Search results for "gestures"
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Signals of intensification and attenuation in orchestra and choir conduction
2017
Based on a model of communication according to which not only words but also body signals constitute lexicons (Poggi, 2007), the study presented aimes at building a lexicon of conductors’ multimodal behaviours requesting intensification and attenuation of sound intensity. In a corpus of concerts and rehearsals, the conductors’ body signals requesting to play or sing forte, piano, crescendo, diminuendo were analysed through an annotation scheme describing the body signals, their meanings, and their semiotic devices: generic codified (the same as in everyday language); specific codified (shared with laypeople but with specific meanings in conduction); direct iconic, (resemblance between visua…
Komunikatīvie žesti agrīnajā valodas apguvē
2018
Samērā nesen zinātnieki sāka pievērst uzmanību agrīnājai valodas apguvei, jo pirms tam nepastāvēja būtiskas atšķirības starp valodu macīšanās procesu un valodu apguvi. Mūsdienās ir veikti pētījumi saistībā ar pirmās valodas apguvi (Lust un Foley, 2008; Clark, 2009), tāpat arī veikti pētījumi otras valodas apguvē (Saville-Troike, 2006), bilingvālās valodas apguves pētījumi (Houwer, 2009), kā arī mazbērnu valodas pētījumi (Crystal, 2005). Šajā maǧistra darbā tika ietverti bērnu žestu pētījumi (Iverson et al., 1999; Blake, 2007; Cochet and Vauclair, 2012; Hoff, 2014). Blake (2007) un Hoff (2014) pētījumi balstīti uz komunikatīviem žestiem, bet (Iverson et al.(1999) un Cochet un Vauclair (2012)…
Wii-bändi : designing an expressive digital musical interface for therapeutic use with disabled people in a group setting
2011
This thesis presents the developmental prototype of a gesturally controlled digital musical interface. It is called Wii-bändi, as it uses Nintendo Wii controllers to translate the gestures into music, and is constructed specifically for clients with a variety of physical and mental disabilities so that they can use it in a therapeutic group context. It is argued that gestural and emotional expressivity might be based on a theory of vitality affects, and that optimal learnability could be achieved through making use of learning schemas. It then sets out how the interface was created using a methodological approach based on action research, describing the specific contexts that led to the cha…
The application of motion capture to embodied music cognition research
2012
“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…
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…
Viittomakielet hybridisysteemeinä - hämärärajaisuus ja epäkonventionaalisuus osana viittomakielten rakennetta
2018
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan hämärärajaisuutta ja epäkonventionaalisuutta osana joitakin kaikista viittomakielistä löydettyjä yksiköitä ja rakenteita ja niiden käyttöä. Täsmällisemmin artikkelin fokuksessa ovat tietyt muodoltaan ja merkitykseltään tilanteisesti muuntuvat viittomat (erityisesti niin kutsutut osittain leksikaaliset viittomat) sekä eräänlainen vaihteleva-asteinen näytteleminen (niin kutsuttu konstruoitu toiminta), jota viittojat käyttävät tuottamiensa syntaktisten rakenteiden osana ja niiden sijaan. Käytännössä artikkeli esittelee näkemyksen, jonka mukaan molemmissa tarkastelun kohteena olevissa ilmiöissä on kyse samasta asiasta eli kielen diskreettien ja konventionaaliste…
How Hand Gestures Contribute to Action Ascription
2019
This article investigates the embodied achievement of intersubjectivity by analyzing depictive gestures that are produced during the final components of the ongoing verbal TCU and extended into the following turn transition space. The depictive gestures in focus elaborate the TCUs by providing additional information on the verbal content of the turn. They may, for example, provide a visual representation of an action that is referred to in the verbal TCU, depict details that are not referred to in talk, or perform bodily enactments that model projected next actions. The analysis demonstrates that timed in this way, the gestures contribute to the multimodal action package that they are part …