Audio has become an important function in a variety of applications. For example, a typical car today has a music and entertainment system (CD player, traditional and/or satellite radio, MP3 player, DVD player), a navigation system, BlueTooth connectivity with the smartphone, and typical alert-related sounds that chime when, for instance, the headlights are left on or the trunk door is ajar. In...

Video and computer games are among the most complex forms of interactive media. Games simulate many elements of traditional media, such as plot, characters, sound and music, lighting and mise-én-scene. However, games are digital artifacts played through graphic interfaces and controllers. As interactive experiences, games are a host of player challenges ranging from more deliberate decision-mak...

Sound is a part of more application areas than ever before. Consider today’s typical car—there’s the music and entertainment system (CD player, traditional and/or satellite radio, MP3 player, DVD player), the navigation system, BlueTooth connectivity with the smartphone, and typical alert-related sounds that chime when, for instance, the headlights are left on or the trunk door is ajar. If it’s...

Ubiquitous systems for music search, retrieval, and recommendation are recently receiving a considerable amount of attention, both in academia and industry. This is evidenced not least by the emergence of novel music streaming services and the respective availability of millions of music pieces, which have become easily accessible at the user’s fingertips, anywhere and anytime. In this keynote,...

Although a high degree of improvisation is the hall mark of Carnatic music, it still revolves around compositions mostly written in the past 250 years. The music is carried down the generations by oral tradition. A composition may be preceded by or interspersed with improvisations. Carnatic music notation uses the sol-fa (sa ri ga ma pa da ni for the 7 notes) which is written on one line and th...

In this paper, we present an interactive system that uses the body as a generative tool for creating music. We explore innovative ways to make music, create self-awareness, and provide the opportunity for unique, interactive social experiences. The system uses a multi-player game paradigm, where players work together to add layers to a soundscape of three distinct environments. Various sensors ...

We herein propose the usability method as a means of extracting the advantages and disadvantages of an interface design. The proposed method is characterized by the combination of the rough set theory, which is a type of quantitative method, and the conventional qualitative method. In addition, we considered and verified the usefulness of the proposed method through a case study involving a dig...

Music performance is closely associated with body movements in many levels for both the instrument player and the listener. Recent studies show the existence of a strong link between bodily movement and conception and perception of music. The MvM (Music via Motion) framework was proposed over 10 years ago now and has been designed for several different scenarios including interactive dance perf...

We propose that traditional case-based recommender systems can be improved by informing them with context data describing the user’s environment. We outline existing applications with similar objectives and describe an application of our own — Ticketyboo — which uses music listening preferences and context information from users’ calendars to recommend tickets for music concerts. This data is g...