How can choreographic and performance processes be used to prototype different multi-robot group behaviors and human-robot interactions?
How can we incorporate lights, sound, and motion to create an immersive performance experience?
Key Takeaways: Immersive robot performances are memorable to audiences, and socially-inspired group motion, even simple motion, provokes a range of emotions.
Online, July 2020
Majestic Theater, SinguHilarity, April 2019
Choreography allows for the exploration of real world issues in performance art settings, which is particularly useful in social robotics because it is an efficient way to generate many ideas with lower overhead in a domain that specializes in crafting emotional experiences and storytelling in the audience.
This piece told the story of two divers, exploring an uncharted electrical sea, who stumble across robot jellyfish, the Mechahydrozoa Umbrellianus. However, once they touch the jellyfish, they begin to transform into Mechahydrozoa themselves.
Publications:
Bacula, Alexandra, Heather Knight. "Dance Prototyping: Communicating Group Membership and Relational Attitudes via Multi-Robot Expressive Motion."Â In Companion of the 2020 Robotics Science and Systems Conference. July, 2020.
Bacula, Alexandra, Heather Knight. "Excluded by the JellyFish: Robot-Group Expressive Motion." ICRA-X Robotics and Art. Montreal, Canada. roboticart.org. 2019.