be able to recognizemovement and gestures that occur over time. I started off working with the ASLalphabet but came to the conclusion that not many signs are dynamic, so I trained myKNN classifier to recognize RSTC (Recreational Scuba Training Council) hand signalswhich mostly require hand movement. On top of requiring the ability to track movementthe KNN classifier and my code needed to be able to handle input from two hands.In order to track movement, each gesture had to be recorded over…
In lab, I had two partners, whom I had never worked with before. However, they understood my intentions by my body gestures. For instance, if I wanted to get ice for our lab, I would point to the icebox, and they understood my action. Furthermore, when I wanted to tell them that there was a mistake in our lab observations, I would point to the mistake in the lab notes…
Although non-verbal communication lacks specifics, it is a way to communicate from a distance or understand a different language in the form of gestures. A person’s everyday actions are non-verbal forms of communication such as, handshakes, nods, body and facial expressions, but careful the meaning of gestures varies throughout the world. Gestures mean very different things depending on where you travel. Hand signals, nods, and…
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE The basic block diagram that shows the components for analysis and interpretation of any classical dance is shown in figure 1.This involves the analyzing the following features: body movements, hand gestures, expressions, music, costumes and make-up, instruments used as well as lyrics of song[19]. The information gathered from the analysis of those features will be made as a domain knowledge storage which can be interpreted for various…
greetings too require appropriate handling particularly based on the gender of the person one is interacting with, both in respect of gestures as well as wordings. These may include handshake, bowing, social and physical…
Rally” at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC last year on July 1, 2017. In president Donald J Trump's speech at the celebrate freedom rally he keeps crowd engaged and emotional. He performs this this by using marqueed hand gestures and seeming as if he was not afraid to talk because of his eye movements. Trump also engages the crowd through allusions with god & very well timed anecdotes about the past & uses his credibility through sarcasm . Because of these actions, by…
Reicherzer’s gesture where visually expressive. She used hand gestures and active body language as she spoke in her counseling session with Shawn and Westin. The message that this sent was: The message I received was compassion. The message explained that you two can overcome and rebuild your communication in your relationship. You can make the time to meet one another’s wants and needs. What I observed to be the reaction of the mock client in response to the gestures of this counselor was:…
The mature period of Chou Wen-Chung’s compositional output was marked by the gradual formulation of his musical language from I Ching, or the Classic of Changes from the Western Zhou period (1000-750 BCE). The most documented aspect of Chou’s language was his system of pitch organization, which he named variable modes. It took Chou more than three decades to arrive at its final version, and it formed the backbones of his compositional structure. The theoretical foundation of this system is…
September 11th, 2001 was a tragic day for the United States. Erin Siegel told CNN “It’s hard to live in the shadow of 9/11...It was particularly painful for me because I was fighting with my dad when he died, and for a very long time I blamed myself and wished that we could have resolved it, that we could have parted on better terms. I would’ve traded years of my life to have made that come true. Eventually, after being adrift in that thick darkness for a long time, bargaining gave way to a…
Reading Quiz Three Discussing the importance of breaking down the meaning in telling a story, an excerpt from Improving Your Storytelling, also explains how the story can be portrayed differently by the interpreted meaning. The meaning can be written as the acronym ‘MIT,’ or the most important thing. The MIT can be interpreted by telling, and when retelling tone and emphasis can make it that others will walk away with the same general meaning inferred. The chapter also discusses that the meaning…