Dancing with Technology: Creativity Support Tools in the Performing Arts
Dr David Wilson,
University of North Carolina
5 June 2013, Watts 504 @ 1pm
Abstract
Over the past 3 years, the Dance.Draw project at UNC Charlotte has been investigating issues in computational support to enhance creativity in the performing arts, specifically in dance performance. Our research covers (1) real-time sensing of dancers' movements coupled with interactive performance visualizations, (2) enhancing and measuring audience engagement, and (3) support tools for the creative, collaborative process of performing arts production. This talk presents an overview of project research, performances, and lessons learned.
Dr David Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research centres on the development of intelligent software systems to bridge the gaps between human information needs and the computational resources available to meet them. It involves the coordination of intelligent systems techniques (Case-Based Reasoning, Machine Learning, etc.) with geographic, multimedia, database, internet, and communications systems in order to elicit, enhance, apply, and present relevant task-based knowledge. Dr. Wilson has ongoing research projects in Health Informatics, Meta-Reasoning, Creativity Support, Semantics for Geographic Information, Recommender System Robustness, and Group Based Recommendation.
