Grasping Interface with Photo Sensor for a Musical Instrument

Yamaguchi, Tomoyuki; Hashimoto, Shuji

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02577-8_59

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“…The LMA system was developed for describing, interpreting, and documenting a variety of human movement throughout the entire body. This is a useful method to evaluate the motion quantitatively [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. In this paper, we used Weight Effort for strength of dance and Time Effort for briskness of dance.…”

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Bodily Expression Support for Creative Dance Education by Grasping-Type Musical Interface with Embedded Motion and Grasp Sensors

Yamaguchi

Kadone

2017

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Dance has been made mandatory as one of the physical education courses in Japan because it can cultivate capacities for expression and communication. Among several types of dance education, creative dance especially contributes to the cultivation of these capacities. However, creative dance requires some level of particular skills, as well as creativity, and it is difficult to presuppose these pre-requisites in beginner-level dancers without experience. We propose a novel supporting device for dance beginners to encourage creative dance performance by continuously generating musical sounds in real-time in accordance with their bodily movements. It has embedded sensors developed for this purpose. Experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the device were conducted with ten beginner-level dancers. Using the proposed device, the subjects demonstrated enhanced creative dance movements with greater variety, evaluated in terms of Laban dance movement description. Also, using the device, they performed with better accuracy and repeatability in a task where they produced an imagined circular trajectory by hand. The proposed interface is effective in terms of creative dance activity and accuracy of motion generation for beginner-level dancers.

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“…The design of our musical interface, TwinkleBall [ 28 , 29 ], is presented in Figure 2 . The main body of the proposed interface consists of a rubber ball, Bluetooth wireless communication module, photodiode, three-axis accelerometer, LEDs, peripheral interface controller (PIC), and battery (9.0 V).…”

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confidence: 99%