The vBow: Development of a Virtual Violin Bow Haptic Human-Computer Interface

Charles Nichols

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a virtual violin bow haptic human-computer interface, which senses bow position with encoders, to drive bowed-string physical model synthesis, while engaging servomotors, to simulate the haptic feedback of a violin bow on a string. Construction of the hardware and programming of the software are discussed, as well as the motivation for building the instrument, and its planned uses.

Citation

Charles Nichols. 2002. The vBow: Development of a Virtual Violin Bow Haptic Human-Computer Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176450 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Nichols2002,
 abstract = {This paper describes the development of a virtual violin bow haptic human-computer interface, which senses bow position with encoders, to drive bowed-string physical model synthesis, while engaging servomotors, to simulate the haptic feedback of a violin bow on a string. Construction of the hardware and programming of the software are discussed, as well as the motivation for building the instrument, and its planned uses.},
 address = {Dublin, Ireland},
 author = {Nichols, Charles},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 date = {24-26 May, 2002},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176450},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {bow, controller, haptic, hci, interface, violin},
 pages = {133--136},
 title = {The vBow: Development of a Virtual Violin Bow Haptic Human-Computer Interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2002/nime2002_133.pdf},
 year = {2002}
}