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Thecla Schiphorst
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Latest papers
A comparison design study of feedback modalities to support deep breathing whilst performing work tasks.
Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2021
Assessing the reliability of the Laban Movement Analysis system.
PloS one · 2019 · senior author
Latest funding
- $77,598
User experience and acceptance of co-creative AI systems for music composition
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $66,289
Décoloniser les savoirs et pratiques gestionnaires: significations et expériences
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $72,875
JeL: Synchronization through a Virtual Reality installation for interpersonal connection
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
A comparison design study of feedback modalities to support deep breathing whilst performing work tasks.
Cochrane KA, Loke L, Ahmadpour N, Schiphorst T, Campbell A, Núñez-Pacheco C
Assessing the reliability of the Laban Movement Analysis system.
Bernardet U, Fdili Alaoui S, Studd K, Bradley K, Pasquier P, Schiphorst T
User experience and acceptance of co-creative AI systems for music composition
Principal investigators: Pasquier, Philippe
Keywords: user experience of creative AI; computer-assisted composition; empirical study; micro-phenomenology
Décoloniser les savoirs et pratiques gestionnaires: significations et expériences
Principal investigators: Ramboarisata, Lovasoa N.
Keywords: management; organisations; entreprises; savoirs; pratiques; néocolonialisme managérial; décolonisation; colonialité; théorie postcoloniale; perspectives décoloniales; gestion; rapport nord-sud; chaîne de valeurs; mondialisation; justice
JeL: Synchronization through a Virtual Reality installation for interpersonal connection
Principal investigators: Riecke, Bernhard
Keywords: social connection; interpersonal synchronization; interactive art; breath synchronization; bio-responsive systems; virtual reality; prosocial behaviour; collaborative creativity; physiological communication; somaesthetic design
Movement futures
Principal investigators: Schiphorst, Thecla H.
Keywords: movement interaction; movement analysis; dance; neuroscience; robotics; embodied cognition; machine learning; media art; choreograpy; interaction design; HCI; distributed performance; collaborative digital tools
ISEA2015 (21st International Festival and Symposium of Electronic Arts +Technology)
Principal investigators: Schiphorst, Thecla H.
Keywords: historical keyboard music; French Baroque; Canadian influence; performance; musicology; music theory; culture and society; music in New France and Quebec; John Grew; instruments; sources; cultural networks; technology
MOCO2015 2nd international workshop on movement and computing, intersecting art, meaning, cognition, technology
Principal investigators: Fdili Alaoui, Sarah
Keywords: ethical research practices; Indigenous peoples; non-Indigenous peoples; education; training; methodologies; curricula; collaboration; community-based learning; multi-sector
Mobile presence: mediating cooperative interaction for public urban screens
Principal investigators: Schiphorst, Thecla H.
Keywords: urban screens; mobile interaction; cooperative interaction; public space; intelligent agents; artificial intelligence
Meaning from Motion for Interaction and Visualization
Principal investigators: Bartram, Linda(Lyn)
Aesthetics of interaction in immersive spaces
Principal investigators: Gromala, Diane
Keywords: aesthetics; interaction; immersive environments; interactive sound; interactive images; techniques of physical interaction; sensory aesthetics
Shared Virtual Environments
Principal investigators: Calvert, Tom
Keywords: virtual environments, virtual reality, visualization, collaborative work, collaborative rehearsal, collaborative learning, collaborative performance, decision making
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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