Group-level ambient feedback and collective-energy lighting

Investigate how group-level ambient lighting driven by collective energy, including a collective buildup that floods the room with color, affects social presence and embodied coordination in collaborative dance settings.

Background

The museum deployment and live performance demonstrated that colored lighting could communicate spatial and energetic information without requiring participants to attend to a separate screen. In the implemented performance configuration, lighting intensity was controlled by each dancer’s individual COMAmp energy.

The authors explicitly identify the untested extension as a group-level lighting response in which collective energy accumulates toward a shared visual peak, as well as a controlled comparison between screen-based and light-based feedback. This problem concerns extending ambient feedback from individual dancer contributions to a collective room-scale response.

References

What remains untested is the group level---collective energy building toward a peak that floods the room with color---and a controlled comparison of screen-based and light-based feedback on social presence.

— Encypher: Shared Agency and Social Presence in Collaborative Music Generation for Dance Cyphers  (2609.18062 - Chen et al., 16 Sep 2026) in Section 7, Limitations and Future Work, paragraph “Ambient Feedback and Lighting as a Control Surface”