In this paper we propose a probabilistic model to parameterize human interactive behaviour from human motion. To Support the model taxonomy, we use Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), proposed by Rudolph Laban [11], to characterize human non-verbal communication. In interpersonal communication, body motion carries a lot of meaningful information, useful to analyse group dynamic behaviors in a wide r...

This work presents a study about the use of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) as a robust tool to describe human basic behavior patterns, to be applied in human-machine interaction. LMA is a language used to describe and annotate dancing movements and is divided in components [1]: Body, Space, Shape and Effort. Despite its general framework is widely used in physical and mental therapy [2], it has ...

It is presented in the paper, a contribution to the field of human-machine interaction a system that has the ability to analyze emotional content of human movements, using as basis a technique known as Laban Movement Analysis. This work searches for computational approaches to quantify human qualities like emotion and expression and explores new functionalities towards implementation of more ad...

Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a method for describing, interpreting and documenting all varieties of human movement. Analyzing movements using LMA is advantageous over kinematic description, as it captures their qualitative aspects in addition to the quantitative. Thus, in recent years, LMA is increasingly becoming the preferred method for movement analysis. In this study we developed a Mach...

We present the implementation of computational Laban Movement Analysis for human-machine interaction using Bayesian reasoning. The research field of computational Human Movement Analysis is lacking a general underlying modeling language, i.e., how to map the features into symbols. With such a semantic descriptor, the recognition problem can be posed as a problem to recognize a sequence of symbo...

When authors use the rhetorical device of literary allusion, they not only teach through their own words but also attach to their own text meanings and interpretations from the alluded text. This is true of Nephi’s allusion to the account of David and Goliath in Nephi’s own account of his killing Laban, which allusion is generally of a thematic nature. A few of the main thematic parallels betwe...