Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music

Music Interfaces Panel

This panel focuses on scientific as well as artistic research perspectives on interactive systems. Main issues that will be discussed include the following:

- Interaction Metaphors and Mapping Strategies: from the "musical instrument" metaphor (interaction with an object, immediate cause-effect response), to "dialog" paradigms (interaction as a dialogue with human as well as virtual agents; virtual agents can be auditory, and possibly visual, robotic in a Mixed Reality scenario).

- Can models of Expressiveness, Kansei, Emotion influence/improve interaction methapors, integration of modalities, and mapping strategies? How can such models contribute to more effective interactive systems?

- Which methodology and evaluation methods to verify and consolidate results from scientific research?

- Are state-of-the-art sensor systems mature enough to capture the physicality, the sensibility, the expressive content from music performers, dancers, spectators ...?

- Reports on good examples and lessons learned from experiences with artists (composers, performers, dancers...) can be very useful as feedback for scientific research. Which models demonstrated successful from artistic productions?

-The members of the Interfaces Panel will be:

Antonio Camurri (DIST-University of Genova, Italy)
Sergi Jorda (IUA-Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain)
Roger Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, USA)
Leonello Tarabella (CNUCE/C.N.R. in Pisa, Italy)

Chair:
Johan Sundberg (KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)