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Touching space: using motion capture and stereo projection to create a "virtual haptics" of dance

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SIGGRAPH '10: ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1836786.1836791

Published: 26 July 2010 Publication History

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This paper describes the work of a group of artists in Australia who used real-time motion capture and 3D stereo projection to create a large-scale performance environment in which dancers seemed to "touch" the volume. This project re-versions Suzanne Langer's 1950s philosophy of dance as "virtual force" to realize the idea of a "virtual haptics" of dance that extends the dancer's physical agency literally across and through the surrounding spatial volume. The project presents a vision of interactive dance performance that "touches" space by visualizing kinematics as intentionality and agency. In doing so, we suggest the possibility of new kinds of human-computer interfaces that emphasize touch as embodied, nuanced agency that is mediated by the subtle qualities of whole-body movement, in addition to more goal-oriented, task-based gestures such as pointing or clicking.

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Johnston AAlaoui SPasquier PSchiphorst TFrançoise JBevilacqua F(2015)Conceptualising interaction in live performanceProceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing10.1145/2790994.2791003(60-67)Online publication date: 14-Aug-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2790994.2791003
Yan SDing GGuan ZSun NLi HZhang LBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)OutsideMeProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702613.2732759(965-970)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702613.2732759
Soga AShiba MSalz JThalmann DWu EPan ZEl Rhalibi AMagnenat-Thalmann NAdcock M(2012)An enhanced stage performance of Noh-Kyogen using motion data and sensor interactionsProceedings of the 11th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry10.1145/2407516.2407553(127-134)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2407516.2407553
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