CANCELED: MITH Digital Dialogues: Tracking the Invisible - Following Movement Beyond Space and Time Markers
CANCELED: MITH Digital Dialogues: Tracking the Invisible - Following Movement Beyond Space and Time Markers
Currently, there are many options to track human movement with technology (i.e. capturing body position, number of steps taken, range of motion, how long one has been sitting vs. moving, etc). While these methods tell us a story about our movement, there is more to the experience than technology can tell us yet based on measurements of time and space. Kristin Carlson's work investigates methods that use technology to reveal what can be known as more “invisible” aspects of movement, which are present but less measurable. These invisible aspects can include qualities of effort, intention and follow through. An individual's motivation to move is complex, relying on self-developed identities, and experiences within the world. People often do not isolate movement from their needs and goals, the way technology needs to. Hence, it is difficult to deconstruct movement without accounting for the invisible. By using strategies such as defamiliarization and documenting motivation and shifts in creative process, one can start to see new aspects that inform movement knowledge. These approaches can imagine ways that technology can develop to better support one's experiences.
Co-sponsored by Immersive Media Design (IMDM) at University of Maryland.
About the Speaker:
Kristin Carlson is an assistant professor in the Creative Technologies Program at Illinois State University, exploring the role that computation plays in embodied creative processes. She has a history of working in choreography, computational creativity, media performance and interactive art and design tools. Kristin is a researcher with the movingstories: Tools for Digital Movement, Meaning and Interaction research partnership exploring the cognition of movement experience and designing movement applications for creativity support tools.