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Dance Notations and Robot Motion

  • Fascinating book comparing and combining human dance motion with robot motion
  • Presents recent dance notation systems, which structurally describe human movements by using symbols, as tools of motion segmentation
  • Explores the relationship between motion notation systems and engineering based methods for motion generation as developed in computer animation and humanoid robotics
  • Targets a multidisciplinary audience including roboticists, computer scientists, dance notators, choreographers, and beyond, researchers in neurophysiology, biomechanics or cognitive sciences
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 111)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Towards Behavioral Objects: A Twofold Approach for a System of Notation to Design and Implement Behaviors in Non-anthropomorphic Robotic Artifacts

    • Samuel Bianchini, Florent Levillain, Armando Menicacci, Emanuele Quinz, Elisabetta Zibetti
    Pages 1-24
  3. Laban Movement Analysis and Affective Movement Generation for Robots and Other Near-Living Creatures

    • Sarah Jane Burton, Ali-Akbar Samadani, Rob Gorbet, Dana Kulić
    Pages 25-48
  4. The Problem of Recording Human Motion

    • Jacqueline Challet-Haas
    Pages 69-89
  5. Task Modelling for Reconstruction and Analysis of Folk Dances

    • Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yoshihiro Sato, Shin’ichro Nakaoka, Shunsuke Kudoh, Takahiro Okamoto, Hauchin Hu
    Pages 187-207
  6. Abstractions for Design-by-Humans of Heterogeneous Behaviors

    • Amy LaViers, Lin Bai, Masoud Bashiri, Gerald Heddy, Yu Sheng
    Pages 237-262
  7. Annotating Everyday Grasps in Action

    • Jia Liu, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Yuzuko C. Nakamura, Nancy S. Pollard
    Pages 263-282
  8. Benesh Movement Notation for Humanoid Robots?

    • Eliane Mirzabekiantz
    Pages 299-317
  9. A Worked-Out Experience in Programming Humanoid Robots via the Kinetography Laban

    • Paolo Salaris, Naoko Abe, Jean-Paul Laumond
    Pages 339-359
  10. Using Dynamics to Recognize Human Motion

    • Gentiane Venture, Takumi Yabuki, Yuta Kinase, Alain Berthoz, Naoko Abe
    Pages 361-376
  11. The Effect of Gravity on Perceived Affective Quality of Robot Movement

    • Suzanne Weller, Joost Broekens, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
    Pages 377-390
  12. Applications for Recording and Generating Human Body Motion with Labanotation

    • Worawat Choensawat, Minako Nakamura, Kozaburo Hachimura
    Pages 391-416

About this book

How and why to write a movement? Who is the writer? Who is the reader? They may be choreographers working with dancers. They may be roboticists programming robots. They may be artists designing cartoons in computer animation. In all such fields the purpose is to express an intention about a dance, a specific motion or an action to perform, in terms of intelligible sequences of elementary movements, as a music score that would be devoted to motion representation. Unfortunately there is no universal language to write a motion. Motion languages live together in a Babel tower populated by biomechanists, dance notators, neuroscientists, computer scientists, choreographers, roboticists. Each community handles its own concepts and speaks its own language.

The book accounts for this diversity. Its origin is a unique workshop held at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse in 2014.

Worldwide representatives of various communities met there. Their challenge was to reach a mutual understanding allowing a choreographer to access robotics concepts, or a computer scientist to understand the subtleties of dance notation. The liveliness of this multidisciplinary meeting is reflected by the book thank to the willingness of authors to share their own experiences with others.

Editors and Affiliations

  • LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Jean-Paul Laumond, Naoko Abe

Bibliographic Information

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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