Analysis of Impression of Robot Bodily Expression

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Nakata ◽  
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Taketoshi Mori ◽  
Tomomasa Sato ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Expression Systems ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
General Body ◽  
Bodily Expression ◽  
Body Move ◽  
Feature Values ◽  
Body Expression

A set of physical feature values is proposed in order to explain impression produced by bodily expression. The concept of designing the value set is based on Laban Movement Analysis which is a famous theory in body move-ment psychology. Impressions produced by body expression are closely related to these feature values. Each of the feature values is defined mathematically, so that it is easy to implement in a computer. Also the feature values are calculated on general body movements. Therefore, the set can be implemented in body expression systems of robots and computer graphics bodies in order to facilitate quantitative evaluation and forecast of impression produced by their bodies. This paper describes the concept and an example of implementation on a robot. Validity of the set is verified in an experiment.

scholarly journals Photographs and Film Recordings as Valuable Documents in Sports History Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Ajno Sarje
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Sports History ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Kinesthetic Empathy

Abstract Photographs and film recordings have not been commonly used as source material in sports history research. However, every moment and every movement captured in photographs tell us things that researchers could have seen if they had been on the spot when the picture was taken. I suggest that photos and films can be read in the same way as any sign systems, such as writing or maps. The points of departure for my analysis of movement in photographs and film recordings are kinesthetic empathy and the idea that the meanings of most body movements are established to the extent that they are part of our cultural heritage and contain signs and symbols we can relate to. Furthermore, observations made from these documents can be analyzed with the help of theories from other research fields. Using the methods of dance research, such as Rudolf Laban’s movement analysis, Janet Adshead’s dance performance analysis, Marcel Mauss’s habitus concept, and John Martin’s dance analysis, styles, movement languages, and conventions of exercise and sport in photos and films can be identified. In addition, in accordance with photographic research by Roland Barthes, I will reflect on the fringe conditions of the use of photographs as research material, the kind of opportunities they offer, and the kind of limitations they set for the researcher.

scholarly journals Physical Education - Active Support of the Stage Movement (The Training of the Bodily Expression)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Ana-Cristina Leșe
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
Art Curriculum ◽  
Bodily Expression ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Body Expression

Abstract The teaching discipline entitled the Training of the body expression sums those activities that imply the body and which come in varied forms, both as motor structures and as functional features. In the following, we will try to bring arguments in support of the idea that body education (Physical Education) should be the starting point for the Stage Movement (The training of the body expression), first of all, but also for other disciplines of movement, included in the Actor’s Art curriculum (pantomime, fencing, dance).

3D-Quantitative evaluation of a rigid seating system and dynamic seating system using 3D movement analysis in individuals with dystonic tetraparesis

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Cimolin ◽  
Luigi Piccinini ◽  
Martino Avellis ◽  
Andrea Cazzaniga ◽  
Anna Carla Turconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Seating

scholarly journals Analyzing Expressive Qualities in Movement and Stillness: Effort-Shape Analyses of Solo Marimbists' Bodily Expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Broughton ◽  
Catherine J. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Shape Analysis ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Bodily Expression ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Analysis Task ◽  
Independent Analysis ◽  
Interjudge Reliability ◽  
Shape Analyses

laban movement analysis, specifically effort-shape analysis, is offered as a system to study musicians' bodily expression. It proposes others' intentions are manifest in expressive bodily activity and understood through shared embodied processes. The present investigation evaluates whether the basic components of Laban analysis are reflected in perceptual judgments of recorded performances and, specifically, evaluates interjudge reliability for effort-shape analysis. Sixteen audio-visual excerpts of marimba pieces performed by two professional solo marimbists' (female and male) served as stimuli. Effort-shape analyses and interjudge reliability thereof were assessed through three different tasks: 1) verification task, 2) independent analysis task, 3) signal detection yes/no task. Professional musicians — two percussionists, a violinist, and a French hornist — acted as participants. High interjudge reliability was observed for transformation drive and shape components, but less so for basic effort action components. Mixed interjudge reliability results for basic effort actions, and differences between frequency observations, point to differences in participant's embodied expertise, task implementation, and training issues. Effort-shape analysis has potential to drive comparative and predictive research into musicians' bodily expression. Effort-shape provides a fine-grain temporal analysis of ecologically valid performance sequences.

scholarly journals Gut reaction by heartless shrimps: experimental evidence for the role of the gut in generating circulation before cardiac ontogeny

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
John I Spicer
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Brine Shrimp ◽  
Artemia Franciscana ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Internal Circulation ◽  
General Body ◽  
Invertebrate Species

Before the appearance of a functional heart in many invertebrate species, the assumption was that general body movements provide circulatory function. Consequently, I investigated the frequency of gut movements in the brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana , immediately post-hatch to the point when a functional heart appeared. Prior to cardiac ontogeny, movements of internal musculature and gut provided pre-cardiac circulatory currents with the rate of gut movements increasing when swimming limbs were impeded. There was also some evidence that gut movements were responsive to low oxygen, indicating a possible regulatory function for the gut in early circulation. Overall, this suggests that general body movements are not always adequate to provide internal circulation in small, heartless individuals.

Improved 3-D reconstruction using stereo computer graphics and multiple tilt EM images

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 630-631
Author(s):  
Lee D. Peachey ◽  
Lou Fodor ◽  
John C. Haselgrove ◽  
Stanley M. Dunn ◽  
Junqing Huang
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Transverse Section ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stereo Pair ◽  
3D Reconstructions ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
Biological Objects ◽  
Microscope Images ◽  
High Performance Computer

Stereo pairs of electron microscope images provide valuable visual impressions of the three-dimensional nature of specimens, including biological objects. Beyond this one seeks quantitatively accurate models and measurements of the three dimensional positions and sizes of structures in the specimen. In our laboratory, we have sought to combine high resolution video cameras with high performance computer graphics systems to improve both the ease of building 3D reconstructions and the accuracy of 3D measurements, by using multiple tilt images of the same specimen tilted over a wider range of angles than can be viewed stereoscopically. Ultimately we also wish to automate the reconstruction and measurement process, and have initiated work in that direction.Figure 1 is a stereo pair of 400 kV images from a 1 micrometer thick transverse section of frog skeletal muscle stained with the Golgi stain. This stain selectively increases the density of the transverse tubular network in these muscle cells, and it is this network that we reconstruct in this example.

Stereo modeling of HVEM specimens by serial tilting and computer graphics

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
J.R. McIntosh ◽  
D.L. Stemple ◽  
William Bishop ◽  
G.W. Hannaway
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Photographic Film ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Multiple Objects ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
3 Dimensional

EM specimens often contain 3-dimensional information that is lost during micrography on a single photographic film. Two images of one specimen at appropriate orientations give a stereo view, but complex structures composed of multiple objects of graded density that superimpose in each projection are often difficult to decipher in stereo. Several analytical methods for 3-D reconstruction from multiple images of a serially tilted specimen are available, but they are all time-consuming and computationally intense.

Quantitative evaluation of -ray spectra from scintillation measurements

Physica ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1147-1150
Author(s):  
D MAEDER ◽  
V WINTERSTEIGER
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Evaluation
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