Towards a Live Dance Improvisation between an Avatar and a Human Dancer

Berman, Alexander; James, Valencia

doi:10.1145/2617995.2618026

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“…Our approach to kinetic AI builds upon a technique for generating novel movements by analysing and extending movements captured from a human dancer [1]. The method can be summarised as follows.…”

Section: Pose Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kinetic dialogues

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2015

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing

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The paper describes an interaction between a human dancer and an improvising avatar, where the dancer gives kinetic feedback to the software in real time. By tracking the dancer's movements with a motion-capture camera and extracting basic motion features, the system detects feedback signals and lets them guide the avatar's behaviour. High intensity of movement by the dancer encourages novel and expansive behaviour in the avatar. Despite the crudeness and simplicity of the proposed mechanism, the high degree of feedback in both directions is expected to yield unpredictable and complex results. In comparison with more controlled settings, the open-endedness and complexity of this kinetic "dialogue" is likely to increase the creative potential of the exchange between dancer and software.

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Section: Pose Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%