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Sensual Science: From Dance Performance to Space Telerobotics
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 07:34:50 PDT
From: ee380
EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium
Spring Quarter 1995-1996
Lecture #3
Date: Wednesday, Apr 17,1996
Time: 4:15-5:30 pm
Location: Hewlett-Packard Auditorium (B01) Gates Computer Science Building
SITN: Wednesday, Channel E4, 7:00-8:15 pm
Speaker: Margo K. Apostolos USC School of Theatre
Title: Sensual Science: From Dance Performance to Space Telerobotics
Abstract
Sensual Science is presented as a way of looking at the world which employs creative thinking and artistic expression. Scientific discovery and artistic creation progress in various ways and integration of the two processes may result in exciting new discoveries. Robot Choreography will serve as an exemplary case of a blend in an artistic--scientific integration.
Robot Choreography, that is, Programming robots to move with graceful motions, was developed to explore an aesthetic dimension of robot design and motion control. As a dancer and choreographer, my ideas emerged from artistic technology. The lecture will provide an overview of how the elements of dance have been combined for human/machine performances.
Robot Choreography, like computer music and programmable sculpture, utilizes technology for aesthetic goals to provide a new vehicle for combining art, science, and engineering. In training robot dancers via software or teleoperator masters, or in playing robots as kinesthetic--visual instruments, the choreographer achieves new freedom of expression.
Biography
Margo K. Apostolos earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1985 and completed post doctoral work at Stanford in robotics before joining USC i 1986. At Stanford, her graduate work was in the area of user acceptance of robots; her dissertation was "Exploring User Acceptance of a Robotic Arm: A Multidisciplinary Case Study". This work included her development of Robot Choreography which involves the programming of robots to dance.
Dr. Apostolos earned a M.A. in Dance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a B.S from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She has taught in Chicago, San Francisco, and at Stanford University, Southern Illinois University, and California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obisbo. Apostolos served as a Visiting Progessor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University, while on sabbatical in 1992-1993.
At Princeton she conducted research in Robot Choreography with the School of Engineering an d the Cognitive Science Laboratory She also participated in a seminar series with the School of Social Science at then Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. While at Princeton, Apostolos lectured at the University of Pennsylvania and participated in virtual reality seminars at Rutgers University.
Apostolos was a recipient of the prestigious NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship and worked for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech in Pasadena, California. At JPL, Apostolos worked as a research scientist in the area of Space Telerobotics.
Currently, Apostolos is a Co-Investigator at the Annenberg Center for Communications where she conducts research on facial expressions and human-computer interactions.
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