Intuitive manipulation design is probably too much
The original design for the WiiStyler called for an underlying beat detection which would drive the rest of the song/music. In this way, the dancer would not have worry about direct manipulation of music and let their dancing drive the music.
After much work on an initial prototype using a hacked version of DarwiinRemote, this task may be too great. The beat detection alone is quite buggy; this has to do with the variance in data that a stomp can create. False positives (and negatives) abound as the software tries to interpret movements from the accelerometer gracefully.
Foot stomp detection prototype from Andrew McKinney on Vimeo.
Having a functional prototype by the end of one semester using this method seems too great. Informaticians have suggested learning/natural algorithms to train the software to detect beats, but this alone could take a semester to properly implement. In addition, that would require the dancer to train the machine for specific movements, and is ultimately inconvenient for a new user.
