@inproceedings{7febec211c214a68b9f5a8b5f08e333f,
title = "Motion, Captured: An open repository for comparative movement studies",
abstract = "This paper begins to describe a new kind of database, one that explores a diverse range of movement in the field of dance through capture of different bodies and different backgrounds - or what we are terming movement vernaculars. We re-purpose Ivan Illich's concept of 'vernacular work' [11] here to refer to those everyday forms of dance and organized movement that are informal, refractory (resistant to formal analysis), yet are socially reproduced and derived from a commons. The project investigates the notion of vernaculars in movement that is intentional and aesthetic through the development of a computational approach that highlights both similarities and differences, thereby revealing the specificities of each individual mover. This paper presents an example of how this movement database is used as a research tool, and how the fruits of that research can be added back to the database, thus adding a novel layer of annotation and further enriching the collection. Future researchers can then benefit from this layer, further refining and building upon these techniques. The creation of a robust, open source, movement lexicon repository will allow for observation, speculation, and con-textualization - along with the provision of clean and complex data sets for new forms of creative expression.",
keywords = "Annotation, Clustering, Community, Crowd-sourcing, Database, Machine-learning, Motion capture, Movement, Open-source, Repository, Translation",
author = "Varsha Iyengar and Grisha Coleman and David Tinapple and Pavan Turaga",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2016 ; Conference date: 05-07-2016 Through 06-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1145/2948910.2948938",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2016",
}