Music and Human-Computer Interaction

Holland, Simon; Wilkie, Katie; Mulholland, Paul; Seago, Allan

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2990-5

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“…Approaches in similar systems can be used to model a strategy in which subtlety and performance are key. A study into piano techniques and expressive gestural interaction highlights some methods that could be transferable [33]. Here, the findings show that expression is important and can provide utility.…”

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Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools

McGrath

2020

Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference

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The investigation that follows presents the results of a series of workshops with professional musicians and music producers. The work here elicits requirements for musicians in terms of software systems. The scope here explores how to design systems to support creativity and collaboration while maintaining a usable system-one which is effective, efficient and satisfies the user. The format models that of similar workshops, where a three-pronged approach is taken to focus on three different types of creativity: exploratory, combinatorial and transformational approaches. Participants describe a story that defines different user roles and expectations. Focus groups help to refine and combine the existing experiences and begin identify ways in which systems can be made more usable, and support more creative ways of working. We consider the broader consideration of usability, including defining and describing different user types and how their views of usability may differ or even be at odds. Our findings show that while existing systems are very good at supporting traditional usability metrics they may not consider the broader implications of a considered and holistic user experience.

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confidence: 82%

Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools

McGrath

2020

Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference

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“…Designing augmented and smart instruments entails a number of challenges that bring together a variety of theories, methods and expertise at the intersection of HCI, Computer Science, Psychology, Musicology and digital luthier techniques [23,30,41]. This includes, for instance, being aware of the physical characteristics of wood and sensors and to explore how they fit and work together.…”

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Musicians' initial encounters with a smart guitar

Rossitto

Rostami

Tholander

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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This paper presents a case study of a fully working prototype of the Sensus smart guitar. Eleven professional guitar players were interviewed after a prototype test session. The smartness of the guitar was perceived as enabling the integration of a range of equipment into a single device, and the proactive exploration of novel expressions. The results draw attention to the musicians' sense-making of the smart qualities, and to the perceived impact on their artistic practices. The themes highlight how smartness was experienced in relation to the guitar's agency and the skills it requires, the tension between explicit (e.g. playing a string) and implicit (e.g. keeping rhythm) body movements, and to performing and producing music. Understanding this felt sense of smartness is relevant to how contemporary HCI research conceptualizes mundane artefacts enhanced with smart technologies, and to how such discourse can inform related design issues.

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Song Walker Harmony Space: Embodied Interaction Design for Complex Musical Skills

Bouwer

Holland

Dalgleish

2013

Music and Human-Computer Interaction

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Tonal Harmony is widely considered to be the most technical and complex part of music theory. Consequently harmonic skills can be hard to acquire. Furthermore, experience of the flexible manipulation of harmony in real time generally requires the ability to play an instrument. Even for those with instrumental skills, it can be difficult to gain clear insight into harmonic abstractions. The above state of affairs gives rise to substantial barriers not only for beginners but also for many experienced musicians. To address these problems, Harmony Space ) is an interactive digital music system designed to give insight into a wide range of musical tasks in tonal harmony, ranging from performance and composition to analysis. Harmony Space employs a principled set of spatial mappings to offer fluid, precise, intuitive control of harmony. These mappings give rise to sensory-motor and music-theoretic affordances that are hard to obtain in any other way. As a result, harmonic abstractions are rendered amenable to concrete, visible control by simple spatial manipulation. In the language of conceptual metaphor theory, many relationships in tonal harmony become accessible to rapid, universal, low-level, robust human inference mechanisms using image schemata such as containment, contact, centre-periphery, and source-path-goal. This process is more rapid, and imposes far less cognitive load, than slow, abstract symbolic reasoning. 2Using the above principles, several versions of Harmony Space have been designed to exploit specific interaction styles for different purposes. We note some key variants, such as the desktop version (Holland 1994), the camera tracked version ), while focusing principally on the most recent version, Song Walker (Holland et al. 2011), which employs whole body interaction. Preliminary results from a study of the Song Walker system are outlined, in which both beginners and expert musicians undertook a range of musical tasks involving the performance, composition and analysis of music. Finally, we offer a discussion of the limitations of the current system, and outline directions for future work.

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Music and Human-Computer Interaction

Cited by 26 publications

References 185 publications

Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools

Breaking the workflow: Design heuristics to support the development of usable digital audio production tools

Musicians' initial encounters with a smart guitar

Song Walker Harmony Space: Embodied Interaction Design for Complex Musical Skills

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