AUTHORS: Worawat Choensawat, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Chommanad Kijkhun and Kozaburo Hachimura

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the desirability of using a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance in the context of higher education. Unlike the Western dances where dance notation have been widely used for recording the dance body movement, students in Thai dance classes have to memorize a series of body movements by observation from their teachers. In Thai dance communities, dance notation is very new, and few of professional people in Thai dance understand and use it to record the Thai dance body movement. In this paper, we demonstrate the adaption of a notation system to

describe Thai dance and introduce a learning tool for facilitate students to understand the notation. Our presented tool for teaching and learning Thai dance is as a result from a collaboration research between researchers from performing arts and computer science. We measure the desirability of our tool with four Thai dance schools dispersedly located in the north and middle of Thailand, and we receive a promising feedback from them.

Keywords: Desirability Methodology, User Evaluation, Dance notation, Labanotation, LabanEditor, Multimedia Tool, Dance Animation.

SOURCE: Choensawat, Worawat, et al. "Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for thai dance body motion." International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

LINK: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-39241-2_20

REFERENCES: 

MLA   Choensawat, Worawat, et al. "Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance body motion." International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.
APA Choensawat, W., Sookhanaphibarn, K., Kijkhun, C., & Hachimura, K. (2013, July). Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance body motion. In International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability (pp. 171-179). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Chicago   Choensawat, Worawat, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Chommanad Kijkhun, and Kozaburo Hachimura. "Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance body motion." In International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability, pp. 171-179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.
Harvard   Choensawat, W., Sookhanaphibarn, K., Kijkhun, C. and Hachimura, K., 2013, July. Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance body motion. In International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability (pp. 171-179). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Vancouver   Choensawat W, Sookhanaphibarn K, Kijkhun C, Hachimura K. Desirability of a teaching and learning tool for Thai dance body motion. InInternational Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability 2013 Jul 21 (pp. 171-179). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.