Here and Now: Creating Improvisational Dance Movements with a Mixed Reality Mirror

Practice-informed Patterns for Organising Large Groups in Distributed Mixed Reality Collaboration

“…This could potentially limit their ability to brainstorm MR-based solutions. Zhou et al [61] overcame a similar issue by creating a technology probe-like demonstrator for their recruits to experience MR mirror technology.…”

“…This specialty group of practitioners regularly design spaces and observes how participants turn these into places for collaboration. We took inspiration from prior work in expert participatory design [50,51,61] to help us observe how CDs apply their tacit knowledge to develop large-group interactions for MR spaces. Theories of proxemics and blended f-formations (facing formations) create a frame for examining these prototypes from a human-computer interaction (HCI) perspective.…”

“…Our research revisits their idea of involving design experts, using advancements in MR to bridge their technical limitations and create blended collaboration environments. In a more recent study, Zhou et al [61] recruited expert dancers to try a technology demonstration and co-design future applications for a smart mirror that assists improvisation. Similarly, we used an MR technology probe [15,27] to inspire CDs and help them envision how they might use MR to create spaces for distributed collaboration.…”

“…Similarly, we used an MR technology probe [15,27] to inspire CDs and help them envision how they might use MR to create spaces for distributed collaboration. Involving experts in the design process helped Zhou et al [61] to provide an experienced evaluation of the ideas dancers suggested in their user study. This type of expert involvement is particularly helpful in reviewing research in skill areas that require a high level of tacit knowledge, such as dance or in our case, group collaboration.…”

Exploring AI-assisted Ideation and Prototyping for Choreography

“…Further, choreographers have embraced motion capture and 3D modeling techniques to analyze and understand abstract physical movement characteristics in dance [2,3,8,9,12,31,36,41]. Additionally, technologies have been specifically developed to support creative processes in choreography, such as ideation [13,29,35] and documentation [12,45].…”