April 4, 2008

Preparing for New Blog

I'll soon be launching a new blog on Great Dance. I have about two to four weeks left of research before I'm ready to roll it out.

The goal of my new blog is ambitious: I'd like to engage a much larger number of people outside of the dance community in conversations about dance, movement and gestures.

Much more to come.

A Bit of a Teaser

Here are three stories and videos that "point" to new directions in how gestures are being used to interact with our increasingly digital world:

In Robots Controlled by Gestures on Technabob, you can read about the robotic work of engineer Tsuyoshi Horo at Tokyo University. He has created robots that move based upon hand gesture directions.

Architectradure writes about a research project called BodyMnemonic.

Body Mnemonic is a concept for using different parts of the body to control a range of mobile devices. A tap to the ear can activate an iPod, for example. Watch videos on project web site:

Also in Technabob, you'll find a story about the Touchless Touch Screen User Interface. The post is about Eliptic Labs' development of a 3D touchless mouse that uses gestures to control on-screen activity:

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