VIRTUAL Program
Welcome to our virtual MOCO’20 program! Please take time to familiarize yourself with the daily program. We have a lot of excellent work to share with the community, and we cannot wait to interact with all of you. Our program is hosted using the Zoom license of Stevens Institute of Technology. Therefore, all content will be provided by this website and zoom and you will not need to download other programs, etc. If you so choose, you can engage in extra conversations on our slack channel.
Videos from our sessions can be found here.
Proceedings from this conference can be found here.
Program at a glance
All times displayed are in EDT (UTC -4)
Thursday,
July 16
8 am Long Presentations
9:15 am Graduate Symposium
10:15 am “STEM From Dance” and Networking
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 MOCO Trivia
Program
July 15, 2020
8-8:30 AM: WELCOME TO MOCO’20!
8:30-9:30 AM: LONG PRESENTATIONS (Full Session Details)
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
9:30-10:45 AM: SHORT PRESENTATIONS (Full Session Details)
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
Performing Gesture and Time via an Emergent Database
-Doug Van Nort, Ian Jarvis, & Kieran Maraj
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
11 AM -12:15 PM: KEYNOTE DIMITRIS METAXAS (Full Session Details)
(welcoming remarks by Dr. Peter March, Executive Dean,School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University)
12:15-1 PM: Intro to MBrainTrain (Full Session Details)
1-3 PM: PRACTICE WORK DEMOS (Full Session Details)
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 & Mica 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
3- 4 PM: STEVENS & RUTGERS HIGHLIGHTS & NETWORK (Full Session Details)
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. Thomas Papathomas,Laboratory of Vision Research (LVR)
Rutgers University
Dr. Mubbasir Kapadia, Intelligent Visual Interfaces Lab
Rutgers University
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JULY 16,2020
8-9:15 AM: LONG PRESENTATIONS (Full Session Details)
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, & Amy LaViers
Let's Resonate! How to Elicit Improvisation and Letting Go in Interactive Digital Art
-Jean-François Jego & Margherita Bergamo
Designing Glitch Procedures and Re-visualisation Strategies for Markerless Live Motion Capture of Contemporary Dance
-Stephan Jürgens, Nuno N. Correia, & Raul Masu
MoViz: A Visualization Tool for Comparing Motion Capture Data Clustering Algorithms
-Lucas Liu, Duri Long, & Brian Magerko
MotionHub: Middleware for Unification of Multiple Body Tracking Systems
-Philipp Ladwig, Kester Evers, Eric J. Jansen, Ben Fischer, David Nowottnik, & Christian Geiger
9:15-10:15 AM: GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM (Full Session Details)
DogDog: Soma-Based Interface Design for an Improvising Musician
-Francesco Bigoni & Cumhur Erkut
The Effects of Visual Feedback Complexity on Training the Two-Legged Squat Exercise
-Sean Sanford, Mingxiao Liu, Thomas Selvaggi & Raviraj Nataraj
Real-Time Optical Motion Capture Balance Sonification System
-Mitchell Tillman, Luke Dahl, Christopher B. Knowlton & Antonia Zaferiou
Inducing Cognition of Secure Grasp and Agency to Accelerate Motor Rehabilitation from an Instrumented Glove
-Mingxiao Liu, Samuel Wilder, Sean Sanford & Raviraj Nataraj
Movement detection software to enhance autism assessment processes
-Roberta Simeoli, Miriana Arnucci, Angelo Rega & Davide Marocco
Evaluation of Movement and Motor Skills for Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder
-Louise B. Ribeiro, Antonia Zaferiou, & Manoel Da Silva Filho
Designing Human-Object Performances using Theatre Practices and Machine Learning
-Joanne L Martin
10:15-10:45 AM: “STEM From Dance” NETWORKING (Full Session Details)
11 AM -12:45 PM: KEYNOTE HEIDI LATSKY & PANEL (Full Session Details)
PANELISTS:
Loren Abdulezer, CEO, Evolving Technologies Corporation
Tiffany Geigel, HLD Dancer
Rosa Weinberg, Director of Studio Development, NuVu Studio
Gregory Youdan, Independent Movement Scientist
12:45-1:30 PM: PARALLEL NETWORKING SESSIONS
SESSION 1 (Full Session Details)
12:45 PM Dance / Parkinsons
Jeff Friedman, Dance Department
Rutgers University
1 PM Bridging Scientific Research and Creative Practice NETWORKING
SESSION 2
12:45 mbt - Mobile EEG Demo
1:30- 3 PM: PRACTICE WORK DEMOS (Full Session Details)
Spheres a Dance for Virtual Reality
-Sarah Neville
Can you say something?
-Mimi Yin, Tiri Kananuruk, & Nini Dongnier
Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?
-Aurie Hsu & Steven Kemper
«Tanzseil»
-Lisa Mark & Mira Studer
OUTPUT: Vestiges of Human and Robot Bodies
-Catie Cuan
3- 4 PM: MANA CONTEMPORARY “LIVING PRACTICE: CHOREOGRAPHER KYLE MARSHALL” (Session Details)
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JULY 17,2020
8-8:30 AM: GUIDED MEDITATION WORKSHOP* (Full Session Details)
*be prepared to move about space
An Interactive Soundscape to Assist Group Walking Mindfulness Meditation
-Karen Anne Cochrane, Matt Leete, Lian Loke, Naseem Ahmadpour, & Andrew Campbell
8:30- 9:45 AM: LONG PRESENTATIONS (Full Session Details)
(welcoming remarks by Dr. Jason Geary, Dean, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University)
SESSION CHAIRS: Dr. Antonia Zaferiou & Dr. Aurie Hsu
Sonification of Heart Rate Variability can Entrain Bodies in Motion
- Vilelmini Kalampratsidou & Elizabeth Torres
Human-Sound Interaction: Towards a human-centred sonic interaction design approach
-Balandino Di Donato, Christopher Dewey, & 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, & Lucas Bang
Somatic Sonification in Dance Performances. From the Artistic to the Perceptual and Back
-Andrea Giomi
9:45- 10:45 AM: PRACTICE WORK SHORT PRESENTATIONS (Full Session Details)
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 & 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 & Lasantha Chandana Goonetilleke
11 AM -12:15: KEYNOTE GIL WEINBERG (Full Session Details)
12:15-1 PM: mbt- Brainwaves, Music, Movies, and More
Dr. David Bridwell
1- 2:30 PM: PRACTICE WORKS DEMOS (Full Session Details)
Doppelgänger III
-Weilu Ge & 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, & Bruno Martelli
Extended Play: Augmented Reality Dance for Vinyl Records
-Christopher Knowlton
Dotdot
-Kate Stevenson, Christopher White, & Jacques Foottit
2:30 - 4 PM: CLOSING MOCO’20, INTRODUCING MOCO’21 & NETWORKING MOCO Trivia
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