Academic literature on the topic 'Tactual performance, manual dexterity'

This book constitutes the first exploration of artistic self-reflection in Islamic art. In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter’s delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist’s likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used

This book constitutes the first exploration of artistic self-reflection in Islamic art. In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter’s delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist’s likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist’s imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist’s signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed. In addition, each chapter explores a different theme: how painters challenged the conventions of royal representation (chapter 1); the role of writing in painting, its relation to ekphrasis and the context of the majlis (chapter 2); image, mimesis and potential world (chapter 3); the line and its calligraphic quality (chapter 4); signature (chapter 5); the mobility of manuscripts (epilogue).

This paper describes the development of intelligent mapping from a haptic user interface to a remote manipulator to assist individuals with disabilities performing manipulation tasks. This mapping, referred to an assistance function, is determined on the basis of environmental model or sensory data to guide the motion of a telerobotic manipulator while performing a given task. Human input is enhanced rather than superseded by the computer. Three manual dexterity assessment tests commonly used in occupational therapy field were chosen to implement several forms of assistance functions designed

This research attempts to improve the spatial interaction in virtual assembly with a focus on bimanual object manipulation. Using a unique combination of spatial interaction devices namely a kinesthetic haptic device (Phantom Omni®) and a magnetically tracked device (Razor Hydra) each held in one of the user hands; a new interaction technique named ‘Bimanual Stretched-String Single Object Manipulation’ (BS-SSOM) was developed [1]. The BS-SSOM technique decouples positioning and orientation of objects during bimanual single object manipulation in virtual assembly. The distance between the two h

Kinesthetic haptic devices due to their typically small workspaces have limitations to their reach in virtual environments. In order to overcome this limitation a new interaction technique ‘Bimanual Stretched String Control of Haptic Workspace Mapping’ (BS-SCHWM) is developed using a unique combination of spatial interaction devices; namely a kinesthetic haptic device (Phantom Omni®) and a magnetically tracked device (Razer Hydra) each held in one of the user hands. The technique is implemented in the domain of virtual assembly. The virtual assembly simulation implemented in this research is b