Overview
• Online ballet dictionary and syllabus:
– Dance 66: Ballet Fundamentals
– Dance 68: Ballet I
– how it has been used as a learning resource outside the classroom
• Three dimensional dance archiving technology
– explanation of its potential uses;
– progress to date
• Incorporation of interactive dance technology into ECE
Design Class projects
– ECE 51: Microelectronic Circuit Design
3-D dance archiving technology
• Would like to capture live dance
– Review by students
– Dance Archives
• Interactive 3-D models
Technologies
– Camera + markers – state of the art
– Inertial sensors + active markers
– Camera alone
image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)
Technologies
• Camera + markers – state of the art
image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)
Technologies
• inertial sensors + active markers
– intrusive and expensive
Technologies
• Camera alone
– very new
– $88,000
– Single user
– Special
environment
2009
image: http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/interserviceindustry-training-simulation-education-conference-9248
Proposed Dance Archiving
System
• Augmented Camera
– Open source camera only system
– Add thin wireless inertial sensors + active
markers
Credit: http://www.zingbeauty.com/dance.html
progress to date
• Masters Students have built a prototype
inertial sensor:
Undergraduate research
Applying inertial sensors to body tracking
Plans
• Seeking students to work on open source
software camera motion capture project
• MS students working on the 3-D inertial
tracker refinements
• Integration of camera motion capture and
inertial tracker:
– software development required
Overview
• Online ballet dictionary and syllabus:
– Dance 66: Ballet Fundamentals
– Dance 68: Ballet I
– how it has been used as a learning resource outside the classroom
• Three dimensional dance archiving technology
– explanation of its potential uses;
– progress to date
• Incorporation of interactive dance technology into ECE
Design Class projects
– ECE 51: Microelectronic Circuit Design
Incorporation of interactive dance
technology Design Classes
• ECE 51: Microelectronic Circuit Design
ECE 51
• First devices and circuits class for Electrical
and Computer Engineering majors
• Small teams design / build / test circuits
• Semester long projects
– Interactive Dance projects
– Canes / floor / chairs
• Use video to “teach”
– circuit design and fabrication
– individual and team labs
Formed Groups
• 14 groups 3-4
students each
• Equally divided
canes; floor; chairs
Canes
• Wireless canes
• Developed many sensors:
– motion; touch; light;
Floors
• Students had to develop technology for
low cost floor sensors
– Paper capacitors; plastic foam resistors
Chairs
• Chairs were instrumented with motion and
pressure sensors
Integrated Systems
• We used commercial software and MIDI
interfaces to allow the dance devices to
control real time video.
Video demos
Yes we Cane Video
Chairman Mao Video
Video Instruction for Labs
• Jing used for software design of circuits
• Webcam/digital camera used to record
video
• MS movie maker editing
• Blackboard 8 used for display
• Also have videos on YouTube
– Still experimenting with this
Blackboard Site
• Jing video:
– https://courses.duke.edu/webapps/blackboard
/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_88081_1
&content_id=_1870761_1
• Lab demonstration:
– https://courses.duke.edu/webapps/blackboard
/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_88081_1
&content_id=_1873146_1
– YouTube
Issues
• Project course happiness bounce
• Video learning not enough alone
The Project course Happiness
Bounce
• Survey Monkey Survey of Happieness
Plans for future
• Some of the interactive projects will be
incorporated into a production
• “Chairman Mao” Chair is being worked on
now.
Conclusions
• Video is a great tool for us for learning
– Online Video Ballet Dictionary is working
– Video Labs enable students to use more
circuits
• Video is not enough
– Students do not learn deeply from video
– Needs reinforcing with repetition and
feedback
• For dance need so much video that 3-D
models may be only workable solution