Project Goal

Our main concept was to support locus dance framework play in an online version so that anyone can try it at home, specifically supporting blind community. More details on my locus framework exploration can be found here. 

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​My Role

My role is to support them in exploring different ways to achieve a design goal. For instance, I gave them time to experiment with different technologies hardware and software both. Then I introduced them to new methods of empathising with problems and ideating. When we had a concrete concept, I guided them to try bodystorming. 

 

Something I learned in my PhD as well as in this supervision is that our mind shift of balancing between future outcomes and what we can achieve now. Sometimes we stop ourselves from experimenting things just because there is no carved path at the current instance but that could be a future research. Also, to accept that learning is a curve, we cannot rush things no matter how urgent it looks like.  

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​Student Team

 

• Chanel (with the peace hand gesture) is responsible for coordinating the team, representing at conferences such as Sxcw and also creating the front end combining all the work done by other team members.

• Angel (with shades on the sweater) explored how sound can be incorporated to provide feedback during the movement play. She experimented with tone.js and pose training models.

• Divyana (glasses over the head) also explored pose training models and integrating to providing randomised locus locations. She explored how the dancers hand position can be mapped tp body tracking models.

• Ben explored how to do pose detection for Contemporary body poses. He started with working on a data training model.

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