TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization and pose selection for a lindy hop partnered spin
AU - Selbach-Allen, Megan E.
AU - McIlhany, Kevin L.
AU - Gentry, Sommer E.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Swing dancers often talk about using the laws of physics in performing their physically rigorous jumps, lifts, and spins. Do expert swing dancers physically optimize their pose for a partnered spin? In a partnered spin, two dancers connect hands and spin as a unit around a single vertical axis. We describe the pose of a couple by the angles of their joints in a two-dimensional plane and compare expert and novice dancers' actual poses to the approximately ideal poses generated from a biomechanical optimization model.
AB - Swing dancers often talk about using the laws of physics in performing their physically rigorous jumps, lifts, and spins. Do expert swing dancers physically optimize their pose for a partnered spin? In a partnered spin, two dancers connect hands and spin as a unit around a single vertical axis. We describe the pose of a couple by the angles of their joints in a two-dimensional plane and compare expert and novice dancers' actual poses to the approximately ideal poses generated from a biomechanical optimization model.
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U2 - 10.1109/acc.2011.5990892
DO - 10.1109/acc.2011.5990892
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053163434
SN - 9781457700804
T3 - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
SP - 3831
EP - 3836
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, ACC 2011
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ER -