Quadrant: A Multichannel, Time-of-Flight Based Hand Tracking Interface for Computer Music

Chris Chronopoulos

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Quadrant is a new human-computer interface based on an array of distance sensors. The hardware consists of 4 time-of-flight detectors and is designed to detect the position, velocity, and orientation of the user's hand in free space. Signal processing is used to recognize gestures and other events, which we map to a variety of musical parameters to demonstrate possible applications. We have developed Quadrant as an open-hardware circuit board, which acts as a USB controller to a host computer.

Citation:

Chris Chronopoulos. 2021. Quadrant: A Multichannel, Time-of-Flight Based Hand Tracking Interface for Computer Music. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.761367fd

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_49,
 abstract = {Quadrant is a new human-computer interface based on an array of distance sensors. The hardware consists of 4 time-of-flight detectors and is designed to detect the position, velocity, and orientation of the user's hand in free space. Signal processing is used to recognize gestures and other events, which we map to a variety of musical parameters to demonstrate possible applications. We have developed Quadrant as an open-hardware circuit board, which acts as a USB controller to a host computer.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {49},
 author = {Chronopoulos, Chris},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.761367fd},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/p8flHKv17Y8},
 title = {Quadrant: A Multichannel, Time-of-Flight Based Hand Tracking Interface for Computer Music},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/quadrant},
 year = {2021}
}