Alex Lee, Jeremy Marcelo, Melinda Wang, Sarina Wu Let’s Dance! Alex Lee, Jeremy Marcelo, Melinda Wang, Sarina Wu Problem Domain: helping dancers capture ideas and feedback Alex ‘21, SymSys Jeremy ‘19, CS Melinda ‘20, CS Sarina ‘19, CS

WE FIRST MET... WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... Kevin, the founder of OnOne Dance Studios and an experienced dancer WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... that he isn’t able to capture inspiration as it strikes him throughout his busy day IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... enable him to capture his inspiration no matter when or where it strikes him

Additional Needfinding Interviews: Dancers

Joan Chen, Director of Alliance Streetdance Listens to a song for ~a week, does large sections at a time, records after every session General feedback is ineffective, specific feedback is hard to come by Logistical pains with auditions Joan Chen, Director of Alliance Streetdance Joan: regularly deals with feedback, cleaning Sophia: choreography classically trained in jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, hip-hop

Sophia Barton, Dancer for Dv8 Listens to a song for ~a week, does large sections at a time, records after every session General feedback is ineffective, specific feedback is hard to come by Logistical pains with auditions Joan Chen, Director of Alliance Streetdance Watches dance videos, looks for songs that speak to her, needs a mirror Feedback from choreographer during her last performance made a huge impact Joan: regularly deals with feedback, cleaning Sophia: choreography classically trained in jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, hip-hop Sophia Barton, Dancer for Dv8

Arjun Arora, Former Leader of XTRM Kpop dancer who found cleaning and giving feedback to be hardest aspects Frustrated by needing to help individuals due to time taken from group practice time Arjun Arora, Former Leader of XTRM Arjun: Kpop dancer: focus on matching styles Leilani: professional dancer, outside hip-hop and urban

Arjun Arora, Former Leader of XTRM Kpop dancer who found cleaning and giving feedback to be hardest aspects Frustrated by needing to help individuals due to time taken from group practice time Arjun Arora, Former Leader of XTRM Drawn to ballet’s appeal of constant challenges Creativeness of ballet leads to freedom of motion Finds visualizing formation changes while blocking choreography particularly difficult Arjun: Kpop dancer: focus on matching styles Leilani: professional dancer, outside hip-hop and urban Leilani Tian, Professional Ballerina

Sunny Wu, Former Viennese Ball Steering Committee Member Social dance background, recently attended a hip-hop dance workshop Experience was isolating Wanted more “personalized, individual feedback” Hindered by large group setting Sunny Wu, Former Viennese Ball Steering Committee Member Sunny: social dance background with feedback

First POV

WE MET... WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... Sophia, a dancer on a collegiate, Bay Area hip-hop team WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... that individual feedback is effective, but difficult for the choreographer to provide IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... have every dancer receive quality, specific feedback

get the dancers to see their mistakes more efficiently HOW MIGHT WE... get the dancers to see their mistakes more efficiently ? Solution 1: Visually tracking an individual’s performance of a dance and pointing out their differences from a video of the choreographer.

Prototype 1: Matching Dance Styles with Feedback Assumption: Pointing out physical differences in dances would help synchronization Set-Up: 1 ‘choreographer’ 1 ‘student’ 1 ‘app’

Prototype 1: Matching Dance Styles with Feedback Before After

Prototype 1: Matching Dance Styles with Feedback Results: Significant improvement Feedback was helpful Validity: Assumptions = correct, but body awareness a necessity to make changes

Second POV

WE MET... WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... Leilani, a ballerina in the Ballet Austin 2nd Company WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... that she struggles with visualizing formation changes and blocking while choreographing IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... provide a way for her to visualize formation changes in relation to the music

help the choreographer visualize dance with music HOW MIGHT WE... help the choreographer visualize dance with music ? Solution 2: A front and top view app to create formations with circles and figures.

Prototype 2: Effectiveness of Visuals and Interaction Assumption: digital eagle’s eye and front views of formations help choreographers 2 different attempts: Traditional pen and paper Place-markers & physical representations Front view = extremely effective Assumptions = correct in that these perspectives effectively assist choreographers

Third POV

WE MET... WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... Arjun, the president of a Kpop dance group WE WERE AMAZED TO REALIZE... how difficult it is to teach beginners to match moves because they didn’t have body awareness IT WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING TO... make it easier for new dancers to improve in dance execution

make learning to dance more like Just Dance HOW MIGHT WE... make learning to dance more like Just Dance ? Solution 3: Virtual Reality environments and situations to practice dance moves.

Prototype 3: Translating Game Learnings to Dance Assumption: Gamified dance practice leads to improved dance ability Broke down dance into hitting pads Simpler experience with a simple analogy vs. complicated analogy Assumptions = correct, but only if it was tested; solutions have a limited reach

We Chose: Effectiveness of Visuals and Interaction most exciting, impactful, and feasible idea Prototype 1: Matching Dance Styles with Feedback Smaller pain point, less possibilities for features and user interactions Prototype 3: Translating Game Learnings to Dance Limited amount of dances; require lots of testing for effective analogies + environments

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