MOCO 2015 - 2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing

Building on the success of the first International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO’14) at IRCAM, we are happy to announce the second edition, MOCO’15 at Simon Fraser University. MOCO’15 will be co-located with ISEA2015
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.
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.
This second edition of 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.
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 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
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.