MOCO 2014 - International Workshop on Movement and Computing

MOCO is the first International Workshop on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, transformation or generation of movement information. We welcome research that models movement, technology and computation, and is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science. We invite participants interested in exploring how movement experience can contribute to computational knowledge through movement modeling and representation. The workshop references the challenge of representing embodied movement knowledge within computational models, yet it also celebrates the inherent expression available within movement as a language. 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. Many fields, including Interaction Design, HCI, Education and Machine Learning have been inspired by recent developments within Neuroscience validating the primacy of movement in cognitive development and human intelligence. This has spawned a growing interest in experiential principles of movement awareness and mindfulness, while simultaneously fueling the need for developing computational models that can describe movement intelligence with greater rigour. This conference seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognition and computational representation.
MOCO will bring together people working in interdisciplinary intersections of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Affective Computing, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Artists from Media Art, Choreography, Composition, Dance and Design. The workshop aims at promoting scientific and artistic collaborations within this inter-disciplinary boundary. It will offer opportunities to disseminate emerging research works through presentations, demonstrations, and group discussions.
Keynote Speakers
David Kirsh, Professor at University of California San Diego, USA.
Norman Badler, Professor at University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Suggested Topics
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 kinesthetic 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 and movement
Movement expression in avatar, artificial agents, virtual humans or robots.
Music and movement
Participation to the workshop
The workshop is an opportunity to present a research or a collaborative work. Participants will have the possibility to make a presentation of the results of their research on one of the themes of the workshop, and to interact with their scientific, artistic peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.
If you are interested in an oral presentation of your work with an optional demonstration, please indicate this when submitting your paper.
Submission date and format
Technical papers with optional demo, 4 to 6 pages: 15th February 2014.
Notifications: 16 March 2014.
All submission will be double blind peer-reviewed.
Submission need to be anonymous. Please use the ACM template (alternate style): http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...
All submissions must be done through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moco14
Venue
Ircam ? Centre Pompidou, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France, http://www.ircam.fr
MOCO14 will be co-located with the Manifeste Festival (http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr, 2014 website under construction)
Workshop Chairs
Frederic Bevilacqua, Ircam, Paris, France
Sarah Fdili Alaoui, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
Thecla Schiphorst, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
Philippe Pasquier, SIAT, SFU, Vancouver, Canada
Jules Françoise, Ircam, Paris, France
Contact email: moco14-AT-easychair.org
Local Organization Commitee
Ircam ? STMS joint research unit with CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie ? Paris
Sylvie Benoit, Ircam, Paris, France
Frederic Bevilacqua, Ircam, Paris, France
Eric Boyer, Ircam, Paris, France
Emmanuel Fléty, Ircam, Paris, France
Jules Françoise, Ircam, Paris, France
Norbert Schnell, Ircam, Paris, France
Diemo Schwarz, Ircam, Paris, France
Hugues Vinet, Ircam, Paris, France