Experiência de escrita potencializada pelo gesto. Gesto desdobrado em vibrações que ferem o espírito de forma incontornável. Contorno do acumulam nas mãos, resumidos aos olhos. Uma ilha onde se força o exílio, apreende o gesto e protela o intraduzível. Diferente da língua gestual, do código de acontecimento com margens e paredes, a ferida no sótão, na praia, na montanha. Ocupar as feridas que me ferem com suas respectivas roupagens, marcar o gesto com roupa, alimento, utensílio. Refratariamente, para ambos os lados: os gestos se multiplicam ao infinito, digeridos pelas entranhas e se gesto - a agressividade da marca, do que escorre como sangue, da mão morta, da epilepsia. / Writing experience increased by the gesture. Gesture deployed into vibrations that hurt the spirit so compelling. Outline of the event with the banks and walls, the wound in the attic, on the beach, the mountains. Occupy the wounds that hurt me with outfits, to mark the gesture with clothing, food and devices. Refractory to both sides: the gestures are multiplied to infinity, digested in the bowels and accumulate in the hands, as summarized in the eyes. Islands of a forced exile, seize the gesture and delays the untranslatable. Unlike sign language, the code of gesture – the aggressiveness of the brands, that which drips like blood, the dead hand, the epilepsy.

This thesis mainly focuses on the research of gesture extraction and finger segmentation in the gesture recognition. In this paper, we used image analysis technologies to create an application by encoding in Matlab program. We used this application to segment and extract the finger from one specific gesture (the gesture "one") and ran successfully. We explored the success rate of extracting the characteristic of the specific gesture "one" in different natural environments. We divided the natural environment into three different conditions which are glare and dark condition, similar object condition and different distances condition, then collected the results to calculate the successful extraction rate. We also evaluated and analyzed the inadequacies and future works of this application. / Technology

Hand gesture recognition is an expansive and evolving field. Previous work addresses methods for tracking hand gestures primarily with specialty gaming/desktop environments in real time. The method proposed here focuses on enhancing performance for mobile GPU platforms with restricted resources by limiting memory use/transfers and by reducing the need for code branches. An encoding scheme has been designed to allow contour processing typically used for finding fingertips to occur efficiently on a GPU for non-touch, remote manipulation of on-screen images. Results show high resolution video frames can be processed in real time on a modern mobile consumer device, allowing for fine grained hand movements to be detected and tracked. / Graduate

One of the major problems faced by performers of Chopin’s mazurkas is recapturing the elements that Chopin drew from Polish folk music. Although scholars from around 1900 exaggerated Chopin’s quotation of Polish folk tunes in their mixed agendas that related ‘Polishness’ to Chopin, many of the rudimentary and more complex elements of Polish folk music are present in his compositions. These elements affect such issues as rhythm and meter, tempo and tempo fluctuation, repetitive motives, undulating melodies, function of I and V harmonies. During his vacations in Szafarnia in the Kujawy region of Central Poland in his late teens, Chopin absorbed aspects of Kujaw performing traditions which served as impulses for his compositions. This study examines how certain qualities of movement or gesture experienced in Kujaw music are embedded in Chopin’s mazurka style. Modern performances of Chopin’s mazurkas are too often far removed from these original sources. This thesis aims to reconnect the pianist with the gestures embedded within Chopin’s mazurka styles by: i) assessing the gestural nuances in Kujaw folk music; ii) identifying these trends as gestures and notational elements in Chopin’s mazurkas; and iii) examining historical performances of Chopin’s mazurkas to demonstrate the techniques that performers have utilized to capture these folk patterns and traditions. Field recordings from the Kujaw region, and historical recordings of Chopin mazurkas played mostly by Polish pianists accompany the discussion. / Graduate / 0413 / monikaz@uvic.ca

M.A. (Anthropology) / This study explores the role of four teachers’ communicative styles in a multilingual and multicultural classroom focusing on the role of gesture when teaching. To compare their gestural behaviour under similar conditions, I filmed four grade one teachers (two Setswana mother tongue and two Afrikaans mother tongue) teaching the mathematical concept of halving. I classified the gestures and their sematic relation to speech on ELAN using an adapted version of Colletta et al.’s (2009) coding scheme. I found gestures formed by the teachers functioned according to Tellier’s (2006) three roles of ‘teaching gestures.’ They functioned to explain, evaluate and manage. The teachers used mainly representational, performative and deictic gestures when teaching these lessons. They used similar types of gestures, but the manner in which they used their gesture as semiotic resources varied. It appeared that conceptually accurate gestures used at key stages in the learning process aided learning. When used in a conceptually accurate way gesture functioned to mediate the transition from objects to mathematical signs when testing the children’s halving skills using semiotic resources. Overall gestures functioned to integrate, supplement and complement teachers’ speech. The teachers varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds did not appear to influence their gesturing styles, but differences can be noted due to the subject matter, context and content, idiosyncratic styles (pedagogic styles) and the manner in which they structured their lesson in relation to the teaching aids used.

In this thesis, I explore the ongoing development of symbol use in three domains: pretend play, speech and gestures. In chapter 1, the specific behavioural manifestations of symbol use in these domains are identified and previous literature that has explored the cognitive underpinnings of these abilities is discussed, with a particular focus on children's social cognition. In chapter 2, I review previous research that has sought pairwise relations between these abilities and the theoretical perspectives that have been utilised to explain these relations. In chapter 3, I introduce the four pertinent research questions that emerged from the previous review of the current literature, and provide an overview as to the methods adopted to address these issues. Chapters 4 to 6 constitute three papers designed to explore and evaluate children's symbol production in a sample of preschool children in pretend play speech and gestures. For the first paper, 38-40 month old children were given a battery of standardised measures to assess their symbolic capacities while controlling for non-verbal abilities. These data were analysed for concurrent relations between symbolic capacities. The second paper extends these concurrent relations longitudinally, by giving the children the same battery of measures six and twelve months after initial testing. Correlational and multiple regression analyses were used to assess the potential predictive relations between these measures, and whether there is a changing relation between these symbolic domains over developmental time. The third paper investigates children's iconic gesture production in further detail, by evaluating whether children aged 44-46 months incorporate the iconic gestures they observe an adult perform into their own descriptions of a novel object.Taken together, the results indicate a changing relation between the three symbolic measures of interest during the preschool years. The present findings suggest that both pretend play and gesture production are mediated by speech, but in different ways. It was also found that children appear to incorporate the gestures they observe into their own descriptions of objects but this uptake is dependent on the properties of the gesture itself. In the final chapter, these findings are discussed in relation to previous theoretical notions that place pretend play, speech and gestures as manifestations of an underlying symbolic system. I also discuss the enduring relation between these three abilities and how the pattern of predictive relations found in the present thesis can be explained. Furthermore, I discuss the ontogenesis of symbolic gesture production in children, specifically how children may use the gestures of others as a guide to their own gesture production. Finally I outline some limitations of the present research, and indicate potential avenues for future study.

Orientador: Carlos Fernando Fiorini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T07:05:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Geraldo_JorgeAugustoMendes_M.pdf: 31412001 bytes, checksum: 6f5480996744c0f273c88552caf99e9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta dissertação apresenta um olhar cinesiológico das descrições da postura e do gestual do regente presentes nos livros da área. O principal objetivo foi buscar uma nova caracterização dos movimentos utilizados na regência por meio da terminologia anatômica. Os resultados foram conseguidos por uma análise comparativa dos movimentos sugeridos pelos livros e tratados de regência com os movimentos corporais genéricos dados pela Cinesiologia. O intuito deste trabalho é fornecer subsídios para a compreensão do funcionamento do gesto na profissão de regente e, posteriormente, avaliar as condições físicas a que estes indivíduos estão submetidos / Abstract: This dissertation presents a kinesiological view about the descriptions of conductor¿s posture and gesture present in related text books. The main purpose was to search a new characterization of the movements used in conducting using the anatomical terminology. The results were achieved by a comparative analysis of the movements suggested in the conducting books and treatises and the generic body movements described by the Kinesiology. The aim of this work is to provide aids to understand the acting of the gesture in the conductor¿s profession and, then, evaluate the physical conditions to which these individuals are subjected / Mestrado / Praticas Interpretativas / Mestre em Música

There has been relatively little scholarship to date on Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. The writings about this song cycle that do exist primarily focus on the disparate nature of the poems and justify Kindertotenlieder as a cycle by highlighting various musical connections between the songs, such as keys and motivic continuity. Mahler, however, has unified the cycle in a much more complex and sophisticated way. His familiarity with Wagner’s music and methods, and his mastery of the human voice and orchestral voices allowed him to weave a dramatic grief-laden narrative.

To better understand representational gestures used in everyday talk, this study explores the ways participants talk about their own mental imagery and gestural awareness, and how their comments affect analysis. Literature pertaining to representational gestures, mental imagery, gestural awareness, and self-report data provide the theoretical framework for the study's design and implementation. Data is drawn from observations of two video recorded dyads engaged in everyday conversation, and four audio recorded interviews with each participant individually as they viewed and commented on selected video segments in which they had produced a representational gesture. Findings indicate that participants talked about mental imagery and gestural awareness in ways that were descriptive, explanatory, and self-reflective. They described their mental imagery in i) visual and motor terms, ii) as mental simulations, iii) as textural sensations, and iv) in linguistic metaphors. Participants talked about gestural awareness in terms of i) spontaneity, ii) intentionality, and iii) affective states. Taken altogether, participant comments suggest embodied cognition as a useful framework for analyzing and understanding representational gestures. Further, findings indicate that participant comments served to i) confirm, ii) clarify, and/or iii) expand my analysis, suggesting that participant comments can enhance understanding of mental imagery and gestural awareness in ways that could not be achieved by a researcher's observations and analysis alone.

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