Playing with sounds as playing video games

Desainte‐Catherine, Myriam; Kurtág, György; Marchand, Sylvain; Semal, Catherine; Hanna, Pierre

doi:10.1145/1008213.1008239

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“…However, there is little work [4,11,14] that explores the design of complex auditory displays for children's interactive technologies. The modes of display in children's learning environments need to incorporate both the way children use their senses in the natural environment, and take into account their agedependent perceptual and cognitive abilities.…”

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Exploring ambient sound techniques in the design of responsive environments for children

Droumeva

Antle

Wakkary

2007

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction

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This paper describes the theoretical framework, design, implementation and results from an exploratory informant workshop that examines an alternative approach to sound feedback in the design of responsive environments for children. This workshop offers preliminary directions and models for using intensity-based ambient sound display in the design of interactive learning environments for children that offer assistance in task-oriented activities. We see the value of this research in developing a more cohesive and ecological model for use of audio feedback in the design of embedded interactions for children. The approach presented here takes the design of multi-modal feedback beyond being experiential, to one that supports learning and problem solving.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring ambient sound techniques in the design of responsive environments for children

Droumeva

Antle

Wakkary

2007

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction

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“…Jam-O-Drum [5] also focuses on the collaborative aspects of music making, placing users at a tabletop installation where they can participate in a number of interactive music games by striking a drum pad. Additional projects have also explored the concept of interactive or collaborative musical systems [9,12,14]. Our work builds upon these ideas by using off the shelf hardware and the PC platform to implement a collaborative gesture-based music game that does not require custom interfaces.…”

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Exploring 3D gestural interfaces for music creation in video games

Bott

Crowley

LaViola

2009

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

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In recent years the popularity of music and rhythm-based games has experienced tremendous growth. However almost all of these games require custom hardware to be used as input devices, and these devices control only one or two similar instruments. In this paper we describe One Man Band, a prototype video game for musical expression that uses novel 3D spatial interaction techniques using accelerometer-based motion controllers. One Man Band provides users with 3D gestural interfaces to control both the timing and sound of the music played, with both single and collaborative player modes. We further investigate the ability to detect different musical gestures without explicit selection of mode, giving the user the ability to seamlessly transition between instrument types with a single input device. A formal user study is then presented comparing the musical interface of One Man Band to that of Nintendo's Wii Music. Our results indicate that users generally preferred the interface of One Man Band over that of Wii Music. We also found that users desire to express their own ideas and have explicit control of the melodies created in music-based video games.

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“…Applications for this noise model have been developed. One of the major application is the pedagogic tool Dolabip [37]. The application uses the two sound models SAS and CNSS to help children to understand sound phenomena.…”

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A Statistical and Spectral Model for Representing Noisy Sounds with Short-Time Sinusoids

Hanna

Desainte‐Catherine

2005

EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.

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We propose an original model for noise analysis, transformation, and synthesis: the CNSS model. Noisy sounds are represented with short-time sinusoids whose frequencies and phases are random variables. This spectral and statistical model represents information about the spectral density of frequencies. This perceptually relevant property is modeled by three mathematical parameters that define the distribution of the frequencies. This model also represents the spectral envelope. The mathematical parameters are defined and the analysis algorithms to extract these parameters from sounds are introduced. Then algorithms for generating sounds from the parameters of the model are presented. Applications of this model include tools for composers, psychoacoustic experiments, and pedagogy

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Playing with sounds as playing video games

Cited by 5 publications

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Exploring ambient sound techniques in the design of responsive environments for children

Exploring ambient sound techniques in the design of responsive environments for children

Exploring 3D gestural interfaces for music creation in video games

A Statistical and Spectral Model for Representing Noisy Sounds with Short-Time Sinusoids

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