A Gesture Control Interface for a Wave Field Synthesis System

Wolfgang Fohl, and Malte Nogalski

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents the design and implementation of agesture control interface for a wave field synthesis system.The user's motion is tracked by a IR-camera-based trackingsystem. The developed connecting software processes thetracker data to modify the positions of the virtual soundsources of the wave field synthesis system. Due to the mod-ular design of the software, the triggered actions of the ges-tures may easily be modified. Three elementary gestureswere designed and implemented: Select / deselect, circularmovement and radial movement. The guidelines for gesturedesign and detection are presented, and the user experiencesare discussed.

Citation:

Wolfgang Fohl, and Malte Nogalski. 2013. A Gesture Control Interface for a Wave Field Synthesis System. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178522

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Fohl2013,
 abstract = {This paper presents the design and implementation of agesture control interface for a wave field synthesis system.The user's motion is tracked by a IR-camera-based trackingsystem. The developed connecting software processes thetracker data to modify the positions of the virtual soundsources of the wave field synthesis system. Due to the mod-ular design of the software, the triggered actions of the ges-tures may easily be modified. Three elementary gestureswere designed and implemented: Select / deselect, circularmovement and radial movement. The guidelines for gesturedesign and detection are presented, and the user experiencesare discussed.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Wolfgang Fohl and Malte Nogalski},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178522},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Wave field synthesis, gesture control},
 month = {May},
 pages = {341--346},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {A Gesture Control Interface for a Wave Field Synthesis System},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_106.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}