Drumming Up an Audience

Drumming up Dollars for Stem Cell Research

With stringent U.S. federal restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research still in place, states grapple with the issue of whether to fund such research themselves.

massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework

Keeping Up Appearances: Audience Segregation in Social Network Sites

U-Drumwave: An Interactive Performance System for Drumming

In this paper, we share our experience of applying the modern multimedia technologies to the traditional performing art in a drumming performance project, U-Drumwave. By deploying an interactive system on the drumming stage, the audience will see augmented visual objects moving on the stage in accord with the performer’s drumming rhythms. The creation and display of the visual objects are integ...

Active Drumming Experience Increases Infants’ Sensitivity to Audiovisual Synchrony during Observed Drumming Actions

In the current study, we examined the role of active experience on sensitivity to multisensory synchrony in six-month-old infants in a musical context. In the first of two experiments, we trained infants to produce a novel multimodal effect (i.e., a drum beat) and assessed the effects of this training, relative to no training, on their later perception of the synchrony between audio and visual ...