A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications

Matthew Montag, Stefan Sullivan, Scott Dickey, and Colby Leider

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

During the past decade, multi-touch surfaces have emerged as valuable tools for collaboration, display, interaction, and musical expression. Unfortunately, they tend to be costly and often suffer from two drawbacks for music performance:(1) relatively high latency owing to their sensing mechanism, and (2) lack of haptic feedback. We analyze the latency present in several current multi-touch platforms, and we describe a new custom system that reduces latency to an average of 30 ms while providing programmable haptic feed-back to the user. The paper concludes with a description of ongoing and future work.

Citation:

Matthew Montag, Stefan Sullivan, Scott Dickey, and Colby Leider. 2011. A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178115

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Montag2011,
 abstract = {During the past decade, multi-touch surfaces have emerged as valuable tools for collaboration, display, interaction, and musical expression. Unfortunately, they tend to be costly and often suffer from two drawbacks for music performance:(1) relatively high latency owing to their sensing mechanism, and (2) lack of haptic feedback. We analyze the latency present in several current multi-touch platforms, and we describe a new custom system that reduces latency to an average of 30 ms while providing programmable haptic feed-back to the user. The paper concludes with a description of ongoing and future work.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Montag, Matthew and Sullivan, Stefan and Dickey, Scott and Leider, Colby},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178115},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {multi-touch, haptics, frustrated total internal reflection, music performance, music composition, latency, DIY },
 pages = {8--13},
 presentation-video = {https://vimeo.com/26799018/},
 title = {A Low-Cost, Low-Latency Multi-Touch Table with Haptic Feedback for Musical Applications},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_008.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}