Topic: Computer Aided Design

1: Noticing Movement: Meaning, Measurement, and Experience 2: Studying Movement: Somatics, Choreography, and Notation 3: Constructing Movement: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens 4: What Is Moving? The Interconnection of Body Parts and Action (Body) 5: Where Is the Movement? Spatial Fiducials for Movement (Space) 6: When Is the Movement Happening? The Temporal Perception of Movement (Time) 7: For Whom Is the Movement? The Relationship between Mover and Environment (Shape) 8: How Is the Movement Executed? Movement Quality Enables Shading of Motion (Effort) 9: Deconstructing Movement: Case Studies in Expression (Answering “Why?”) 10: Notating Movement: Advanced Analysis through Symbolic Representation

Making Meaning with Machines

A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics. How should a gestural interface react to a “flick” versus...
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418 pages
2023-10-10 Published