About
MOCO is the international conference on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.
The conference references the challenge of representing embodied movement knowledge within computational models, yet it also celebrates the inherent expression available within movement as a language. While human movement itself focuses on bodily experience, developing computational models for movement requires abstraction and representation of lived embodied cognition. Selecting appropriate models between movement and its rich personal and cultural meanings remains a challenge in movement interaction research.
Many fields, including Interaction Design, HCI, Education and Machine Learning have been inspired by recent developments within Neuroscience validating the primacy of movement in cognitive development and human intelligence. This has spawned a growing interest in experiential principles of movement awareness and mindfulness, while simultaneously fueling the need for developing computational models that can describe movement intelligence with greater rigour. This conference seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognition and computational representation.
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is responsible for guiding future directions with regards to the MOCO Symposium. Its members currently include :
- Frédéric Bevilacqua, IRCAM
- Kristin Carlson, Illinois State University
- Grisha Coleman, Arizona State University
- Greg Corness, Illinois State University
- Cumhur Erkut, Aalborg University Copenhagen,
- Sarah Fdili Alaoui, University of the Arts London
- Jules Françoise, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN
- Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Garrett Johnson, Arizona State University
- Vilelmini Kalampratsidou, Athena Research Center
- Laura Karreman, Utrecht University
- Steven Kemper, Oberlin College and Conservatory
- Sotiris Manitsaris, MINES ParisTech, PSL Université Paris.
- Thecla Schiphorst, Simon Fraser University
- Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova
- Antonia Zaferiou, Stevens Institute of Technology
Hosting MOCO
If you wish to apply for hosting a future MOCO conference, please submit your application to moco-org@lisn.upsaclay.fr, according to the guidelines in the following document: