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    "pk": 27395,
    "title": "What can Hand Movements Tell us about Audience Engagement?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Conventional seated audiences have relatively restricted op-portunities for response. Perhaps the most salient is applausebut they use their hands to make other visible movements: tofix hair, adjust glasses, scratch ears. The question we addresshere is whether these apparently incidental movements mayprovide systematic clues about an audience’s level of engage-ment with a performance. We investigate this in the contextof contemporary dance performances by analysing audiencehand movements in four performances at the London Contem-porary Dance School. Hand movements were tracked using areflective wristband worn by each audience member. A blobdetection algorithm applied to the video recording examinedwhether changes in hand movement are associated with audi-ence arousal levels to the performance. The results show thathands move least during the most preferred and most duringthe least preferred dance pieces. We conclude that still handsare a signal of higher levels of engagement.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Audience; Engagement; Blob Detection; Handmovement; Handedness; Contemporary Dance."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17d3b010",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lida",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Theodorou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Queen Mary University of London",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Patrick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Healey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Queen Mary University of London",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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