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Skinput System from Microsoft
The Mathematics of a Hollywood Scene
From the Article:
“Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span. The pattern was derived by scientists at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1990s who studied the attention spans of subjects performing hundreds of trials. The team then converted the measurements of their attention spans into wave forms using a mathematical technique known as the Fourier transform.”
LINKS:
PhysOrg
Popular Science
New Scientist
Telegraph
James Cutting
“Attention & the Evolution of Hollywood Film” (PDF)
