The embroidered musical ball: A squeezable instrument for expressive performance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 283-284

  Weinberg, Gili ^a   Orth, Maggie ^a   Russo, Peter ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial design; Musical instruments; Physical interface design; Pressure sensors; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; HAND GESTURE; IMMERSIVE; MUSICAL COMPOSITION; PHYSICAL INTERFACE; PRECISE CONTROL; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRESSURE SENSORS; PRODUCT DESIGN; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 78649616413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/633292.633457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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