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Feb. 26, 2023Some of the participants in the RITMO International Rhythm Rising Workshop, held in Oslo, 23-27 May 2022.
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Feb. 26, 2023RITMO's lab engineers, Kayla Burnim and Rahul Agrawal, present the lab facilities to the workshop participants.
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Feb. 26, 2023Ramesh Balasubramaniam (UC Merced) held a Food & Paper lecture titled "The role of the motor system in beat perception and timing".
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Feb. 26, 2023One of the workshop's goals was to explore how rhythms can be triggered in the body. Andrzej Molenda (Copernicus Hall of Science, Warsaw) led a session on connections between body movement and psychological states.
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Feb. 26, 2023In another session, participants explored the rhythmic coordination of multi-person rope jumping.
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Feb. 26, 2023UC Berkeley PhD fellow Rachel Chen introduced participants to her Magical Musical Mat, a communicative platform that maps interpersonal touch to dynamically-changing sounds. When two people stand/sit/lie on the mat and establish skin-to-skin contact, music plays and changes dynamically according to their touch-based gestures.
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Feb. 26, 2023UC Berkeley PhD fellow Sophia Tancredi explains how a balance board can be used to explore a range of mathematical concepts including functions, negative numbers and absolute value.
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Feb. 26, 2023Dor Abrahamson, Professor and Director of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory, presents how one can understand mathematical thinking through geometric objects.
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Feb. 26, 2023RITMO PhD fellow Mojtaba Karbasi presents his ZRob drumming robot and how it can be used to develop an artificial agent to play drum patterns.
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Feb. 26, 2023RITMO postdoctoral fellow Michael Krzyzaniak talks about his Dr. Squiggles robotic platform, and how the various robots can learn to play together.
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Feb. 26, 2023RITMO research Laura Bishop explains how eye-tracking glasses can be used to study gaze and pupil size.
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Feb. 26, 2023At the end of the workshop, the participants ran a successful experiment using synchronized motion capture, eye tracking and brain activity.
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Feb. 26, 2023After several years of online-only conversations, sitting in a circle and reflecting on the various experiments during the week was good.
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Feb. 26, 2023Even though it was relatively cold during the workshop, some participants tried a swim in the Oslo fjord while the rest enjoyed the scenery from the opera building.
