Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction

Dennis  Reidsma; Herwin van Welbergen; Ronald Poppe; Pieter Bos; Anton Nijholt

doi:10.1007/11872320_1

Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction

Dennis Reidsma, Herwin van Welbergen, Ronald Poppe, Pieter Bos, Anton Nijholt

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

19 Citations (Scopus)

16 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Dancing is an entertaining form of taskless interaction.When interacting with a dancing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA), the lack of a clear task presents the challenge of eliciting an interaction between user and ECA in a different way. In this paper we describe our Virtual Dancer, which is an ECA that invites a user to dance. In our system the user is monitored using global movement characteristics from a camera and a dance pad. The characteristics are used to select and adapt movements for the Virtual Dancer. This way, the user can dance together with the Virtual Dancer. Any interaction patterns and implicit relations between the dance behaviour of the human and the Virtual Dancer should be evoked intuitively without explicit appeal. The work described in this paper can be used as a platform for research into natural animation and user invitation behavior. We discuss future work on both topics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006
Subtitle of host publication	5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings
Editors	Richard Harper, Matthias Rauterberg, Marco Combetto
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-540-45261-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-45259-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_1
Publication status	Published - Sept 2006
Event	5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Sept 2006 → 22 Sept 2006 Conference number: 5

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	4161
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006
Abbreviated title	ICEC
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	20/09/06 → 22/09/06

Keywords

EWI-8380
IR-63745
METIS-238720

Access to Document

10.1007/11872320_1

Cite this

Reidsma, D., van Welbergen, H., Poppe, R., Bos, P., & Nijholt, A. (2006). Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction. In R. Harper, M. Rauterberg, & M. Combetto (Eds.), Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: 5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 1-12). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4161). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_1

@inproceedings{7a4a8d7eec974f0e8a259850bdd47611,

title = "Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction",

abstract = "Dancing is an entertaining form of taskless interaction.When interacting with a dancing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA), the lack of a clear task presents the challenge of eliciting an interaction between user and ECA in a different way. In this paper we describe our Virtual Dancer, which is an ECA that invites a user to dance. In our system the user is monitored using global movement characteristics from a camera and a dance pad. The characteristics are used to select and adapt movements for the Virtual Dancer. This way, the user can dance together with the Virtual Dancer. Any interaction patterns and implicit relations between the dance behaviour of the human and the Virtual Dancer should be evoked intuitively without explicit appeal. The work described in this paper can be used as a platform for research into natural animation and user invitation behavior. We discuss future work on both topics.",

keywords = "EWI-8380, IR-63745, METIS-238720",

author = "Dennis Reidsma and {van Welbergen}, Herwin and Ronald Poppe and Pieter Bos and Anton Nijholt",

year = "2006",

month = sep,

doi = "10.1007/11872320_1",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-3-540-45259-1",

series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",

publisher = "Springer",

pages = "1--12",

editor = "Richard Harper and Matthias Rauterberg and Marco Combetto",

booktitle = "Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006",

address = "Germany",

note = "5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006, ICEC ; Conference date: 20-09-2006 Through 22-09-2006",

}

Reidsma, D, van Welbergen, H, Poppe, R, Bos, P & Nijholt, A 2006, Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction. in R Harper, M Rauterberg & M Combetto (eds), Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: 5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4161, Springer, Berlin, pp. 1-12, 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 20/09/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_1

Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction. / Reidsma, Dennis ; van Welbergen, Herwin; Poppe, Ronald et al.
Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: 5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings. ed. / Richard Harper; Matthias Rauterberg; Marco Combetto. Berlin: Springer, 2006. p. 1-12 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4161).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction

AU - Reidsma, Dennis

AU - van Welbergen, Herwin

AU - Poppe, Ronald

AU - Bos, Pieter

AU - Nijholt, Anton

N1 - Conference code: 5

PY - 2006/9

Y1 - 2006/9

N2 - Dancing is an entertaining form of taskless interaction.When interacting with a dancing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA), the lack of a clear task presents the challenge of eliciting an interaction between user and ECA in a different way. In this paper we describe our Virtual Dancer, which is an ECA that invites a user to dance. In our system the user is monitored using global movement characteristics from a camera and a dance pad. The characteristics are used to select and adapt movements for the Virtual Dancer. This way, the user can dance together with the Virtual Dancer. Any interaction patterns and implicit relations between the dance behaviour of the human and the Virtual Dancer should be evoked intuitively without explicit appeal. The work described in this paper can be used as a platform for research into natural animation and user invitation behavior. We discuss future work on both topics.

AB - Dancing is an entertaining form of taskless interaction.When interacting with a dancing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA), the lack of a clear task presents the challenge of eliciting an interaction between user and ECA in a different way. In this paper we describe our Virtual Dancer, which is an ECA that invites a user to dance. In our system the user is monitored using global movement characteristics from a camera and a dance pad. The characteristics are used to select and adapt movements for the Virtual Dancer. This way, the user can dance together with the Virtual Dancer. Any interaction patterns and implicit relations between the dance behaviour of the human and the Virtual Dancer should be evoked intuitively without explicit appeal. The work described in this paper can be used as a platform for research into natural animation and user invitation behavior. We discuss future work on both topics.

KW - EWI-8380

KW - IR-63745

KW - METIS-238720

U2 - 10.1007/11872320_1

DO - 10.1007/11872320_1

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-3-540-45259-1

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

SP - 1

EP - 12

BT - Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006

A2 - Harper, Richard

A2 - Rauterberg, Matthias

A2 - Combetto, Marco

PB - Springer

CY - Berlin

T2 - 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006

Y2 - 20 September 2006 through 22 September 2006

ER -

Towards Bi-directional Dancing Interaction

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this