Essays about: "gestures"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 195 essays containing the word gestures.

  1. 11. Digital Nudges : Bringing Awareness of Excessive Consumption of Digital Content in Smartphone Users

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Omar Labombarda; [2023]
    Keywords : speculative design; social media addiction; gestures; disengagement;

    Abstract : The way we use interactive mobile technology everyday is changing the human cognitive landscape and how we are dealing with reality. In our daily life, SnT (Social-networking technology) has become something we cannot avoid using, as the need of being constantly updated and virtually connected to our social and working circle has prominently emerged. READ MORE

  3. 12. RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS : Pairs in Art and Marriage

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristel Thalström; [2023]
    Keywords : portraiture; Renaissance; Italy; marital pendant portraits; fashion; culture; nobility; context; marriage.;

    Abstract : The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine portraits of married couples from the Italian Renaissance. It is a study of how, and why, men and women are portrayed differently even though they are married to each other and painted by the same artist. READ MORE

  4. 13. Being Present with the Sound of Shakuhachi : Finding Tools for Composing Through Improvisation by Using Non-linearity to Focus on Time and Timbre on the Shakuhachi

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för folkmusik

    Author : Sakari Heikka; [2023]
    Keywords : shakuhachi; compositional methods; improvisation; Japan; timbre; non-linearity; micro-phenomenology; silence;

    Abstract : The main goal of this thesis was to develop tools and methods for creating new music for the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. Shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute, which has existed in Japan since the seventh century. READ MORE

  5. 14. To beat the house in blackjack: A card counting robot

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Edvin Aretorn; Erik Bülow; [2023]
    Keywords : Mechatronics; Robot Arm; Blackjack; Mekatronik; Robotarm; Blackjack;

    Abstract : This thesis project investigated whether or not the use of an embedded system could help blackjack players to improve their game. This was done by designing and building a robot, that plays blackjack according to a card counting strategy. READ MORE

  6. 15. Bilingualism in Multimodal Language Processing: A priming study on processing of gestures in English temporal expressions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Sonja Holmer; [2023]
    Keywords : bilingualism; multimodal language processing; gesture; abstract language; integrated systems hypothesis; Philosophy and Religion; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : At its core, language is multimodal (Kendon, 1986; McNeill, 1994), and information presented through different channels of information, such as visually, in the shape of gestures, or verbally, in the shape of speech or signs, together facilitate online language processing (Kelly, Healey, Özyürek, & Holler, 2015; Kelly, Özyürek, & Maris, 2010). This thesis extends previous studies on multimodal processing (Kelly et al. READ MORE