Events

International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO15)
> Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology

August 14-15 2015, Vancouver Canada
Simon Fraser University

http://moco.iat.sfu.ca/

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MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. We invite participants interested in exploring how movement experience can contribute to computational knowledge through movement modeling and representation. We welcome researchers that are positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science. MOCO’15 will be co-located with ISEA2015 (http://isea2015.org/)

While human movement itself focuses on bodily experience, developing computational models for movement requires abstraction and representation of lived embodied cognition. Selecting appropriate models between movement and its rich personal and cultural meanings remains a challenge in movement interaction research. This two day workshop seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognition and computational representation.

= Suggested Topics
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  * Expressive movement-based interaction
  * Machine learning for movement
  * Modeling movement qualities
  * Gestural control
  * Movement generation
  * Movement and sound interaction
  * Sensori-motor learning with audio/visual feedback
  * Embodied cognition and movement
  * Visualizing movement
  * Modeling kinaesthetic empathy
  * Somatic practice and design
  * Whole-body interaction
  * Expressive movement analysis and synthesis
  * Design for movement in digital art
  * Semantic models for movement representation
  * Laban Movement Studies and computation
  * Dance and neuroscience
  * Biosensing, biocontrol and movement
  * Movement expression in avatar, artificial agents, virtual humans or robots.
  * Music and movement
  * Movement computation in ergonomics, sports, and health


= Submission
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The submission categories are:
    •    Long paper with oral presentation (8 pages maximum)
    •    Research note with oral presentation (4 pages maximum)
    •    Short paper with poster presentation (2 pages maximum)
    •    Demonstration (one of the above paper 2 pages minimum + Demo proposal form).


= Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: 1st of March 2015 (5:00pm PST)
Notification: 1st of May 2015
Early bird registration: 1st june 2015
Early program: 31st June 2015


= Workshop Chairs
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  * Thecla Schiphorst, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
  * Philippe Pasquier, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
  * Sarah Fdili Alaoui, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
  * Frederic Bevilacqua, Ircam, Paris, France
  * Jules Françoise, Ircam, Paris, France

Contact email: moco15@easychair.org