Designing and evaluating virtual musical instruments: facilitating conversational user interaction

Design Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 556-571

  Johnston, Andrew ^a   Candy, Linda ^a   Edmonds, Ernest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

creativity; evaluation; interface design; music; user behaviour

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY; XML;

CREATIVITY; EVALUATION; INTERFACE DESIGN; MUSIC; USER BEHAVIOUR;

ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 54149112906     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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