Pendular is an interactive musical system that explores the physical motion of hanging objects as an interface for creating music. Performers use wind and light to control the environment to which these objects react, and as they swing and spin through ...

Kinesthetic empathy, in the context of interactive design, is defined as the ability to encode and decode the input of other users of the system or to sense a shift in the system itself [7]. Achieving this between two players or between players and ...

Manus Tremens is a structured improvisation for accelerometer-controlled vibration motors, amplified toy harp, and live sound processing. The performer uses two vibration motors to directly actuate the strings of a toy harp. Accelerometers affixed to ...

This paper chronicles the exposition of the artistic practice and process for Extending the Body which utilizes an embodied dance practice with Virtual Reality (VR) as a partner in live streamed performance. Situated in phenomenology and the affective ...

Desquamation is a three-part choreographic work that challenges viewer experience of socio-cultural identity theories through an interactive, 360 degree-video lens. This work seeks to explore the impact of interactive three-hundred-and-sixty (360) ...

Skin Hunger is a web-based interactive system for telematic installation and performance that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants in the telematic installation can reach across the ...

We describe our process of quarantine dance technique in making the dance film and meditation, Floating Departures. This work, created during lockdown in 2021, brings together dance movement, poetry, painterly styles, and sound to explore cyclical ...

This work presents the first steps of a journey from capturing the embodied social experience to creating contemporary sound art through digital means. In the framework of the Transition to 8 project, residents of the Greek City of Eleusis expressed ...

Human movements support communication, and can be used to imitate actions or physical phenomenons. Observing gestural imitations of short sounds, we found that such gestures can be categorized by their frequency content. To analyse such movements, we ...

Movement-based interaction relies on the measurement and abstraction of human motion. Yet reducing physical experience to quantitative and visual representations overlooks the inner perceptions and sensations that accompany movement. Rather than ...

This paper conducts a thorough mapping study and rhetorical analysis of computing research involving dance. Research investigates: 1) who conducts computing research involving dance; 2) how dance is described in computing research publications; and 3) ...

When people play music together, they move their bodies, and that movement plays an important role in the activity of group music making. In contrast, when robots play music with people, the robots are usually stiff and mechanical in their movement. In ...

Augmented Materiality Lab, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]

The human body has historically been a constant source of fascination in the arts and sciences. With the advent of digital computing technology, the ...

Movement-based musical interfaces support performers’ music and movement expressions by drawing from expertise and creative practices of both disciplines. In this work, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the movement interaction of participants ...