Tangible Acoustic Interfaces, Casa Paganini - InfoMus Research Centre of University of Genoa

Tangible Acoustic Interfaces (TAIs) exploit the propagation of sound in physical objects to localize touching positions and to analyse users gesture on the object. TAI research explores how physical objects, augmented surfaces, and spaces can be transformed into tangible-acoustic embodiments of natural seamless unrestricted interfaces. This video presents some research results on the analysis of expressive gesture in TAIs, by Casa Paganini-InfoMus Research Centre of University of Genoa.
Expressive TAIs: hand gestures on a TAI surface are classified according to Rudolf Laban's Theory of Effort. The video shows how a touch gesture is represented in a 2D Effort space: axes are Laban's Space dimension (i.e., whether a gesture is direct or flexible) and Laban's Time dimension (i.e., whether a gesture is quick/impulsive or sustained).
TAI software is implemented as libraries of the EyesWeb XMI open platform (freely available at www.eyesweb.org).

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Science & Technology

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• expressive gesture
• tangible
• acoustic interface
• EyesWeb
• human-computer
• interface
• interaction
• InfoMus
• Casa Paganini
• computer
• software
• ICT
• technology