Ballet Hero

 
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Project Overview

Dance training requires dedication and repetition. Students need guidance, time, and repetition to accumulate experience and begin to dance with confidence. Communicating the feeling of embodied movement is hard. Teachers have no method for communicating embodiment directly - instead they rely on gesture, metaphor, and touch. Augmented training tools could help students learn faster.

Ballet Hero is a wearable garment that incorporates visual feedback inspired by animation techniques to assist students in learning ballet. This was an extracurricular team project from Fall 2013 - Spring 2014.

Ballet Hero won Best Functional Design at the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers Design Competition 2014 and was published as part of the proceedings. View paper on the ACM website.

 

My Role

I collaborated with four other Georgia Tech graduate students in Industrial Design and Human Computer Interaction programs to conceptualize, design, and build the Ballet Hero garment.  

Team: James Hallam (Industrial Design), Emily Keen (Industrial Design), Christa Lee (Industrial Design), Mudit Gupta (Human Computer Interaction)

 

Explanatory Poster

Exhibit poster for Ballet Hero