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“It’s Like Being on Stage”: Staging an Improvisational Haptic-Installed Contemporary Dance Performance

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Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction (EuroHaptics 2024)

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There is increasing research exploring how to augment expressive movements in dance practices by using haptic technologies. Meanwhile, less is known about how the audience perceives such information. In this study, we explore the potential of using a haptic wristband to convey contemporary dancers’ performative somatic information to the audience through real-time control of haptic feedback by a haptic DJ. We then evaluate audience members’ expectations towards the haptic-enabled viewing dance in a public performance setting. Participants indicated satisfaction with the improvisational haptic dance viewing experience.

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This research is supported by JST Moonshot R&D Program “Cybernetic being” Project (Grant number JPMJMS2013). The performance was created in cooperation with Session House and Bushman, and supported by the Arts Council Tokyo.

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    Xuan Li, Ximing Shen, Youichi Kamiyama, Danny Hynds, Arata Horie, Sohei Wakisaka & Kouta Minamizawa

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Li, X. et al. (2025). “It’s Like Being on Stage”: Staging an Improvisational Haptic-Installed Contemporary Dance Performance. In: Kajimoto, H., et al. Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction. EuroHaptics 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14768. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70058-3_41

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