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Torpey, Peter Alexander. "Disembodied performance : abstraction of representation in live theater." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55198.
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Early in Tod Machover's opera Death and the Powers, the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own creation. The theatrical set comes alive in the form of robotic, visual, and sonic elements that allow the actor to extend his range and influence across the stage in unique and dynamic ways. The environment must compellingly assume the behavior and expression of the absent Simon. This thesis presents a new approach called Disembodied Performance that adapts ideas from affective psychology, cognitive science, and the theatrical tradition to create a framework for thinking about the translation of stage presence. An implementation of a system informed by this methodology is demonstrated. In order to distill the essence of this character, we recover performance parameters in real-time from physiological sensors, voice, and vision systems. This system allows the offstage actor to express emotion and interact with others onstage. The Disembodied Performance approach takes a new direction in augmented performance by employing a nonrepresentational abstraction of a human presence that fully translates a character into an environment. The technique and theory presented also have broad-reaching applications outside of theater for personal expression, telepresence, and storytelling.
Peter Alexander Torpey.
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Wilkinson, Mark Howard. "Behavioural abstraction and composition for user interface management." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313638.
Full textHawthorne, Donald W. "Beyond representation : theories of abstraction in American art 1960-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303387.
Full textRuhrberg, Peter. "Simultaneous abstraction and semantic theories." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/520.
Full textMansfield, Rachel. "Temporal Abstract Behavioral Representation Model." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1181.
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Iyer, Srikrishna. "A Unifying Interface Abstraction for Accelerated Computing in Sensor Nodes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34625.
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Tsafnat, Guy Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Abstraction and representation of fields and their applications in biomedical modelling." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24207.
Full textTuohy, Séamus Timothy. "Geophysical map representation, abstraction and interrogation for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12241.
Full textYan, Chang. "Neural Representation of Working Memory Contents at Different Levels of Abstraction." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22232.
Full textResearch on the neural basis of working memory (WM) has received broad attention but has focused on storage of sensory content. Evidence on short-term maintenance of abstract verbal or categorical information is scarce. This thesis aims to investigate neural representation of WM content at different levels of abstraction. I present here three empirical studies that employed fMRI, multivariate pattern analysis or probabilistic modeling as major methods. The first study identified cortical regions that retained WM content of a script. Native Chinese speakers were asked to memorize well-known Chinese characters which strongly facilitated verbal coding. Results indicated left lateralized language-related brain areas as candidate stores for verbal content. The second and the third studies aimed to test the hypothesis that color is memorized as a combination of the low-level visual representation and the abstract categorical representation. The second study utilized a conventional sensory encoding model and a novel empirical-based categorical encoding model to characterize two sources of neural representations. Color information was decoded in three color-related ROIs: V1, V4, VO1, and notably, an elevation in categorical representation was observed in more anterior cortices. In the third study, the delayed behavioral response was examined, which exhibited a systematic bias pattern; a probabilistic dual-content model was implemented, which produced response patterns highly correlated with experimental results; this confirmed the hypothesis of dual-content mnemonic representations. These studies together suggest a division of labor along the rostral-caudal axis of the brain, based on the abstraction level of memorized contents.
Buburuzan, Teodor [Verfasser]. "Optimization of an Interface Abstraction Layer for Heterogeneous Networks / Teodor Buburuzan." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1071528947/34.
Full textPurdom, Judy. "Thinking in painting : Gilles Deleuze and the revolution from representation to abstraction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36405/.
Full textImport, Arlina. "Abstraction and representation of structure in implicit learning of simple remote contingencies." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390099.
Full textReimann, Thomas, Markus Giese, Tobias Geyer, Rudolf Liedl, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, and W. Barcley Shoemaker. "Representation of water abstraction from a karst conduit with numerical discrete-continuum models." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-127107.
Full textYan, Chang [Verfasser]. "Neural Representation of Working Memory Contents at Different Levels of Abstraction / Chang Yan." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223452115/34.
Full textHope, Travis. "Material perception: translating experience through idea and representation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337888830.
Full textLi, Xin. "Abstractive Representation Modeling for Image Classification." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623250959448677.
Full textSilaghi, Cristina. "Plenitudes of Painting: Wilhelm Worringer and the Relationshipbetween Abstraction and Representation in European Paintingat the Beginning of the Twentieth Century." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8499.
Full textHoarau, Charlotte. "Représentations cartographiques intermédiaires : comment covisualiser une carte et une orthophotographie pour naviguer entre abstraction et réalisme ?" Thesis, Paris Est, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PESC1011/document.
Full textTwo representations of the territory are widely provided simultaneously to the user through interactive tools (such as magnifiers, sliders or swipes): topographic maps and orthoimages. They provide complementary visions of the territory because of abstraction steps used to design maps and the intrisic perceived photorealism power of orthoimages. Aiming at providing efficient covisualizations of these two representations to the user, we advise not to search for an ideal graphic mix, but to produce a cartographic continuum composed of in-between representations mixing topographic data and orthoimagery. Our objective is to provide interactive tools allowing to choose an intermediate step within the continuum by controling the realism and abstraction levels. Our approach is based on three principles: first, the need for local adaptation of vector data symbolisation to preserve their readability, second, the call for graphic transitions to establish a continuity through in-between cartographic representations, and third the required control over realism level in order to ensure a visual consistency of hybrid visualisations. We provide elementary symbolisation methods to be combined in a global design process. The first one aims at interpolating SLD symbolisation parameters such as color, opacity or texturing between two symbolisations. The second one aims at defining a local symbolisation depending on the graphic context of objects to be highlighted. Those symbolisations are combined for each theme and synchronized for all themes. For these design steps, we provide guidelines based on the evaluation of the realism level coming from our user test. Finally we build a prototype software allowing to test our propositions and browse in-between representations from abstraction to realism through an interactive slider
Schallier, Wouter. "What a Subject Search Interface Can Do." UDC Consortium The Hague, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105315.
Full textHoang, Dang Huy. "An interface design for the representation of Vietnamese traditional music." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430659.
Full textStenbacka, Erik. "Cubieo : Observations of Explorative User Behavior with an Abstract Tangible Interface." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19639.
Full textGalparsoro, Larraza Oihana. "Phonon and electron excitations in diatom abstraction from metallic surfaces." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0417/document.
Full textThe rationalization of elementary processes at surfaces is of prime importance for numerous natural and technological areas. From a fundamental pointof view, the way the energy concomitant to any chemical reaction is distributed among the desorbing molecules degrees-of-freedom and the surface is far frombeing fully pictured. In this work, quasiclassical molecular dynamics (QCT)simulations have been carried out to investigate this issue for the recombination ofH2 and N2 resulting from atomic adsorbate abstraction by atom scattering off theW(100) and W(110) covered surfaces, these processes being of relevance inplasma-wall interactions. Potential energy surfaces, built from density functional(DFT) theory calculations, have been used to simulate, within the framework ofclassical dynamics (including semi-classical corrections), the subpicosecond Eley-Rideal and Hot-Atom processes. The implementation of effective models to accountfor energy dissipation to surface phonons and electron-hole pair excitations, have allowed to rationalize the non-adidabatic dynamics of atom abstraction at metalsurfaces
Johnson, Samuel. "Document Clustering Interface." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-112878.
Full textTidare, Jonatan. "Temporal representation of Motor Imagery : towards improved Brain-Computer Interface-based strokerehabilitation." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Inbyggda system, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-53082.
Full textOlsson, Anna-Carin. "Factors Shaping Process and Representation in Multiple-Cue Judgment." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Dept. of psychology, Univ, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-264.
Full textRicher, Gaëlle. "Passage à l'échelle pour la visualisation interactive exploratoire de données : approches par abstraction et par déformation spatiale." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0264/document.
Full textInteractive visualization is helpful for exploring, understanding, and analyzing data. However, increasingly large and complex data challenges the efficiency of visualization systems, both visually and computationally. The visual challenge stems from human perceptual and cognitive limitations as well as screen space limitations while the computational challenge stems from the processing and memory limitations of standard computers.In this thesis, we present techniques addressing the two scalability issues for several interactive visualization applications.To address visual scalability requirements, we present a versatile spatial-distortion approach for linked emphasis on multiple views and an abstract and multi-scale representation based on parallel coordinates. Spatial distortion aims at alleviating the weakened emphasis effect of highlighting when applied to small-sized visual elements. Multiscale abstraction simplifies the representation while providing detail on demand by pre-aggregating data at several levels of detail.To address computational scalability requirements and scale data processing to billions of items in interactive times, we use pre-computation and real-time computation on a remote distributed infrastructure. We present a system for multi-/dimensional data exploration in which the interactions and abstract representation comply with a visual item budget and in return provides a guarantee on network-related interaction latencies. With the same goal, we compared several geometric reduction strategies for the reconstruction of density maps of large-scale point sets
Rockway, Jeanne. "Antenna fields in complex structural environments by the spherical harmonic interface procedure." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1110229894.
Full textBalasubramanian, Harish. "Incremental Design Migration Support in Industrial Control Systems Development." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50990.
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Collier, Mike. "An evaluation of the link between abstraction, representation and language within the context of current theories of Environmental Aesthetics and Phenomenology." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573126.
Full textMartinelli, Joseph A. "An X11 graphical interface for the REpresentation and MAintenance of Process Knowledge (REMAP) model /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from the National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA273169.
Full textMartinelli, Joseph Anthony. "An X11 graphical interface for the REpresentation and MAintenance of Process Knowledge (REMAP) model." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/39975.
Full textThe REpresentation and MAintenance of Process knowledge (REMAP) model provides support to various stakeholders involved in software projects by capturing the history of design decisions. This knowledge can assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in driving down the development and maintenance costs of large scale software systems. It is extremely important to have user friendly mechanisms to aid in the use of the REMAP model. This thesis implements a graphical user interface (GUI) under X11 Windows using the Andrew Toolkit. This implementation facilitates the instantiation, incremental modification, and ad-hoc querying of REMAP model primitives.
Kim, Jae Hyung Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Simulation of thin elastic solids in the incompressible viscous flow using implicit interface representation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57883.
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This thesis provides a numerical algorithm to solve fluid-structure interaction problems in the Cartesian grid. Unlike the typical Immersed Interfaced Method (IIM), we define thin non-stretchable solid interface with the Level Set function. In addition, we developed a partial differential equation which represents the bending rigidity of the interface. The interface is assumed very thin and has zero elastic stress when it is flat. The interface gives singular forces to the incompressible viscous fluid and the fluid solver handles discontinuities across the interface. Instead of solving two dynamic systems (i.e., fluid and solid), we solve the fluid field only and solve a convection equation of interface with the local fluid velocity. This idea is valid because of viscous fluid (i.e., velocity is continuous across the interface) as we can see frequently in the IIM. The result shows that elastic interface vibrates and converges to an equilibrium state. The oscillatory motion of the interface depends on the viscosity of fluid, Young's modulus and thickness of interface. The results looks correct physically, and they match with the existing IIM results.
by Jae Hyung Kim.
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Lyngset, Runar Ylvisåker. "User Interface for 3D Visualization with Emphasis on Combined Voxel and Surface Representation : Design Report." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-10119.
Full textThe thesis presents a user interface design aimed at the scenario where a dual representation of a volume is desired in order to emphasize certain parts of a volume using surface graphics while the rest of the volume is rendered using direct volume rendering techniques. A typical situation in which this configuration can prove useful is when studying images acquired for medical purposes. Sometimes the user wants to identify and represent an organ using an opaque surface in an otherwise partly opaque visualization of the volume data set. The design is based on the visualization library VTK along with Trolltech Qt, a GUI Toolkit in C++. The choice of using VTK as a visualization library was made after evaluating similar systems. The report includes a state of the art chapter, the requirements for the system, the system design and the results achieved after implementing the design are shown.
Coatleven-Brun, Angélique. "La peinture prise aux Lettres : ou comment définir une troisième structure visuelle en art." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00748596.
Full textRastogi, Anisha. "NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF FORCE, GRASP, AND VOLITIONAL STATE IN INTRACORTICAL BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE UERS WITH TETRAPLEGIA." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1599484170191229.
Full textGenc, Serkan. "Vision-based Hand Interface Systems In Human Computer Interaction." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611700/index.pdf.
Full textAl-Attili, Aghlab Ismat. "Factors affecting embodied interaction in virtual environments : familiarity, ethics and scale." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4910.
Full textReaux, Ray A. "The investigation of online manuals and the role guidelines abstraction has on the usefulness of interface design guidelines in the evaluation of user system interfaces." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54877.
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Chu, Joni, and Irving Harrison. "INCREASING MONITORING CAPACITY TO KEEP PACE WITH THE WIRELESS REVOLUTION." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608276.
Full textWith wireless communications becoming the rule rather than the exception, satellite operators need tools to effectively monitor increasingly large and complex satellite constellations. Visual data monitoring increases the monitoring capacity of satellite operators by several orders of magnitude, enabling them to track hundreds of thousands of parameters in real-time on a single screen. With this powerful new tool, operators can proactively address potential problems before they become customer complaints.
Li, Rowena Liu-ping. "The representation of national political freedom on web interface design: A comparison of government-based and business-oriented websites." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9759/.
Full textLi, Rowena Liu-ping Hastings Samantha K. "The representation of national political freedom on web interface design a comparison of government-based and business-oriented websites /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9759.
Full textWoodbury, Nathan Scott. "Representation and Reconstruction of Linear, Time-Invariant Networks." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7402.
Full textTolosa, Santiago. "Un programme interactif pour la liaison assistee de regles avec l'exterieur et la description de systemes experts." Toulouse 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU30031.
Full textRiley, Rachele Cyr. "Aesthetic Representations of Violence: Visualizing the Art of War." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/40.
Full textRajon, Didier A. "Skeletal dosimetry a hyperboloid representation of the bone-marrow interface to reduce voxel effects in 3D images of trabecular bone /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000596.
Full textBriglia, Johan. "De l'énactivisme appliqué à la mémoire humaine : Athena, un modèle fractal de covariances sensorimotrices." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30076/document.
Full textSince the cognitive revolution of the 1950s, the cognitive paradigm has been accepted by the great majority of researchers, especially in the domain of memory. Connectionism has come to question its modular organization by emphasizing its emergent character. However, the question of reference remained posed in the sense it was based on the existence of internal representations of a world external to the subject. The enactivist paradigm, that takes up the principles of constructivism, proposes that cognition should no longer be seen as the representation of a pre-existing world but as the product of our sensorimotor experiences. In this work, we present ATHENA: an enactivist model of memory without representations inspired by MINERVA2, but taking into account the contributions of the Act-In model. Memory is built by a fractal contextualization of sensorimotor covariances. A series of experimental simulations allows us to account for many memory phenomena in a more effective way than what is possible within representationalism: the emergence, learning and manipulation of abstractions without representations; but also other cognitive phenomena such as a subjective time construction (without temporal representations learned)
Desmeules-Trudel, Félix. "Spoken Word Recognition in Native and Second Language Canadian French: Phonetic Detail and Representation of Vowel Nasalization." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37958.
Full textCooney, Vance. "Determining user interface effects of superficial presentation of dialog and visual representation of system objects in user directed transaction processing systems." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290179.
Full textLadeira, Luis Felipe da Costa. "Representação de superfícies livres utilizando partição da unidade implícita no sistema Freeflow." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-14092011-155112/.
Full textThe objective of this work is to introduce a new approache of surface representation within the Freeflow system. It consists of using implicit functions by means of Partition of Unit Implicit to estimate surface geometry, normals and curvature. Aiming at the advantages of meshless methods of surface representation whilst keeping the Lagrangian mesh in order to preserve ease of access of geometric vicinity, particle insertion and removal
Nóbrega, Suely Soares. "Representações sociais sobre docência na educação infantil na interface com a política de formação de professores." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2012. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4735.
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This research aims at analyzing Social Representations about the teaching of future educators of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Caicó) in early childhood education. We assumed that teaching in early childhood education, in a problematical conception, is the commitment to freedom of educators and students, subjects of educational practice, based on knowing act that stimulates critical thinking, creativity, reflection and action upon reality. Thus, we reflect on the policies formulated concerning early childhood education and teacher training in the current context. Using the Theory of Social Representations formulated by Moscovici, we investigate the importance of training processes in the Social Representations of future educators, analyzing the CNE/CP 1, May 15, 2006. 118 undergraduate students who were in the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth semesters of the Pedagogy Course participated in this research. First, we used a questionnaire of Free Association of Words in which was evoked, in order of importance, the stimulus in teaching in early childhood education, and secondly, through a semi structured interview, we analyzed the expectations of the students for the Pedagogy Course and which elements they considered relevant to the training of teachers of early childhood education. To process the data the software EVOC and ALCESTE was used. The results of this research lead us to reflect on the knowledge that constitutes the teaching practice no matter they are based on experience, science, ethics, political or sociocultural terms. The Social Representations of future teachers about teaching in early childhood education refers to the commitment to the education of young children and also to the teacher education itself, besides showing the romantic vision of teaching. The implications for the initial teacher training that appear in the Social Representations of the Pedagogy students of UFRN/CERES consist of the ability to develop and implement public policies that make commitments with the formation of the citizen child, recognizing their specificities; valuing recreation as science, comprising interfaces for children's development and establishing teaching as a profession. Prospective teachers assume the responsibility and commitment to the education of children, emphasizing the aspects of morality and education, besides patience and dedication. They also recognize the need to link playing, caring and education, even though among trainees, recognition of theory in educational practice has not been evidenced. We propose to the teacher training policies a partnership between universities and early childhood education institutions that may provide opportunities for future teachers to participate in the political-pedagogical project of the Pedagogy Course. Finally, we hope this study will contribute to the construction of knowledge and reflection of teacher education, especially concerning early childhood education, which considers children‟s education an essential point for their total development. This work contributed to new researches concerning teaching in early childhood education and its role in the teaching-learning process, providing total children development in the full sense of childhood.
Esta pesquisa teve como principal objetivo analisar as Representações Sociais sobre a docência na educação infantil dos futuros pedagogos da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte em Caicó. Partimos do pressuposto de que a docência na educação infantil, numa concepção problematizadora, consiste no compromisso com a liberdade de educadores e educandos, sujeitos da prática educativa, fundamentada no ato cognoscente que estimula a crítica, a criatividade, a reflexão e ação sobre a realidade. Assim, refletimos sobre as políticas formuladas concernentes à educação infantil e a formação docente no contexto atual. A partir da Teoria das Representações Sociais de Moscovici, investigamos a importância dos processos de formação nas RS dos futuros pedagogos, analisando a Resolução CNE/CP Nº 1, de 15 de maio de 2006. Participaram da pesquisa 118 alunos do Curso de Pedagogia matriculados nos primeiro, terceiro, quinto, sétimo e nono períodos. Primeiramente, realizamos o questionário de Associação Livre de Palavras em que foi evocado, por ordem de importância, o estímulo docência na educação infantil e, posteriormente através de uma entrevista semiestruturada, analisamos as perspectivas dos alunos em relação ao curso de Pedagogia e quais elementos consideravam relevantes para a formação do professor de educação infantil. Para o tratamento dos dados, utilizamos o software EVOC e ALCESTE. Os resultados desta pesquisa nos remete a refletir sobre os saberes que constituem a prática docente, sejam eles baseados na experiência, científicos, éticos, políticos e socioculturais. As RS dos futuros professores sobre a docência na educação infantil se referem ao compromisso com a educação das crianças pequenas e à própria formação docente, além de evidenciar a visão romântica de docência. As implicações para a formação inicial docente que aparecem nas RS dos alunos de Pedagogia da UFRN/CERES consistem na possibilidade de elaborar e implementar políticas públicas que assumam compromissos com a formação da criança cidadã, reconhecendo as suas especificidades; valorizando o lúdico como ciência, compreendendo suas interfaces para o desenvolvimento da criança e estabelecendo o trabalho docente como profissão. Os futuros professores assumem o compromisso e a responsabilidade com a educação das crianças, valorizando os aspectos da moralidade e da instrução, além da paciência e dedicação. Reconhecem também a necessidade de articular o brincar, o cuidar e o educar, embora entre os formandos não tenha sido evidenciado o reconhecimento da teoria na prática educativa. Propomos para as políticas públicas de formação docente a parceria universidade e instituições de educação infantil, oportunizando aos futuros professores a participação no projeto político pedagógico do curso de pedagogia. Por fim, esperamos que esse estudo possa contribuir para a construção do conhecimento e reflexão da formação docente, em especial da Educação Infantil, que tem o cuidado e a educação das crianças como funções essenciais para o seu desenvolvimento integral. Este trabalho fomentou novas pesquisas concernentes à docência na educação infantil e o seu papel no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, proporcionando o desenvolvimento integral da criança no pleno sentido da infância.