title: AMUC: Associated Motion capture User Categories.
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.
authors.affiliation: Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK. s.j.norman@ncl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sally Jane
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Norman
authors.forename: Sian E M
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.forename: Patrick
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authors.lastname: Olivier
authors.forename: Paul
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authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Anita M-A
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authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Martyn
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authors.lastname: Dade-Robertson
authors.forename: Paul
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authors.lastname: Dunphy
authors.forename: Dave
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authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Hugo
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authors.lastname: Hiden
authors.forename: Jonathan
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authors.lastname: Hook
authors.forename: Daniel G
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authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009038:Motion; D009068:Movement; D014584:User-Computer Interface