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Sketcching sonic interactions
2019
This chapter provides an overview of methods and practices for sketching sound in interactive contexts. The chapter stresses the role and importance of producing and interacting with provisional sound representations in conceptual sound design. The cognitive benefits of embodied sound sketching are discussed and outlined by means of practical examples and basic exercises. In particular, vocalizations and gestures are proposed as primary cognitive artifacts available to sound designers to enact sonic impressions and displays, cooperatively.
Sketching Sound with Voice and Gesture
2015
Voice and gestures are natural sketching tools that can be exploited to communicate sonic interactions. In product and interaction design, sounds should be included in the early stages of the design process. Scientists of human motion have shown that auditory stimuli are important in the performance of difficult tasks and can elicit anticipatory postural adjustments in athletes. These findings justify the attention given to sound in interaction design for gaming, especially in action and sports games that afford the development of levels of virtuosity. The sonic manifestations of objects can be designed by acting on their mechanical qualities and by augmenting the objects with synthetic and…
Le forme della multimodalità. Segni, gesti e parole in classe.
2020
La comunicazione umana è un evento complesso e multimodale: nella interazione faccia a faccia, la maggior parte del significato viene veicolato attraverso il canale non verbale e l’analogico del linguaggio. L’attenzione a tale aspetto risulta cruciale nella relazione educativa tra insegnanti e alunni e nella didattica in classe . Il presente contributo intende quindi approfondire la nozione di multimodalità nelle diverse forme in cui si realizza esplorando cosa accade con le lingue vocali (in cui si utilizza il canale acustitco vocale) e con le lingue segniche (in cui si utilizza il canale visivo-gestuale). Viene definito, in primo luogo, il concetto di multimodalità nel linguaggio facendo …
“Mouth Actions as Gestures in Sign Language” pp 104-123
2008
The present study investigates the nature of mouth actions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and shows how the manual and the oral modality can be integrated when the visual-gestural channel is chosen for communication. Finally, the role played by mouth actions in sign language will be investigated and paralleled to co-speech gestures by re-working Kendon’s continuum in order to show how orality could become gestural when co-occurring with signing.
Time Unification on Local Binary Patterns Three Orthogonal Planes for Facial Expression Recognition
2019
International audience; Machine learning has known a tremendous growth within the last years, and lately, thanks to that, some computer vision algorithms started to access what is difficult or even impossible to perceive by the human eye. While deep learning based computer vision algorithms have made themselves more and more present in the recent years, more classical feature extraction methods, such as the ones based on Local Binary Patterns (LBP), still present a non negligible interest, especially when dealing with small datasets. Furthermore, this operator has proven to be quite useful for facial emotions and human gestures recognition in general. Micro-Expression (ME) classification is…
El Greco - teologia ukryta w geście
2019
Na obrazach El Greca można zaobserwować różne ważne gesty. Jeden z nich powtarza się wielokrotnie – tajemniczy gest, który niemal jak podpis występuje na wielu malowidłach stworzonych przez artystę: złączone dwa palce (środkowy i serdeczny) oraz oddzielone od nich kciuk, wskazujący i mały. Specjaliści od twórczości El Greca przedstawiają różne rozwiązania (gest oratorski, gest przysięgi, gest typowy dla manierystów, gest żydowski czy pokutny, związany z duchowością jezuitów, gest masoński, jedna z mudr – symbolicznych gestów energetycznych, gest laktacyjny – pseudozygodaktyliczny). Autor artykułu wskazuje przede wszystkim interpretację teologiczną tego gestu: wyznanie wiary w Trójjedynego B…
A Cognitive Architecture for Robotic Hand Posture Learning
2005
This paper deals with the design and implementation of a visual control of a robotic system composed of a dexterous hand and video camera. The aim of the proposed system is to reproduce the movements of a human hand in order to learn complex manipulation tasks or to interact with the user. A novel algorithm for robust and fast fingertips localization and tracking is presented. A suitable kinematic hand model is adopted to achieve a fast and acceptable solution to an inverse kinematics problem. The system is part of a cognitive architecture for posture learning that integrates the perceptions by a high-level representation of the scene and of the observed actions. The anthropomorphic robotic…
LATVIAN ADAPTATION OF MCARTHUR-BATES COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORIES
2016
The article discusses the methodology and the preliminary results of the research project entitled “Latvian language in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: tools, theories and applications” (LAMBA). The project involves 25 researchers – linguists, educators, psychologists – from five institutions in Latvia and Norway, and focuses on phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic acquisition of Latvian as a native language in monolingual and bilingual settings. One of the main goals of the project is to develop a set of norm-referenced language assessment tools that would allow for accurate and time-efficient evaluation of language development in pre-school children.The article will focus spec…
Action-Depicting Gestures and Morphosyntax: The Function of Gesture-Speech Alignment in the Conversational Turn
2021
The current study examines the role of action-depicting gestures in conversational turns by focusing on their semantic characteristics and temporal position in relation to their verbal affiliates (action verbs or more complex verb phrases). The data are video recordings of naturally occurring interactions in multilingual construction sites in Norway. The analysis distinguishes two modes of action depiction: generic depictions, which represent the action as a general type, and contextualized depictions, which in addition include deictic references to the spatio-material environment or iconic representations of the specific manner of action performance. These two modes typically occupy differ…