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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Gesturing"”.
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Narrative traditioning and allusive gesturing : Perpetua reconsidered.
The early Christian martyr narrative Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis has been widely debated for centuries. Substantial interpretative quandaries remain about the Passio’s unique account of events surrounding the martyrdom of a group of catechumens in Severan-era Roman North Africa. Predominant …
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Please, don't let me be misunderstood: intentionality, queer gestures, and feminist accountability
… as a feminist practice through queer gesturing; this re-defining places intentionality within a framework of accountability. By defining intent through the distibution of responsibility, this thesis addresses the impossibility in perfection of intentionality and the language of …
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Gestures and mental models: A triple coding hypothesis
… study, we examined the effects of watching a gesturing or a non-gesturing lecturer on the learner*s cognitive load and mental model development. The results have implications for cognitive psychology as well as educational psychology, particularly in multimedia learning.
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The Role of Students' Gestures in Offloading Cognitive Demands on Working Memory in Proving Activities
… Existing research literature on the role of gesturing in cognitive offloading has been limited to the context of elementary mathematics but has shown promise for extension to the college level. My framework weaves together theoretical constructs from mathematics education and cognitive …
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Making Hands: Neural Implicit Manifold Learning of Hand Gestures
… and sophisticated biological machine. Hand gesturing is key to our understanding of and interacting with the world around us. Hand gesturing is also instrumental in design and making. I argue that understanding the geometry of the space of hand gestures leads to an intuitive human-computer …
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Body Pose Predictions in Triadic Social Interactions
… their thoughts effectively. These include gesturing with their hands, moving around etc.. AI agents or algorithms interacting with humans which we refer to as Social artificial intelligence must learn to interpret and predict these signals in order to use them to interact with other humans …
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“Let’s Do The Time Warp, Again!” <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</em> as Hysterical Theatre
… the ways in which specific choreographies and gesturing – depicted cinematically and echoed by the shadow cast and spectators in The Rocky Horror Picture Show – iterate a shared experience of marginalization between bodies deemed “hysterical” and queer bodies.</p>
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A multimodal Ouija board for aircraft carrier deck operations
… plan strategies by pointing at aircraft, gesturing and talking to the system. The system responds with its own speech and gestures, and it updates the display to show the consequences of the actions taken by the handlers. The system can also be used to simulate certain scenarios during the …
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A Pedagogical Multimodal System for Mathematical Problem-Solving and Visual Reasoning
… or language. It requires visualizing, drawing, gesturing, and interacting for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically in educational subjects, such as geometry and graphs, visual tools like auxiliary annotations and drawings can greatly help students understand abstract …
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Computational expressionism : a study of drawing with computation
… draw with these lines by dragging a mouse or gesturing with some other input device. The compositions incorporate the beauty of computation with the creative impetus of the hand, whose apparent mistakes, hesitations and inspirations form a complex and critical component of visual expression.
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Inspiration to Illumination
… it has open up a wide horizon of architectural gesturing.
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PEN-BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION
… that radial gestures can be a useful finger gesturing technique, e.g. when used in conjunction with a Apple Powerbook 500-series touchpad or a Virtual Reality glove.
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Computational Gestural Making: A framework for exploring the creative potential of gestures, materials, and computational tools
… design trichotomy, the uniqueness of the gesturing hand to sense, communicate, grasp, shape, and interface in the world has been traditionally overlooked, relegating making as a peripherical stage of the creative process where no intellectual development -apparently- occurs. I argue that …
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Divergent Roads: Pre-Sublime Terror and Sublimated Tragedy in the Poetry of Robert Frost and Joseph Brodsky
… pre-sublime stance and acknowledges the chaos by gesturing to it, thus refusing the comfort of reason. Rather than wrestling with an ontological crisis linguistically, Frost holds his reader at the moment of confrontation with eschatological terror. Among contemporary poets who could be called a …
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Nonverbal communication among Pointe Coupee Creoles
… communicative features such as the frequency of gesturing and wider gestural spheres (smaller personal spheres) observed in the older, Creole-dominant generation are maintained by the younger generation of English-dominant Pointe Coupee Creoles. Thus, aspects of the nonverbal patterns survive …
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Interactive Image Filling-In
… structure in more than one viable way by gesturing the cursor in the direction of desired structure completion.
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A poetics of subjective resistance
… leaving under-discussed the possibility of gesturing towards new possible frameworks, relations and subjectivities.It instead builds a tentatively propositional poetics, which takes the subject as a primary site of struggle. Resistive potential and instability in the cycle of ideological …
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Time gestures : time conceptualisation in English with evidence from gestures in a multimodal corpus
… the lateral axis is frequently employed when gesturing about time, but it also suggests that spatial language usesthe sagittal axis more frequently that non-spatial language. Moreover, gestures that co-occur with spatially grounded temporal language tend to be congruent with the canonical …
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Constructions of Identity and Otherness in Jack Kerouac's Prose
… social developments and philosophical debates, gesturing towards and at times capturing a postmodern sensibility. The four chapters of the thesis analyse Kerouac’s approach to the concept of simulation, his position towards Western representations of Eastern spirituality, his negotiation of the …
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Use of an integrated multimodal communication treatment with individuals with severe traumatic brain injury
… communication (AAC) strategies (e.g., gesturing, writing, speech generating devices and applications) to communicate can help people with TBI compensate for deficits. The most effective method to teach people with TBI to use multiple strategies in resolving communication breakdowns has …
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