Evolving The Mobile Phone Orchestra

Evaluation of the Mobile Orchestra Explorer Paradigm

The Mobile Orchestra Explorer paradigm enables active experience of prerecorded music: users can navigate and express themselves in a shared (physical or virtual) orchestra space, populated by the sections of a prerecorded music. The user moves in a room with his/her mobile phone in his/her hand: the music performed by the orchestra sections is rendered according to the user position and moveme...

فرصت ها و چالشهای تکنولوژی تلفن همراه در پیشگیری و درمان ایدز

Aim: mobile Health Technology is rapidly advancing and becoming a cost effective option for intervention delivery particularly for isolated and hard to reach populations, such as people living with HIV/AIDS. We conducted a literature review to evaluate mobile phone technology utilize for HIV prevention and care. Methods: We conducted a literature review using the search Terms from the MESH s...

Wicked Problems and Design Considerations in Composing for Laptop Orchestra

Composing music for ensembles of computer-based instruments, such as laptop orchestra or mobile phone orchestra, is a multi-faceted and challenging endeavor whose parameters and criteria for success are ill-defined. In the design community, tasks with these qualities are known as wicked problems. This paper frames composing for computer-based ensemble as a design task, shows how Buchanan’s four...

Do Mobile phones Dream of Electric Orchestras?

MoPhO is the newly established Mobile Phone Orchestra of CCRMA. It is the first repertoireand ensemblebased mobile phone performance group of its kind. We describe the motivation and making of such an ensemble and the repertoire of MoPhO’s first concert, performed in January 2008. The ensemble demonstrates that mobile phones orchestras are interesting technological and artistic platforms for el...

Safety Issues of Mobile Phone Base Stations