Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions Through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens Laviers Amy

Specifikacia Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions Through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens Laviers Amy

A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics.How should a gestural interface react to a "flick" versus a "dab"? Versus a "punch"? Should robots reach out to a human counterpart with a direct, telescoping action or through a circuitous arc in space? Just as different movements express the different internal states of human movers, so too can the engineered systems behind robots. In Making Meaning with Machines, Amy LaViers and Catherine Maguire offer a refreshingly embodied approach to machine design that supports the growing need to make meaning with machines by using the field of movement studies, including choreography, somatics, and notation, to engage in the process of designing expressive robots.Drawing upon the Laban/Bartenieff tradition, LaViers and Maguire sharpen the