Style-Based Robotic Motion in Contemporary Dance Performance

LaViers, Amy; Teague, Lori; Egerstedt, Magnus

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03904-6_9

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“…Artistic exploration with robotic systems (Cuan et al 2018;LaViers et al 2014LaViers et al , 2018, including cell phones (Toenjes et al 2016) and Turing's work (Gow et al 2014), in theatrical settings, alongside professional dancers, inform the point-of-view presented in this paper. When dancing with robots, dancers report a lack of variability in the motion of these systems; correspondingly, choreographers have found the platforms to be frustratingly limited in their expressive capacity.…”

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confidence: 81%

Ideal Mechanization: Exploring the Machine Metaphor through Theory and Performance

LaViers

2019

Arts

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Models of machines, including the increasingly miniaturized, digitally controlled machines of modern computers, inform models of human and animal behavior. What are the impacts of this exchange? This paper builds on theoretical discussion to produce an artistic exploration around this idea. The paper uses known limits on computation, previously proved by Turing, to model the process of mechanization, machines interacting with an environment. This idea was used to inform a live performance that leveraged a theatrical setting emulating an ideal mechanization machine, audience participation with their bodies as well as their personal cell phones, and readings of academic papers, which is also presented. The results of this work is a shared exploration of when human experience fits machine-based metaphors and, when it does not, highlighting distinct strengths and questioning how to measure the capacities of natural and artificial behavior.

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confidence: 81%

Ideal Mechanization: Exploring the Machine Metaphor through Theory and Performance

LaViers

2019

Arts

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“…LaViers and Egerstedt [50] used Laban's work to make robots dance alongside other dancers using the robots' own style. The system was fully formalized for a humanoid robot [51]. Knight and her colleagues implemented a version of the Laban Effort System to express the internal state of robots with limited degrees of motion-such as only a head [45] or only a platform that can turn [44].…”

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“…Using formalization from animation techniques to computer algorithms from above, animation techniques may also be a way of achieving motion that is defined in other ways. For example, LaViers, Teague, and Egerstedt [51] and Knight and Simmons [47] worked on formalizing the Laban Effort System for different robots. One study in the review [77] provides an example of using the animation techniques of motion capture to demonstrate how to move a drone as expressed via the Laban Effort System.…”

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Animation Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction User Studies

Schulz

Tørresen

Herstad

2019

J. Hum.-Robot Interact.

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There are many different ways a robot can move in Human-Robot Interaction. One way is to use techniques from film animation to instruct the robot to move. This article is a systematic literature review of human-robot trials, pilots, and evaluations that have applied techniques from animation to move a robot. Through 27 articles, we find that animation techniques improves individual's interaction with robots, improving individual's perception of qualities of a robot, understanding what a robot intends to do, and showing the robot's state, or possible emotion. Animation techniques also help people relate to robots that do not resemble a human or robot. The studies in the articles show further areas for research, such as applying animation principles in other types of robots and situations, combining animation techniques with other modalities, and testing robots moving with animation techniques over the long term.

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“…The earliest machines mechanically reproduced activities associated with human creativity and artistic expression: playing musical instruments, drawing, dancing, and writing ( Schaffer, 1999 ; Riskin and Bregović, 2017 ). From ancient automatons to recent applications of machine learning, artists and scholars continually explore new approaches for understanding and modelling expressions of human creativity ( Herath et al, 2016 ; Laviers and Egerstedt, 2014 ). Machines designed for artistic expression function as both tools for art making and sites for creatively exploring the nature of interaction and human-machine interfaces.…”

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Cubero

Pekarik

Rizzo³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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There is growing interest in developing creative applications for robots, specifically robots that provide entertainment, companionship, or motivation. Identifying the hallmarks of human creativity and discerning how these processes might be replicated or assisted by robots remain open questions. Transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and engineers can offer insights into how robots might foster creativity for human artists and open up new pathways for designing interactive systems. This paper presents an exploratory research project centered on drawing with robots. Using an arts-led, practice-based methodology, we developed custom hardware and software tools to support collaborative drawing with an industrial robot. A team of artists and engineers collaborated over a 6-month period to investigate the creative potential of collaborative drawing with a robot. The exploratory project focused on identifying creative and collaborative processes in the visual arts, and later on developing tools and features that would allow robots to participate meaningfully in these processes. The outcomes include a custom interface for controlling and programming robot motion (EMCAR) and custom tools for replicating experimental techniques used in visual art. We report on the artistic and technical outcomes and identify key features of process-led (as opposed to outcome-led) approaches for designing collaborative and creative systems. We also consider the value of embodied and tangible interaction for artists working collaboratively with computational systems. Transdisciplinary research can help researchers uncover new approaches for designing interfaces for interacting with machines.

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Style-Based Robotic Motion in Contemporary Dance Performance

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Ideal Mechanization: Exploring the Machine Metaphor through Theory and Performance

Ideal Mechanization: Exploring the Machine Metaphor through Theory and Performance

Animation Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction User Studies

The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

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