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Tangible music composer for children
Keywords:
Tangible interface, Music, Low-cost, Incremental learning, Collaborative work, Intuitive performance, Human computer interactionAbstract
Music education should start from an early age. Theories of child development and learning emphasize the importance of manipulating physical objects. Music learning and teaching has traditionally been carried out mainly by visual and auditory activities. With this in mind, we combine music learning with tangible interfaces to stimulate senses toward music in children over six years old. We present a token+constraint tangible interface for children to learn musical skills such as musical notes, rhythm and the sound of different instruments. The work describes a low-cost tangible interface addressed to children that allows learning music in an intuitive, incremental and collaborative manner. The system recognizes in real-time preestablished patterns and associates them with musical notes and instruments to allow composing music. The system was designed to be usable and to benefit from the advantages that tangible interfaces can provide to children. Furthermore, it was implemented with low cost and easy to get tools and resources, such as wooden boards and a standard webcam
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Computing, 2004, Volume 8 (Issue 5), 347-358.
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[10] Terrenghi L., Kranz M., Holleis P., Schmidt A. A cube to learn: a TUI for the design of a learning appliance. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2006, Volume 10, (Issue 2), 153-158.
[11] Marco J., Cerezo E., Baldassarri S. Bringing tabletop technology to all: evaluating a tangible farm game with kindergarten and special needs children. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012, Springer London, 1-15
[12] Antle A. N. The CTI framework: informing the design of tangible systems for children. In Proc. TEI 2007, 2007, ACM Press, 195-202.
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[14] Xu D. Tangible User Interface for Children - An Overview. in Proc. of the UCLAN, 2005, Department of Computing Conference.
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[20] Bott J., Crowley J., LaViola J. Exploring 3Dgestural interfaces for music creation in video games. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, 2009, 18-25.
[21] Bean A., Siddiqi S., Chowdhury A., Whited B., Shaer O., Jacob R. J. K. Marble Track Audio Manipulator (MTAM): A Tangible User Interface for Audio Composition. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI’08), 2008, ACM.
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[24] Schiettecatte B., Vanderdonckt J. AudioCubes: a distributed cube tangible interface based on interaction range for sound design. Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction (TEI ’08), 2008, ACM Press, 3-10.
[25] Newton-Dunn H., Nakano H., Gibson J. Block jam: a tangible interface for interactive music. Proceedings of the 2003 conference on New interfaces for musical expression, 2003.
[26] Jordà S., Kaltenbrunner M., Geiger G., Bencina R. The reacTable*. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICM05), 2005.
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2013-10-01
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Francesconi, J. I., Larrea, M. L., & Manresa-Yee, C. (2013). Tangible music composer for children. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 13(02), p. 84–90. Retrieved from https://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/article/view/618
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