Dance education system

Abstract

A dance education system that works with a marker-based motion capture system was built. Students are able to learn dancing without presence of teachers. The system combines motion capture technology and OpenGL animations to provide students an intelligent and effective learning environment. The system plugs in a motion data handler and a real-time motion data handler from systems MocapViewer v1 and Simulation of Scenes with Multiple Densely-Interacting Characters (SSMDIC) respectively. Combining an evaluator for motion analysis, students can watch demonstrations of different dance motions and discover their errors in dance performance immediately without the presence of teacher. Survey results showed that most users agreed that our proposed system can help them to learn dancing efficiently. Experiment results showed that feedback given by our system can assist students to get improvement in dance learning.