Hydraulophone design considerations: Absement, displacement, and velocity-sensitive music keyboard in which each key is a water jet

Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 519-528

  Mann, Steve ^a   Janzen, Ryan ^a   Post, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direct user interface; Duringtouch; Fluid user interface; FUNtain; Haptic surface; Harmelodica; Harmelotron (harmellotron); Hydraulic action; Hydraulophone; Pneumatophone; Tangible user interface; Tracker action; Underwater musical instrument

Indexed keywords

HAPTIC INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

DIRECT USER INTERFACES; FLUID-USER-INTERFACE; FUNTAIN; HARMELODICA; HARMELOTRON (HARMELLOTRON); HYDRAULOPHONE; PNEUMATOPHONE; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES; UNDERWATER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 34547233002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180639.1180751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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