User-interfaces based on the water-hammer effect: Water-hammer piano as an interactive percussion surface

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Mann, Steve ^a   Janzen, Ryan ^a   Huang, Jason ^a   Kelly, Matthew ^a   Ba, Lei Jimmy ^a   Chen, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absement; Filterbanks; Hydraulophone; Hydrophone; Hyperacoustic; Musical instrument; Natural pitch notation; Nessie(TM); Nessonance; Nessonator(TM); Presement; Sensory table; Shifterbanks; Tangible user interface; Water drum; Water hammer; Water table; WaterDrum

Indexed keywords

ABSEMENT; HYDRAULOPHONE; HYPERACOUSTIC; NATURAL PITCH NOTATION; NESSIE(TM); NESSONANCE; NESSONATOR(TM); PRESEMENT; SENSORY TABLE; SHIFTERBANKS; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES; WATER TABLE; WATERDRUM;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; HAMMERS; HYDROPHONES; INSTRUMENTS; LAKES; TOOLS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WATER HAMMER; WATER PIPELINES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79952346140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935701.1935703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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