Wednesday,
July 15

8 am Welcome!
8:30 am Long Presentations
9:30 am Short Presentations
10:45 am Break
11 am Keynote Dimitris Metaxas
12:15 pm Intro to MBrainTrain (mbt)
1 pm Practice Works
3 pm Stevens & Rutgers & Networking

Thursday,
July 16

8 am Long Presentations
9:15 am Graduate Symposium
10:15 am “STEM From Dance” Networking event
10:45 am Break
11 am Keynote Heidi Latsky& Panel
12:45 pm “Bridging Scientific Research and Creative Practice” Networking event & mbt - Mobile EEG Demo
1:30 pm Practice Works
3 pm Mana Contemporary: Artist Talk with Kyle Marshall

Friday,
July 17

8 am Walking Mindfulness Meditation
8:30 am Long Presentations
9:45 am Practice Work Short Presentations
10:45 am Break
11 am Keynote Gil Weinberg
12:15 pm mbt- “Brainwaves, Music, Movies, and More” with David Bridwell
1 pm Practice Works
2:30 pm MOCO’20 closing
3 pm MOCO’21 & Networking

SESSION CHAIRS: Dr. Vilelmini Kalampratsidou & Dr. Amy LaViers

Feasible Stylized Motion: Robotic Manipulator Imitation of a Human Demonstration with Collision Avoidance and Style Parameters in Increasingly Cluttered Environments
-Roshni Kaushik, Anant Kuman Mishra, & Amy LaViers

Neural Connectivity Evolution during Adaptive Learning with and without Proprioception
-Harshit Bokadia, Jonathan Cole, & Elizabeth Torres

Person Identification Based On Sign Language Motion: Insights From Human Perception And Computational Modeling
-Félix Bigand, Prigent Elise, & Annelies Braffort

Recognition of Laban Effort Qualities from Hand Motion
-Maxime Garcia & Rémi Ronfard

How a Hyper-actor Directs Avatars in Virtual Shadow Theater
-Georges Gagneré, Tom Mays, & Anastasiia Ternova

Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping
-Seth Thorn, Halley Willcox, & Sha Xin Wei

Physical Time: A Model for Generating Rhythmic Gestures Based on Time Metaphors
-Greg Corness & Kristin Carlson

Movement Computing Education for Middle Grades
-Yoav Bergner, Deborah Damast, Allegra Romita, Shiri Mund, & Anne Marie Robson Smock

Pragmatic Circulations: John Dewey's Philosophy, Movement Practices and Embodied Cognition
-Yves Candau & Thecla Schiphorst

Perceiving the Light: Exploring Embodied Cues in Interactive Agents for Dance
-Kristin Carlson & Greg Corness

Naming Things: Approaching 21
-Maya Man

The Shadow
-Georges Gagneré

Babyface
-Kate Ladenheim and Amy LaViers

The Walls of My Room are Curved
-Yo-Yo Lin & Michael Matchen

In a Box
-Mingna Li

Visualizing Improvisational Strategies in LuminAI, an AI Partner for Co-Creative Movement Improvisation
-Duri Long, Lucas Liu, Swar Gujrania, Cassandra Naomi & Brian Magerko

A Black Daughter’s Inheritance
-Juliet Irving

Remarks from Stevens Institute of Technology by:

Dr. Jean Zu, Dean,
Schaefer School of Engineering and Science
Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Dilhan Kalyon, Interim Vice Provost,
Research, Innovation  and Entrepreneurship
Stevens Institute of Technology

Remarks from Rutgers University by:

Dr. John McGann, Director,
Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS),
Rutgers University

Dr. Vilelmini Kalampratsidou
Rutgers University

SESSION CHAIRS: Dr. Steven Kemper & Dr. Carla Caballero Sánchez

Stories About the Future: An Initial Dataset Exploring How Co-movement with Robots Affects Perceptions About Robot Capability
-Catie Cuan, Joseph Hoffswell, and Amy LaViers

Let's Resonate! How to Elicit Improvisation and Letting Go in Interactive Digital Art-Jean-François Jego and Margherita Bergamo

Designing Glitch Procedures and Re-visualisation Strategies for Markerless Live Motion Capture of Contemporary Dance-Stephan Jürgens, Nuno N. Correia, and Raul Masu

MoViz: A Visualization Tool for Comparing Motion Capture Data Clustering Algorithms-Lucas Liu, Duri Long, and Brian Magerko

MotionHub: Middleware for Unification of Multiple Body Tracking Systems-Philipp Ladwig, Kester Evers, Eric J. Jansen, Ben Fischer, David Nowottnik, and Christian Geiger

DogDog: Soma-Based Interface Design for an Improvising Musician
-Francesco Bigoni and Cumhur Erkut

The Effects of Visual Feedback Complexity on Training the Two-Legged Squat Exercise
-Sean Sanford, Mingxiao Liu, Thomas Selvaggi, and Raviraj Nataraj

Real-Time Optical Motion Capture Balance Sonification System
-Mitchell Tillman, Luke Dahl, Christopher B. Knowlton, and Antonia Zaferiou

Inducing Cognition of Secure Grasp and Agency to Accelerate Motor Rehabilitation from an Instrumented Glove
-Mingxiao Liu, Samuel Wilder, Sean Sanford, and Raviraj Nataraj

Movement detection software to enhance autism assessment processes
-Roberta Simeoli, Miriana Arnucci, Angelo Rega, and Davide Marocco

Evaluation of Movement and Motor Skills for Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder
-Louise B. Ribeiro, Antonia Zaferiou, and Manoel Da Silva Filho

Designing Human-Object Performances using Theatre Practices and Machine Learning
-Joanne L Martin

PANELISTS:
Loren Abdulezer, CEO, Evolving Technologies Corporation
Tiffany Geigel, HLD Dancer 
Rosa Weinberg, Director of Studio Development, NuVu Studio
Gregory Youdan, Independent Movement Scientist

Spheres a Dance for Virtual Reality
-Sarah Neville

See No — Hear No —
-Mimi Yin, Tiri Kananuruk, and Nini Dongnier

Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?
-Aurie Hsu and Steven Kemper

«Tanzseil»
-Lisa Mark and Mira Studer

OUTPUT: Vestiges of Human and Robot Bodies
-Catie Cuan

3- ~4 PM: MANA CONTEMPORARY ARTIST FEATURE: KYLE MARSHALL

An Interactive Soundscape to Assist Group Walking Mindfulness Meditation
-Karen Anne Cochrane, Matt Leete, Lian Loke, Naseem Ahmadpour, and Andrew Campbell

SESSION CHAIRS: Dr. Antonia Zaferiou & Dr. Aurie Hsu

Sonification of Heart Rate Variability can Entrain Bodies in Motion
- Vilelmini Kalampratsidou and Elizabeth Torres

Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a human-centred sonic interaction design approach
-Balandino Di Donato, Christopher Dewey, and Tychonas Michailidis

Tap Dance as Medium for Composition: Notation and Technology
-Jacob Thiede

Virtually Constrained Dancing: Encoding Language in Movement and Sound
-Devon Frost, Shannon Steele, and Lucas Bang

Somatic Sonification in Dance Performances. From the Artistic to the Perceptual and Back
-Andrea Giomi

Lament: An Interactive Cabaret Song
-Courtney Brown

Hybrid Violin Performance: Model-Free, Abductive Experiment
-Seth Thorn

Portable Interactive Explorations of Motion Data Systems for Choreographers
-Zjana Muraro and Colin Higgs

Action Camera Choreography: Generative Movement in Non-Space
-Linda Ryan

Movement computation and analysis for entrainment in the rhythms of Bharatanatyam
-Calai Chandrasekaram and Lasantha Chandana Goonetilleke

Doppelgänger III
-Weilu Ge and Kanlun Cen

Exhaust Me
-Jessica Michal

Movement interaction design for immersive media using interactive machine learning
-Nicola Plant, Marco Gillies, Clarice Hilton, Michael Zbyszyński, Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, Rebecca Fiebrink, Phoenix Perry, Ruth Gibson, and Bruno Martelli

Extended Play: Augmented Reality Dance for Vinyl Records
-Christopher Knowlton

Dotdot
-Kate Stevenson, Christopher White, and Jacques Foottit