Movement in a Contemporary Dance Work and its Relation to Continuous Emotional Response

Sam Ferguson, Emery Schubert, and Catherine Stevens

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

In this paper, we describe a comparison between parameters drawn from 3-dimensional measurement of a dance performance, and continuous emotional response data recorded from an audience present during this performance. A continuous time series representing the mean movement as the dance unfolds is extracted from the 3-dimensional data. The audiences' continuous emotional response data are also represented as a time series, and the series are compared. We concluded that movement in the dance performance directly influences the emotional arousal response of the audience.

Citation:

Sam Ferguson, Emery Schubert, and Catherine Stevens. 2010. Movement in a Contemporary Dance Work and its Relation to Continuous Emotional Response. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177767

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Ferguson2010,
 abstract = {In this paper, we describe a comparison between parameters drawn from 3-dimensional measurement of a dance performance, and continuous emotional response data recorded from an audience present during this performance. A continuous time series representing the mean movement as the dance unfolds is extracted from the 3-dimensional data. The audiences' continuous emotional response data are also represented as a time series, and the series are compared. We concluded that movement in the dance performance directly influences the emotional arousal response of the audience. },
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 author = {Ferguson, Sam and Schubert, Emery and Stevens, Catherine},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177767},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Dance, Emotion, Motion Capture, Continuous Response.},
 pages = {481--484},
 title = {Movement in a Contemporary Dance Work and its Relation to Continuous Emotional Response},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2010/nime2010_481.pdf},
 year = {2010}
}