Monthly Archives: June 2014
PRAISE research project at EAVI
On 24/6/2014, I was introduced to the PRAISE research project being conducted at EAVI: http://eavi.goldsmithsdigital.com/praise/ From the website: "The Performance and pRactice Analysis Inspiring Social Education (PRAISE) is a social network for mus... Read More
Audio Visualization research project – Improving navigation of audio content
After my presentation at Goldsmiths on 18/June, I had the chance to meet Chris Baume, who is working on the Audio Visualization research project, a collaboration between Queen Mary University of London and BBC. From the project website: "We are comb... Read More
2014/06/18 Introduction to AVUIs – Goldsmiths
18 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Goldsmiths, Richard Hogarth Building, room 308 Presentation file Introducing-AVUIs (PDF) Video playlist Own works: AV Clash (2010) https://vimeo.com/17002795 AVVX (2014) https://vimeo.com/79105354 References: Levin and ... Read More
JavaScript tools and techniques for sound, graphics, interaction
JavaScript-related APIs, elements and formats: WebGl; tutorial WebAudio SVG HTML5 Canvas Prototyping/development: Framer (prototyping) Elm (functional language) Node.js (network) vvvv.js (data flow) NoFlo (data flow) Gibber (live co... Read More
Gesture visualization in Blek (2013) and Yellowtail (1998)
Recently I came across the iOS game Blek, since it won a 2014 Apple Design Award: https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/2014/Blek/ I found Blek interesting due to its emphasis on gestural patterns and gesture visualization. The gesture visualiza... Read More
Interaction models and taxonomies
(to be developed with more references and notes) Diefenbach, S., Lenz, E. & Hassenzahl, M., 2013. An Interaction Vocabulary. Describing the How of Interaction. In CHI ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA ’13.... Read More
Sonic Interaction Design (SID) and related concepts
Sonic Interaction Design (SID) is one of several concepts related to sonification of data or interaction. SID “explores ways in which sound can be used to convey information, meaning and aesthetic and emotional qualities in interactive context... Read More
“Classic” artistic models of sound visualisation
In his book Analysing Musical Multimedia, Nicholas Cook reviews "classic" artistic models of sound and music visualisation, by: Kandinsky, Messianen, Skriabin, Schoenberg, Eisenstein, Eisler, adding his own model. Cook, N., 2000. Analysing ... Read More
Back to the “classics” of interaction design
For developing AVUI, it is useful to go back to some "classics" of interaction design: Buxton, B., 2007. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Gaver, W.W., 1991. Technology Affo... Read More
Papers on programming libraries and tools
Roberts, C., Wakefield, G. & Wright, M., 2013. The Web Browser As Synthesizer And Interface. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Daejeon, Seoul. Available at: https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/Publications/WebBrowser-as-Synth... Read More