[ISEA2019] Paper: Kyungho Lee — Misplaced Euphoria: Developing Kinesthetic Empathy Through Interactive Performance

Abstract

Misplaced Euphoria is an interactive performance that consists of expressive movement, expressive gesture recognition, and interactive visualization that aims to develop empathy for people with bipolar disorder. This project explored the characteristics of those with bipolar disorder through the mediums of dance and interactive visualization driven by expressive gesture recognition. To develop an interactive performance, we conducted an interview with a person to gather information. We used the insights collected from the interview processes as a base for our creative process. To convey the inner state of the dancer to the audience, 6-DOF acceleration sensors, attached to the dancers arms, were used to capture her movement. We then used the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to parameterize the dancers expression, and the results were visualized through the Rutt-Etra algorithm on a real-time basis.

  • Kyungho Lee, Illinois Informatics Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Full text (PDF) p. 616-617

This research was supported by the Fiddler Innovation Research Fellowship. We wish to thank Jerry Fiddler and Melissa Alden for their generous support. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign