Salsa dance learning evaluation and motion analysis in gamified virtual reality environment
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Salsa dance learning evaluation and motion analysis in gamified virtual reality environment Simon Senecal1 · Niels A. Nijdam1 · Andreas Aristidou2,3 · Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann1 Received: 2 July 2019 / Revised: 10 April 2020 / Accepted: 5 June 2020 / © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Learning couple dance such as salsa is challenging as it requires to understand and assimilate all the dance skills (guidance, rhythm, style) correctly. Salsa is traditionally learned by attending a dancing class with a teacher and practice with a partner, the difficulty to access such classes though, and the variability of dance environment can impact the learning process. Understanding how people learn using a virtual reality platform could bring interesting knowledge in motion analysis and can be the first step toward a complementary learning system at home. In this paper, we propose an interactive learning application in the form of a virtual reality game, that aims to help the user to improve its salsa dancing skills. The application was designed upon previous literature and expert discussion and has different components that simulate salsa dance: A virtual partner with interactive control to dance with, visual and haptic feedback, and a game mechanic with dance tasks. This application is tested on a two-class panel of 20 regular and 20 non-dancers, and their learning is evaluated and analyzed through the extraction of Musical Motion Features and the Laban Motion Analysis system. Both motion analysis frameworks were compared prior and after training and show a convergence of the profile of non-dancer toward the profile of regular dancers, which validates the learning process. The work presented here has profound implications for future studies of motion analysis, couple dance learning, and human-human interaction. Keywords Motion analysis · Salsa dance · Virtual reality · Human computer interaction
1 Introduction The analysis and investigation of the effects and intricacies of social dances are ample and find contributions in many sociological, cultural, and psychological areas. This comes at no Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09192-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Simon Senecal
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surprise, as social dances already exist for centuries and are embedded in many cultures, ethnic groups and are often related to a social and/or religious context [33]. More particularly, couple dance is a specific declination of social dance acted in pair, traditionally with one man and one woman in a mechanical interaction that allows making some complicated moves, with each of the partners having a specific role (the man is leading, and the woman is following). This type of dance can be found widely across the world, as Forro in Brazil, Tango in Argentina, Fox-trot in
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