舞蹈教學是藝術教育中一種關於肢體運動的美感教育。因為舞蹈教學通常牽涉到肢體、時間和空間,因此教學程序上通常都需要個別指導。因此,若能有計畫的使用各種現代化多媒體技術去提升舞蹈教學的可能性的似乎是可行的。本研究是嘗試去實現一個整合影音應用與和資訊科技的系統,以融入舞蹈教學並試圖克服在時間與空間上的限制,構成一個以網站為基礎的互動式教學平台。這種教學環境也讓舞蹈教學可以藉由利用資訊和多媒體影音技術,而進入近年來政府機關致力倡導的資訊融入教學的境界。我們的系統可以提供舞蹈教師以整合的環境去製作影音教學片段供學習者參考與揣摩。對於學生(舞蹈學習者)而言,可以透過這系統存取這些示範影片,進行反覆學習與模仿舞蹈動作。學生也可以用這個系統自行製作自己舞蹈的影音片段,透過由我們的系統所提供的一個雙視窗界面,與示範片進行同步參照學習。對於經由正式需求分析與諮詢實際舞蹈教與學的人員的意見引導出所需求的功能所建置的本系統,我們對使用者進行初步的測試,其結果十分正面。未來更廣泛的使用者測試與回饋將可以對這個設計雛型系統有更實際的改進。
Dance education is a kind of art education that includes the aesthetic movement of human body. Since the movement involves body, time and space, the instruction processes are often conducted in individual basis. Therefore, the elaboration of various possibilities of using modern multimedia technologies to enhance the dance education seems plausible. This research is an attempt to realize an integrated application of audio-video and information technology to enable the dance education overcoming the restriction of time and space by establishing a web-based interactive system as the instructional platform. This environment of instruction enables dance education to enter the stage of utilizing information and multimedia technology in the performing arts category. The approach is also echoing the government’s efforts in integrating information and computer technology(ICT)into various pedagogical styles. The system facilitates dance instructors with an integrated environment to produce audio-video pedagogic dance clips for students. The students(dance learners)are provided with web tools to fetch these clips for reviewing and mimicking. They can also make their own clips, contrast them with the demonstration through a synchronized twin-window interface provided by our system. The making of the system has gone through a formal requirements elicitation process and exposed to dance instructors and learners for usability study. The initial responses from these users are quite positive. More extensive users testing and feedback may lead to practical improvements to this prototype system.