To measure the intention information available in movement kinematics, we first obtained a set of natural grasping movements by filming 17 naïve participants reaching towards and grasping a bottle with the intent either to pour some water into a small glass (grasp-to-pour) or to drink water from the bottle (grasp-to-drink).
Presumably they have also dug the old Crystal Maze dome out of storage and the show's finale will consist of diligent paupers leaping around in a glass box, grasping at £5 notes in the wind.
When the Colonel's daughter approaches the department-store magnate to refill his glass, he grasps her hand-woven apron and brings it close to the rimless spectacles perched on the end of his bulbous red nose.
This motor task is matched closely to the actions shown in the movies (e.g., a glass is grasped in both, etc).
"I'm hoping that through my glasses she will grasp the world correctly," he said.
Mr. Hallam is able to grasp a glass in his hand and drink from it, two of his doctors said in recent interviews.
After inserting the instruments through small "incisions" in the boxes, the students were challenged to loop small rings over nails, remove beads from a curved hook, transfer plastic foam balls from one glass to another, or grasp toy piglets and drop them into a cardboard corral.
Open the cupboard, grasp the glass, close the cupboard.
For example, when reaching out to grasp a glass, a person will initially accelerate steadily then, as they approach their goal, gradually decrease the velocity of their arm movement.
He recalled that at a State of the State address, while presiding over the Senate as lieutenant governor, "Apparently I was going to bring the gavel down on a glass, like this one," grasping a water glass.
