Recently, I published a co-authored conference paper based on the Terpsichore EU project at the 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV). The paper is entitled “Assessing the Learning of Folk Dance Movements Using Immersive Virtual Reality” and presents how digital technologies can help with preservation of cultural heritage. A virtual reality application that has the potential of assisting the learning process of folk dances is introduced.
Three different assisting approaches are presented and evaluated with 30 healthy participants. An animated avatar of the professional dancer is shown in immersive virtual reality and participants were asked to imitate the movements to learn the dance. Movements were recorded using a passive optical motion capture system and afterwards compared to the recordings from the professional dancers. Results indicate that participants that had feedback provided achieved better performance.
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