AMUC: Associated Motion capture User Categories

Sally Jane Norman; Sian Lawson; Patrick Olivier; Paul Watson; Anita Chan; Martyn Robinson; Paul Dunphy; David Green; Hugo Hiden; Jonathan David Hook; Daniel Jackson

doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0030

AMUC: Associated Motion capture User Categories

Sally Jane Norman, Sian Lawson, Patrick Olivier, Paul Watson, Anita Chan, Martyn Robinson, Paul Dunphy, David Green, Hugo Hiden, Jonathan David Hook, Daniel Jackson

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

The AMUC (Associated Motion capture User Categories) project consisted of building a prototype sketch retrieval client for exploring motion capture archives. High-dimensional datasets reflect the dynamic process of motion capture and comprise high-rate sampled data of a performer's joint angles; in response to multiple query criteria, these data can potentially yield different kinds of information. The AMUC prototype harnesses graphic input via an electronic tablet as a query mechanism, time and position signals obtained from the sketch being mapped to the properties of data streams stored in the motion capture repository. As well as proposing a pragmatic solution for exploring motion capture datasets, the project demonstrates the conceptual value of iterative prototyping in innovative interdisciplinary design. The AMUC team was composed of live performance practitioners and theorists conversant with a variety of movement techniques, bioengineers who recorded and processed motion data for integration into the retrieval tool, and computer scientists who designed and implemented the retrieval system and server architecture, scoped for Grid-based applications. Creative input on information system design and navigation, and digital image processing, underpinned implementation of the prototype, which has undergone preliminary trials with diverse users, allowing identification of rich potential development areas.

Original language	English
Journal	Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
Volume	367
Issue number	1898
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0030
Publication status	Published - 2009

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