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In this workshop, we introduced participants to the tacit and often hidden skills of doing interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to understand lived experience in engineering education. With the growth of IPA research in engineering education, this workshop was designed to sharpen the skills of participants who come with experience in qualitative research and provide practical guidance to participants who may be novices to qualitative research. The workshop was characterized by an interactive style, in which participants collectively analyze a transcript excerpt from an interview with an engineering student regarding their experience of shame. To strengthen the translation of the workshop, the session was intentionally facilitated by both an expert in conducting IPA research and a highly trained engineer who is at the beginning stages of doing IPA.
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Tutorial on Movement Notation: An Interdisciplinary Methodology for HRI to Reveal the Bodily Expression of Human Counterparts via Collecting Annotations from Dancers in a Shared Data Repository
How do we make a machine that indicates changes to its internal state, e.g., status, goals, attitude, or even emotion, through changes in movement profiles? This workshop will pose a possible direction toward such ends that leverages movement notation as a source for clearly defining abstract concepts of similarity and symbolic representation of the parts and patterns of movement - in order to identify, record and interpret patterns of human movement on both the micro and macro levels. First, we will move together. This will activate an innate ability to imitate each other and, in doing so, illuminate the principal components of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies – a field comprised of Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals – and the Body, Effort, Shape, Space, and Time (BESST) System of movement analysis. This system of work, deriving from dance and physical therapy practices, which is a textbook; thus, a key value proposition of the workshop is in its embodied, situated nature that can be supplemented by textbooks, including a newly released book from MIT Press authored by the workshop organizers. Next, we will try to write down what we’re doing. A set of symbols for describing elements of the BESST System, which seem to be particularly perceptually meaningful to human observers, will be presented so that movement ideas can be notated and, thus, translated between bodies. We will explore both Labanotation and a related “motif”-style notation. This workshop is supported by NSF grant numbers 2234195 and 2234197.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2234195
- PAR ID:
- 10493019
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE/ACM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction Companion
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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