Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria, Gesture, Modernism

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-32
Author(s):  
Enda Duffy ◽  
Maurizia Boscagli
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Lateral Movement ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Technological Interest

Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria—not least because of its most famous technical innovation, the tracking or “Cabiria shot”—is a film preoccupied by gesture. In Cabiria the stylizations of human movement are central to the film’s establishment of a modernist vision of Italy in the context of an increasing technological interest in the analysis of human movement. Where modernism across all genres attends to gesture, from Edgar Degas’s dancers to the gait of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Cabiria does so with a modernist technology of the gaze that is now able to represent gesture in “real time.” Cabiria—which introduced both the lateral movement of the camera and the gesture later adopted by Benito Mussolini as the fascist salute—explores how such gestures situate the historical subject, and the historical crowd, in relationship to structures of political power.

scholarly journals Three Observations on Filming Tactility and Movement in Crafts-based Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuon-Gean Ho
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Base ◽  
Anatomical Position ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Recording Process

This film makes three observations on the filming of tactility and movement in order to adequately convey tacit knowledge in embodied ways. The author, Wuon-Gean Ho, studied the craft of traditional woodblock printmaking in Japan, and demonstrates planning, carving and printing of a woodblock print. The first observation is that an alteration of the time-base of the film and subsequent manipulation of the soundscape can provide embodied affects. Secondly the film refers to the effect of mirror-touch-synaesthesia with close macro shots and intimate angles. Thirdly, the use of a birds’ eye point of view, with the hands of the artist in the same anatomical position as the viewers’ hands, enables the gaze of the viewer to mimic that of the maker, conveying haptic knowledge through poetic means.The voiceover to the film is made with deliberate reference to ASMR videos that engender a sense of intimacy. The non-objectivity of the recording process is commented upon. The conclusion is that constructed scenarios might convey more than real-time truthful indexical footage.

Real time evaluation algorithm of human motion in tennis training robot

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yingying Wang ◽  
Yongzhi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Core Theory ◽  
Evaluation Algorithm ◽  
Stability And Accuracy ◽  
Time Evaluation

Tennis is a set of sports and entertainment and a sports activity, since 2014, tennis in China has been another rapid development. With the development of economy and technology, tennis training mode has been further optimized and reformed. At present, tennis training robot is the mainstream way to train athletes. However, there are some defects in the current tennis training robots, such as the low accuracy of human motion real-time evaluation, and the lack of stability. Therefore, this paper puts forward the related research on the real-time evaluation algorithm of human motion in tennis training robots, hoping to make up for the deficiency in this field. The research of this paper is mainly divided into four parts. The first part is to analyze the current situation of technology research in this field and put forward the idea of this paper by analyzing the shortcomings of the existing technology. The second part is the related basic theory research; this part deeply studies the core theory of tennis training and intelligent training robot, which provides a theoretical basis for the realization of the optimization scheme. The third part is the design and implementation of a real-time human motion evaluation optimization algorithm for tennis training robots. At the end of the paper, that is, the fourth part, through the way of field test and investigation, further proves the superiority of the improved real-time evaluation algorithm of human movement. The algorithm has good stability and accuracy and can meet the existing tennis training requirements.

scholarly journals Real-Time Lateral Movement Detection Based on Evidence Reasoning Network for Edge Computing Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 4285-4294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihong Tian ◽  
Wei Shi ◽  
Yuhang Wang ◽  
Chunsheng Zhu ◽  
Xiaojiang Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Lateral Movement ◽  
Movement Detection ◽  
Computing Environment

scholarly journals Magnetomicrometry

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (57) ◽  
pp. eabg0656
Author(s):  
C. R. Taylor ◽  
S. S. Srinivasan ◽  
S. H. Yeon ◽  
M. K. O’Donnell ◽  
T. J. Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Magnetic Beads ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Muscle Length ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Wearable Robots ◽  
Length Changes ◽  
Portable Sensor

We live in an era of wearable sensing, where our movement through the world can be continuously monitored by devices. Yet, we lack a portable sensor that can continuously monitor muscle, tendon, and bone motion, allowing us to monitor performance, deliver targeted rehabilitation, and provide intuitive, reflexive control over prostheses and exoskeletons. Here, we introduce a sensing modality, magnetomicrometry, that uses the relative positions of implanted magnetic beads to enable wireless tracking of tissue length changes. We demonstrate real-time muscle length tracking in an in vivo turkey model via chronically implanted magnetic beads while investigating accuracy, biocompatibility, and long-term implant stability. We anticipate that this tool will lay the groundwork for volitional control over wearable robots via real-time tracking of muscle lengths and speeds. Further, to inform future biomimetic control strategies, magnetomicrometry may also be used in the in vivo tracking of biological tissues to elucidate biomechanical principles of animal and human movement.

scholarly journals Human movement can inform the spatial scale of interventions against COVID-19 transmission

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamish Gibbs ◽  
Emily Nightingale ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
James Cheshire ◽  
Leon Danon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Network Community ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Geographically Targeted ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe UK enacted an intensive, nationwide lockdown on March 23 2020 to mitigate transmission of COVID-19. As restrictions began to ease, resurgence in transmission has been targeted by geographically-limited interventions of various stringencies. Determining the optimal spatial scale for local interventions is critical to ensure interventions reach the most at risk areas without unnecessarily restricting areas at low risk of resurgence. Here we use detailed human mobility data from Facebook to determine the spatially-explicit network community structure of the UK before and during the lockdown period, and how that has changed in response to the easing of restrictions and to locally-targeted interventions. We found that the mobility network became more sparse and the number of mobility communities decreased under the national lockdown. During this period, there was no evidence of re-routing in the network. Communities in which locally-targeted interventions have happened following resurgence did not show reorganization but did show small decreases in measurable mobility effects in the Facebook dataset. We propose that geographic communities detected in Facebook or other mobility data be part of decision making for determining the spatial extent or boundaries of interventions in the UK. These data are available in near real-time, and allow quantification of changes in the distribution of the population across the UK, as well as people’s travel patterns to give data-driven metrics for geographically-targeted interventions.Significance StatementLarge-scale intensive interventions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected human movement patterns. Mobility data show spatially-explicit network structure, but it is not clear if that structure changed in response to national or locally-targeted interventions. We used daily Facebook for Good mobility data to quantify changes in the travel network in the UK during the national lockdown, and in response to local interventions. The network community structure inherent in these networks can help quantify which areas are at risk of resurgence, or the extent of locally-targeted interventions aiming to suppress transmission. We showed that spatial mobility data available in real-time can give information on connectivity that can be used to optimise the scale of geographically-targeted interventions.

Protecting and Perfecting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Verdini Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Colorado River ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Facilitative Leadership ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
The Press ◽  
Key Players ◽  
The Media ◽  
Informal Settings

Highlights how the negotiators were able to work collaboratively to successfully reach agreement, while blocking the efforts of various spoilers who wished to derail the water negotiations. Dealing with Spoilers tells the story of how this was achieved, as the negotiators utilized political power, built relationships of trust across the negotiating table, and strategically managed communications with the press and the media. Leading through Ingenuity underscores the importance of facilitative leadership, as the key players on each side read the negotiation proceedings in real time to improvise, reassess, caucus, and clarify with each other in small informal settings, to refocus and redefine their delegation’s negotiation strategies. Finally, Testing the Ways to Agreement explains how the negotiating parties used points of provisional accord in order to maintain momentum, creatively propose options without committing, evaluate multiple packages, and move toward consensus, to the ultimate success of the Colorado River binational negotiation process.

Real-Time Thermo-Mechanical Property Evaluation of Thin Films

1993 ◽  
Vol 324 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Rogers ◽  
K. A. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Mechanical Property ◽  
Thermal Diffusivity ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Property Evaluation ◽  
Technological Interest

AbstractWe describe an experimental method capable of evaluating the elastic and loss moduli and the thermal diffusivity in thin films. The versatility of the technique is demonstrated with data scans from several films of technological interest.

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