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About the Lab May22, 2008
“MOVEGEN” Seeking Collaborators
Wednesday Tea From Aidan Feldman (Computer Science & Dance),
for a GROCS proposal The system I am imagining,
Classes nicknamed “MoveGen:, would be an interactive
movement generator. This would allow a user to
create a virtual character, which would take some
Workshops sort of input (e.g. motion capture data, sound) September 16, 2008
and respond in a semi-autonomous way. I would
personally like to incorporate this into dance
Wednesday Tea
performance, but I believe it could be used for other 3.15 - 5.30 PM
applications, as well. I imagined creating a game
that acts like Peter Pan’s shadow, where a projected
figure would imitate the participant’s movement, Calendar
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but then decide to tease the user and run away. I
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already have a few serioudly interested parties
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(and potential sources of funding/support),
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including the UM3D Lab, the Ann Arbor Street 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Art Fair, and the Hands-On Museum. I am looking 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
for collaborators, particularly individuals with 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
strong programming skills, who have an interest in 31
the intersection of technology and the arts. I expect
to encounter challenges with 3D animation and
movement physics, computer vision, gesture
recognition, dance improvisationk, computational
creativity and artificial intelligence, so experience
or interest in those areas would be beneficial. The
scope of this project would be from present, at least
through April 2009. I hope to conduct research and
design (remotely), over the rest of this summer, and
then start development by the fall. Please contact me
if you (or anyone you know) might be interested!

Aidan Feldman, 4th-year, dual-degree CS and Dance

email: afeld@umich.edu, cell: 734-244-3000