Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions Through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens

by Amy Laviers and Catherine Maguire

A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics.

How should a gestural interface react to a "flick" versus a "dab"? Versus a "punch"? Should robots reach out to a human counterpart with a direct, telescoping action or through a circuitous arc in space? Just as different movements express the different internal states of human movers, so too can the engineered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546124
• ISBN13: 9780262546126
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"