Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) THESIS

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Dance-led Research”, Defended on the 22nd of March 2023 at LISN, Université Paris Saclay.

Watch the defense HERE

Link to HDR thesis in English

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2024

Tove Grimstad Bang, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Guro Tyse, Elisabeth Schwartz, Frederic Bevilacqua “A Retrospective Autoethnography Documenting Dance Learning Through Data Physicalisations”, Accepted to the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Copenhaguen 2024. Best Paper Award. 

Xiao Xiao and Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Tuning In to Intangibility: Reflections from My First 3 Years of Theremin Learning”, Accepted to the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Copenhaguen 2024.

Stacy Hsueh, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Wendy E Mackay. “What Counts as ‘Creative’ Work? Articulating Four Epistemic Positions in Creativity-Oriented HCI Research”. to appear in Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hawai 2024. Best Paper Award. 

Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Les Intelligences Artificielles à l’interface du corps dansant” dans le Bulletin de l’Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle IA & Création artistique, 125, 2024, Association Française d’Intelligence Artificielle

Tove Grimstad Bang and Sarah Fdili Alaoui “personal story” in the workshop More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Copenhaguen 2024.

2023

Tove Grimstad Bang, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Elisabeth Schwartz “Designing in Conversation With Dance Practice”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hambourg 2023.

Tove Grimstad Bang and Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Suspended Circles: Soma Designing a Musical Instrument”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hambourg 2023.

John Sullivan and Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Embracing the messy and situated design of technology for dance”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Pittsburg 2023.

Manon Vialle, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Mélina Skouras, Elisabeth Schwartz, “Supporting perception of spatiality in dance in augmented reality” Accepted to the ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C), online 2023.

Léa Paymal, Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Physicalizing Loops” Accepted to the ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C), Gather Town 2023 (Pictorial).

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Thuong Hoang, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Angelika Strohmayer, Mafalda Gamboa  “Futuring CHIArts: Building a Collective Common Future” workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hambourg 2023.

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Josh Urban Davis, Mafalda Gamboa, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Claire Elisabeth Ohlenschlager, William Gaver, Eli Blevis, Lian Loke “Is it Art, is it HCI? Exploring the tensions between practice and research” Panel at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hambourg 2023.

John Sullivan and Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Entangled roles and processes in dance-research residencies”, In the workshop Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Pittsburg 2023.

2022

Jules Françoise, Sarah Fdili Alaoui “CO/DA: Live-Coding Movement-Sound Interactions for Dance Improvisation” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), New Orleans 2022. Honourable Mention

Baptiste Caramiaux and Sarah Fdili Alaoui ” “Explorers of Unknown Planets”: Qualitative Study on AI in Artistic Practice” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), online 2022.

Manon Vialle, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Mélina Skouras, Vennila Vilvanathan, Elisabeth Schwartz, Remi Ronfard “Visualizing Isadora Duncan’s movements qualities” In Proceedings of the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2022 (C&C), Venice, Italy.

Catarina Allen d’Ávila Silveira, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Wearable Choreographer: Designing Soft Robotics for Dance Practice” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), online 2022 (Pictorial).

Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis Kingston, Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa, Thuong Hoang, Ilja Smorgun, Hohn Meirs, Pranjal Jain, Angelika Strohmayer, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Christina Wodtke, “The State of the (CHI)Art”, Workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), New Orleans 2022.

Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Stacy Hsueh, “What Becomes of “Work” in AI “Artwork”“, In Proceedings of the Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), New Orleans 2022.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Anke Brock, “La voix des femmes au sein de l’AFIHM”, Alt-IHM at the conférence internationale francophone sur l’Intéraction Humain (IHM), Namur 2022.

2021

Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Jean-Marc Matos. “RCO : Investigating Social and Technological Constraints through Interactive Dance”. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) online 2021. FdiliAlaoui-CHI2021

Jean-Philippe Rivière, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Wendy E. Mackay“Exploring the Role of Artifacts in Collective Dance Re-staging”. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), online 2021

Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Wendy E. Mackay, “Studying Choreographic Collaboration in the Wild”, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), online 2021.

Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis Kingston, Angelika Strohmayer, Katta Spiel, Nantia Koulidou, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Josh Urban Davis “A Plurality of Practices: Artistic Narratives in HCI Research”, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C), online 2021. Best Pictorial Award. 

Elisabeth Walton, Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Frederic Bevilacqua, Wendy E. Mackay“ Reconciling Technology-driven and Experiential Approaches for Movement Design”. In proceedings of the conférence internationale francophone sur l’Intéraction Humain (IHM), Metz 2021.

2020

Mirjana Prpa, Sarah Fdili-Alaoui, Thecla Schiphorst, and Philippe Pasquier. Articulating experience: Reflections from experts applying micro-phenomenology to design research in hci. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), online 2020. Prpa-CHI2020 Best Paper Award. 

2019

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Making an interactive dance piece: tensions in integrating technology in art”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), San Diego, 2019. Fdili-Alaoui-DIS-2019

Stacy Hsueh, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, and Wendy E Mackay. “ Deconstructing Creativity: Non-Linear Processes and Fluid Roles in Contemporary Music and Dance”. in Proceedings of the ACM  Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Austin 2019 Honourable Mention.

Jean-Philippe Rivière, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Wendy E. Mackay. “ Capturing movement decomposition to support learning and teaching in contemporary dance”. in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Austin 2019.

Stacy Hsueh, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, and Wendy E Mackay. “Understanding Kinaesthetic Creativity in Dance”. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Glasgow 2019. Hsueh et al – CHI2019

Ulysses Bernardet, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Karen Studd, Karen Bradley, Philippe Pasquier, Thecla Schiphorst, “Assessing the Reliability of the Laban Movement Analysis System”, PLOS-One, June 13, 2019.  PLOS-ONE, 2019.

Kristin Carlson, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Greg Corness, Thecla Schiphorst “Shifting Spaces: Using Defamiliarization to Design Choreographic Technologies That Support Co-Creation” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Denver 2019.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Danse – Technologies – Phénoménologie” dans Du signe et performance – La notation, une pensée en mouvement, L’Harmattan 2019.

2018

Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Wendy E. Mackay, “Knotation: Exploring and Documenting Choreographic Processes”, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal 2018. Ciolfi – CHI2018

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Radical Choreographic Object [RCO]”, In the Extended Abstracts (ArtCHI) of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal 2018.

Jean-Philippe Rivière, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Wendy E. Mackay, “How do dancers learn to dance?”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Genova 2018.

Scott deLahunta, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Rosemary Cisneros, Katerina El Raheb, Carla Fernandes, Anton Koch, Thembi Rosa, Sarah Whatley, “MOCO Annotation Workshop”, Workshop at the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Genova 2018.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “A comprehensive review of Dance and Technologies,” published at the Korean Society of Danse issue in the Dance Research Journal, 2018.

2017

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Vers une dramaturgie et un corps au numérique”, Culture et Recherche n°135 2017. Fdili Alaoui 2017

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Jules Françoise, Thecla Schiphorst, Karen Studd, Fréderic Bevilacqua “Seeing, Sensing and Recognizing Laban Movement Qualities”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Denver 2017. Fdili-Alaoui-CHI2017

Jules Françoise, Yves Candau, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Thecla Schiphorst, “Designing for Kinesthetic Awareness: Revealing User Experiences through Second-Person Inquiry”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Denver 2017. Francoiseetal – CHI2017

Yves Candau, Jules Françoise, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Thecla Schiphorst “Cultivating kinaesthetic awareness through interaction: Multiple perspectives from somatic practices and embodied cognition”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), London 2017.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Workshop on Experience Explicitation Interviews for Movement Researchers and Practitioners.” Workshop at the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), London 2017.

2016

Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Wendy E. Mackay, “How Do Choreographers Craft Dance: Designing for a Choreographer-Technology Partnership”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Thessaloniki 2016. MOCO2016-Ciolfietal

2015

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Frederic Bevilacqua, Christian Jacquemin, “Interactive Visuals as Metaphors for Dance Movement Qualities“, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS) 2015. TIIS2015-Fdilialaouietal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Thecla Schiphorst, Shannon Cuyckendal, Kristin Carlson, Karen Studd, Karen Bradley, “Strategies for Embodied Design: The Value and Challenges of Observing Movement”, In Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C), Glasgow 2015. CC2015-Fdilialaouietal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Kristin Carlson, Shannon Cuyckendal, Karen Studd, Karen Bradley, Thecla Schiphorst “How Do Experts Observe Movement”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Vancouver2015. MOCO15-Fdilialaouietal

Micheal Nixon, Ulysses Bernardet, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Omid Alemi, Ankit Gupta, Thecla Schiphorst, Steve DiPaola, Philippe Pasquier, “MoDa: the open source movement database“, In the Extended Abstract of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Vancouver 2015.

2014

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Cyrille Henry, Christian Jacquemin, “Physical Modelling for Interactive Installations and the Performing Arts“, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) 2014. IJPADM-Fdilialetal

Diego Silang Maranan, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Thecla Schiphorst, Philippe Pasquier, Pattarawut Subyen, Lyn Bartram. “Designing For Movement: Evaluating Computational Models using LMA Effort Qualities”, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Toronto 2014. CHI2014_Marananetal

Jules Francoise, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Frederic Bevilacqua, Thecla Schiphorst, “Vocalizing Movement for Laban Effort Sonification in Dance Pedagogy”, In Proceedings of ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Vancouver 2014. DIS2014-francoiseetal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Kristin Carlson and Thecla Schiphorst ”Choreography as Mediated through Compositional Tools for Movement: Constructing A Historical Perspective”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO), Paris 2014. MOCO14-Fdilialaouietal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Roxanne Nesbitt, “Self and Self Portraits”, Canadian Society of Dance Studies Symposium on Embodied Artful Practices, Vancouve 2014.

2013

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Bertha Bermudez, Christian Jacquemin, “Dance Interaction with Physical Model Visualization based on Movement Qualities”, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) 2013. IJART-Fdilialaouietal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Body Movement Expression as Interaction Modality”, In Proceedings of the Beautiful Dance Moves workshop at the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C), Sydney 2013.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Christian Jacquemin, Frédéric Bevilacqua. “Chiselling Bodies: an Augmented Dance Performance”, In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Paris 2013. CHI13-Fdilialaouietal

2012

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Marcos Serrano, Frédéric Bevilacqua. “Movement qualities as interaction modality”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Newcastle 2012.  DIS2012-Fdilialaouietal Honourable Mention.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Chiseling Bodies” In Proceedings of the workshop on Perspectives on Participation: Evaluating Cross-Disciplinary Methods, Techniques and Practices at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Newcastle 2012.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui “Evaluating an Interactive Installation for Dance Pedagogy: The Case Study of Double Skin/Double Mind”, Doctoral Consortium of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Newcastle 2012.

2011

Nathalie Delprat, Claire Leroux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Experience of a cloud-avatar: scientific challenges and artistic perspectives”, International Journal Of Design and Innovation Research, (IJODIR) 2011. IJODIR-delpratetal

Bertha Bermudez, Scott deLahunta, Marijke Hoogenboom, Chris Ziegler, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Barbara Meneses Gutierrez “The Double Skin/Double Mind Interactive Installation”, Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) 2011.

Frederic Bevilacqua, Norbert Schnell, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/Dance Systems“, in Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography, TanzKongress-press 2011.

Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Tifanie Bouchara, Marc Rébillat. “Gestural Auditory and Visual Interactive Platform”, In Proceedings of Digital Audio Effects (Dafx), Paris 2011. DAFx11-caramiauxetal

Nathalie Delprat, Claire Leroux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “In the clouds, Virtual experience of a matter”, In Proceedings of Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC), Laval 2011. VRIC-delpratetal

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Marcos Serrano. “From dance to touch: movement qualities for interaction design”, In the Extended Abstracts of the of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Vancouver; 2011. CHI2011-fdilialaouietal

PhD THESIS

Sarah Fdili Alaoui, “Dance gesture analysis and physical models based visual feedback: contribution of movement qualities to interaction”, Defended on the 19th of December 2012 at LIMSI-CNRS, Ircam, University Paris-Sud, France. Link to the thesis in french

TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

  • Organization and presentation of the seminar Engaging technologies with communities and artistic practices, for the end of the ANR funded project Living Archive, IRCAM, Paris, France, 2023.
  • Participation at the MODINA kick-off program in Tallinn, Estonia, 2023
  • Workshop “Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS” at the conference DIS, Pittsburg, USA, 2023
  • Member of the jury of the Ph.D. of Joseph La Delfa “Cultivating Mechanical Sympathy Making Meaning”, KTH University, Stockholm, 2023
  • First opponent of the Ph.D. defence of Benedikte Wallace “AI-generated Dance and The Subjectivity Challenge”, Oslo University, 2023
  • Invited Talk at ITU Copenhagen, 2023
  • Opponent to Ph.D. defense of Marika Hedemyr, Malmo, 2023
  • HDR Defense, Dance-led Research, Université Paris Saclay, Paris 2023
  • Jury member for Ph.D. defense of Loup Vuarnesson, Paris 2023
  • Keynote at the workshop on embodied perspectives on musical AI, University of Oslo, Norway, 2022
  • Invited Talk at the University of Nantes, France, 2022
  • Organization and presentation of the Element Days, IRCAM, Paris, France 2022
  • Presentation at the conference IHM of the video “La voix des femmes au sein de l’IHM”, Namur, Belgium, 2022
  • Workshop CHI-ART, at ACM CHI’22, Online, 2022
  • Invited talk for high school students organized by Trace at ENSPG, Paris, 2022
  • Participation at the “conversation art science autour d’Isadora Duncan” by Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Rémi Ronfard, Elisabeth Schwartz and Manon Vialle, at CND Lyon, 2021
  • Presentation at the symposium “Colloque Croiser arts, design et sciences pour enseigner autrement”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France , 2021
  • Seminar at the University of Sussex “Research seminar series”, online, 2021 
  • Interview with WONOMUTE (Women Nordic Music Technology), 2021.
  • Invited panelist at the round Table on movement notation Anestis Logothetis Centenary Symposium, 2021, online.
  • Presentation to the tribute day to Francisco Varela on Enaction at CRI Paris 
  • Invited Panellists at the Critical Perspectives on AI/ML in Musical Interfaces at NIME, 2021, online.
  • Guest talk at the FFF Séminars KTH  at the Interaction Design group in MID, online 2021.
  • Organization and moderation of the seminar Féminisme – Musique – Technologie, IRCAM, Paris, 2021.
  • Presentation of the Isadora Duncan project – Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Rémi Ronfard, Elisabeth Schwartz – CND Pantin.
  • Participation to SloMoCo Provocations X 3, 2021, online.
  • Keynote for Conférence de diplôme “Intégrer les technologies dans la danse”, ENS Paris Saclay 
  • Talk “Technologies in Dance: methods, creations and critical reflections” at NYU Marl Speaker series, New York, 2020.
  • Some Assembly Reprocessed, an international artistic exchange with Attack Theatre, Pittsburg, 2020.
  • Colloquium “Lost in translation: Reconciling artistic and technological discourses” at the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg 2020.
  • Presentation on “Crafting dance and technologies” at Virtual creativity collective realities at ENSAD, Paris, 2019.
  • Presentation on “State of The art of tools supporting dance learning” at ELEMENT workshop, IRCAM, Paris, 2019.
  • Residency and presentation on the Vintage project at Performing Art Platform, Aarhus, Danemark, 2019
  • Presentation on “Crafting dance and technologies” at the Center for Digital Creativity in Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danemark, 2019
  • Workshop on music, dance and interaction, Conservatory of Vicenza, Italy.
  • Master class of creation, Conservatory of Vicenza, Italy, 2019.
  • Workshop on Live Coding at LAB-DAYS – MovA, Stereolux, Nantes, France, 2019.
  • Seminar on archiving Isadora Duncan with Computer Graphics, INRIA Grenoble, France, 2018.
  • Workshop on “creativity in HCI” à the conference IHM, Brest, France, 2018.
  • Keynote “On Dance and Technologies” at the symposium of the Korean Society of Dance, Seoul, 2018.
  • Seminar “Aesthetics of movement” in the Masters on AI and movement in creative industries, Mines ParisTech, Paris, 2018.
  • Seminar “Recherche and Creation” at the ATI department, Université Paris 8, Paris, 2018.
  • Presentation at the Fall school on “Trans-disciplinarity – increasing scientific and artistic creativity”, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, 2018.
  • Participant at the round table “Les robots sont-ils des créateurs comme les autres ?” organized by SACEM at Science Po Paris, 2018.
  • Presentation at the evaluation of INRIA, Rungis, 2018.
  • Seminar “Crafting Movement in Digital Art + Human-Computer Interaction” at ENS Cachan, 2018.
  • A jury of the Dansathon of the Biennale of Dance in Lyon, 2018.
  • Keynote on mobility at the conference FAB’14, Toulouse, 2018.
  • Keynote in the “Workshop on Human-Machine Collaboration”, IRCAM, Paris, 2018.
  • Panelist at the provocation “What escapes computation in interactive performance” MOCO’18, Genova, Italy, 2018.
  • Workshop on dance annotation at MOCO’18, Genova, Italy, 2018.
  • Chair and moderator of the panel  “Coding the body” at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2018.
  • Presentation “Crafting Movement in HCI” at INRIA Rhônes Alpes, Grenoble, 2018.
  • Presentation at the symposium “Body and Mobiles”, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2017.
  • Residency with Kdanse at the theater of Villeneuve Tolosane, France, 2017.
  • Presentation at the Movement futures workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 2017
  • Invited seminar at CIRMMT at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2017.
  • Invited Presenter at FIP TC13 & TC14 Open Symposium 2017, CNAM, Paris, 2017.
  • Residency at Scene 44 for the performance SKIN, Marseille, France, 2016.
  • Keynote at the TEDx Saclay, Orsay, France, 2016.
  • Presentation at the Casa Paganini Infomuse, Genova, Italie, 2016.
  • Keynote at the Beyond Lab: « Entre L’Homme et la Machine : Le Défie des Nouvelles Interfaces, Orsay », Orsay, France, 2016.
  • Keynote at Journée d’étude Scénariser la danse par le numérique, Université de Strasbourg, France, 2016.
  • Presentation at the MovingStories May Residency, Vancouver, Canada, 2016
  • Keynote at the workshop/exhibition “Corps Refléchis” by Cie Entorse, Caen, 2016
  • Keynote at the Dance Notation Symposium, Paris, France 2016.
  • Keynote at the Symposium Reimagining Choreometrics, Washington DC, USA, 2015.
  • Talk at the LRI HCC team, Orsay, France, 2015.
  • Presentation at the MovingStories May Residency, Vancouver, Canada, 2015.
  • Talk at the School of Interactive Arts and Technologies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2015.
  • Talk at the IAS school, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2015.
  • Presentation at the University of Illinois Champana Urbain, EUA, 2015.
  • Workshop at the University of Maryland, Washington DC, USA, 2015.
  • Panel about the workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO) at NIME, London, UK, 2014.
  • Presentation at the 7th  PechaKucha Night Human x Technology Richmond, BC, Canada, 2014.
  • Talk at the MovingStories May Residency, Vancouver, Canada, 2014.
  • Talk at the MIT Media Lab, Boston, USA, 2014.
  • Talk at the Research & Creation Seminar at IRCAM Paris, France, 2013.
  • Talk at EAVI seminar at Goldsmiths College, London, UK, 2013.
  • Presentation at the research Cycles curated by Miriam Gourfink at la Gaïeté Lyrique, Paris, France, 2013.
  • Talk at the Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage at Mines de Paris, Paris, France, 2013.
  • Talk at the MovingStories May Residency, Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
  • Talk at the Danse-Science Melange Seminar at the Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France, 2013.
  • Ph.D. Defence on the 19th December 2012 at LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay France
  • Talk at the seminar of the Labo21 project at ICKAmsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012.
  • Talk at the Dance Notation Series at ICKAmsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012.
  • Talk at the Workshop on Movement Qualities and Physical Models Visualizations at IRCAM, Paris, 2012.
  • Workshop on Embodied Interaction at Humteck in Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, 2012.
  • Talk at the “Atelier des Doctorants en Dance” at Centre National de la Danse, Lyon, France, 2011.
  • Residency of the TKB project in the “O espaço do tempo”, Montemoro, Portugal, 2010.
  • Workshop at the Lab4 of the Inside Movement Knowledge Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010.
  • Cognitive Science and Machine Learning Summer School, Sardinia, Italy, 2010.
  • Workshop at the Lab3 of Inside Movement Knowledge Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009.
  • Workshop at the TanzKongress, Hamburg, Germany, 2009.