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Showing 1 to 20 of 1216 for “"expressive"”.
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Understanding expressive action
We strain our eyes, cramp our necks, and destroy our hands trying to interact with computer on their terms. At the extreme, we strap on devices and weigh ourselves down with cables trying to re-create a sense of place inside the machine, while cutting ourselves off from the world and people around …
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Expressive re-performance
… timbre, is more personal. This thesis develops expressive re-performance, which entails the simplification of technical requirements of music-making to allow a user to experience music beyond his technical level, with particular focus on expression. Expressive re-performance aims to capture the …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
… the household, it is imperative to design the expressive modes of these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract archetypal characters across the system, …
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Applications of expressive footwear
The design of Expressive Footwear centered on creating as dense a sensing module as possible. Originally, the motivation came from creating a dance performance in which the dancer is participating directly in the creation of music in the dance performance. In order to accomplish this, a wide …
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New expressive percussion instruments
This thesis presents several new percussion instruments that explore the ideas of musical networks; playing, recording, and developing musical material; continuous control over rhythm and timbre; pressure sensing; and electronic / acoustic hybrids. These instruments use the tools of electronics and …
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A Self-Expressive Transit Hub
M.Arch. + M.F.A.
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Real-time expressive internet communications
This research work "Real-time Expressive Internet Communications" focuses on two subjects: One is the investigation of methods of automatic emotion detection and visualisation under real-time Internet communication environment, the other is the analysis of the influences of presenting visualised …
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Expressive mathematics : learning by design
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Expressive Arts Therapy with Bereaved Families
… and qualitative investigation of the use of expressive arts therapy with bereaved families during a weekend camp experience and a series of followup sessions. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of using expressive arts activities in improving the functioning of the …
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Presentation techniques for more expressive programs
… these kinds of editors appears to lead to more expressive programs-programs whose structure are aligned with the problem they are trying to solve. By default, the composable presentation editor presents program elements textually as concrete syntax and enables typical editor commands on the …
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Expressive Modulation of Neutral Visual Speech
… speech animation curves between different expressive styles. Beginning with the assumption that expressive speech animation is a mix of two components, a high-frequency speech component (the content) and a much lower-frequency expressive component (the style), we use Independent Component …
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Exploring Some Approaches to Expressive Drawing
… and skills of this candidate in the area of expressive drawing, (2) to formulate new approaches or modify existing approaches to drawing so as to lessen inhibiting attitudes and rigid procedures during the act of drawing and encourage spontaneous and expressive drawing on the candidate's …
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Efficient, expressive, and effective runtime verification
… formalisms show that monitoring can be both expressive and efficient, regardless of the expressive power of the logical formalism, and that monitoring can be used not only for flat traces generated by software applications, but also in predictive traces and a hardware context.
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Expressive digital musical instruments for children
… novel technology as a provider of creative and expressive musical experiences for children.
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Computational models for expressive dimensional typography
… letter, looking at ways we can build living, expressive textual environments on the computer display.
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Analyticity as Expressive of Monotonic Material Inference
<p>For the past sixty years analyticity has been both vigorously challenged and defended. In this paper I reconceptualize analyticity by appropriating Robert Brandom's logical expressivism. I argue that statements such as 'x is analytic' should be interpreted as bits of logical expressivist …
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Increasing expressive vocabulary through non-traditional instruction
… students – increased the students' ability to expressively use newly learned words.</p>
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Delivering Expressive And Personalized Fingertip Tactile Cues
… and software-based solutions for rendering more expressive and personalized tactile cues to the fingertip. We first explore the idea of rendering six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) tactile fingertip feedback via a wearable device, such that any possible fingertip interaction with a flat surface can be …
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Conditioning Expressive Language in a Nonverbal Child
<p>The problem of treating the child with delayed speech acquisition has generated a considerable amount of research and these studies have pointed out the need for further work in this area. The purpose of this study is to test the procedures of one particularly effective study, that of Dr. Burl …
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