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Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'06)
pp. 177-184
A Study of Collaborative Dancing in Tele-immersive Environments
Zhenyu Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Bin Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Wanmin Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ross Diankov, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Ruzena Bajscy, University of California at Berkeley, USA
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We first present the tele-immersive environments developed
jointly by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and University of California at Berkeley. The environment
features 3D full and real body capturing, wide field of view,
multi-display 3D rendering, and attachment free participant.
We then describe a study of collaborative dancing between
remotely located dancers in the shared virtual space.
Two professional dancers are invited to the tele-immersive
site of each university. As a preliminary experiment, we let
the dancers perform elementary body movements and coordinate
their dancing. The coordination requires one dancer
to take the lead while the other follows her by appropriate
movements. During the experiment, the dancers are
dancing at various motion rates to evaluate how well the
collaborative dancing is supported with the current technical
boundary. Our important findings indicate that 1)
tele-immersive environments have strong potential impact
on the concept of choreography and communication of live
dance performance, 2) the presence of multi-display system,
real body 3D rendering, audio channel, and less intrusiveness
greatly enhances the immersive and dancing experience,
and 3) the level of synchronization achieved by the
dancers is higher than that expected from the video rate.
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Index Terms- 3D tele-immersive environments, collaboration, dance
Citation:
Zhenyu Yang, Bin Yu, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Ross Diankov, Ruzena Bajscy,
"A Study of Collaborative Dancing in Tele-immersive Environments,"
ism,
pp. 177-184,
Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'06),
2006
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