Towards Participatory Design and Evaluation of Theremin-based Musical Interfaces

Christian Geiger, Holger Reckter, David Paschke, Florian Schulz, and Cornelius Poepel

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2008
• Location: Genoa, Italy
• Pages: 303–306
• Keywords: 3d interaction techniques,an important concept for,both hands,evaluation,few wimp interface concepts,in contrast the use,make efficient use of,nime08,of both hands is,theremin-based interfaces
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179545 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Being one of the earliest electronic instruments the basic principles of the Theremin have often been used to design new musical interfaces. We present the structured design and evaluation of a set of 3D interfaces for a virtual Theremin, the VRemin. The variants differ in the size of the interaction space, the interface complexity, and the applied IO devices. We conducted a formal evaluation based on the well-known AttrakDiff questionnaire for evaluating the hedonic and pragmatic quality of interactive products. The presented work is a first approach towards a participatory design process for musical interfaces that includes user evaluation at early design phases.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Geiger2008,
 abstract = {Being one of the earliest electronic instruments the basic principles of the Theremin have often been used to design new musical interfaces. We present the structured design and evaluation of a set of 3D interfaces for a virtual Theremin, the VRemin. The variants differ in the size of the interaction space, the interface complexity, and the applied IO devices. We conducted a formal evaluation based on the well-known AttrakDiff questionnaire for evaluating the hedonic and pragmatic quality of interactive products. The presented work is a first approach towards a participatory design process for musical interfaces that includes user evaluation at early design phases. },
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Geiger, Christian and Reckter, Holger and Paschke, David and Schulz, Florian and Poepel, Cornelius},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179545},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {3d interaction techniques,an important concept for,both hands,evaluation,few wimp interface concepts,in contrast the use,make efficient use of,nime08,of both hands is,theremin-based interfaces},
 pages = {303--306},
 title = {Towards Participatory Design and Evaluation of Theremin-based Musical Interfaces},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_303.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}