LiteFoot

interactive dance floor

LiteFoot - interactive dance floor
LiteFoot - optical sensor boards

LiteFoot

In 1996, working in UL's Foundation Building with several research group side by side in an open plan environment, I was inspired by the dancers in the Irish World Music Centre (our neighbours). This led to a resarch question: how to capture Irish tap dancing. As a design exploration, the LiteFoot interactive dance floor was developed.


  • Size 2 x 2 meters
  • 40 millimetres resolution
  • 2000 optical proximity sensors
  • Sampling rate 100 Hz
  • Arbitrary mapping of movement to sounds and visuals
  • Data captured for further analysis

LiteFoot premiered at IWMC's Toyota concert in 1997 and was also included as a feature in RTÉ's Late Late Christmas show.

Publications

  • Fernström, M. & Griffith, N., 1998. LiteFoot - Auditory Display of Footwork. In ICAD. Glasgow: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://goo.gl/gQA2Xb.

  • Griffith, N. & Fernström, M., 1998. LiteFoot – A floor space for recording dance and controlling media. In Proceedings of the 1998 International Computer Music Conference. Chicago, USA: ICMA, pp. 475–481. Available at: https://goo.gl/1v19ES.