Today, I'm setting up to work on IF. But I'm also recording some thoughts about a festival program which would work in tandem with a self-assessment program, focusing on balance, coordination, agility, and the paired skills of musicality and musical expressiveness.
The self-assessment program would maintain data and share it with those nearby, who might want to find a stranger with good basic skills to dance with.
These self-assessment programs might be calibrated by using the self-assessment figures obtained by popular social dancers as a basis of comparison.
One can start by assessing balance and smoothness much like the Wii started to do. And remember we can hack into the Wii balance board USB protocol, with some help from Christopher! With two balance boards, we could measure what the chiropractors measure: how much weight on each foot?
We could also measure the expressiveness skill of partial weight-shift or "touch&go" things like gancho setups.
Maybe the key thing is to create shoes like balance boards, mini-setups even using the same electronics for prototyping? That way we could even get a reading of axis position inside the foot. If fact, if both partners were wearing these, weight transfer keyed to the musical moment could be precisely measured.
Some good ideas.
Now, back tot he problem at hand. I could submit an invoice with head held high, but not today. Mom's wake starts soon, and we're leaving in 15 minutes.
