Application of effort parameter to robot gesture motion

Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), proposed by Rudolf von Laban, is widespread method for describing, notating, and interpreting human movement. Effort is one of major components of LMA that is commonly used to scrutinize or analyze the kinetic movement from viewpoint of ‘dynamic’ qualities. Effort comprises four factors and they can provide qualitative parameters about dynamic features of movement for describing a body movement. In this study, we proposed a computational model of Weight and Time Effort, and applied it to robot platforms to develop robot gesture motion diversification method. Experiments with certified movement analysts are conducted to check the validity of our model.