Probabilistic Model of Pianists' Arm Touch Movements

Aristotelis Hadjakos, Erwin Aitenbichler, and Max Mühlhäuser

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2009
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
• Pages: 7–12
• Keywords: Piano, arm movement, gesture, classification, augmented instrument, inertial sensing.
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177567 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

Measurement of pianists' arm movement provides a signal,which is composed of controlled movements and noise. Thenoise is composed of uncontrolled movement generated bythe interaction of the arm with the piano action and measurement error. We propose a probabilistic model for armtouch movements, which allows to estimate the amount ofnoise in a joint. This estimation helps to interpret the movement signal, which is of interest for augmented piano andpiano pedagogy applications.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Hadjakos2009,
 abstract = {Measurement of pianists' arm movement provides a signal,which is composed of controlled movements and noise. Thenoise is composed of uncontrolled movement generated bythe interaction of the arm with the piano action and measurement error. We propose a probabilistic model for armtouch movements, which allows to estimate the amount ofnoise in a joint. This estimation helps to interpret the movement signal, which is of interest for augmented piano andpiano pedagogy applications.},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, United States},
 author = {Hadjakos, Aristotelis and Aitenbichler, Erwin and M\''{u}hlh\''{a}user, Max},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177567},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Piano, arm movement, gesture, classification, augmented instrument, inertial sensing. },
 pages = {7--12},
 title = {Probabilistic Model of Pianists' Arm Touch Movements},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2009/nime2009_007.pdf},
 year = {2009}
}