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Thesis Project

Smart interactive projection experience for Dancers

GROOV

Projection dance performance is so attractive, both

to Audience and performer. However, making that

thing cost lots of money and times. Well, what if we

make it easier?

Problem: 

The visual effects need some designer and programmer spending tons of tons of time on designing, rendering,

and coding.

Solution:

Using "Groov" is a smart and easy way to achieve that

goal. The user only needs to choose music and an effect, tweak with a few options for the effect, and then

the performance is ready to go.

Introducing "GROOV"

AKA Grooving Fragments

Concept Video

Groov_ConceptVideo_Short
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Prototyped in greenscreen using Adobe AfterEffects. In order to get the ideal visual for dancer.

Actual Project

(Computer generated graphics in Real-Time + Depth image detected by Kinect V1)

Groov_Demo3
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This actual working project was developed in Processing. The video above shows a performance in an event called Dance Hack Day Vol.4 in 2017, the time gap for preparing between performance and performance was tight, we just used 1 minute to rapidly set up the environment.

 

 

Technology 

Performance 

space research

Used Libraries

User Testings

Groov_DHD3
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This video above showing was an early coding demo achieved by Processing 3 in an event called Dance Hack Day Vol.3 in San Francisco. Tatsuma Nakano helped me about the scripting when I was just learning JAVA at that time

Groov_Demo3_short
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The video above shows a user testing in a dance studio called City Dance in San Francisco.

User Interface

This project is not only making a working interaction demo but also design an easy to use software user interface for dancers.

Lo-Fi prototyping

(Balsamiq)

Hi-Fi mockup

Choose music and effect

Tweak the options

Web mock-up

This is a desktop version prototype. The user starts with choosing a music and then choose a effect to dance with. Also at the bottom side has the effect and music control panel. (THIS IS A DESKTOP SOFTWARE MOCK UP)

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