Beautiful dance moves: mapping movement, technology & computation

This Creativity & Cognition 2013 workshop explores emerging methods for mapping movement, technology and computation. We invite participants that are interested in bodily experience within computational knowledge representation. The title Beautiful Dance Moves, references the challenge of representing embodied movement knowledge within computational models. While human movement itself focuses on bodily experience, developing computational models for movement requires abstraction and representation of lived embodied cognition. Mappings between movement and its rich personal and cultural meanings provide an underexplored research domain that can provide insight within computational modeling. Many fields, including Interaction Design, have been inspired by recent developments within Neuroscience validating the primacy of movement in cognitive development and human intelligence. This has spawned a growing interest in experiential principles of movement awareness and mindfulness, while simultaneously fueling the need for developing computational models that can describe movement intelligence with greater rigour. This workshop seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognitive and computational representation.