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@MISC{Jessop10agestural,
author = {Elena Naomi Jessop},
title = {A Gestural Media Framework: . . . },
year = {2010}
}
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Abstract
As human movement is an incredibly rich mode of communication and expression, performance artists working with digital media often use performers ' movement and gestures to control and shape that digital media as part of a theatrical, choreographic, or musical performance. In my own work, I have found that strong, semantically-meaningful mappings between gesture and sound or visuals are necessary to create compelling performance interactions. However, the existing systems for developing mappings between incoming data streams and output media have extremely low-level concepts of “gesture. ” The actual programming process focuses on low-level sensor data, such as the voltage values of a particular sensor, which limits the user in his or her thinking process, requires users to have significant programming experience, and loses the expressive, meaningful, and metaphor-rich content of the movement. To remedy these difficulties, I have created a new framework and development environment for gestural control of media in rehearsal and performance, allowing users to create
Keyphrases
gestural medium framework digital medium compelling performance interaction development environment voltage value performance artist musical performance human movement significant programming experience rich mode gestural control metaphor-rich content particular sensor new framework semantically-meaningful mapping low-level concept data stream output medium actual programming process low-level sensor data thinking process
