20 November 2019

VRST 2019 Paper

On the 14th of November 2019, we have presented a co-authored paper entitled "A Mobile Augmented Reality Interface for Teaching Folk Dances". The paper was presented at the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019), which was held in Australia, Sydney and sponsored by the EU project called Terpsichore. This paper presents a prototype mobile augmented reality interface for assisting the process of learning folk dances. 


As a case study, a folk dance was digitized based on recordings from professional dancers. To assess the effectiveness of the technology, it was comparatively evaluated with a large back-projection system in laboratory conditions. Sixteen participants took part in the study, and their movements were captured using motion capture system and then compared with the recordings from the professional dancers. Experimental results indicate that AR has the potential to be used for learning folk dances.

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