#Meaning from Motion

What can movement convey?

Meaning from Motion was a two-year (2010-2012) interdisciplinary art/science research collaboration explores how motion can express meaningful and semantically rich information. I worked as a research assistant, co-authoring publications and producing performances.

Related performances and exhibits:

• Subyen, P., Maranan, D. S., Calrson, K., Schiphorst, T., & Pasquier, P. (2011, May). Flow: Expressing Movement Quality. Performance/demonstration presented at the The User in Flux Workshop Exhibition of CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
• Subyen, P., Maranan, D. S., Schiphorst, T., & Pasquier, P. (2010, October). Paint With Your Efforts. Interactive installation presented at the E-mixer 2010, Surrey Arts Centre, Surrey, BC, Canada.

Related publications:

• Maranan, D. S., Fdili Alaoui, S., Schiphorst, T., Pasquier, P., Subyen, P., & Bartram, L. (2014). Designing for Movement: Evaluating Computational Models Using LMA Effort Qualities. In Proceedings of the 32Nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 991–1000). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
• Subyen, P., Carlson, K., Maranan, D. S., & Schiphorst, T. (2013). Recognizing Movement Qualities: Mapping LMA Effort Factors to Visualization of Movement. Presented at the Beautiful Dance Moves: Mapping Movement, Technology & Computation Workshop: 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Sydney, Australia.
• Subyen, P., Maranan, D., Schiphorst, T., Pasquier, P., & Bartram, L. (2011). EMVIZ: the poetics of movement quality visualization. In Proc. Int. Symp. Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (pp. 121–128). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
• Maranan, D. S. (2012). Dance Illusioning the Cyborg: Technological Themes in the Movement Practices and Audience Perception of Three Urban Dance Styles (MA Thesis). School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada.
• Maranan, D. S., Schiphorst, T., Bartram, L., & Hwang, A. (2013). Expressing technological metaphors in dance using structural illusion from embodied motion. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 165–174). New York, NY, USA: ACM.

Principal investigators: Thecla Schiphorst, Dr. Lyn Bartram, Dr. Magy Seif El-Nasr. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts New Media Initiative and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.