Motion, Captured: An Open Repository for Comparative Movement Studies
Title | Motion, Captured: An Open Repository for Comparative Movement Studies |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Iyengar, Varsha, Coleman, Grisha, Tinapple, David, Turaga, Pavan |
Conference Name | Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing |
Publisher | ACM |
Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-4307-7 |
Keywords | annotation, clustering, community, crowd-sourcing, database, machine-learning, motion capture, Movement, open-source, pubcrawl170201, repository, translation |
Abstract | This paper begins to describe a new kind of database, one that explores a diverse range of movement in the field of dance through capture of different bodies and different backgrounds - or what we are terming movement vernaculars. We re-purpose Ivan Illich's concept of 'vernacular work' [11] here to refer to those everyday forms of dance and organized movement that are informal, refractory (resistant to formal analysis), yet are socially reproduced and derived from a commons. The project investigates the notion of vernaculars in movement that is intentional and aesthetic through the development of a computational approach that highlights both similarities and differences, thereby revealing the specificities of each individual mover. This paper presents an example of how this movement database is used as a research tool, and how the fruits of that research can be added back to the database, thus adding a novel layer of annotation and further enriching the collection. Future researchers can then benefit from this layer, further refining and building upon these techniques. The creation of a robust, open source, movement lexicon repository will allow for observation, speculation, and contextualization - along with the provision of clean and complex data sets for new forms of creative expression. |
URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2948910.2948938 |
DOI | 10.1145/2948910.2948938 |
Citation Key | iyengar_motion_2016 |