Enabling Active InteractionWith Music And Sound In Multisensory Environments

Embodied music listening and making in context-aware mobile applications: the EU-ICT SAME Project

Music making and listening are a clear example of a human activity that is above all interactive and social, two big challenges for novel HCI paradigms. Nowadays, however, listening to music is usually still a passive, non-interactive experience. Quoting John Sloboda " In highly industrialized societies, we listen to more music, but we make less " [1]. Even modern devices do not allow for inter...

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

Active Learning of Novel Sound-producing Objects: Motor Reactivation and Enhancement of Visuo-motor Connectivity

Our experience with the world commonly involves physical interaction with objects enabling us to learn associations between multisensory information perceived during an event and our actions that create an event. The interplay among active interactions during learning and multisensory integration of object properties is not well understood. To better understand how action might enhance multisen...

Interactive Music with Active Audio CDs

With a standard compact disc (CD) audio player, the only possibility for the user is to listen to the recorded track, passively: the interaction is limited to changing the global volume or the track. Imagine now that the listener can turn into a musician, playing with the sound sources present in the stereo mix, changing their respective volumes and locations in space. For example, a given inst...

مقایسه تاثیر آوای قرآن و آوای موسیقی بر اضطراب امتحان دانشجویان

  Introduction : Test anxiety is a common problem among school and university students.Music sound as well as stress management strategies can be effective on students success and academic achievement . The aim of this study was to compare between the effects of Quran and music sounds on decreasing test anxiety among premedical students.   Methods: In a quasi – experimental study on two groups ...