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Modelling Perceived Segmentation of Bodily Gestures Induced by Music
2017
This article presents an ongoing investigation whose goal is to model perceived segmentation of music-induced bodily gestures. The investigation consists of three stages. The first stage is a database of multimodal recordings of people moving to music. The data of these recordings are video and motion-capture (acceleration and position at several points of the body). In the second stage the videos produced in the first stage are manually segmented. This is regarded as ground truth for the evaluation of the performance of an automatic gesture segmentation system developed in the third stage of the study. This system extracts kinetic features from motion-captured data. Then a novelty score is…
All Eyes on Me : Behaving as Soloist in Duo Performances Leads to Increased Body Movements and Attracts Observers’ Visual Attention
2020
Duo musicians exhibit a broad variety of bodily gestures, but it is unclear how soloists’ and accompanists’ movements differ and to what extent they attract observers’ visual attention. In Experiment 1, seven musical duos’ body movements were tracked while they performed two pieces in two different conditions. In a congruent condition, soloist and accompanist behaved according to their expected musical roles; in an incongruent condition, the soloist behaved as accompanist and vice versa. Results revealed that behaving as soloist, regardless of the condition, led to more, smoother, and faster head and shoulder movements over a larger area than behaving as accompanist. Moreover, accompanists …
Gestural expressions in use for unveiling dynamic experience attributed to verbs
2013
The focus of this paper is on justifying the presented experimental design that aims at examining the enactive linkages between a verb’s content and a sensorimotor experience of movement. The experiment utilised spontaneous production of hand and vocal gestures for expressing the energetic feel attributed to a word. Preliminary qualitative analysis of the expressions shows degrees of similarity in terms of experiential movement qualities. These results imply that conceiving a verb’s meaning is not necessarily far removed from bodily action. peerReviewed