A Quantitative Evaluation of the Differences between Knobs and Sliders

Steven Gelineck, and Stefania Serafin

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper presents a HCI inspired evaluation of simple physical interfaces used to control physical models. Specifically knobs and sliders are compared in a creative and exploratory framework, which simulates the natural environment in which an electronic musician would normally explore a new instrument. No significant difference was measured between using knobs and sliders for controlling parameters of a physical modeling electronic instrument. Thereported difference between the tested instruments were mostlydue to the sound synthesis models.

Citation

Steven Gelineck, and Stefania Serafin. 2009. A Quantitative Evaluation of the Differences between Knobs and Sliders. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177549

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Gelineck2009,
 abstract = {This paper presents a HCI inspired evaluation of simple physical interfaces used to control physical models. Specifically knobs and sliders are compared in a creative and exploratory framework, which simulates the natural environment in which an electronic musician would normally explore a new instrument. No significant difference was measured between using knobs and sliders for controlling parameters of a physical modeling electronic instrument. Thereported difference between the tested instruments were mostlydue to the sound synthesis models.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Gelineck, Steven and Serafin, Stefania},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177549},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Evaluation, Interfaces, Sliders, Knobs, Physi- cal Modeling, Electronic Musicians, Exploration, Creativ- ity, Affordances. },
 pages = {13--18},
 title = {A Quantitative Evaluation of the Differences between Knobs and Sliders},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_013.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}