Research on the dancing education system focusing on the synchronization of sound and body action

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22300208
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Physical education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: ISE Shiro 京都大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 准教授 (20211732)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): OMOTO Akira (00233619) ; WATANABE Yuko ; UENO Kanako (10313107) ; TAKEOKA Shigeto (30514468)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: リズム感 / 舞踊教育 / 能動性 / 技能 / 音と身体の同期

Research Abstract

In this research, we aim to develop the dance training system, using the sensor technology for promoting the acquisition of the dancing skills. For this purpose, we firstly developed the sensor system which could be attached on the subject, and it also could detect and display the acceleration signals from several subject's body motions (more than ten people) simultaneously. Besides, quantitative discussions of dance skills require understandings of the precision of the measurement in time, when subjects synchronize their body motions with sound, and therefore, an additional function of the sound recording synchronized with the acceleration signals from the body was implemented in the sensor system. A fundamental experiment was conducted in order to examine the basic performance of our proposed system, and it showed a capability of tracking the improvement of dance skills.