Designing for the iPad: Magic Fiddle

Ge Wang, Jieun Oh, and Tom Lieber

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper describes the origin, design, and implementation of Smule's Magic Fiddle, an expressive musical instrument for the iPad. Magic Fiddle takes advantage of the physical aspects of the device to integrate game-like and pedagogical elements. We describe the origin of Magic Fiddle, chronicle its design process, discuss its integrated music education system, and evaluate the overall experience.

Citation:

Ge Wang, Jieun Oh, and Tom Lieber. 2011. Designing for the iPad: Magic Fiddle. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178187

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Wang2011,
 abstract = {This paper describes the origin, design, and implementation of Smule's Magic Fiddle, an expressive musical instrument for the iPad. Magic Fiddle takes advantage of the physical aspects of the device to integrate game-like and pedagogical elements. We describe the origin of Magic Fiddle, chronicle its design process, discuss its integrated music education system, and evaluate the overall experience. },
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Wang, Ge and Oh, Jieun and Lieber, Tom},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178187},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Magic Fiddle, iPad, physical interaction design, experiential design, music education. },
 pages = {197--202},
 presentation-video = {https://vimeo.com/26857032/},
 title = {Designing for the iPad: Magic Fiddle},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2011/nime2011_197.pdf},
 year = {2011}
}