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Summary:
The paper talks about the Cyber Composer, a prototype system which takes an application-based approach in the field of haptics. This particular system allows both experienced and inexperienced users to express music at a high level without using musical instruments by solely relying on hand motions and gestures and some familiarity in music theory. Musical expressions are mapped to certain hand motions and gestures in the hopes of it being useful to experienced musicians, while intuitive for music laypersons. These expressions include: rhythm, pitch, pitch-shifting, dynamics, volume, dual-instrument mode, and cadence. This system makes use of Cybergloves to input the musical expressions into the system.
Discussion:
One interesting aspect found in the paper is their novel application in using haptics that strives to express music without traditional musical instruments, while also trying to balance their system in usefulness to experienced musicians and intuitiveness to inexperienced ones. One part of the paper that was severely lacking was their reasoning behind choosing the type of mapping for each of their musical expressions. It would have been nice to see some user study or testing results to defend the choices they made for their particular system.
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Severely lacking is a user study, indeed. And also recognition results. The paper was rather arousing, however.
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