Best Art Paper Awarded at SIGGRAPH 2023

A research paper titled “Movement Quality Visualization for Wheelchair Dance” has been awarded the Best Art Paper at SIGGRAPH 2023 conference in Los Angeles, USA. The paper is co-authored by Yurui Xie, Giulia Barbareschi, Ayesha Nabila, Kai Kunze and Masa Inakage, and it showcases a system that creates visual representations detailing both emotional and expressive feature of movements. In this paper we are calling for a future where disability can form its own artistic value and aesthetic appreciation.

The paper is available at the following link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597628

 

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