Dancing on the trackpad is a project developing a dance notation system for the trackpad gesture to reinterpret the hand gestures on the trackpad into a dance performance.

Double Sided Booklet, Poster

Functional gestures that we made every day on the trackpad, to search image on google, send a friend request, are as beautiful as a hand choreography. Considering trackpad gesture as a dance, I developed the notation system based on Labanotation. In Labanotation, human’s body movement is divided into nouns, verbs, and adverbs like a language. Applying the same structure to trackpad gesture, I designed visual symbols for each category and transcribed hand gestures on the trackpad for various functions into notation. Since the ways that people use their trackpad are all different, they create many different hand dances and notations for completing one task.