Using a Pursuit Tracking Task to Compare Continuous Control of Various NIME Sensors

Michael Blandino, and Edgar Berdahl

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This study investigates how accurately users can continuously control a variety of one degree of freedom sensors commonly used in electronic music interfaces. Analysis within an information-theoretic model yields channel capacities of maximum information throughput in bits/sec that can support a unified comparison. The results may inform the design of digital musical instruments and the design of systems with similarly demanding control tasks.

Citation:

Michael Blandino, and Edgar Berdahl. 2021. Using a Pursuit Tracking Task to Compare Continuous Control of Various NIME Sensors. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.c2b5a672

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_78,
 abstract = {This study investigates how accurately users can continuously control a variety of one degree of freedom sensors commonly used in electronic music interfaces. Analysis within an information-theoretic model yields channel capacities of maximum information throughput in bits/sec that can support a unified comparison. The results may inform the design of digital musical instruments and the design of systems with similarly demanding control tasks.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {78},
 author = {Blandino, Michael and Berdahl, Edgar},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.c2b5a672},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/-p7mp3LFsQg},
 title = {Using a Pursuit Tracking Task to Compare Continuous Control of Various NIME Sensors},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/using-a-pursuit-tracking-task-to-compare-continuous-control-of-various-nime-sensors},
 year = {2021}
}