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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Laban Movement Analysis"”.
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Synthesis and Acquisition of Laban Movement Analysis Qualitative Parameters for Communicative Gestures
… to gesture is based on the principles of movement observation science, specifically Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and its Effort and Shape components. LMA, developed in the dance community over the past seventy years, is an effective method for observing, describing, notating, and …
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The Dynamics of a Therapeutic Dance/Movement Intervention for Individuals with Brain Injuries: Comparison with Physical Therapy Using Laban Movement Analysis
… and speech therapies. Therapeutic dance/movement has not been an integral part of these core services. I have observed its potential, however, during the past thirteen years while providing this intervention to individuals with brain injuries. The focus of this dissertation was to gain a …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
… figures in Disney animation through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), a system for observing and articulating movement qualities. Drawing from six major films released between 1937 and 2010, I focus my inquiry on how the bodies and movement of Disneys villainesses reflect and/or …
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Procedural animation: towards studio solutions for believability
… of the relationship between key-frame movement performances and procedural animation. It is geared towards building a theory of practice that would help develop a succinct method for generating believable character animation using procedural animation. This research places an emphasis …
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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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Towards expressive mobile robots
… and interactive modalities. This approach uses Laban Movement Analysis paired with the Kansei Engineering iterative design approach to dissect movement and visual traits of archetypal characters and marry them to features of the robot and user experience. Specifically, these character traits are …
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Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies
… framework for a theory models approach to analysis and interpretation of the data. Laban Movement Analysis was also used as an analytical tool. Written documents—including articles and books on the topics of dance pedagogy, education, somatics, and touch—served to verify data gathered …
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‘Experimenting with the Globe’: the reconstructed Bankside Theatre as a research instrument in research through practice in performance (PaR), movement pattern analysis (MPA) and Shakespeare studies
… in action through a proposed adaptation of Laban Movement Analysis for theatre, and digital humanities (in particular, 3D virtual real time interactive modelling) and their interactions. What also becomes possible, on the basis of these sorts of shifts, is the development of new, expert …