Musical robots have already inspired the creation of worldwide robotic dancing contests, as RoboCup-Junior's Dance, where school teams, formed by children aged eight to eighteen, put their robots in action, performing dance to music in a display that emphasizes creativity of costumes and movement. This paper describes and assesses a framework for robot dancing edutainment applications. The prop...

Simple ictal or interictal automatisms are commonly seen in epilepsy, whereas complex automatisms are rare. Simple ictal vocalizations or appendicular automatisms have been reported to be due to mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. However, seizure-associated singing and dancing is very rare. We report a seventeen-year-old patient with ictal singing and rhythmic swinging of the arms as a dancing gest...

I hope you?re ready to bust a move because dancing is a phenomenal workout for your mind and body! Dancing provides the body with many health benefits, including, but not limited to: increased energy, decreased stress, and improved strength, muscle tone, coordination, and flexibility. Social dancing can be a cardio workout that torches between 200 to 500 calories per hour! The exact number of c...

I hope you?re ready to bust a move because dancing is a phenomenal workout for your mind and body! Dancing provides the body with many health benefits, including, but not limited to: increased energy, decreased stress, and improved strength, muscle tone, coordination, and flexibility. Social dancing can be a cardio workout that torches between 200 to 500 calories per hour! The exact number of c...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if community-based Irish set dancing is feasible in Irish adults with Parkinson's disease. METHODS Over an eight week period, ten participants attended one set dancing class per week and completed a home programme in parallel. Feasibility was assessed by monitoring adverse effects, participants' verbal feedback, compliance rates and feedback from an exit questionnaire...

BACKGROUND Non-drug factors such as ambient temperature can heighten the adverse effects of MDMA (3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine) in animals. We assessed whether dancing and feeling hot on Ecstasy would be associated with more psychobiological problems in recreational users. METHODS In an internet study, 206 unpaid participants (modal age 16-24) reported that they had used recreational Ecst...