About

MOCO is the international symposium on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.

The symposium references the challenge of representing embodied movement knowledge within computational models, yet it also celebrates the inherent expression available within movement as a language. While human movement itself focuses on bodily experience, developing computational models for movement requires abstraction and representation of lived embodied cognition. Selecting appropriate models between movement and its rich personal and cultural meanings remains a challenge in movement interaction research.

Many fields, including Interaction Design, HCI, Education and Machine Learning have been inspired by recent developments within Neuroscience validating the primacy of movement in cognitive development and human intelligence. This has spawned a growing interest in experiential principles of movement awareness and mindfulness, while simultaneously fueling the need for developing computational models that can describe movement intelligence with greater rigour. This conference seeks to explore an equal and richly nuanced epistemological partnership between movement experience and movement cognition and computational representation.

For more information, visit our Movement and Computing Community.

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is responsible for guiding future directions with regards to the MOCO Symposium. Its members currently include:

• Frédéric Bevilaqua
• Sarah Fdili Alaoui
• Jules Françoise
• Philippe Pasquier
• Thecla Schiphorst

Hosting MOCO

If you wish to apply for hosting a future MOCO symposium, please submit your application to moco-share@sfu.ca, according to the guidelines in the following document:

Call For Hosting Document