In this paper, design scenarios made possible by the use of an interactive illuminated floor as the basis of an audiovisual environment are presented. By interfacing a network of pressure sensitive, light-emitting tiles with a 5.1 channel speaker system and requisite audio software, many avenues for collaborative expression emerge, as do heretofore unexplored modes of multiplayer music and danc...

Résumé. Dans cet article, nous montrons que les performances d’un modèle prédictif dépendent généralement plus de la qualité des données et du soin apporté à leur préparation et à leur sélection, que de la technique de modélisation elle-même. Entre deux techniques, l’écart de performance est souvent négligeable en regard des incertitudes résultant de la définition de la variable à expliquer et ...

Background. It is observed that dance delivers a valuable contribution to the development of bodily motor functions. Objectives. To evaluate the static and dynamic balance in children with Down syndrome - DS enrolled in a Dance Workshop for people with disabilities. Methods. Balance tests proposed by Oliveira (2009) were used on 14 children with DS aged between 8 and 12 (mean 9.36 ± 1.2 years...

Résumé. Dans la littérature, de nombreux travaux traitent de méthodes d’alignement d’ontologies. Ils utilisent, pour la plupart, des relations basées sur des mesures de similarité qui ont la particularité d’être symétriques. Cependant, peu de travaux évaluent l’intérêt d’utiliser des mesures d’appariement asymétriques dans le but d’enrichir l’alignement produit. Ainsi, nous proposons dans ce pa...

The paper aims to look at those community-organizing phenomena that provided alternatives to officially supported, mandatory youth activities and played a vital role in the everyday life of young people in socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 80s. The urban folk dance and music revival, the so-called táncház (dance house) movement, is highlighted. The authors argue that the dance house as a subcu...

Résumé. Un des problèmes majeurs dans la gestion des ontologies est son évaluation. Cet article traite l’évaluation des concepts ontologiques qui sont extraits de pages Web. Pour cela, nous avons proposé une méthodologie d’évaluation des concepts basée trois critères révélateurs : « le degré de crédibilité »; « le degré de cohésion » et « le degré d’éligibilité ». Chaque critère correspond à un...

Honeybees coordinate foraging efforts across vast areas through a complex system of advertising and recruitment. One mechanism for coordination is the waggle dance, a movement pattern which carries positional information about food sources. However, recent evidence suggests that recruited foragers may not use the dance’s positional information to the degree that has traditionally been believed....

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the effort required to maintain a static pose by human beings. The problem is important in developing dance summarization and rehabilitation applications. We estimate the human pose effort using two kinds of body constraints – skeletal constraints and gravitational constraints. The extracted features are combined together using SVM regression to e...

We propose a new method for extracting primitive motions from dance motion sequence. In these days, many important intangible cultural properties of the world are being lost because of the lack of successive performers. Digital archiving technology is one of the effective solutions for this issue, and we have started our digital archiving project of cultural properties including these intangibl...

Dance is a widely practiced and appreciated art around the world; a highly rich event that “grows out of culture and feeds back into it” (Fraleigh, "Family Resemblance" 6). Dance scholars in the West, however, have frequently complained about the little interest aestheticians have shown in dance and its complexities compared to other arts (Cohen, "A Prolegomenon" 26; McFee, Dance, Education and...