The interface of technology tends to limit human movement as the body adapts particular movement patterns to interact with a machine. The multi-touch gesture interface employed by a smartphone also demands a user's certain movement patterns in order to deliver his or her tactile command to the machine more effectively and efficiently. This study aims to observe and analyze the movement of smartphone users and to identify its characteristics associated with the use of such a device. To demonstrate this, 30 second-long movement samples were collected from three different smartphone users and fully investigated at a micro and macro level based on Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF). The findings of this study suggest that smartphone users tend to stay in the same Shape Form with the same size of Kinesphere for a period of time and use distal parts of the body with relatively small movements. The actions frequently performed are touching and sliding, which mostly show one-dimensional directionality; and stillness. In sum, the Inner/Outer movement theme is predominant in the context of using a smartphone as users exist in the inner world or make a bridge to the environment by attending to the device or to themselves according to different inner needs to manipulate the device or to take information from it.

The intent of this study is to explore what soma in dance is, how dancers can communization in dance, and what communication in dance is. This research will explore the contents of “Somatics”, which have been studied for soma in culture and dance research through a literature review. By doing so, I want to study what the soma is and how to communicate specifically in the dance. In addition, the research method is based on the experience of the direct soma of the dancer, which was also used as an auxiliary research method. This study is only one study exploring the way communication is done in soma dance. This study can be a small reference in terms of widening the horizon of communication rather than defining the problem of communication in all dance performances as one standard.