Saltate!

A Sensor-Based System To Support Dance Beginners

Saltate! uses pressure sensors which are mounted under balls and heels of the dancers to determine the timing of their steps.
These timings are compared to the timings of beats within the played music. In case Saltate detects errors or problems,
it supports dancers by emphasizing the music's beats.

We want to find out in how far different feedbacks influence the learning and performance of beginning dancers.

In an initial study, we found out that beginning dancers' system acceptance is high.
Subjectively, the extra beats helped our subjects to dance in step.

Due to the small number of couples that data was usable, we could not detect statistical significant differences between feedback and no-feedback condition.

Saltate currently supports Slow Waltz and can play ten different songs.

We are adding accelerometers to improve step detection and to discriminate more steps.
more detailed information from the internal page

If you have questions, proposals, or hints, contact Dieter.

2009

Dieter Drobny, Malte Weiss, and Jan Borchers. Saltate! - A Sensor-Based System to Support Dance Beginners. In CHI '09: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM Press. .

2008

Dieter Drobny. Saltate! - A Sensor Based System to Support Dance Beginners. Master's thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2008. .

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