Dance learning is by nature multimodal, while dance practice presents a wide diversity across genres and contexts. Choreography and artistic contemporary dance performances have been using interactive technologies to support their creative process for several decades. Nevertheless the use of interactive technologies to support dance learning and education is still relatively immature and raises...

Notation systems are used in almost all fields, especially for the communication and expression of ideas. This paper proposes and discusses a notation system for Gametrak-based computer music instruments. The notation system’s design is informed both by Western music notation and dance notation, as well as common mappings used in laptop orchestras. It is designed to be soundagnostic, primarily ...

A honey bee colony has been likened to an oil company. Somemembers of the company or colony prospect for valuable liquid resources. When these are discovered other group members can be recruited to exploit the resource. The recruitment of nestmates to a specific location where there is a patch of flowers should change the economics of scouting, that is, the search for new resource patches. In p...

Résumé. Dans cet article nous présentons deux approches de visualisation développées dans le cadre d’un projet collaboratif sur l’accès et l’exploitation des données prosopographiques de la Renaissance en France. L’objectif du projet est de modéliser et réaliser un portail sémantique assurant l’accès à différentes bases de données prosopographiques existantes afin de permettre une meilleure exp...

Résumé: La technologie sans fils aura un rôle de plus en plus important à jouer dans les télécommunications grâce à leurs propriétés, notamment, d’autonomie, d’intelligence et/ou de mobilité. Les réseaux sans fil joueront également un rôle de plus en plus important offrant un accès omniprésent au réseau, favorisant ainsi la mobilité de l’utilisateur. Plusieurs auteurs ont modélisé les réseaux a...

BharataNatyam (BN) is an ancient Indian Classical Dance (ICD). Creativity and innovation are the soul of any art including BN dance. Within the framework of rules and traditionally accepted boundaries, choreographers try to innovate and create unseen, aesthetic and novel BN dance sequences. The human efforts can be supported with the computational assistance to generate valid, genuine BN dance ...

Throughout history, dance has maintained a critical presence across all human cultures, defying barriers of class, race, and status. How dance has synergistically co-evolved with humans has fueled a rich debate on the function of art and the essence of aesthetic experience, engaging numerous artists, historians, philosophers, and scientists. While dance shares many features with other art forms...

OBJECTIVE To see whether dance therapy was more effective than conventional exercise in exercise capacity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with chronic heart failure. DESIGN AND METHODS Systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, EMBASE, SPORT Scielo, CINAHL (from the earliest date available to August 2013) for randomize...

Dance is a non-pharmacological intervention that helps maintain functional independence and quality of life in people with Parkinson's disease (PPD). Results from controlled studies on group-delivered dance for people with mild-to-moderate stage Parkinson's have shown statistically and clinically significant improvements in gait, balance, and psychosocial factors. Tested interventions include n...

Dancers are clearly athletes in the degree to which sophisticated physical capacities are required to perform at a high level. The standard complement of athletic attributes - muscular strength and endurance, anaerobic and aerobic energy utilization, speed, agility, coordination, motor control, and psychological readiness - all are essential to dance performance. In dance, as in any athletic ac...