What is it about?
In this study, a dancer and an engineer collaborated to design a set of movements that would allow a human dancer and a drone dancer to dance together, emphasizing physical contact. The dancer and engineer determined what characteristics made a good dance partner--the ability to lead and the ability to follow--and created a corresponding set of behaviors for the drone. These behaviors included rotation, change in altitude, a tapping motion, and pushing. The engineer then programmed the drone so that it would enact these behaviors in different ratios while dancing with the human dancer. It was ultimately determined that the drone seemed the most like a partner, and maintained the most physical contact, when it was expressing "following" behaviors. The drone did not have any motion tracking capability and it was operating autonomously.
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Why is it important?
This study is important as it isolates what sort of physical behavior provides clear communication between human and non-human entities. The physical contact component could eventually be used for search and rescue and crowd control scenarios.
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This page is a summary of: Exploring Human-Drone Collaboration Through Contact Improvisation, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580050.
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