| Description | A table of contents can be found at the front of the file; this table of contents dates to late-20th Century.
The file contains reports from studies conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, [USA], regarding the use of computers to aid dance and dance notation.
The file contains the following reports:
- "GEL: A Graphic Editor for Labanotation with an Associated Data Structure" by Wayne Philip Tracton, 1979.
- "The Implementation of Floor Plans in the Graphic Editor for Labanotation" by Vicki Helen Hirsch, 1977.
- A typed proposal submitted to NEH [full name not given], titled "An Information Management System for Recorded Dance", by Smoliar, written c1977.
- Published article "Preparing Dance Notation Scores with a Computer" by Maxine D Brown, Stephen W Smoliar and Lynne Weber. Article published in "Comput. & Graphics", 1978.
- Published article "The Computer as a Tool for Labanotation" by Lynne Weber and Stephen W Smoliar. Article published in "Action! Recording!", newsletter of the Language of Dance Centre, 1977.
- Annotated published article "Digital Representations of Human Movement" by Norman I Badler and Stephen W Smoliar. Article published in "Computing Surveys", 1979. Annotations made c1979.
- Photocopy of published article "A Spherical Representation of a Human Body for Visualizing Movement" by Norman I Badler, Joseph O'Rourke and Hasida Toltzis. Article published in "Proceedings of the IEEE", 1979. Photocopy made c1979.
- Published article "Special Problems in Human Movement Simulation" by Norman I Badler, Joseph O'Rourke and Bruce Kaufman. Article published in "Computer Graphics", 1980.
- Annotated published article "Computers Helping Dance Notation Help the Dance: A Vision" by Stephen W Smoliar. Article published in proceedings of the "National Computer Conference 1980". Annotations made c1980.
- Published article "Model-Based Image Analysis of Human Motion Using Constraint Propagation" by Joseph O'Rourke and Norman I Badler. Article published in "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence", 1980.
- Typed draft of an article, titled "Design of a Human Movement Representation Incorporating Dynamics and Task Simulation". Article written by Norman I Badler, c1982.
The file also includes a colour photograph of a representation of a person performing a dance move [this represenation of a person is likely to be a computer-generated image]. The photograph was sent to Ann [Ann Hutchinson Guest] from Norman I Badler at the University of Pennsylvania, [USA], for the image to be included in an article in "Self" magazine. Photograph dated 1983. |