Paris, workshop on Movement Quality and Physical Models Visualizations at IRCAM. How to analyze the quality of movement real-time and make interactive installations that react to it? How to capture movement? Research questions that are addressed include the notation of movement on different levels, how to generate sound|music automatically based on the analysis. Besides presentations of technology, the program contains presentations of art works (dance) that make use of the recognition technology. Some links:

• Kirk Woolford: motioninplace.org
• Scot Delahunta: synchronousobjects.osu.edu

Mark ter Maat defended his PhD thesis. Special guests at the defense were Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS/Paris Telecom), David Schlangen (University of Bielefeld) and Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University). Here is a picture of me and Catherine.