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
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)
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
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
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）