Performance Arts

Augmented Stages for Installation-Arts and Performance

This paper presents a multi-disciplinary project, which aims to create an intuitive and non-intrusive interactive audio-visual performance interface that offers the users or performers real-time control of multimedia events using their physical movements. From a straightforward definition of a transdomain mapping (TDM) framework, this paper reports three implementations and collaborativeproject...

Arts and Cognition: Performance, Criticism and Aesthetics

Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in mixed-martial-arts fighters.

Accurate assessment of competitive ability is a critical component of contest behavior in animals, and it could be just as important in human competition, particularly in human ancestral populations. Here, we tested the role that facial perception plays in this assessment by investigating the association between both perceived aggressiveness and perceived fighting ability in fighters' faces and...

Creating an Adaptive Interactive Narrative using Performance Arts Theories

Interactive narratives have been used in a variety of applications, including video games, educational games, and training simulations. Maintaining engagement within such environments is an important problem, because it affects entertainment, motivation, and presence. Performance arts theorists have discussed and formalized many techniques that increase engagement and enhance dramatic content o...

Computer-Assisted Interactive Documentary and Performance Arts in Illimitable Space

Computer-Assisted Interactive Documentary and Performance Arts in Illimitable Space Miao Song, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2014 This major component of the research described in this thesis is 3D computer graphics, specifically the realistic physics-based softbody simulation and haptic responsive environments. Minor components include advanced human-computer interaction environments, non-linear...