Labanotation is one of the most used systems for notating, analysing, and preserving movement and dance, an important part of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Labanotation consists of a powerful expressive symbolic language for documenting movement with a long history in dance research, history, and anthropology since its introduction by Rudolf von Laban in the beginning of the 20th century. A number of valuable scores in this language are curated in both physical and digital archives throughout the world, describing both traditional dances and works of historical choreographers. Nevertheless, while Labanotation is considered the official language of dance scholars, it is not at all popular among dance educators, students, practitioners, and choreographers. In fact, few people of the dance community are familiar with it. One of the reasons is that it is considered a quite difficult symbolic system with a long learning curve, and practitioners are not easily motivated to learn it. Together with dance experts, we co-designed a movement-based experience in Kinect, based on the principles of playful design, to introduce dance and non-dance experts to Labanotation introductory concepts and symbols. We evaluate the experience with both people that have experience in dance or other movement practices, as well as participants with no expertise in movement or dance. The results show promising findings toward changing the attitude of the participants toward Labanotation, and all participants seemed to memorize or start learning the logic of this symbolic language for movement. We discuss the results of the evaluation on the whole experience and the potential of this symbolic language in the digital environment, as well as the potential and challenges that arise from this experiment based on the background of the participants, the limitation of the applied technology and interaction, as well as feedback on the introduced symbolic language.

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在立方体中移动

Labanotation 是用于记录、分析和保存动作和舞蹈的最常用的系统之一，是非物质文化遗产的重要组成部分。Labanotation 由一种强大的表达符号语言组成，用于记录自 20 世纪初鲁道夫·冯·拉班 (Rudolf von Laban) 引入以来在舞蹈研究、历史和人类学方面有着悠久历史的运动。世界各地的物理和数字档案馆都收录了许多用这种语言编写的有价值的乐谱，描述了传统舞蹈和历史编舞家的作品。然而，尽管 Labanotation 被认为是舞蹈学者的官方语言，但它在舞蹈教育者、学生、从业者和编舞者中并不流行。事实上，舞蹈界很少有人熟悉它。原因之一是它被认为是一个相当困难的符号系统，学习曲线很长，从业者不容易学习它。我们与舞蹈专家共同设计了基于趣味设计原则的 Kinect 运动体验，向舞蹈和非舞蹈专家介绍 Labanotation 的介绍性概念和符号。我们评估具有舞蹈或其他运动实践经验的人以及没有运动或舞蹈专业知识的参与者的经验。结果表明，在改变参与者对 Labanotation 的态度方面取得了有希望的发现，所有参与者似乎都记住或开始学习这种运动符号语言的逻辑。