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Matthew Roger at Belfast University:
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~mrodger/Academic/
"I am interested in exploring the role(s) of ancillary body movement in music performance and how this develops over the course of skill acquisition.

Ancillary body movements made by musicians during performance (such as swaying, nodding, hand gestures, foot-tapping, etc.) do not seem necessary to create sounds, yet can communicate expressive or emotional intentions, relate to musical structure or facilitate co-ordination with other musicians. My research is into the origin and development of these movements during musical skill acquisition. This research project consists of three aims:

> Exploration of the development of ancillary body movement in musical skill acquisition
> Development of a theoretical framework of embodied music cognition
> Development of an appropriate human-computer interface to exploit characteristics of musicians' ancillary movements as augmented feedback in skill acquisition"