Share Paper: ActeMotion as a Content-Oriented Learning Application in Secondary School: Media Control through Gesture Recognition as a Performative Process in Art Teaching

  1. Martina Ide, Institute for Quality Development in Schools in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  2. Thomas Winkler, Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Luebeck, Germany
  3. David Bouck-Standen, Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems (IMIS), University of Luebeck, Germany
Thursday, June 22 4:45 PM-5:15 PM Edison B

Abstract: This paper discusses the importance of the learning application ActeMotion in context with performative works of students at school. It focuses on reconsidering the aesthetics of the performative in interactive learning environments in its meaning by the influence of the medial, understanding the performative as a strategy to reflect historical, social and cultural processes, the relations between the medium and its perception. The potential of ActeMotion is explored, which primarily makes the learner’s self-made videos perceptible by linking the videos to body gestures and movement, tracked on a stage in real-time. The influence and the importance of the medial for ...