Comments on: Embodied interaction in music

By: research/techkwondo

research/techkwondo — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:50:01 +0000

Mediamatic Workshop � RFID & The Internet of Things…

Timo Arnall, Arie Altena, Rob van Kranenburg and I will be participating in the Mediamatic workshop on RFID & The Internet of Things, November 14-16. It’ll be a mix of discussion, lectures and hands-on prototyping. Should be lots of fun! I encour…

By: Scott Flavin

Scott Flavin — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:26:56 +0000

These are very interesting concepts; however, I dont think the Internet is the best place to place concept art or design. These images, designs and annotations are easily accessable. This means that any number of large corporations or developing companies have immediate and unrestricted access to your wonderful ideas. They could use these concepts, realize your idea and then make millions off of it. I suggest thoroughly researching these ideas, enabling yourself to place a patent on them. This would save you from the frustration of another company creating your product without any credit or profit directed towards you (knock on wood). Just a thought.

By: bishopdante

bishopdante — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:27:40 +0000

stephen hawking, the physicist in the weelchair communicates entirely by tapping. He even talks by tapping the whole sentence, and then the computer reads it out in the famous robot voice.

By: anita

anita — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:31:12 +0000

I think there is already research into the more movement oriented interface but with mobile phones. Just tried to find url with no luck, but have a look at http://www.gizmag.com.au

By: Rashed

Rashed — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:09:32 +0000

Have you seen the interface for Creative’s Jukebox 3 (discontinued now I think)? This uses a jogwheel to cycle through the alphabet to get to the track or artist name. The only problem with this has been a physical one with the jogwheel needing lubrication after a while as it’s becomes rather erratic after a while.

By: Mikko Gr�nroos

Mikko Gr�nroos — Sun, 22 May 2005 19:00:37 +0000

You’ve got some nice ideas there.

So far, I’ve found Sony’s Jog-wheels (and therefore Apple’s also?) the best solution. Not in their every product, but most of them – like in my Cli�.

I know many people are used to gestures, motion sensors and some are even using speech recognition, which all seem kind of too complex to me. At least, all the implementations I’ve run into.

By the way, I think I misunderstood your first picture, since I was thinking some kind of belt that would go around the device, which could be used for navigation. It would have looked kind of nice, but I guess that would not be the best solution for a mobile device, which I think should be usable also with one hand only.

By: Sheron Wray

Sheron Wray — Sun, 08 May 2005 11:06:04 +0000

Very interesting research. I wonder if you might be interested in a digital community music performance interface that I am researching into.The squeezing action seems to be an area worthy of further exploration, would there be issues surrounding right or left-handedness?
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By: Jean Baptiste

Jean Baptiste — Wed, 04 May 2005 16:07:36 +0000

tapped rythms could be recorded as information bits and then be described as digital structures and mapped to as midi or osc datas to be used as sources for sequencer like reason or resolume or max/msp

you could also have mobile interaction like adding gate to your voice when speaking or modify the pitch of mp3’s played in your small world network of ipod friends like in atau Tanaka stuff http://www.csl.sony.fr/General/People/StaffPage.php?username=atau&Command=Find%2Bby%2BAuthor

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:26:53 +0000

I’m a finger-drummer, always tapping along with music or idly even when there’s no music. I wonder if tapping simple rhythms on the device could work as interactions?