable users to interact with machines and virtual environments by performing actions like grasping, pinching or waving without the need of peripherals. Advances in …
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Time gestures : time conceptualisation in English with evidence from gestures in a multimodal corpus
… television database, to investigate co-speech gestures for temporal expressions in English. This research investigates time conceptualisation by studying gesture patterns that co-occur with temporal linguistic expressions. While much has been written about time conceptualisation based on …
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Rhetorical gestures in British elocutionism
This project uncovers the rhetoric of gesture in British elocutionist handbooks on delivery (about 1650 to 1800). In the work of Bulwer, Sheridan, Walker, Priestley, Austin and others, the gesture exceeds its caricature in histories of rhetoric: an ancillary, if “detached” mechanism for the …
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REAL-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF CONTINUOUS GESTURES
This study aims to develop a real-time continuous gestures classification system. The approach does not rely on using any gloves, visual markings, or special camera to achieve the recognition task. Instead, it uses just real-time video streaming of bare hand from a webcam. The top priority of this …
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Enabling the Blind to See Gestures
… We want to make the SBVI aware of the deictic gestures performed by the teacher over the graphic in conjunction with speech. We employ a haptic glove interface to facilitate this embodiment awareness. In this research, we address issues from the conception through the design, implementation, …
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Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 Months
This thesis concerns the nature of the gestures performed by five Swedish children. The children are followed from 18 to 30 months of age: an age range which is characterized by a rapid succession of developmental changes in children's abilities to communicate by means of both spoken language and …
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Classification of finger gestures from myoelectric signals
… it will be crucial to map EMG signals to user gestures in real time. The mapping from signals to gestures will vary from user to user, so it must be acquired adaptively. In this thesis, I describe and compare three methods for static classification of EMG signals. I then go on to explore …
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Machine perception of natural musical conducting gestures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Gestures and mental models: A triple coding hypothesis
Gestures and speech have been intertwined since the beginning of human communication. Recently the role of gestures in cognition and learning has become a topic of interest in both cognitive and educational psychology. Some researchers have speculated that gestures inherently communicate …
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Conducting Gestures Used by High School Choral Directors
… purpose of the study was to describe conducting gestures used by high school choral conductors to communicate selected technical qualities, performance styles, and expressive events.
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Musical sound information : musical gestures and embedding synthesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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Producing semantically appropriate gestures in embodied language generation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Bend Passwords: Using Gestures to Authenticate on Flexible Devices
… a new type of user authentication that uses bend gestures as its input modality. We ran three user studies to evaluate the usability and security of our new authentication scheme and compared it to PINs on a mobile phone. Our first two studies evaluated the creation and memorability of bend …
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Evaluating Head Gestures for Panning 2-D Spatial Information
… intuitively, accurately, and efficiently. Gestures provide a method of control that is well suited to navigating the large datasets often associated with spatial information applications. Several different types of gestures and different applications that navigate spatial data are examined. …
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Visual classification of co-verbal gestures for gesture understanding
… by either a human or a machine if the person's gestures are understood. This thesis project demonstrates an expansion of both the range of co-verbal gestures a machine can identify, and the range of communicative intents the machine can infer. We develop an automatic system that uses realtime …
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Making Hands: Neural Implicit Manifold Learning of Hand Gestures
… understanding the geometry of the space of hand gestures leads to an intuitive human-computer interaction. I decompose the gesture into its constituent parts, i.e., the hand motion – global coordinate system – and the hand pose – local coordinate system. I propose modeling the configuration space …
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The Conductor Interaction Method : Interacting Using Hand Gestures and Gaze.
Over the past thirty years computers have increasingly become part of our everyday lives. Most humans have become computer users in one way or another, since many activities involve either the direct use of a computer or are supported by one. This has prompted research into developing methods and …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
… that are generated by the distinctive hand gestures of the clothes-maker. This practice-based research explores clothes-making gestures as choreographic forms of expression in their own right. It examines the peculiar materiality of clothes-making gestures by focusing on not only the kinetic …
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